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Is it worth it?? I know that Bitcoin is well past the stage of being profitable to mine from a single home PC, but are there any other currencies that are profitable/viable to mine without dedicated hardware? I'm open to the idea of pooloed mining but I'm not looking to buy an ASIC, just...

sadams04 - thanks for the spec! I'd considered the i7-6700, sounds like it'd be good for what I want, do you think I'd be better off with this rather than 6 cores (eg 5820 at £50 more)? Also I forgot to say that for now I plan to reuse keyboard, mouse and monitor (just the 1) to keep the cost...

Hi guys, I'm looking to build my first PC that I plan to use for the following: Photo editing (inc batch processing) Creating time lapse videos from photos Video editing (inc 4K) Some gaming (Minecraft, maybe more demanding games like GTA V and Day Z) All of this usage is for leisure at...