Mining on Old Hardware

[ShadowWrath5]

Hi Ive been a but inspired by the Nicehash ad spot in recent content and I would like to start mining on my PC. I have an older computer though that I dont use for anything and could run it full time mining. Its running older hardware though: An intel i5-3570K, 16 Gbs of ram and 2x Gtx 660 ti Superclocked 3GB version.

Would it be worth it at all to run this computer with nicehash or betterhash or something maybe more beneficial? 

I tried using calculators but they dont seem to list hardware going back this far and Ive also heard that some software wont even work with older software. 

Any advice is appreciated!

Thank you so much

[SupaKomputa]

Not worth it, that gpu won't produce enough hashrate especially with only 3gb of vram.

[Moonzy]

3 minutes ago, ShadowWrath5 said:

An intel i5-3570K, 16 Gbs of ram and 2x Gtx 660 ti Superclocked 3GB version.

Would it be worth it at all to run this computer with nicehash or betterhash or something maybe more beneficial? 

unless you have free electricity, this is a huge no

I'm not even entirely sure if there are miners(application) that would run on your hardware

 

anything below 900 series nvidia isnt worth mining on

[ShadowWrath5]

Even with 2 Gpus? for 6GB total? 

I also dont have to pay for my power bill so I dont have that overhead as well.

[ShadowWrath5]

Just now, Moonzy said:

unless you have free electricity, this is a huge no

I'm not even entirely sure if there are miners(application) that would run on your hardware

 

anything below 900 series nvidia isnt worth mining on

Welp I guess that answers that.

My main rig has a 3900x and a 1060 but I feel like that is still barely going to produce any profits

[Moonzy]

Just now, ShadowWrath5 said:

Welp I guess that answers that.

My main rig has a 3900x and a 1060 but I feel like that is still barely going to produce any profits

3900x requires some undervolting (im running mine at 1v 3.5-3.7ghz, 80W), but it's not that great overall

1060 is actually still ok if it's the 6gb variant, but requires undervolting as well (every gpu needs undervolting to be at their best efficiency)

[ProjectBox153]

It would be basically a complete waste for mining. If you want it to do something useful you should look into Folding@home instead. 

[ShadowWrath5]

Ill definitely look into folding at home then for my old rig and undervolting on my main. Thank you so much for the help.