RE: building my first mining rig
Is that a 8800 GTS that I see??? That thing was BEAST back in the day! Awesome that you still have it. I still have a 8800 GT somewhere lol. Welcome to mining, it's an addiction man. I think you'll do ok with the 1060s, you'll definitely want to get more cards once you see the $ come in. I wouldn't focus on CPU or HD mining at all, the payout compared to the power usage just isn't worth it. If you wanted to get a general idea on how much your CPU would earn you daily you could use the built in benchmark that Nicehash offers and test it out for an hour or so. I stick with the GPUs, first I started out with a single 1080, a couple of months later I invested more cards and now have two 1080s and two 1080ti. I'm making decent earnings but also plan to buy 2 more cards.
agreed! i was just stating, hdd mining might be worth to consider in future with stratum and other developments. cpu mining is nowhere compared to gpu, but since you got a cpu running anyway. it definitely pays for its electricity...
back in the days (2013) i mined 1mil bytecoin just like this. was barely worth its electricity and now i'm VERY happy about that ;)
That's awesome to hear, the reward for you was very much worth it! You've definitely been in the game a lot longer than I have so I'm sure you have a lot more knowledge to share. In 2013 I never even heard of mining, didn't get into it until June-July of 2017. Would like to follow you.
P.S my wife has family in Faial and Terceira
why would my post earning go down in value what causes that
Yeah i am mainly going to work with GPU i feel honestly that's the best way.I have been looking at the various Algo's it seems that from what i have seen Crypto night,Equihash and ethash maybe even neo scrypt is the best types of coins to mine,i was looking over the card types at whattomine.com. What seems to be most popular algorithm to mine with the gtx 1060 just curious even though i noticed it seems to always change.GBX seems like a good one to go after who knows lol