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VirosaGITS

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Eh maybe I should turn my amd rig back on, that or see if the maxwell cards I have been stocking mine it as well.

Well you missed about 3-4 months of good profit with them tho. The thing with Maxwell is they work fine but while they take half the power consumption they also hash at about half speed. So you're left with a low $/GH ratio.

But if you already have them on hand... yeah check it out.

VirosaGITS

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Quote from: charles2k on February 10, 2016, 01:40:15 PM

I understand what you want to say, but your comparison is not entirely right.
First, you compare used card with new miner. Prices for such used cards are mostly higher.
And Antminers are usually rock stabil - this is not possible to say for GPU mining (I had in the past various 200 GPUs).
I had a lot of defective cards, very often I had switch on/off my GPU rigs.
Also GPU rigs are not so compact as Asic miners.

Wat. S7 used or new is same price, we can take a Used S7 priced at 800$ too if you want. And i dont know what you're doing to your GPUs but i got 0 failure in years. We can also take the price of a brand new 280x if you want, which is only 40$ more. The math is roughly the same.

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Don't worry about this. This is not only Bitcoin which is bad performing but also Ethereum which is rocking. Bitcoin will be back at the halving Wink

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I understand what you want to say, but your comparison is not entirely right.
First, you compare used card with new miner. Prices for such used cards are mostly higher.
And Antminers are usually rock stabil - this is not possible to say for GPU mining (I had in the past various 200 GPUs).
I had a lot of defective cards, very often I had switch on/off my GPU rigs.
Also GPU rigs are not so compact as Asic miners.

VirosaGITS

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Quote from: Biodom on February 10, 2016, 01:23:44 PM

Quote from: VirosaGITS on February 10, 2016, 12:17:50 PM

Quote from: adaseb on February 10, 2016, 12:09:52 PM

Quote from: Biodom on February 10, 2016, 11:46:23 AM

Quote from: adaseb on February 10, 2016, 10:34:28 AM

Just a generalization of how badly Bitcoin mining has gotten that GPU mining became profitable again.

Interesting comparison.
however, where you see these prices for R9 280X?
I see ~$240 on Amazon for new and ~$175 for used.
Refurbs are ~$150

I am thinking, maybe to do some Ethereum mining for fun, but I could also simply buy more ETH.
I did buy some in early January and some after trading begun and quite pleased so far to say the least.

eBay. Took the average for the 7950/7970/280X which are the best bang for the buck for Ethereum. The brand new cards, aren't that much quicker.

They really arent, i'm not sure what's up. The only difference is more RAM, so it could mine Eth longer. But we dont know what will happen to Eth in the future and it might switch to POS before we can cap out the 280x anyways.

I probably don't know what to look for, but i don't see the prices that you mention (i see initial bids with these numbers, but nothing like this in buy it now).

Well, i just find out that my PC with the highest PSU power (300W; HP 500-267c desktop) can only support GTX 750 Ti, but not R9 280X.

If you guys know, would it be easy to hook up Corsair 500 or even spare EVGA 1300 to the card?
I never did anything with GPU cards before, so please forgive my newbiness in this department.
maybe something new to play with as bitcoin mining is getting depressing lately.

Depend what the card is but i run a 5 280x rig on one 1300. Multi PSU is not a problem with the mobo connector y splitter or you could also power everything at the same time using the surge protector switch.

For the price, he prolly refer to this;
http://www.ebay.ca/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=r9%20280x&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc&_trksid=p2045573.m1684

As you can see it comes down to about 160$~ Shipped.

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Quote from: VirosaGITS on February 10, 2016, 12:17:50 PM

Quote from: adaseb on February 10, 2016, 12:09:52 PM

Quote from: Biodom on February 10, 2016, 11:46:23 AM

Quote from: adaseb on February 10, 2016, 10:34:28 AM

Just a generalization of how badly Bitcoin mining has gotten that GPU mining became profitable again.

Interesting comparison.
however, where you see these prices for R9 280X?
I see ~$240 on Amazon for new and ~$175 for used.
Refurbs are ~$150

I am thinking, maybe to do some Ethereum mining for fun, but I could also simply buy more ETH.
I did buy some in early January and some after trading begun and quite pleased so far to say the least.

eBay. Took the average for the 7950/7970/280X which are the best bang for the buck for Ethereum. The brand new cards, aren't that much quicker.

They really arent, i'm not sure what's up. The only difference is more RAM, so it could mine Eth longer. But we dont know what will happen to Eth in the future and it might switch to POS before we can cap out the 280x anyways.

I probably don't know what to look for, but i don't see the prices that you mention (i see initial bids with these numbers, but nothing like this in buy it now).

Well, i just find out that my PC with the highest PSU power (300W; HP 500-267c desktop) can only support GTX 750 Ti, but not R9 280X.

If you guys know, would it be easy to hook up Corsair 500 or even spare EVGA 1300 to the card?
I never did anything with GPU cards before, so please forgive my newbiness in this department.
maybe something new to play with as bitcoin mining is getting depressing lately.

VirosaGITS

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Quote from: adaseb on February 10, 2016, 12:09:52 PM

Quote from: Biodom on February 10, 2016, 11:46:23 AM

Quote from: adaseb on February 10, 2016, 10:34:28 AM

Just a generalization of how badly Bitcoin mining has gotten that GPU mining became profitable again.

Interesting comparison.
however, where you see these prices for R9 280X?
I see ~$240 on Amazon for new and ~$175 for used.
Refurbs are ~$150

I am thinking, maybe to do some Ethereum mining for fun, but I could also simply buy more ETH.
I did buy some in early January and some after trading begun and quite pleased so far to say the least.

eBay. Took the average for the 7950/7970/280X which are the best bang for the buck for Ethereum. The brand new cards, aren't that much quicker.

They really arent, i'm not sure what's up. The only difference is more RAM, so it could mine Eth longer. But we dont know what will happen to Eth in the future and it might switch to POS before we can cap out the 280x anyways.

adaseb

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Quote from: Biodom on February 10, 2016, 11:46:23 AM

Quote from: adaseb on February 10, 2016, 10:34:28 AM

Just a generalization of how badly Bitcoin mining has gotten that GPU mining became profitable again.

Interesting comparison.
however, where you see these prices for R9 280X?
I see ~$240 on Amazon for new and ~$175 for used.
Refurbs are ~$150

I am thinking, maybe to do some Ethereum mining for fun, but I could also simply buy more ETH.
I did buy some in early January and some after trading begun and quite pleased so far to say the least.

eBay. Took the average for the 7950/7970/280X which are the best bang for the buck for Ethereum. The brand new cards, aren't that much quicker.

Biodom

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Quote from: adaseb on February 10, 2016, 10:34:28 AM

Just a generalization of how badly Bitcoin mining has gotten that GPU mining became profitable again.

Interesting comparison.
however, where you see these prices for R9 280X?
I see ~$240 on Amazon for new and ~$175 for used.
Refurbs are ~$150

I am thinking, maybe to do some Ethereum mining for fun, but I could also simply buy more ETH.
I did buy some in early January and some after trading begun and quite pleased so far to say the least.

adaseb

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Just a generalization of how badly Bitcoin mining has gotten that GPU mining became profitable again.

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