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I'm interested in mining and would like to know if there are any consumer grade computers available that can mine any of the alternative coins. If so, what computers and which coins do you think would work fairly well?
Can any current consumer grade computers mine any alt coins?
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As mentioned almost any is able to mine coins - the question just arises about profitability.
There are some mining pools, that offer to switch the coin mined automatically depending on which coin is the most profitable at any point in time.
Examples of those pools are:
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Simply put all consumer grade computers "could" mine bitcoin and other altcoins, the question you're probably interested in is regarding profitabiltiy.
At this point in time people are still mining scrypt based altcoins with specially built machines with multiple high performance GPU's. Whether this is profitable depends on your circumstances for example power price per kW/h, the price of the coins you're mining and the cost of the rig you build/buy.
A good place to read about which coins are scrypt/SHA256 is List of alternative cryptocurrencies and a good place to find out about price/market cap is coinmarketcap.com.
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If you have an AMD Radeon HD you can mine scrypt coins. Nvidia GPUs aren't as good at mining. There are also coins that are CPU only, but many of those have a difficulty that is too high, such as PTS, QRK and Primecoin.
