Topic: Anyone still mining with GPUs? (Read 984 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.

This is a great second income. Congrats, its what mining was meant to be until everyone got wind of it and over-saturated the space.

Much better if you want to find which miner is the best or good miner use awesomeminer to find better GPU miner.
Awesomeminer is a good tool for GPU you will see all listed miner from their tool and it is free to use for one rig.
Official thread is here https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/awesome-miner-powerful-windows-gui-to-manage-and-monitor-up-to-200000-miners-676942
You can also use their tool called benchmark under that tool where you can benchmark which miner and algo will make you more profit today.

I've been mining with the same 120 gpu's for 3 years.  I pay 6 cents a KHW and its the only reason they are still running.  Things are improving slightly but not enough to buy more gear or upgrade.  I'd love to expand or upgrade but but can't justify it right now.

Yes the price might of went up by +146% but look at the difficulty,
https://www.coinwarz.com/mining/ethereum-classic/difficulty-chart

In the last 30 days it went from 120T to 230T which is almost 100% gain. So the profitability only improved slightly, also keep in mind there are still miners which will make the switch.

The issue with ETC is the small miner reward, if ETH had a gain of 100% then the profitability would be much much better.

As I always said, it depends how much you are paying for electricity, for me it's not worth anymore, I pay 0.20cents USD kw, but for a guy who pays 0.5c can be profitable

depending on the point of view, the main point is the cost of kw / h is low?

profitability has improved significantly in the last 30 days prices went up: ETC +146%, XZC +86%, ETH +37 %

Are there any really lucrative GPU coins left? I guess not, right?

I think this was not the right answer, for monero I'm using XMR-STAK-RX which is free and going great till now, what he needs to do is to search for best mining software on google there would be the better answers.

Noob page, with noob software for kids XD

If you're having trouble mining with GPU, you'd better not start mining with it

Learn the basics!

I would recommend you leave the GPU, because it's been quite a long time, and I think there are also many better developments from the GPU, it's just that it depends on the needs and money you have to get maximum mining results.

I have Nvidia cards but never tried this CCminer, is it have all algo's? I'm specially asking for the CryptoNight algorithms.

Thanks!

I appreciate the responses, I'll give it a shot.

If you find GPU mining difficult I can point you to my blog where I'm listing the best and easiest mining software to use- https://bitcoinminingsoftware2019.com. I personally use Kryptex, but CudoMiner is also great, and there are several other alternatives that you can test out.

if you have nvidia cards
i will suggest checking out ccminer
specifically alexis build
ccminer also supports majority of algos

I've mined with a few ASICs before, which was nice and easy.  I find GPU mining a bit more difficult, for lack of coins and software.  For instance I can't modify an old Bitcoin release and use an old Bitcoin GPU miner to experiment with (or any coin that uses same proof of work).

GPUs should be quite flexible (still) if not profitable.  I'm fascinated with the subject and would like to learn a bit more, so after changing the proof of work in some version of Bitcoin, I could try and verify it with GPU mining software.

Maybe if there's a good keccak/something else GPU miner, I could rip out SHA256d and try that out.  Not sure what GPU mining software is flexible enough to handle a lot of algorithms though. Can anyone recommend a good GPU miner?

Thanks