Higher value cards depreciate more then lower value cards. They don't retain their price better. That's the way halo products work as they aren't a good deal when you buy them and they're even less of a good deal when you're buying them used as there are new products on the market which supersede them for cheaper. Sweet spot is always midrange for new and used from a consumer standpoint.
As far as mining goes, 1080/tis don't scale properly in a lot of algorithms and are crippled in memory hard algos such as Dagger from GDDR5 X. They have heat dissipation issues due to the size of the chips and will throttle a lot faster then a 1060/70 on algos they do work properly on. The size of the heatsinks required to cool them properly are in the three slot variety. They also consume more power which means you need to have a beefier power distribution system for each computer, which gets even more expensive the bigger the PSU.
Did I mention they can't really mine dagger? That's a pretty big deal. It wouldn't surprise me if we're back dual mining Eth again on Nvidia hardware. That already happened earlier this year. Also why AMD hardware is just outright better as far as investment goes for mining (if we could get it remotely around MSRP). For comparison a 580 is making $2.51 dual mining and a 1070 is making $2.35 mining Zcash. Actually looking at prices right now, you can get 580s for $350... So it still is a better deal. As hardware values come down from their bloated levels it'll become a even better deal.
It blows my mind people still can't compare Nvidia and AMD properly. Guess they just see the price tag for a 'mid-low end' card and they can't put it into context when it comes to mining, just playing games.
Other things in the crypto scene being more beneficial to do is outside the scope of buying hardware. We can discuss how much money Claymore is making and the fact he doesn't have competition or that we still don't have the equivalent of Claymore for Nvidia.
LUL AMD cards. With Nvidia you can mine a hole slew of other algorithms that AMD can't. It doesn't even matter if ETH isn't the best to mine.
You mine what's most profitable and convert it to whatever coin you want. SP is our Claymore equivalent for Nvidia. SP is even better than Claymore.
With his mods you have higher profitability than ETH or any of those coin listed on Whattomine.
Just like your picture you're a dumbass. What's the point of mining coins that have 10k in volume? Do you have any idea how fast low volume coins get saturated and destroyed by hashrate? Nvidia hashrate is already bloated, hence why we got all of maybe 3 days of good SIGT mining before that was done. Also why all the 'niche' algos are now equalizing around Equihash algos. Also why people in this thread are now complaining about ROI on their .05BTC investment in the miner. It doesn't matter how many algos you can mine if none of them have the volume to support the hardware mining it.
No shit. I'm the one that started the 'mine what's most profitable, invest in what you want to keep' rhetoric you're spouting after I got tired of people mindlessly mining crap coins as 'supporting the coin'. You can look through this thread to find that. Also in no way, shape, or form related to good hardware purchases or what we're talking about.
SP is not the equivalent of Claymore. He does what's easy and then doesn't give a shit when it gets hard. He doesn't offer improvements outside of basic miner functionality and some speed improvements. That's why a lot of people don't like SP as he only 'optimizes' and nothing else. He doesn't make algos from the ground up either, only if something already exists.
I've supported SP for years, but saying something like that is completely wrong. I understand you came in with the Ethereum boat and you thought Nvidia was a great 'investment', cause it's the underdog, but that would be incorrect. There is a reason like 80% of the hashrate in the GPU Crypto scene is AMD. Mining is all about long term, not short term 'oh I made $2000 in 3 days!' it's about what you make for the other 361 days in the year.
