Topic: Anyone still mining with GPUs? (Read 946 times)

Could I ask were you found p106 6gb for 35? Are you sure they are not 3gb. or if that is he price listed on alibaba. Sorry they advertise but to actual purchase is 85 each. I have looked since I have 13 asus 250 with 12 470's each. Would love to fill up my rigs.

That sounds a good price to me. Just make sure they're in good condition, the seller is reliable and you are able to make money factoring all other components and electricity price. During your calculations, substract 50% of the theorical profitability to be in a worst case scenario.

I'm not philipma1957 but you can check on this thread he made: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5144362.660

He constantly posts the hadware he's using at the moment, he uses a mix of hardware, GPUs, CPUs and Asics, and if you have any doubts, post there and it's easier to obtain an answer  
He uses a mix of electricity system too, regular one and solar, it's very interesting to follow his work, this guy has a lot of knowledge

@philipma1957

What's your setup where you're making $400 a month?

Is that before or after electricity costs?

I actually just built a new rig.

- MSI H310-F Pro Motherboard
- 1,350 Watt PSU
- Intel Core i5 9400
- 16GB RAM
- 120 GB SSD

- 2 x Radeon RX 570 8GB
- 4 x Geforce 1660 Super 6GB

I'm probably going to return the RX 570s. The 1660 Super performs much better.

I installed AwesomeMiner on my desktop and initially installed Ubuntu 18.04 on the mining rig with the *nix version of the AwesomeMiner Agent. That really became more of a pain than it was worth. After installing Windows 10 and the Windows AwesomeMiner Agent on the rig and running the benchmark testing, I can probably make about $25 a month after paying electric costs of $0.13 / kW.

If I return the RX 570s and get 2 more 1660 Super, that should go up to about $35 a month. Which means it will be about 3 years before I recoup the costs of the hardware....

I wish I had been paying more attention to crypto 5 years ago.

Now I'm looking for decent pool software to start my own pool.
I have Yiimp running with no coins installed yet.

If you're just interested in checking it out and playing around, just download AwesomeMiner on your desktop and give it a shot. If you're looking for serious profits you'll need at least $2k so you can invest in an ASIC and hopefully recoup that cost before mining Bitcoin becomes a moot point, if it isn't already.

i mine eth
after electric bill its probably same price to just buy it.

Now mining profitability has fallen dramatically, it bring me a small income in the form of ETH.  I still mining with GPUs an old good coin GPU mining is an interesting. You  Would be interested in thoughts on GPU mining anything that actually has a little value attached to it.

Guys what do you think about nvidia asus p106-100 6gb cards?
I can buy them very cheap, around ~35$ per card, does it worth?

Yeah  my cards and cpu's  grind out 400 usd a month.  but I have 50-50 split deals so  I make 200 usd a month on them.

Yes many assumed it was dead from the start and they missed out on crazy profits. I actually remember the moment that ETC was born. All of a sudden I noticed all my over-priced rigs on miningrigrental were rented at an inflated price. I assumed it was some mistake but apparently all the rigs were rented out and none were available for rent.

I looked into what coin people were mining and it was ETC, which was very surprising. So I figured with the low low difficulty might as well mine it for a few days and see what happens, in the end the profits were unbelievable however after a week the profitability was similar to ETH when it was launched on a few exchanges.

Those were the "fun" mining days.

in 2017 the "weakest" GPUs that people use to mine were: RX550 2gb and GTX 1050

People use to mine monero on RX 550, it was very profitable that time

Does anyone have suggestions for very modest GPUs which cannot fit ETH data (dags?) into them, i.e. they max out at 3GB or something like that; old GTX 1050 cards and so on.

Would be interested in thoughts on GPU mining anything that actually has a little value attached to it.  Or helping to mine new coins and keeping the networks going!

I still mining with GPUs an old good coin if you interesting the p2pool is in my signature, place some cards.

I've Nvidia cards, Should I mine RYO with ccminer?
Is ccminer support other Cryptonight algo's?

etc has been a dead coin from the start, any ethereum or bitcoin fork is dead from the start.

I stopped mining few months ago, but will comback soon since i'll be having a free electricity for my farm. Small profit still a profit =D

Don't buy the Radeon VII, I had 12 had to RMA 8 of them.

List of models and their features:
    * AMD Radeon VII – high independent hashrate, increased power consumption;
    * AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 – high efficiency, low price in comparison with analogues;
    * AMD RX580-balanced features made this card one of the most popular;
    * AMD RX480-one of the advantages is the cost, low overclocking is attributed to the disadvantages.
There are also intermediate video card models, but their advantages do not cover the disadvantages. According to statistics, although with a small percentage, AMD products outperform GeForce analog cards in popularity.
One of the main advantages of "red" cards is called a higher overclocking potential, which is very important for mining. For AMD cards, the choice of additional utilities, programs, and firmware is extensive. A good help for a novice miner is a quick payback. AMD cards are cheaper than green cards. The rating of models is specified on special sites that are in the public domain.

I am still doing GPU mining. Now mining profitability has fallen dramatically, but I do not turn off my farms because they bring me a small income in the form of ETH. Although for me now, GPU mining is an interesting creative activity and not earnings.

If your elec costs are low and you have long-term perspective then try out GPU mining and check out CN coins such as RYO or any other.