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sakmsb

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Quote from: Harai Goshi on April 20, 2019, 12:00:04 AM

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Generally speaking AMD seems to be preferred as it tends to perform better on more algos (while Nvidia is better at specific ones). I would look at the price and would ask around for OTC deals for miners who are exiting teh market

Backwards on AMD/NV. Nvidia cards are significantly more versatile. AMDs are mainly just cheaper.

I'd probably spend half the money on used, cheap AMD RX 4/570s & bitmain S9s first, and the rest on newer tech (gtx 16xx, Vega VII, etc) when they arent selling at such a premium.

Also: 7% fixed rate on a liquid account? My life would be so much simpler if those actually existed.

Ya I just got a good deal on 1.5 years old 4x MSI 580s 8 GB.

Will be looking out for more such deals.

And yes Indian banks(most of them); pay 7-8% interest, so basically in 14 years approx, you'll double your money.

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Generally speaking AMD seems to be preferred as it tends to perform better on more algos (while Nvidia is better at specific ones). I would look at the price and would ask around for OTC deals for miners who are exiting teh market

Backwards on AMD/NV. Nvidia cards are significantly more versatile. AMDs are mainly just cheaper.

I'd probably spend half the money on used, cheap AMD RX 4/570s & bitmain S9s first, and the rest on newer tech (gtx 16xx, Vega VII, etc) when they arent selling at such a premium.

Also: 7% fixed rate on a liquid account? My life would be so much simpler if those actually existed.

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Quote from: joseph32 on April 19, 2019, 05:53:41 PM

Quote from: N0pr3s3n7 on April 19, 2019, 05:41:44 PM

Buy 1080 ti, check HiveOS, buy decent cpu on each rig, you will tank me later because you will rock 5he Market next 3 or 5 years. There won't be better advice Trust me 😉

Great recommendation. Also 2070 and 2080 if you can get them in a deal.

Try to buy always 3-fan-cards if you haven't the best cooling solution. If you cant cool your card enough, you can drop the original fan-block of your cards and just zip 3 of these fans onto them (which also increase your resale value because of never used fans!):
https://geizhals.de/?cmp=1187156&cmp=1204784&cmp=1165585

Finally the new 1660 Ti is also a great deal! But go with 2 or 3 fans here, not the 1-fan ones (always remember the resale value!).

The 1660 and 1660 Ti looks good as well. But at the cost of 1 1660 Ti I can get 2 RX 570s that's what is confusing me.

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Quote from: edmundduke on April 19, 2019, 01:05:51 PM

Quote from: sakmsb on April 19, 2019, 07:25:26 AM

Hey Mining Community,

Wanted to know your thoughts on Building a rig considering Free electricity.

Instead of keeping money in Banks, I want to put it in Mining so that I'd be getting some money monthly instead of money being in bank and paying me like 7% yearly interest.

A balanced approach of Nvidia and AMD would be best?

Say I have the budget ~$20k I can build a rigs something like this in my country 12 AMD RX 570 Cards + 12 AMD RX 580 Cards + 12 RTX 2060 Cards + 12 RTX 2070.

Your insights are appreciated.

Thanks!

If the power is free then you are going to make money, no questions asked really. As for what cards to get, i wouldnt mix it up too much. Its better to have the same type of cards, makes managing way easier.
Generally speaking AMD seems to be preferred as it tends to perform better on more algos (while Nvidia is better at specific ones). I would look at the price and would ask around for OTC deals for miners who are exiting teh market

Thanks!

By having a mix of GPUs I meant, I will build one rig of one type and not one rig having mix of cards; Example

1 Rig of 570
1 Rig of 580
1 Rig of 2060 like this.

joseph32

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Quote from: N0pr3s3n7 on April 19, 2019, 05:41:44 PM

Buy 1080 ti, check HiveOS, buy decent cpu on each rig, you will tank me later because you will rock 5he Market next 3 or 5 years. There won't be better advice Trust me 😉

Great recommendation. Also 2070 and 2080 if you can get them in a deal.

Try to buy always 3-fan-cards if you haven't the best cooling solution. If you cant cool your card enough, you can drop the original fan-block of your cards and just zip 3 of these fans onto them (which also increase your resale value because of never used fans!):
https://geizhals.de/?cmp=1187156&cmp=1204784&cmp=1165585

Finally the new 1660 Ti is also a great deal! But go with 2 or 3 fans here, not the 1-fan ones (always remember the resale value!).

N0pr3s3n7

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Buy 1080 ti, check HiveOS, buy decent cpu on each rig, you will tank me later because you will rock 5he Market next 3 or 5 years. There won't be better advice Trust me 😉

joseph32

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Do yourself a favor and go with nVidia, the clocking is very simple and everything is rock stable, no matter which driver version. nVidia can farm nearly every coin with max potential and has the highest returns, AMD is just great in a few ones like CryptoNight's with poor profit (the guy above is wrong). Setting up AMD is a pain, the drivers and clocking are shit either. To get a bigger picture with all the pain and poor profits, check the TeamRed thread and the Wildrig one.

And yes, try to not mix cards, thats true. Makes the clocking/controlling much simpler. Also check the AwesomeMiner thread, its a great software to control everything.

edmundduke

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Quote from: sakmsb on April 19, 2019, 07:25:26 AM

Hey Mining Community,

Wanted to know your thoughts on Building a rig considering Free electricity.

Instead of keeping money in Banks, I want to put it in Mining so that I'd be getting some money monthly instead of money being in bank and paying me like 7% yearly interest.

A balanced approach of Nvidia and AMD would be best?

Say I have the budget ~$20k I can build a rigs something like this in my country 12 AMD RX 570 Cards + 12 AMD RX 580 Cards + 12 RTX 2060 Cards + 12 RTX 2070.

Your insights are appreciated.

Thanks!

If the power is free then you are going to make money, no questions asked really. As for what cards to get, i wouldnt mix it up too much. Its better to have the same type of cards, makes managing way easier.
Generally speaking AMD seems to be preferred as it tends to perform better on more algos (while Nvidia is better at specific ones). I would look at the price and would ask around for OTC deals for miners who are exiting teh market

agente

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bitmain s9..

PS: yes I know.. he asked for gpu rig

sakmsb

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Agreed with low cost GPUs but the 9x series might be already out of warranty and the 10xx series might be left with 1 or max 2 years warranty.

Appreciate the response. Thanks!

May be I can go with RX 570 max number of GPUs followed by the new 1660/1660 Ti ones?

CjMapope

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buy w.es cheap man
if you have "free" power why would you buy the worst cost/profit ration cards? (20 series), those are for when u have "free money" to burn haha
imo find old used 10 series, even 9 series, as you can get them CHEAP CHEAP
the biggest factors are: card cost and power cost to a gpu farm

sakmsb

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Hey Mining Community,

Wanted to know your thoughts on Building a rig considering Free electricity.

Instead of keeping money in Banks, I want to put it in Mining so that I'd be getting some money monthly instead of money being in bank and paying me like 7% yearly interest.

A balanced approach of Nvidia and AMD would be best?

Say I have the budget ~$20k I can build a rigs something like this in my country 12 AMD RX 570 Cards + 12 AMD RX 580 Cards + 12 RTX 2060 Cards + 12 RTX 2070.

Your insights are appreciated.

Thanks!

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