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RE: My rollercoaster journey into Crypto, Mining and Investing - A brief guide for Newbie's :)
That is one nice test bench! Are those video cards used for gaming at all? haha
That is one nice test bench! Are those video cards used for gaming at all? haha
Hi. No, the cards were used for 3D rendering, i'm not a gamer as such :)
I've since built another frame like this with the additional cards on it - the Nvidia GPU's were a little overlooked by miners originally due to their high price - but as AMD cards sold out people began looking at alternatives. I tried the 1070 early on - before they all went out of stock and found I could get batter 'Hashing' speeds out of them at lower power usage than the AMD cards :) - About a month later - try buying a 1060 or 1070 card in the UK - everyone has caught on! The 1060 is the sweetspot IMO and it's also the card that Nvidia are making a mining only variant of :)
I have been sayin this for a while. The 1060 seems like PERFECT right now for price/performance
Indeed - if I were building now it would be 1060 based all the way!
You can also reduce the power usage lots using AfterBurner and still get a great Hash Rate.
It's about the overall cost of both building and running the rig - the 1060 6xGPU rig build I linked to used less than 500watt!!