Ziftrcoin Questions

Suffokation · April 12, 2015

So, I have recently started mining and my Dad wants to purchase me a mining rig. He set me a budget of around $1600 for the computer itself.

So, naturally I have a lot of questions because I am entering a market and a hobby I have no idea of, which is coins and Ziftr in spefic. So I suppose i'll just ask the questions now.

What are currently the best cards to buy for Ziftr? Commercial cards, and ASIC cards? And if so, what exact models in my price bracket.

Will Ziftr be successful? And if so, how long will it take for me to break even on the investment in cards?

What kind of internet will I need? My current suburb has incredibly poor upload and download speed, 1.2Mb and .08Mb download and upload. Will it be enough?

If the superior choice for Ziftr are a pair of Radeon cards like I suspect they will be at my budget, will I need some different cooling solution? I am fine doing a loop, or some G10 kraken stuff.

And finally, how long will it be before my cards die of heat exhaustion?

Cheers, if you guys have any tips at all, please let me know as I am eager to learn.

2FA · April 12, 2015

Really, the only part that needs to be beefy in a mining rig is the GPU, or multiple GPUs along with the power supply which should be very effiicient. Currently the best cards to mine with are the enthusiast AMD cards, 290 and up.

There is no clear answer as to whether or not Ziftr will be successful, that's just pure speculation and nothing else. At the current price of ziftrCOIN, it would take many years to break even. Everyone that is mining right now is looking towards the future, as the path the devs have set is a very long term one.

Buying Radeon cards with AIB coolers on them are the best, such as the Vapor-X cards as they run quite cool. Mining doesn't using much internet bandwidth, over a total month, you're looking at only a few MB of data being transmitted.

When it comes to mining, you want to spend as little as possible to avoid a starting up cost overhead or you want to go full blown tens of thousands of dollars so that you make tons of money at once.

Chippas64 · April 12, 2015

So, I have recently started mining and my Dad wants to purchase me a mining rig. He set me a budget of around $1600 for the computer itself.

So, naturally I have a lot of questions because I am entering a market and a hobby I have no idea of, which is coins and Ziftr in spefic. So I suppose i'll just ask the questions now.

What are currently the best cards to buy for Ziftr? Commercial cards, and ASIC cards? And if so, what exact models in my price bracket.

Will Ziftr be successful? And if so, how long will it take for me to break even on the investment in cards?

What kind of internet will I need? My current suburb has incredibly poor upload and download speed, 1.2Mb and .08Mb download and upload. Will it be enough?

If the superior choice for Ziftr are a pair of Radeon cards like I suspect they will be at my budget, will I need some different cooling solution? I am fine doing a loop, or some G10 kraken stuff.

And finally, how long will it be before my cards die of heat exhaustion?

Cheers, if you guys have any tips at all, please let me know as I am eager to learn.

use consumer hardware. Ziftrcoin is ASIC resistant so they won't work and commercial cards such as the Quadro or Firepro would give the same performance as consumer cards but with a massive price tag. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vS68WZiFUfqQkpRoNlQi81wCBxiK5hBGyszAzx_rlGY/edit#gid=0 that is a spreadsheet i made and people have been using it to input their hardware and what hashrates they get, go through that and decide what you want to get, looking at it atm the best card for the price would have to be and R9 280x or a GTX 970, i'd go for second hand cards, if you can try get some cheap R9 290's second hand. Heat exhaustion, that would take a very long time, if you get radeon cards then they can safely have 75-80 degrees Celsius without much at all being done adversely to their performance or lifespan, i wouldn't advise liquid cooling unless you were using you main rig for mining and wanted to make sure your cards kept really cool, if you can don't get reference cards, they tend to get a lot hotter than aftermaket coolers from brands like MSI or Gigabyte etc. Your internet speeds should be fine, if you can connect the PC with an Ethernet cable and not through wireless for more stable internet. ATM it would take you a very long time to break even with Ziftrcoin, it's been out about 6 weeks and GPU mining only about 2, later in the year the developers have a lot planned for the coin and a lot of promotions planned for it that should get the coin a lot of popularity and also push the price of the coin up to something reasonable. However if you wish to get into cryptocurrencies and explore more of it definitely get the build done and start mining, look around at other coins see how it all works and have fun, it's exactly what i did and i'm personally loving it and i know many others who are too