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April 7, 2014 6:23:37 PM

Hey guys , I posted a few weeks back to get some great knowledge and resources on building a litecoin machine. I've got to go cheap but I figure with a bit more guidance from picking the brains of experienced guys it won't be such a worry as I'd wanna strip it down without a case and use a milk box even. I've decided to probably use NCIX in Canada as they seem to do the best for pricing and thank this forum for that as NewEgg didn't inspire my confidence. I'm gonna be tight going with 2 x 270x video cards, but hopefully I can get it under or close to my CDN$800 budget with taxes and shipping . The sempron 2.8 cpu with the gigabyte motherboard 970-d3p and ram seem to work price wise if I can get a power supply to handle it for under $100 as I've got a 700w Be Quiet! In my cart. Anyone got have a Canada price picker link /build with a good NCIX parts list with maybe a case and HD. Any comments on NCIX service for matching prices and answering questions ?
My worries as I may go from a usb stick as I have several new ones laying around. I worry that a usb wifi dongle may not work on initial start up to download linux or at all unless I have that dongles drivers. I don't /won't have an Ethernet Internet source as my location but have wifi. Thanks guys previous info led to a lot of good education.

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April 7, 2014 7:33:52 PM

scout_03 said:
this http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/ and newegg.ca have a good service the other thing for mining the sempron it wil not be very usefull see this on it this is a entry cpu http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Sempron+145
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The purpose for the build is a litecoin miner where it is cited that the video cards do the mining work thus 2 x 270x, and the cpu is a non issue when budget is. The build will run headless and be doing nothing other then mine 99% of the time. I don't see the relevance of the partspicker homepage link either , there's no build, I've managed that much. You've contradicted what I see price wise and experienced so far with newegg service in comparison to NCIX also. I did good enough input previously to disregard that, Thanks.

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April 7, 2014 7:50:03 PM

well i leave that all up to you .
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April 7, 2014 8:25:34 PM

scout_03 said:
well i leave that all up to you .


Thanks , I'll refer to this link as an attempt for a build (the page was known to me as Canadian site or I'd not have asked for others builds)
http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/3nYAc
This link will provide cpu vs gpu performance for mining and why the cpu is irrelevant
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Why_a_GPU_mines_faster_than_...

Also why this (budget) build and cpu ?

http://www.overclock.net/t/1454426/r9-270-underrated-th...

Shopping and experience are personal choices and my two builds differ only by branding and about $10 with it coming in at between $830-$840 Canadian dollars with taxes and delivery , no hard drive or case just the raw components. My experience with NCIX has been better to date, but again that is personal experience.

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April 7, 2014 8:36:58 PM

this is good been using neweeg but on my next buy i will try ncix since i am in the same country .
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