To mine Bitcoin , you need a specialize machine to do it efficiently as competition for reward is growing rapidly. With bitcoin pumping, cost to enter the SHA256 mining world is raising by same factor.
Mining GPU is a option. Note must be made that Ethereum plan to fade out POW ( Proof-Of-Work) to go POS ( Proof-Of-Stake ). It was the main crypto to drive the GPU mining price up but Monero, Digibyte, ZEC have no plan to change to POS and will need GPU to run and grow.
Here a Motherboard that support up to 6 GPU, latest version can support 12+ GPU
Best GPU to purchase right now is the GTX1080ti
Litecoin use Scrypt mining, is a different encryption code, different ASICs.