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I haven't seen too big of a difference, maybe a few dollars or so but... that's also due to exchange price.. I'm holding my ETH for the long term anyways, but the $373.81 I make with ETH, it'll average to around 400 a month after SIA dual mining.

4 1060's and 1 1070 and I make around 400 monthly.

I'm using 4 1060 6GB and a 1070.

+175 core clock +350 mem clock, im using MSI afterburner if not try +150/+300

Don't worry, that's not correct information anyways. If your cards are getting various hashrates check temps, driver updates, change your pool/miner. I have 5 GPUs on my rig and have no issues and they all run at average or above hashrates.

Use NiceHash! The easiest miner for those who don't understand mining, just input a BTC address and go.

Complaining about literally what every government does.

Honestly, at today's point I would NOT invest in mining unless you can find GPUs at a very cheap price. The difficulty is rising daily and would turn your ROI from 3 months to more like 5-6.

Do you need that $400 today? That could help answer your question

I have 5 GPUs and they are never above 73C. I have two external fans blowing air from above them to cool them and limit the fans spinning... 4 1060s and a 1070.

You don't use SLI to mine... @ OP, you will need 1x to 16x PCI risers (I bought a pack of 6 for $70)

i just got a 1070 for 350 today.

If you are looking for what's in stock currently, the 1060 3GB/6GB are fairly good option and if you get them for a good price can make ROI in about 2 months or so.

it sounds like you arent really sure what you want. do you plan on primarily playing games, or curating content? it's necessary to know since it will drastically change the price per component you should be spending, and i presume peripherals will be included in the 1.6k since you said you'll need a monitor

Well, since it's a technology rather than someone controlling it, it's fairly linear to see how much of a certain coin you will make over a certain period of time with mining, but value is correct. Many ETH miners from the 10-20$ days may have been wasting more on power at the time, but the few that held now see a 20x value from what they were making... back then.