You can always buy the old Tahiti GPUs for cheap. The Tahiti GPUs are the AMD Radeon 7950, 7970, 280X. You can also try and get the Hawaii which is the R9 290 however it’s a popular card with gamers and might not be cheap.
Anyways. With the Tahiti you can mine ETC until the DAG is greater than 3GB. It hashes at around 22Mhs or so. So not the fastest but pretty decent. Only issue is they are power hogs. No matter how much you undervolt, it will eat 200 watts.
There are also the Pitcairn, which is the r9 270X however those are usually max 2gb.
This is very old junk and very unstable.Anyways. With the Tahiti you can mine ETC until the DAG is greater than 3GB. It hashes at around 22Mhs or so. So not the fastest but pretty decent. Only issue is they are power hogs. No matter how much you undervolt, it will eat 200 watts.
There are also the Pitcairn, which is the r9 270X however those are usually max 2gb.
If you buy it at a very low price, then it is possible to try, but every second video card will at least have problems.
Even in China, they got rid of such junk.
I come across sometimes advertisements for the sale of such video cards, but these cunning sellers want to sell old junk to novice miners at high prices.
They are old GPUs but those generations are well built compared to most newer GPUs. The biggest issue would be maybe the fans fail pretty soon. However most of those old GPUs are pretty robust and he won’t get much issues.
Yeah they are old but he said “cheap” there is really nothing else out there which isn’t a rip off at the moment. Something like a Fiji, fury, Nano, r9 390 are overpriced. Check the eBay prices on those. The Tahiti’s you can still get at a decent price these days.
If you want to mine, you can buy an old video card that can pay off in 6-7 months. Or you can buy a new graphics card that will have a 3 year warranty and an estimated return on investment of 11-14 months.
Newbies don't understand this.
You can buy old junk if the estimated return on investment is 3-4 months. But for this price, I'm sure 90 percent of the graphics cards will have big problems.
the trick is you have the electrical capacity to run them all, old and new. as you reach the electrical limit you discard the less efficient (old) and replace them with the more efficient (new).
then you find another site and run the old there while buying what you can get (old and new) and max the electrical capacity.
*repeat the process*
yeah, old equipment tends to be a bit more problematic (degraded thermal pads, fans etc.)...only do it if it is a close proximity from home farm to farm A to farm B. And if you are an expert in "preventive" maintenance.
the old is a supplementary if there is still "electrical space" and you haven't acquired the "new" latest and greatest cutting edge mining cards yet. profit is still profit.
