Topic: My second ZEC + XMR+ ETH thread builds info links thoughts and photos. - page 106. (Read 148001 times)

I don't worry about missing the boat on a coin.

I had a good friend that,always mentioned if and how powerful the word really is.

He would always say "if your grandmother had balls she would be your grandfather"

Sound stupid and crazy but it is just as true as saying

" if I mined xmr two months ago I would have scored big time"

The good thing here is.

Having two gpu coins that turn profit means more value to your gpus.

Resale will be good and mine on.

This is true amd is driving up the diffcuity.
But as of now that the xmr roller coaster ride is over it's settled around .019 btc same as eth.
I have around 128mhs on eth so I'm looking at 300ish before power
And on xmr I have 3800hs which is around 300ish before power
The kicker is claymores dual miner with eth. Siacoin pays my power bill.
But like you said those that mined xmr before hit the jackpot as far as alt-coins go.

@Yankees  

Yes I finally got 1 rig running.  2 cards  a rx 470 and a rx 480


monerohash a two card rig



ethpool  7 rigs 19 cards  rx470 + rx 480

Phil are you going to try XMR?

you are correct.  and i said

 " I mine 475 mh (20 cards)  which will pay off  3 cards in about 28 days.  " = true statement



I did not say " I mine 75mh (3 cards)  which will pay off 3 cards in about 28 days "   = false statement

Thank you!

You should ask him

Claymer announced that new coins will be available today-tomorrow, so let's see which they will be

I do believe xmr is mem heavy like eth. So he might be able to do xmr/sia

Its a Claymore miner.... so it was as easy as ABC.... I wonder if he would make this into a 3rd coin for dual mining ETH?

Was it difficult to set up the miner?

if you see the latest diff on ETH.... OMG... its crazy... it takes much much longer now to mine a decent amount of ETH.

I think its also harder to mine XMR, my strongest GPU the 390.... only gets 650-680h/s per GPU.

So lessons learnt from ETH circa 2015, if you are early miner in XMR, you will probably get some extras first before the crowd arrives. Also.... there isnt a good NVIDIA miner for XMR (the last one was dates 2014 and out of date).... in fact the only GPU miner that has been refreshed is currently Claymore's.... so diff levels will probably come from AMD miners and not the other half of the world

I was thinking the same but once the diffcuity levels out would it be better than ether?
A lot of poeple are moving after the price jump.
And it has already dropped a dollar in price

I just converted one of my ETH rigs (R9 390s x 5) to mine XMR (Monero).

Its trading at 13++$ vs ETH 11.6$

I did this mainly to push my ROI faster... and since XMR is hot now.

Incidently, Claymore also has XMR miner... he just updated to v9.5 that supports all the new GPUs including RX400 GPUs and also Cryptonight / XMR mining at Nicehash and other pools. The Nicehash one pays directly to BTC. I tried Dwarfpool XMR and it can mine direct into my Poloniex account. From there, I just sell XMR to the open market and get BTCs.

See https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.7129653

What you earn of 200 USD in 10 days is from all the rigs. So you cannot use that to say the profitability of the 3 new cards to be paid off in 28 days.

How lucky you are . Prices is the USA have nothing in common with Europe's one. I was astonished when I saw that a card costing 460€ was priced 440$ in the USA .

Good question.

I mine 475 mh so I earn  200 usd after power every 10 days.
 I got 3 reference sapphire. 470 s for about 560 which means they will be paid off in  28 days.

I could sell them for 150 each since 28 days past I would net 450 and that would be all profit.

But frankly I want 8gb cards now 470's or 480's. Since I have about 11 4gb cards and about 9 8gb cards.

 I guess blending 4gb with 8 gb works

All depends if you plan to resell them after, as some people like here. The 8 Go version will have a better resale value due to its great performances in games.

 ETH hashrate has actually flattened out a bit the past week - but I suspect there's still some "ETH vs ETC" slosh going on and I don't anticipate the flat spot lasting very long.


 Got the new rig up and running - usual PITA from running both AMD and NVidia graphics in the same machine ended up having to reinstall both sets of drivers once each (I do MooWrapper on the APU since it's too small to use for mining with) but got it working - and even finally dug up a copy of Genoil's latest to play on it.

 Pair of 1070s running about 59 MH/s with nothing more than a 600 Mhz memory bump in Afterburner and power limit set to 90% (nvidia-smi shows the cards aren't QUITE hitting that limit anyway almost all the time), might play with the settings more once I verify stability but it's right in the ballpark I was expecting.

 Nice part - I got to shut down one of my older Moo/Dnet specific Semperon machines, moved the HD7750 (low profile) card into the 3'd slot where it only blocks a LITTLE of the fan flow (pair of Gigabyte Windforces) - the #1 and #2 card clearance (they DO have one slot space between) seems to hurt the airflow MORE as the #1 card is running a couple degrees warmer than the #2. This allowed me to save a fair bit on power that was running the REST of that ancient outdated Semperon system while preserving it's primary function.

 8-)

Yes, 550ish watts might seem a bit high for a 2-card 1070 system - but I'm not doing "pure mining" and never planned to do so on it, the ETH mining is more in the nature of "pay off part of the cost so I can afford to build MORE systems to do the stuff I WANT to do on them".
 Technically my MooWrapper work IS mining - via GridCoin - but it's NOT profitable nor do I think it IS possible to actually mine Gridcoin profitably. The extra income DOES cover a significant part of the electric cost for stuff I'd be doing ANYWAY though.


 Oh yeah - open build, just screwed the MB into a 2' x 2' piece of plywood I use in my "home build multi-display/machine racks". Not even running an actual fan on it, plenty of random airflow as it is in this place with all the OTHER fans and the Evap cooler shoving drafts around.

IMHO, besides a decent gaming card with lots of RAM for complex games and VR, very good cooling fans - esp those MSI Twin Frozz ones - the 390s are infact very good ETH mining cards - down side she is a bit of a power demon but easily undervolted and overclocked to above 30MHs.... resale value is very good, expect better ROI.

Of course I'm not thinking about making a profit from rig you are making

All my investment was in cards and PSU. I bought good r9 390 and will sell them for 75% of initial price

So definitely my ROI is not 200 days

knowing that 3gb 280x are about 25mhs last year, these 4gb might decrease hashrate a bit more than 8gb models for a year of mining.

its 8gb then.

based on the link you provided its 2018 for the 3gb models,  but 280x already lost about 30% of its hashrate compared to about 15% loss on 8gb 390..