Crypto Mining at Home with Our Computer

In the world of digital currencies, there is still a place for us to try our hand at it easily and quickly with our home computers of varying performance, without any dedicated ASIC hardware.

While the performance under certain conditions won't match that of a purpose-built ASIC machine, this can't be stated so definitively, because anyone willing to spend money on proper processors and graphics cards can easily outperform an ASIC machine.

Among KriptoBlog.hu's core goals, the primary objective would be to present mining and the necessary hardware and software. However, we shouldn't rely solely on this, but now is the time to dive a little into hardware mining.

Unfortunately, however, there are currently some problems with this home computer money-making endeavor, which can be summarized in the following points:

• The prices of suitable and less suitable graphics cards are very high,
  • partly due to the enormous demand, which GPU mining RIGs only intensify,
  • partly because the production capacity reserved by hardware manufacturers is limited and the reserved periods cannot simply be shuffled around,
  • and let's not forget the computer gaming community, the Gamer market, which hardware manufacturers are increasingly focusing on. After all, once dedicated ASIC machines that offer solutions to replace current GPU mining become available, nVidia and the AMD-ATI combo will be left with the gamers, who they now need to pay more attention to.
• It's hard to find component parts at fair prices on the market, and even at unacceptable prices, a lot of lousy, cheap junk is being sold under names like GPU RIG frames and the like — and let's not even talk about PCIe risers. So you really need to be careful about what you get into these days.
• Most home computers' energy consumption is much higher than what they can "produce," so it would be quite risky to jump into something where you produce $3 USD per month while paying a 20,000 Ft electricity bill.
• Even though most laptops have a dedicated graphics card, they are far from suitable for continuous high-performance 24/7 load, if only because of their limited cooling capacity. So when the heat dissipation can't keep up, the already modest performance drops even further.
• Practically, a computer running mining software can't really be used for anything else, or only partially, with varying degrees of inconvenience.
• No software is 100% reliable, so even if not necessarily continuous, the machine(s) still require frequent monitoring.

Therefore, we would like to provide some guidance to our enterprising readers who are interested in mining with home computer resources, specifically graphics cards, and would like to try it out as soon as possible.

No manufacturer sponsors us, so we can only present solutions available and functional on the market. Let's also not forget that we would rather play it safe than rely on Chinese or Far Eastern 30-60-90 day "maybe it'll arrive, maybe not" sourcing channels. So we'll mainly be talking about hardware that can be obtained locally, safely and with guarantees, as required by law for online retailers.

To be continued...