Topic: Building A PC, Thinking About Mining, Need Advice! (Read 378 times)

My advice don't mine on your gaming pc , you will not make good profit until you mine 24/7 , your setup is good but not for mining it's too much high end for mining , if you want to mine anyway so mine zcash with the 1070 don't use nicehash you can mine with ewbf miner about 430h/s .

In the longer run try to add at least 1 or 2 other cards to that motherboard of yours because it supports it easily. It will greatly improve your mining performance in altcoins. You can download the nicehash miner and start mining Ethereum with the Gtx 1070 or Zcash as these are the best algorithms for this card.

Here is the link to get you started, it is pretty straight forward to make it to work, with one Gtx 1070 your daily profit in btc cause nicehash pays you directly in btc is with an energy cost of 0.10 kw/H is 0.00157 btc net profit daily.

Link to miner
https://www.nicehash.com/?p=nhmintro

Edit: Your parts are great for mining as a hobby miner and not as a professional one, if you want to be professional you need to build another pc with Asrock H81 PRO BTC rev 1.0 motherboard which supports 6 GPU like a breeze.

Hey All,

I originally posted this question in the BTC section, but was told my personal computer wouldn't suffice for mining BTC, and I should look at Alt currencies instead, so here i am!

I'm about halfway through building my new PC, designed for high end VR gaming. I am going to have a lot of downtime and extra capacity, so I am considering mining overnight/possibly in the background depending on how intense the game I'm playing is.

I know next to nothing about Bitcoin Mining, but from what I've been reading online it sounds like GPU mining is more profitable than CPU mining. Another post referenced this website to estimate profit: http://whattomine.com/coins?utf8=%E2%9C%93ð=true&factor%5Beth_hr%5D=28.5&factor%5Beth_p%5D=105.0&grof=true&factor%5Bgro_hr%5D=35.5&factor%5Bgro_p%5D=130.0&x11gf=true&factor%5Bx11g_hr%5D=11.5&factor%5Bx11g_p%5D=120.0&cn=true&factor%5Bcn_hr%5D=500.0&factor%5Bcn_p%5D=100.0&eq=true&factor%5Beq_hr%5D=420.0&factor%5Beq_p%5D=120.0&lre=true&factor%5Blrev2_hr%5D=35500.0&factor%5Blrev2_p%5D=130.0&ns=true&factor%5Bns_hr%5D=1050.0&factor%5Bns_p%5D=155.0&lbry=true&factor%5Blbry_hr%5D=275.0&factor%5Blbry_p%5D=120.0&bk2bf=true&factor%5Bbk2b_hr%5D=1600.0&factor%5Bbk2b_p%5D=120.0&bk14=true&factor%5Bbk14_hr%5D=2500.0&factor%5Bbk14_p%5D=125.0&pas=true&factor%5Bpas_hr%5D=940.0&factor%5Bpas_p%5D=120.0&bkv=true&factor%5Bbkv_hr%5D=0.0&factor%5Bbkv_p%5D=0.0&factor%5Bcost%5D=0.03&sort=Profitability7&volume=0&revenue=24h&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=bittrex&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=bleutrade&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=btc_e&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=bter&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=c_cex&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=cryptopia&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=poloniex&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=yobit&dataset=Main&commit=Calculate&adapt_q_280x=3&adapt_q_380=0&adapt_q_fury=0&adapt_q_470=0&adapt_q_480=0&adapt_q_750Ti=0&adapt_q_10606=0&adapt_q_1070=1&adapt_1070=true


It appears to be telling me I should mine LBC, and can expect to make around $300/year given today's prices and complexity. Am I reading this correctly? Does that seem accurate based on your experience?

Here is the PC build I'm looking at:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($328.47 @ OutletPC)
CPU Cooler: ARCTIC - Freezer i32 CPU Cooler  (Purchased For $27.00)
Motherboard: MSI - Z270-A PRO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (Purchased For $92.00)
Memory: *Team - T-Force / Night Hawk 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($124.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Sandisk - Z410 480GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($139.59 @ Newegg Marketplace)
Storage: *Hitachi - Ultrastar 7K4000 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($69.88 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Mini ITX OC Video Card  ($359.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Corsair - Carbide Clear 600C ATX Full Tower Case  (Purchased For $95.00)
Power Supply: Thermaltake - 750W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (Purchased For $50.00)
Optical Drive: *Lite-On - iHAS124-14 DVD/CD Writer  ($15.89 @ OutletPC)
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit  ($87.89 @ OutletPC)
Wireless Network Adapter: Gigabyte - GC-WB867D-I PCI-Express x1 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi Adapter  ($29.99 @ SuperBiiz)



Any thoughts or suggestions?

Thanks for taking the time!