Extra Cards For Mining?

[ethandeguire]

I have a 4790k system with a gtx 1070, the cpu has 16 pcie 3.0 slots, and the chipset has 8 2.0.

Could I add a gtx 1060 (or two) without losing performance on any card?

All the forums I've found regarding this are 6 years old.

Will it matter, can I mine without seeing performance degregation.?

[GDRRiley]

why mining is a short lived thing, amd cards are better and yeah but don't. 

[themctipers]

you mining eth? probably will lose some hashes if you run out of PCIe 

[ethandeguire]

Just now, GDRRiley said:

why mining is a short lived thing, amd cards are better and yeah but don't. 

uhhh, what? AMD cards are sold out everywhere

 

[The Sloth]

Just now, ethandeguire said:

uhhh, what?

 

you can, but it's not worth it, AMD cards are better at mining. 

[ethandeguire]

Just now, nerdslayer1 said:

you can, but it's not worth it, AMD cards are better at mining. 

Yeah but theyre sold out everywhere

 

[GDRRiley]

Just now, ethandeguire said:

uhhh, what?

 

mining for e currancys won't last. amd cards are better at mining. you can do it will no hit but it isn't worth it to go and by 400$ worth of gpus to mine you will likely not make it back 

[RadiatingLight]

you can, but it's most likely not worth it.

Block difficulty will continue to climb, and you'd be lucky if those pay for themselves.

you'd still end up with two GTX 1060s, but still... doesn't seem like a great investment.

 

you won't run out of lanes.

a GTX 1080 loses 20% gaming performance on a Gen 1 X4 interface, so for less time-sensitive things, like mining, you won't lose any performance.

[RadiatingLight]

assuming both 1060s could make you $8 per day, and maybe the whole system costs you $1 in electricity per day, you'd need the system to be active for 2 months at the current rates of mining to pay back your investment.

 

however, block difficulty will increase, so it will more likely take 4 months, if the mining craze lasts that long.

[Windows7ge]

I've been watching the trend of crypto currency mining and unless you have very powerful hardware and cheap or free electricity in the long term mining isn't currently very profitable. If you mine an Alt coin something that uses the script algorithm you might get lucky and see its value increase drastically resulting in you turning a large profit but GPU mining Bitcoin or Litecoin is pointless and coins such as Peercoin, Dogecoin, and Namecoin, aren't really worth GPU mining either. ETH is still kind of worth it under the right circumstances HOWEVER long term profit will result from investing what you mine into coin trading markets (the stock market if that makes more sense). From my experience ETH won't be worth GPU mining for much longer unless its value skyrockets.

[2bitmarksman]

17 hours ago, ethandeguire said:

I have a 4790k system with a gtx 1070, the cpu has 16 pcie 3.0 slots, and the chipset has 8 2.0.

Could I add a gtx 1060 (or two) without losing performance on any card?

All the forums I've found regarding this are 6 years old.

Will it matter, can I mine without seeing performance degregation.?

For mining you will not see any performance drop, but for gaming I think less than 8x will reduce its performance. Also it is recommended you mine Zcash with Nvidia cards higher than 1050 ti's. 1050 ti's mine ETH better than ZEC.