I've not used the r9 290 but it looks like you will be getting about 30mh/s which isn't too bad, you should still be able to make some profit, i only mine at 17 with a gtx 970 but make a little profit. I wouldn't mine with your cpu at all though, apart from your hash rare being low your taxing your cpu for no profit.
Just to clarify, all that's important for gpu mining is your gpu.
Just to clarify, all that's important for gpu mining is your gpu.
i dont know much about cpu mining but for 1 r9 290x you will get ~30mhs mining ethereum.
how much profit does that translate to depends on a triangle of factors;
the price of the coin you're mining, the difficulty/hashrate of that coin's network & the price you pay for electricity.
try www.whattomine.com to see how much you will make mining different coins.
try http://www.mininghwcomparison.com to see how different gpus perform for mining different algos!
there is a lot of information to digest but do research before jumping in!
if you have expensive electricity, beware 290x consumes a lot of energy.
there's a new generation of gpus that are much more efficient.
amd rx 480 & gtx 1080,1070 look them up see if they are available in you area yet!
whatever you're mining you will not need 16gb of ram!
my rig has 2GB but if i do it again i'd get 4GB which is mooore than enough!
the motherboard you mentioned has 4 PCIE slots which means you can have 4 GPU's attached to it for mining using risers.
(if you don't know what a riser is, google "pcie riser" or "pcie usb riser" you will find numerous useful links & decide which suites you best.)
also your motherboard would have 2 PCI slots that are utterly useless for mining.
don't waste your money, look for an MB with upto 5,6 PCIE slots & no PCI
that way you can have more GPUs on the same MB;
keep in mind mining with more than 5 GPUs on one MB is pretty technical & you will need bios mods & so on.
if you're not techie stick to 5 GPUs at most & keep it simple!
lastly you will need a powerful PSU to feed electricity to the rig.
you have to research the power consumption of different parts of your computer, calculate how many watts in total it needs & buy a psu accordingly!
how much profit does that translate to depends on a triangle of factors;
the price of the coin you're mining, the difficulty/hashrate of that coin's network & the price you pay for electricity.
try www.whattomine.com to see how much you will make mining different coins.
try http://www.mininghwcomparison.com to see how different gpus perform for mining different algos!
there is a lot of information to digest but do research before jumping in!
if you have expensive electricity, beware 290x consumes a lot of energy.
there's a new generation of gpus that are much more efficient.
amd rx 480 & gtx 1080,1070 look them up see if they are available in you area yet!
whatever you're mining you will not need 16gb of ram!
my rig has 2GB but if i do it again i'd get 4GB which is mooore than enough!
the motherboard you mentioned has 4 PCIE slots which means you can have 4 GPU's attached to it for mining using risers.
(if you don't know what a riser is, google "pcie riser" or "pcie usb riser" you will find numerous useful links & decide which suites you best.)
also your motherboard would have 2 PCI slots that are utterly useless for mining.
don't waste your money, look for an MB with upto 5,6 PCIE slots & no PCI
that way you can have more GPUs on the same MB;
keep in mind mining with more than 5 GPUs on one MB is pretty technical & you will need bios mods & so on.
if you're not techie stick to 5 GPUs at most & keep it simple!
lastly you will need a powerful PSU to feed electricity to the rig.
you have to research the power consumption of different parts of your computer, calculate how many watts in total it needs & buy a psu accordingly!
Thank you guys...
