AMD RX 550 good for light mining?

[NotThatSmart]

Hi,

i recently started mining ETH and BTC , but i ran into a problem.

My R7 250 with 2GB DDR3 has low Hashrate. When mining less demanding cryptocurrency , i Get an avarege Hashrate of 100-150...Now , would and RX 550 be a reasonable upgrade for mining? Its quite cheap , costs only 60€, and i dont have alot of money.

My current specs are :

Gigabyte AMD R7 250 2GB DDR3 OC 100mm Fan

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2,40GHz

8GB DDR2 RAM

Windows 10 Pro

[Space Reptile]

an R9 270(x) , wich costs about the same on the used will give you way higher hashrates (450h/s cryptonight ~1$ per day) and much much better gaming performance 

[NotThatSmart]

Nice , i'll make sure to check the price in my country

[Space Reptile]

1 minute ago, NotThatSmart said:

Nice , i'll make sure to check the price in my country

where are you located? i can give you my card if you dont find any 

[NotThatSmart]

Quite far away , haha 

im from Croatia

as far as i saw , an used R9 270 is around 1,800HRK (180€~) and its too much for me

[NotThatSmart]

3 minutes ago, NotThatSmart said:

Quite far away , haha 

im from Croatia

as far as i saw , an used R9 270 is around 1,800HRK (180€~) and its too much for me

As far as i saw , i did a bit more research , the 750HRK is the lowest (80€~) but i have only 40€ And i cannot give more than 50€

[Space Reptile]

18 minutes ago, NotThatSmart said:

As far as i saw , i did a bit more research , the 750HRK is the lowest (80€~) but i have only 40€ And i cannot give more than 50€

damn , id be willing to sell mine for 60 + ship (wich would be like 7~12 bucks) 

[mariushm]

You'd have to be crazy to pay that much for a R9 270

 

On a big forum here in my country where  i'm a member, there's a member which sells a R9 280x for 450 RON (around 96 euro) , here's link (though you may need an account to view that section of the forum) : https://www.mygarage.ro/vanzari/385359-r9-280-a.html

 

Hell, I can buy a RX 560 with 4 GB of memory for around 120 euro, here's link : https://www.pcgarage.ro/placi-video/sapphire/radeon-rx-560-pulse-45w-4gb-ddr5-128-bit/

Or another one, even a bit cheaper (still Black Friday deals at some stores) : https://altex.ro/placa-video-asus-rog-strix-radeon-rx-560-o4g-evo-gaming-oc-edition-4gb-gddr5-128bit-rx560-o4g-evo-gaming

 

If you really have such a shitty buy choices, if you have paypal to pay me, i'd be willing to buy one for you and mail it to you (just add around 3-5 euro for postage) ... but you should also be able to buy from stores like amazon.co.uk or amazon.de

 

 

 

[NotThatSmart]

7 minutes ago, Space Reptile said:

damn , id be willing to sell mine for 60 + ship (wich would be like 7~12 bucks) 

No thanks , ill think something trough , i'll rather be stuck with this R7 250 for now

[Space Reptile]

5 minutes ago, NotThatSmart said:

No thanks , ill think something trough , i'll rather be stuck with this R7 250 for now

best of luck on the parts hunt 

[NotThatSmart]

Just now, Space Reptile said:

best of luck on the parts hunt 

Thanks! Even tho i paid too much for this GPU a year ago....i needed something more powerful than an 2008 Nvidia GeForce 8800GT , so i paid 70€ for it

[NotThatSmart]

Might rather spend more and buy a i3 Coffee Lake , but thanks for help guys , i'll PM ya guys if i dont find a reasonable priced R9!

 

[mariushm]

56 minutes ago, NotThatSmart said:

Might rather spend more and buy a i3 Coffee Lake , but thanks for help guys , i'll PM ya guys if i dont find a reasonable priced R9!

 

 

Yeah, but you'd also need a suitable motherboard AND DDR4 memory which is quite expensive these days. i3 8100 requires socket 1151 v2 boards, the more expensive boards with chipset z370

 

You have a Q6600 which can still sort of keep up even with modern games - sure, a high end video card would be chocked by the cpu a bit, but a card like RX 560 or GTX 1060 would work just fine with it.

 

If you go that route, you'd probably be better off with a Ryzen 3 1300x and overclock it to 3.8 ..3.9 Ghz : https://www.mall.hr/procesori/amd-procesor-ryzen-3-1300x-s-hladnjakom-wraith-stealth-65w-yd130xbbaebox

Ryzen 5 1400 would be even better, as it has hyperthreading (so you have 8 cores in windows) , but it's around 1200 kr on that site.

 

You'd save some money on the motherboards, would probably be cheaper than those compatible with coffee lake.

[NotThatSmart]

Just now, mariushm said:

Yeah, but you'd also need a suitable motherboard AND DDR4 memory which is quite expensive these days.

 

You have a Q6600 which can still sort of keep up even with modern games - sure, a high end video card would be chocked by the cpu a bit, but a card like RX 560 or GTX 1060 would work just fine with it.

 

If you go that route, you'd probably be better off with a Ryzen 3 1300x and overclock it to 3.8 ..3.9 Ghz : https://www.mall.hr/procesori/amd-procesor-ryzen-3-1300x-s-hladnjakom-wraith-stealth-65w-yd130xbbaebox

Ryzen 5 1400 would be even better, as it has hyperthreading, but it's around 1200 kr on that site.

 

You'd save some money on the motherboards, would probably be cheaper than those compatible with coffee lake.

Yeah , the Ryzen 3 is quite cheap , A new one costs only 100€ , and pairing that with 8GB DDR4 Crucial RAM for 60€ , a new AM4 motherboard 40€ and a RX 550 70€ , its not quite expensive , so i might get some parts for Black Friday and some for Christmas

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