Hello guys! I'm really new to Mining in general. Thanks @Mattthev for the guide.
I only have one question right now after completing the setup for my 1070. Is it normal for the XMR-STAK to change difficulty?
I might have missed something in the guide, I'm really not sure. I am connected to poolelectroneum.space here's a sample on what it shows
Difficulty changed. Now: 58853.
New block detected.
Result accepted by the pool.
Difficulty changed. Now: 86550.
New block detected.
Difficulty changed. Now: 60950.
New block detected.
Is this normal? Or should it just stay in one difficulty?
Sorry, if this seems really a noob question.
It's normal, your pool support static diff so you can put your wallet_address.diff in wallet, your diff should be like 10000 or maybe 20000.
By the way, what GPU is the way to go? I saw some mining hardware that are way out my budget
for a noob. So I might just build a PC-ish miner. I researched that a 480 8g is better than 580 8g.
RX 480 and RX 580 is essentially the same card. AMD just overclocked their RX 480 (and increased both clocks and voltages) and called them RX 580. They're not worse, they're the same: their stock mode doesn't matter anyway cause any Polaris card requires some tuning for proper mining setup, so whether it's RX 480 or RX 580 you're still not going to use it in stock and will have to flash a modified BIOS with tighter timings and undervolt.
Just like you said, but RX 580 has a little bit better chip it allow you undervolt more. But from my view it's almost same card no big real difference. RX 480 in new condition would by hard to find.
I think I'm really clear in my guides.
