<p>I wouldn't other mining at all. Mining anything is either unprofitable or will be as more and more people catch on.</p>

<p>If you really are determined to mine, however, a gpu/cpu only coin like gridcoin would be good.</p>

<p>A good general tutorial can be found <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2151261/beginners-guide-to-mining-litecoin-dogecoin-and-other-bitcoin-variants.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. It's not very detailed, but it will suffice.</p>

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Whyte the Weeabear
<p>I'm new to cyrptocurrency and heard that gpu's are obsolete for bitcoin mining and I hear gridcoin is a good alternative. How do I start mining? And how long long until I start to break even? Also, I have no idea how to use bitcoin calculators because I don't know the terminoligy. Can someone break this down <a href="http://pool.gridcoin.us/ProfitabilityCalculator.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://pool.gridcoin.us/ProfitabilityCalculator.aspx</a> </p>

<p>Specs:
R9 390
6700k
725w PSU</p>

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How to start mining
AsianTemptation
# How to start mining

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-10-05)

I'm new to cyrptocurrency and heard that gpu's are obsolete for bitcoin mining and I hear gridcoin is a good alternative. How do I start mining? And how long long until I start to break even? Also, I have no idea how to use bitcoin calculators because I don't know the terminoligy. Can someone break this down <http://pool.gridcoin.us/ProfitabilityCalculator.aspx>

Specs:
R9 390
6700k
725w PSU

**Tags:** miner-configuration, mining-profitability, mining-hardware


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2016-10-07. Score: 1

I wouldn't other mining at all. Mining anything is either unprofitable or will be as more and more people catch on.

If you really are determined to mine, however, a gpu/cpu only coin like gridcoin would be good.

A good general tutorial can be found [here](http://www.pcworld.com/article/2151261/beginners-guide-to-mining-litecoin-dogecoin-and-other-bitcoin-variants.html). It's not very detailed, but it will suffice.


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