Posted January 23, 2018 Some years ago I mined LTC and I made some good money... Now I want to get into mining again but I'm a little outdated. What are the best cryptos to mine with video cards? What hashrate could I expect from a 5k investment? Thanks! Sold my build.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 23, 2018 The best are Ethereum, zCash, and some more obscure coins that are mildly more profitable and will not be mentioned here. Here's a great post in the Ethereum forums https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/8886/quick-start-guide-to-mine-ethereum The specs there stand for mining with Nvidia cards as well - CPU - cheapest you can get though don't go below the power level of a Sandy Bridge Pentium to be safe. Storage - a cheap as fuck 80GB HDD will do. You don't care about boot times because the rig is up 24/7 Motherboard - the more PCIe connectors the better. If you can grab an H97 pro/btc, get one, though I've never seen them in stock. Any board with 6+ will do you just fine RAM - 4GB is enough though i'd do 8GB here just in case especially if you'll run cards from both manufacturers PSU - Add the TDPs of all your cards together and grab a PSU that can accommodate that sum, from tier 3 or up on our Tier List linked in my sig Riser cables - you're gonna need these. Grab one like this one. Always always buy spares because it's common for them to crap out and they're dirt cheap. If you're gonna do 4 cards, might as well buy 8 of them. Case - there are some expensive rig enclosures but otherwise this is where you'll have to get creative. I've seen people use spacey cases like the Enthoo Pro M and mod in a bracket to run all the GPUs horizontally and provide support for them. Or you can just not use a case. GPUs - Honestly whatever you can get close to MSRP works here. From RX 470 up. 970s, R9 290/390/Xs work as well, the Fiji cards actually have pretty good hashrate but you'll have to undervolt them to meet power efficiency numbers. On weaker cards it's not worth it unless you already own the card. Higher-end Nvidia cards are pretty good with zCash and other currencies, 1070s are about as good as 580s for Ethereum and a bit better at zCash for profitability. That said cards above the 1070 give diminishing returns on Ethash, so you should only mine zCash if you buy say, 4 1080 Tis or 5-6 1080s. We have a NEW and GLORIOUSER-ER-ER PSU Tier List Now. (dammit @LukeSavenije stop coming up with new ones) You can check out the old one that gave joy to so many across the land here Computer having a hard time powering on? Troubleshoot it with this guide. (Currently looking for suggestions to update it into the context of <current year> and make it its own thread) Computer Specs: Spoiler Mathresolvermajig: Intel Xeon E3 1240 (Sandy Bridge i7 equivalent) Chillinmachine: Noctua NH-C14S Framepainting-inator: EVGA GTX 1080 Ti SC2 Hybrid Attachcorethingy: Gigabyte H61M-S2V-B3 Infoholdstick: Corsair 2x4GB DDR3 1333 Computerarmor: Silverstone RL06 "Lookalike" Rememberdoogle: 1TB HDD + 120GB TR150 + 240 SSD Plus + 1TB MX500 AdditionalPylons: Phanteks AMP! 550W (based on Seasonic GX-550) Letterpad: Rosewill Apollo 9100 (Cherry MX Red) Buttonrodent: Razer Viper Mini + Huion H430P drawing Tablet Auralnterface: Sennheiser HD 6xx Liquidrectangles: LG 27UK850-W 4K HDR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 23, 2018 I sure hope retailers follow the advice of Nvidia and limit sales per customer Pascal Undervolting topic, get more out of your card with less power! Why high refreshrate monitors look better even without Freesync/G-sync in one image.Stutters, framedrops, "lag". How to provide detailed information with your "bottleneck" question, as well as a few solutions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 23, 2018 With that amount of money why not get an ASIC miner? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 24, 2018 1060s in my area hit $800. Good luck. ORANGE SCREEN WINDOWS 10 VALUE OVER TIME - PC VS MAC Spoiler i5 7600k @ 5.0 GHz Corsair H60 with Noctua NF-F12 iPPC-3000 PWM MSI Z270-A Pro Motherboard EVGA 1050 Ti SC 16 GB Corsair DDR4 @ 2400 MHz 500 GB Sandisk 950 PRO - Windows 10, Elementary OS, Zorin OS 500 GB Sandisk 850 PRO 1 TB WD Blue Corsair CX750 1 x Corsair AF120 Quiet Red Led Rosewell Tyrfing Case Spoiler EliteBook 8570wi7 3720QM @ 2.6 GHzQuadro K1000M24 GB DDR3 @ 1600 MHz250 GB SanDisk 850 EVO - Elementary OS, Windows 10, Debian Spoiler i5 3470 @ 3.2 GHzEVGA 750 Ti SC8 GB DDR3 @ 1333 MHz240 GB SanDisk - Windows 10, Linux Mint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 24, 2018 My recommendation: Fold instead of mine. Might as well benefit the rest of the world while helping the GPU shortage. Quote or tag me( @Crunchy Dragon) if you want me to see your reply If a post solved your problem/answered your question, please consider marking it as "solved" Community Standards // Join Floatplane! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 24, 2018 3 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said: My recommendation: Fold instead of mine. Might as well benefit the rest of the world while helping the GPU shortage. might as well donate money to a good cause then. OP, help out pc gaming and just don't... you can do so much cool stuff with that amount of money. She/Her Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 24, 2018 33 minutes ago, lieder1987 said: With that amount of money why not get an ASIC miner? Doesn't work with Ethereum mining. Pretty sure only works with bitcoin and profit in most case is really low unless you can affoad hundreds of these. Magical Pineapples
