Old GPU to mine

[m6u3]

Hi, I have a question, I've being hearing everywhere about mining crypto-currencies, to get profit on bitcoin, and I want to  try it. I have an old GTX 960, that is just lying around and I wanted it to put it to work. But the thing is I don't have a rig for it, and I do not want to spend money just to get a mining rig. My current system is: a Z720-A PRO MoBo, an EVGA 650g PSU and GtX 1070 Graphics Card. I don't want my 1070 to mine because I heard that it puts the cards to its limits and my cause the card to die sooner.

The mother board has 2 PCI-e 3 x16 slots, its compatible with cross fire, but no SLI(also you need the same card to sli/crossfire). So my question is if I throw the card in my system will it work just to mine with that  card? or  will it  be issues with drivers and stuff?

[Aelita Sophie]

1 minute ago, m6u3 said:

Hi, I have a question, I've being hearing everywhere about mining crypto-currencies, to get profit on bitcoin, and I want to  try it. I have an old GTX 960, that is just lying around and I wanted it to put it to work. But the thing is I don't have a rig for it, and I do not want to spend money just to get a mining rig. My current system is: a Z720-A PRO MoBo, an EVGA 650g PSU and GtX 1070 Graphics Card. I don't want my 1070 to mine because I heard that it puts the cards to its limits and my cause the card to die sooner.

The mother board has 2 PCI-e 3 x16 slots, its compatible with cross fire, but no SLI(also you need the same card to sli/crossfire). So my question is if I throw the card in my system will it work just to mine with that  card? or  will it  be issues with drivers and stuff?

First you need to check up on your electricity costs if you want it to be profitable. It's true that it is taxing for a GPU and that it probably will effect the lifespan. But it shouldn't kill a GTX1070 within 3 years or something. Don't be to worried about that.

A GTX 960 (not overclocked) will give you about €0.75 per 24h or $0.85. Overclocked it will reach about €1 or $1.14. This is excluding the energy that it uses. Typical it would use about 100 Watt or 120 watt overclocked. Depends a bit on your model though.

If you want to mine, your best bet is using NiceHash. Its easy to use and it automatically selects the most profitable cryptocurrency according to their system.

 

Your system will work fine, as long you only use 1 GPU at the same time to mine, as a 650watt PSU might have issues giving power to 2 GPU's being maxed out.

[3rrant]

14 minutes ago, m6u3 said:

Hi, I have a question, I've being hearing everywhere about mining crypto-currencies, to get profit on bitcoin, and I want to  try it. I have an old GTX 960, that is just lying around and I wanted it to put it to work. But the thing is I don't have a rig for it, and I do not want to spend money just to get a mining rig. My current system is: a Z720-A PRO MoBo, an EVGA 650g PSU and GtX 1070 Graphics Card. I don't want my 1070 to mine because I heard that it puts the cards to its limits and my cause the card to die sooner.

The mother board has 2 PCI-e 3 x16 slots, its compatible with cross fire, but no SLI(also you need the same card to sli/crossfire). So my question is if I throw the card in my system will it work just to mine with that  card? or  will it  be issues with drivers and stuff?

Short answer: bitcoin is not profitable with gpu. Any of them, even at 0$ electricity cost. Just require too much time.

Ethereum, could be  but need at least 2,5GB of memory right now and will increase in future.

1070 is a good mining choice, 960 isn't.

[m6u3]

4 minutes ago, Aelita Sophie said:

First you need to check up on your electricity costs if you want it to be profitable. It's true that it is taxing for a GPU and that it probably will effect the lifespan. But it shouldn't kill a GTX1070 within 3 years or something. Don't be to worried about that.

A GTX 960 (not overclocked) will give you about €0.75 per 24h or $0.85. Overclocked it will reach about €1 or $1.14. This is excluding the energy that it uses. Typical it would use about 100 Watt or 120 watt overclocked. Depends a bit on your model though.

If you want to mine, your best bet is using NiceHash. Its easy to use and it automatically selects the most profitable cryptocurrency according to their system.

 

Your system will work fine, as long you only use 1 GPU at the same time to mine, as a 650watt PSU might have issues giving power to 2 GPU's being maxed out.

alright thanks, I'm not really worried about the electricity cost, I life in a house with roommates(or should I say House-mates?), and we divided each bill on each of us (I pay water lol) and two other roommates pay the electricity. so what wattage PSU will be ebough for the two cards?

 

[Aelita Sophie]

2 minutes ago, m6u3 said:

alright thanks, I'm not really worried about the electricity cost, I life in a house with roommates(or should I say House-mates?), and we divided each bill on each of us (I pay water lol) and two other roommates pay the electricity. so what wattage PSU will be ebough for the two cards?

 

I currently have an FX6100 system with a GTX 960 and a GTX 970 heavily overclocked. It uses a 420 watt and a 460 watt PSU. The 420 watt powers the Entire computer + GTX 960 and the 460 Watt powers only the GTX 970. The 420 watt struggles powering the overclocked GTX 960 (Running on 1500 Mhz core and 8100 Mhz memory lol). The 460 Watt has no issues with just the GTX 970. I would say that a 800 watt would do it just fine. The 650watt you currently have will probably work just fine as well, but depending on its health it might struggle. You'll know soon enough though. It will result in driver crashes if the power is unstable. When it does, simply stop mining on both or upgrade the PSU. (Or hotwire a second PSU in it if u happen to have one lying around)