Topic: Why is Ethereum actually the only cryptocurrency worth GPU mining? - page 6. (Read 12025 times)

Quote from: acaciosc on May 23, 2016, 12:24:06 PM

The AMD R9 390 8 GB is the best for Ethereum mining. I use the XFX cards with back plate. They are very steady.

But which one should I pick between those two cards? R9 390 8 GB is too expensive.

Sapphire is to AMD what EVGA is to Nvidia so I'd go with Sapphire...
How is the warranty like where you live ? Go with whoever gives you the longest

These cards are both used, so I will have only 3 months after my purchase. HIS card has 384 Bits, while SAPPHIRE has only 256 Bits (but I don't think that it will matter in my hashrates). Please see the difference and tell me which one is a best buy:
http://www.sapphiretech.com/productdetial.asp?pid=C4D1B443-6105-4A63-85DE-1732CC9C443D&lang=eng
http://www.hisdigital.com/un/product2-786.shtml

If they are both used they are too expensive. You can get a 380 for that price.

Go on Craigslist and get some second hand 7950-7970 instead.

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Quote from: Unacceptable on May 23, 2016, 02:12:12 AM

Quote from: acaciosc on May 23, 2016, 12:12:50 AM

Quote from: Unacceptable on May 22, 2016, 06:47:11 PM

I failed to mention,I bought mobo's,RAM,CPU's way back in 2011 to mine BTC with GPU's,I still have 6 PCs left from those days.

All was ROI'd way back then,just put em the closet for a rainy day Wink

Guess what...it's raining Cheesy

That was about 2 years ago I put em up,they mined alts for abit after BTC went ASIC.

I sold my 5870's,6950's & bought a few 380's,gonna get another 1 or 2 very soon Cool

BTW,DO NOT BUY GPU's ON EBAY.Just get new ones,the chance you take on getting a faulty GPU isn't worth it............I got a few in a row & I'll buy new from now on Sad

Ouch. I was thinking about buying one R9 280x for only 227 dollars + one Corsair Cx 750W for only 116 dollars. I can't find the same graphics card in any other website where I live. This GPU is classified as very quiet, which is something that matters to me. The ROI would be possible, I guess. According to both whattomine and coinwarz, I'm going to get around 60 dollars per month (22 mh/s, 450W, $0.13 kwh), so it means that I'm going to have a ROI only after 5 months and half, approximately (if these calculators don't "fool" me because of the skyrocketing difficulty, as pointed by catlove, lol). But what do you guys think? Will I ever achieve my ROI or not? Or is it safer (and/or better) to just buy ETH and hold them for quite some time until it... adds one more digit to its price, perhaps? Roll Eyes

Those calculators are off by quite abit....just mine for a day & go from there,my 7970 & 380 4gig get about 37mh= .35 eth per day approx.

The card I got is VERY quiet,check it out:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202166

And check return policies with Newegg on Ebay,most DO NOT offer returns...beware!!!!

When I was mining Bitcoin with my previously owned S1 I was getting exactly around what was estimated in Coinwarz.

Eth is NOT bitcoin......the hashrate fluctuation is extreme,for whatever reason,like a roller coaster.I've noticed on my pool my hashrate goes as high as 48mh & the next minute it's 17mh...... Roll Eyes

That's why those calcs are off Wink

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Quote from: xingqiaoyin on May 23, 2016, 02:42:40 PM

The AMD R9 390 8 GB is the best for Ethereum mining. I use the XFX cards with back plate. They are very steady.

But which one should I pick between those two cards? R9 390 8 GB is too expensive.

Sapphire is to AMD what EVGA is to Nvidia so I'd go with Sapphire...
How is the warranty like where you live ? Go with whoever gives you the longest

These cards are both used, so I will have only 3 months after my purchase. HIS card has 384 Bits, while SAPPHIRE has only 256 Bits (but I don't think that it will matter in my hashrates). Please see the difference and tell me which one is a best buy:
http://www.sapphiretech.com/productdetial.asp?pid=C4D1B443-6105-4A63-85DE-1732CC9C443D&lang=eng
http://www.hisdigital.com/un/product2-786.shtml

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Quote from: Unacceptable on May 23, 2016, 02:12:12 AM

The AMD R9 390 8 GB is the best for Ethereum mining. I use the XFX cards with back plate. They are very steady.

But which one should I pick between those two cards? R9 390 8 GB is too expensive.

Sapphire is to AMD what EVGA is to Nvidia so I'd go with Sapphire...
How is the warranty like where you live ? Go with whoever gives you the longest

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Please, just tell me fast which is the best GPU? http://www.sapphiretech.com/productdetial.asp?pid=C4D1B443-6105-4A63-85DE-1732CC9C443D&lang=eng ($210,67) or this one http://www.hisdigital.com/un/product2-786.shtml ($224,72)? I'm afraid to lose this opportunity, because there aren't a lot of R9 280x and this HIS card seems to be one of the quietest R9 280x cards (if not the quietest).

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Quote from: acaciosc on May 23, 2016, 12:12:50 AM

Quote from: Unacceptable on May 22, 2016, 06:47:11 PM

I failed to mention,I bought mobo's,RAM,CPU's way back in 2011 to mine BTC with GPU's,I still have 6 PCs left from those days.

All was ROI'd way back then,just put em the closet for a rainy day Wink

Guess what...it's raining Cheesy

That was about 2 years ago I put em up,they mined alts for abit after BTC went ASIC.

I sold my 5870's,6950's & bought a few 380's,gonna get another 1 or 2 very soon Cool

BTW,DO NOT BUY GPU's ON EBAY.Just get new ones,the chance you take on getting a faulty GPU isn't worth it............I got a few in a row & I'll buy new from now on Sad

Ouch. I was thinking about buying one R9 280x for only 227 dollars + one Corsair Cx 750W for only 116 dollars. I can't find the same graphics card in any other website where I live. This GPU is classified as very quiet, which is something that matters to me. The ROI would be possible, I guess. According to both whattomine and coinwarz, I'm going to get around 60 dollars per month (22 mh/s, 450W, $0.13 kwh), so it means that I'm going to have a ROI only after 5 months and half, approximately (if these calculators don't "fool" me because of the skyrocketing difficulty, as pointed by catlove, lol). But what do you guys think? Will I ever achieve my ROI or not? Or is it safer (and/or better) to just buy ETH and hold them for quite some time until it... adds one more digit to its price, perhaps? Roll Eyes

Those calculators are off by quite abit....just mine for a day & go from there,my 7970 & 380 4gig get about 37mh= .35 eth per day approx.

The card I got is VERY quiet,check it out:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202166

And check return policies with Newegg on Ebay,most DO NOT offer returns...beware!!!!

When I was mining Bitcoin with my previously owned S1 I was getting exactly around what was estimated in Coinwarz.

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Quote from: Amph on May 23, 2016, 03:32:07 AM

Quote from: socks435 on May 23, 2016, 11:05:18 AM

everyone here is talking like the mining will die after ethereum, there is nothing more wrong

we will talk about another more profitable coin in 1-2 years, guaranteed...

How can you be so sure?

because it happened like 3 times already or maybe even more? since 2013 there was always something to mine form time to time, it's not like ethereum was the only coin profitable since altcoin scene went all out

So what? Just because it happened 3 times previously it doesn't mean that it will be the very same thing from now on. I wish I could be that confident.

when you see the same thing happening over and over again, you can't simply ignore that fact, and still believing that going against that trend is the right thing to do

it's all about probability, nothing is certain, but if the probability tell me that it will happen again(higher % than not happening) because of the past, then i follow that route

You are kinda right (because you can't say for sure that in 1 or 2 years there will be another profitable coin to mine with my GPU). Since it's expected with all this "certainty" to find profitable coins to mine with a GPU over and over again, I think I'm going to accept the risk behind all this mining thing. I think it will be my last bet in this "cryptospeculation" mess. I remember when you told me that Bitcoin is the only coin to trust some months ago, though.

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The AMD R9 390 8 GB is the best for Ethereum mining. I use the XFX cards with back plate. They are very steady.

But which one should I pick between those two cards? R9 390 8 GB is too expensive.

Yeah its expensive but i think its profitable if you mine ethereum for now and i dont think if its profitable in few months because the difficulty is increasing month by month..

What does this "few months" mean? 8 months? Also, which one should I choose b/w those two GPUs (supposing it's safe to assume that there will be more profitable coins to gpu mine after ETH stops being profitable, of course)? Forget the R9 390. I won't risk all that money, because I'm VERY poor.

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The AMD R9 390 8 GB is the best for Ethereum mining. I use the XFX cards with back plate. They are very steady.

But which one should I pick between those two cards? R9 390 8 GB is too expensive.

Yeah its expensive but i think its profitable if you mine ethereum for now and i dont think if its profitable in few months because the difficulty is increasing month by month..

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Quote from: xingqiaoyin on May 23, 2016, 02:17:18 AM

The AMD R9 390 8 GB is the best for Ethereum mining. I use the XFX cards with back plate. They are very steady.

But which one should I pick between those two cards? R9 390 8 GB is too expensive.

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The AMD R9 390 8 GB is the best for Ethereum mining. I use the XFX cards with back plate. They are very steady.

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everyone here is talking like the mining will die after ethereum, there is nothing more wrong

we will talk about another more profitable coin in 1-2 years, guaranteed...

How can you be so sure?

because it happened like 3 times already or maybe even more? since 2013 there was always something to mine form time to time, it's not like ethereum was the only coin profitable since altcoin scene went all out

So what? Just because it happened 3 times previously it doesn't mean that it will be the very same thing from now on. I wish I could be that confident.

It happened 3 times because it is powered by an ideal that cryptos are meant to be decentralized. And there's no decentralization scheme better than GPU mining right now. And it didn't happen just 3 times but 4 times with ETH..

BTC was once GPU coin
LTC was once GPU coin
DASH and VTC were once GPU coin
and now ETH...

Decentralization is an ideal.. BTC history will always be associated with decentralization IMO there won't be BTC if 2008 crisis didn't happen. 2008 happens because of centralized economy and when in 2009 someone came up with a currency that doesnt need a central bank the idea simply took off. Ideal will never die .. and that's why the previous poster felt sure.

Ok, thank you for your explanation. Which is the best GPU? http://www.sapphiretech.com/productdetial.asp?pid=C4D1B443-6105-4A63-85DE-1732CC9C443D&lang=eng ($210,67) or this one http://www.hisdigital.com/un/product2-786.shtml ($224,72)?

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everyone here is talking like the mining will die after ethereum, there is nothing more wrong

we will talk about another more profitable coin in 1-2 years, guaranteed...

How can you be so sure?

because it happened like 3 times already or maybe even more? since 2013 there was always something to mine form time to time, it's not like ethereum was the only coin profitable since altcoin scene went all out

So what? Just because it happened 3 times previously it doesn't mean that it will be the very same thing from now on. I wish I could be that confident.

when you see the same thing happening over and over again, you can't simply ignore that fact, and still believing that going against that trend is the right thing to do

it's all about probability, nothing is certain, but if the probability tell me that it will happen again(higher % than not happening) because of the past, then i follow that route

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Quote from: acaciosc on May 23, 2016, 12:12:50 AM

everyone here is talking like the mining will die after ethereum, there is nothing more wrong

we will talk about another more profitable coin in 1-2 years, guaranteed...

How can you be so sure?

because it happened like 3 times already or maybe even more? since 2013 there was always something to mine form time to time, it's not like ethereum was the only coin profitable since altcoin scene went all out

So what? Just because it happened 3 times previously it doesn't mean that it will be the very same thing from now on. I wish I could be that confident.

It happened 3 times because it is powered by an ideal that cryptos are meant to be decentralized. And there's no decentralization scheme better than GPU mining right now. And it didn't happen just 3 times but 4 times with ETH..

BTC was once GPU coin
LTC was once GPU coin
DASH and VTC were once GPU coin
and now ETH...

Decentralization is an ideal.. BTC history will always be associated with decentralization IMO there won't be BTC if 2008 crisis didn't happen. 2008 happens because of centralized economy and when in 2009 someone came up with a currency that doesnt need a central bank the idea simply took off. Ideal will never die .. and that's why the previous poster felt sure.

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Quote from: Unacceptable on May 22, 2016, 06:47:11 PM

I failed to mention,I bought mobo's,RAM,CPU's way back in 2011 to mine BTC with GPU's,I still have 6 PCs left from those days.

All was ROI'd way back then,just put em the closet for a rainy day Wink

Guess what...it's raining Cheesy

That was about 2 years ago I put em up,they mined alts for abit after BTC went ASIC.

I sold my 5870's,6950's & bought a few 380's,gonna get another 1 or 2 very soon Cool

BTW,DO NOT BUY GPU's ON EBAY.Just get new ones,the chance you take on getting a faulty GPU isn't worth it............I got a few in a row & I'll buy new from now on Sad

Ouch. I was thinking about buying one R9 280x for only 227 dollars + one Corsair Cx 750W for only 116 dollars. I can't find the same graphics card in any other website where I live. This GPU is classified as very quiet, which is something that matters to me. The ROI would be possible, I guess. According to both whattomine and coinwarz, I'm going to get around 60 dollars per month (22 mh/s, 450W, $0.13 kwh), so it means that I'm going to have a ROI only after 5 months and half, approximately (if these calculators don't "fool" me because of the skyrocketing difficulty, as pointed by catlove, lol). But what do you guys think? Will I ever achieve my ROI or not? Or is it safer (and/or better) to just buy ETH and hold them for quite some time until it... adds one more digit to its price, perhaps? Roll Eyes

Those calculators are off by quite abit....just mine for a day & go from there,my 7970 & 380 4gig get about 37mh= .35 eth per day approx.

The card I got is VERY quiet,check it out:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202166

And check return policies with Newegg on Ebay,most DO NOT offer returns...beware!!!!

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Quote from: Unacceptable on May 22, 2016, 05:12:54 PM