First Time Mining

[GeorgeDouj88]

Pretty much, my cousin is a freshmen in college and he just got into Bitcoin and told me that if he was my age (just turned 16) and he knew about Bitcoin, he would've been researching a lot more. So I told all I know is that people can mine Bitcoin and how I think it works is that a computer solves a bunch of really hard math or something and you get a Bitcoin from it. ALL I KNOW. And he said, "There's mining?" and I said yes and my first PC I'm building towards Christmas is gonna have 1080ti which I'm pretty people think is very good for mining so I might mine a little (even though I know absolutely nothing about it). So pretty much here I am and what I'm asking is if (once I build the PC) I could provide specs for you and you guys could tell me exactly what settings or whatever way you do Bitcoin mining and I tell you temps and power draw (I'm pretty sure this is important to find out if you're making profit from power bills), then you guys make adjustments and I go to school, come back and check on it. I am willing to do this but I made this PC for Very High end gaming and VR gaming and 32GB (so that it doesn't F$#^ing lag when I try to quick select something in Photoshop, also because with other specs I was pretty sure that it was the perfect decision) so the thing that I'm worried about is wear down of the 1080 ti and I REALLLy want to extend it's life as much as possible, especiall because I'm gonna put it on a auto overclock or do some manual stuff. All my specs are in my signature and I hope you guys and say something about the topic, I know with my situation (want to preserve GPU) and what I'm asking that I'm probably gonna sound like an idiot and you guys might even say it can't really be done, but that doesn't matter because I just want some input. (Sorry for the grammar, I speak very Fluent english and I am very good at writing, I just am lazy and don't care about making this sound good )

[Nicnac]

Don't forget to put your helmet on!

 

If the card is adequately cooled there is no need to worry that it will be damaged. Turning a computer on and off again and again will wear it down faster than if it's running at a consistent temperature and same load.

[TheRandomness]

Don't mine bitcoin because you can't really, with a graphics card. With a 1080 Ti, mine monero or zCash.

[GeorgeDouj88]

Just now, TheRandomness said:

Don't mine bitcoin because you can't really, with a graphics card. With a 1080 Ti, mine monero or zCash.

which is better and which are you better at so that you can pleassse give me the settings or whatnot when I build my pc in a few weeks.

[TheRandomness]

2 hours ago, G3ORG3Douj88 said:

which is better and which are you better at so that you can pleassse give me the settings or whatnot when I build my pc in a few weeks.

I don't mine either, I just know both are better to mine than bitcoin due to the algorithms used. There are various guides on these forums, and due to my lack of knowledge, I'd recommend those.

[GeorgeDouj88]

56 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

I don't mine either, I just know both are better to mine than bitcoin due to the algorithms used. There are various guides on these forums, and due to my lack of knowledge, I'd recommend those.

So for now, before I build my PC, I will try to do some research on which is best to mine and maybe even some research on mining. But for now, I'm focused on doing it.