[Errant]

Yes, I’m mining them now but the difficulty is increasing rapidly. I’m thinking of switching to mining one of the newer alt coins for the heck of it. A 7970 will do about 600 Kh/s using about 0.250 Kwh. You can calculate your profit at your local electrical costs from there. Another advantage is that I’m using the heat from mining to warm a little grow room I have, so it saves on heating cost too. :)

[mmichaels1970]

Another advantage is that I’m using the heat from mining to warm a little grow room I have, so it saves on heating cost too. :)

lol...that's pretty creative. Heat is a problem I'm dealing with. I wanted to add a third gpu to my rig (using standard cooling), but the gpu on top was reaching over 100C. So I had to dump gpu #3 on a spare motherboard I had sitting around.

I have two R9 270X's (450 kHash each) and one HD7950 (610 khash) which are making me between .4 to .5 LTC per day.

I've been thinking about looking at using these "riser card cables" to better space out my gpus and get back to one rig, but I'm not sure how I'd securely mount the gpus in a normal case.

One thing I've learned and a piece of advice I'd share is to not get sucked into trading on the exchanges if you don't know what you're doing. I'm done trying that (who am I kidding?). I have a tendency to buy at the top, panic, and sell at the bottom. No matter how much discipline I try to maintain. Yesterday was a friggin bloodbath (I lost $8.00).

So I've moved recently from the r&d phase to the mining phase. But I still don't really know what the heck I'm doing.