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Can a r9 280x mine well?

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My friend has developed the hobby of cryptocurrency and wants to mine bitcoin with a small pool. Can the r9 280x mine better than a gtx 970?

My i5 6500 is bad and can't even maintain 4.5ghz, and 4.4ghz causes it to slowly become unstable over weeks with a vcore of 1.395. FML

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My friend has developed the hobby of cryptocurrency and wants to mine bitcoin with a small pool. Can the r9 280x mine better than a gtx 970?

It's irrelevant. Bitcoin is all ASIC now, you aren't gonna get anywhere with a GPU.

"LTT's official.."STOP. I promise you aren't LTT's official bagel eater or whatever. Trust me. 

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*Heavy Sighs*

Bitcoin Mining is Dead

 

It's irrelevant. Bitcoin is all ASIC now, you aren't gonna get anywhere with a GPU.

Fuck.

My i5 6500 is bad and can't even maintain 4.5ghz, and 4.4ghz causes it to slowly become unstable over weeks with a vcore of 1.395. FML

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Bit coin needs a asic miner to get anything, and you will still get nothing.

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*Heavy Sighs*

Bitcoin Mining is Dead

That's incorrect.  It's far from dead, but you need to mine in a pool if you want to get anywhere.

QUOTE ME OR I PROBABLY WON'T SEE YOUR RESPONSE 

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that is unprofitable too.

Why would you mine for profit? I thought it was hobby. Unless you pay .10 cents a kilowatt you can't make anything.

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Why would you mine for profit? I thought it was hobby. Unless you pay .10 cents a kilowatt you can't make anything.

No. If you pay anything at all for electricity you will likely lose money, because you will be making pennies a month if even that.

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Why would you mine for profit? I thought it was hobby. Unless you pay .10 cents a kilowatt you can't make anything.

no the miner in the link.
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no the miner in the link.

What?

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280x draws let's say 270W at full load. Cost of electricity for a month at full speed would be around 30$ (price in my country), and with it's 800 Mhash/s performance you would mine bitcoins worth 0,05$.

That is a 29,95$ loss every month :D

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