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RE: Basic Guide: Mining Ethereum with RX400/RX500 GPUs
Excellent informative post, thank you!
Good timing also as my son just got home from college and we're going to dust off and update the old milk crate mining rig we used on X11 2 years ago.
To give you an idea of that mining period it's made up of 2 x 5850s and 1 x 7850 so those obviously need to come out. I have an XFX R9 390x to pop in it but not quite sure what 2 additional cards is the best ROI at this moment to buy. Based on today's prices can you make me a suggestion please?
Sounds like a fun father/son project! The answer largely depends on what you want to mine. If you want to stay with the X11 algorithm, you might consider nVidia cards or ASIC. I personally have never tried to mine with any nVidia cards or ASIC but read that they do better with X11 as compared to Radeon cards. If you plan to mine Ethereum, then this write up is applicable. I'd suggest buying RX500 series cards (RX400 series are slowly phasing out) and go for the brand that is on sale, I bought the Gigabyte RX580 for $219 from Newegg.
Have a wonderful time building the miner with your son!