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Couldn't Linus make a ton of ether with all the extra cards he has lying around?

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I mean he probably has like 200 graphics cards he could use to mine, also he works in a warehouse that probably has cheap power. He could probably make hundreds a day.

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Who has time to do that.Power would still be pretty expensive.

Would make a compelling video.

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1 minute ago, Himommies said:

Who has time to do that.Power would still be pretty expensive.

Would make a compelling video.

Well, nicehash is fairly quick to set up and mines the most profitable coin then converts it to BTC and sends it to you, it might take a couple of days but it would prob be worth it.

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Those cards need to be available for testing whenever, so can't just have them mining. It probably won't make much either, power has to be really super cheap or free for GPU mining to make sense (and Vancouver isn't exactly cheap)

12 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

quality =/= quality 

huh. go figure.

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9 minutes ago, hotredsam said:

Well, nicehash is fairly quick to set up and mines the most profitable coin then converts it to BTC and sends it to you, it might take a couple of days but it would prob be worth it.

 

not that simple as you think. 

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4 minutes ago, Minibois said:

Those cards need to be available for testing whenever, so can't just have them mining. It probably won't make much either, power has to be really super cheap or free for GPU mining to make sense (and Vancouver isn't exactly cheap)

huh. go figure.

Vancouver is 12 cents a kWh, an rx 480 makes about 9 cents an hour and uses only 150 watts. You could make 54 cents an hour with 6 rx 480's. 42 cents an hour after electric

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4 minutes ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

I doubt he has 6 480s, and you haven't factored in the power draw of the rest of the build. Assuming a max system power draw of 400W (pretty reasonable) if my napkin math is right, it'd have a marginal cost of almost 30 cents an hour. Which yields about 1200 bucks..... in a year (54-30=14*24=$3.36 a day = 23.52 a week = 1223 a year, assuming everything goes perfectly. And given this is Canada, that probably only buys you like two bags of milk.

The rest of the build has minimal power draw, easily less than 100 watts.

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While it wouldn't be too great for him I think, would make a great video

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On 3/26/2017 at 1:10 PM, nerdslayer1 said:

quality =/= quality 

Technically quality does equal quality :/

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2 minutes ago, imreloadin said:

Technically quality does equal quality :/

i meant to say quantity, phones really needs better autocorrect solution. 

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Just now, nerdslayer1 said:

i meant to say quantity, phones really needs better autocorrect solution. 

I know I'm just giving you hell lol.

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