Yup. I cleared my local Microcenter's inventory, but I am still stuck until my PCI-E risers arrive. Being able to only plug-in 2-3 cards per motherboard is a bummer.
Wow, nice find. Even for a 3GB one, that's a steal of a price.
I recently picked up a 1060 on sale for $150 at Microcenter. Stock speed is about 18.5Mh/s, and you cannot mod the BIOS. But a few clicks in afterburner lets you push 22-23 Mh/s for about 90W. Seems like a good alternative with the shortage of RX cards. Mining something is better than mining nothing. I ended up picking all 24 cards they had left in stock.
540Mh/s. About $100 of profit per day. 36 days to break even. Those 1060 miner edition cards better be really cheap to compete with that.
I recently picked up a 1060 on sale for $150 at Microcenter. Stock speed is about 18.5Mh/s, and you cannot mod the BIOS. But a few clicks in afterburner lets you push 22-23 Mh/s for about 90W. Seems like a good alternative with the shortage of RX cards. Mining something is better than mining nothing. I ended up picking all 24 cards they had left in stock.
540Mh/s. About $100 of profit per day. 36 days to break even. Those 1060 miner edition cards better be really cheap to compete with that.
how much longer are 3GB cards going to be viable?
Ha! Those 1060s won't be so cheap after enough people do the same as you. Good show otherwise.
I'm surprised you're making so much per MH/s though. Which pool are you using?
Nice! I picked up 5 of them. Mind sharing the afterburner settings? About to play with them tonight. Thanks!
The DAG file size is expected to obsolete 3GB cards by April 2018. Plenty of time to mine Ethererum and make a profit out of it when your ROI is under 40 days. With ~270 days left to mine, we are talking about ~230 days of pure profits if Ethererum prices keep daily profits constant.
24 GTX 1060 3GB push about 540Mh/s @ 2160W. That's about $100 daily profits after recouping electricity cost.
230 days * $100/day = $23,000.
Not bad for a $4000 investment over 9 months.
Is that assuming a static difficulty?
Good luck finding those cards! What motherboard and cpu and PSU are you using for the next build?Been humming along for a week now with 5x RX580s sitting in a milk crate. This thread convinced me to get back into it, after I had stopped mining 3 years ago (jeesh, to think if I hadn't stopped...). Going to slap together another modest milk crate rig with another 4-5 cards next week. Been using Claymore v9.4 on Win10 with the latest drivers, no issues. With some memory tweaks I get about 27Mh/s. Got the cores underclocked by 15% to reduce power draw.
Good luck finding those cards! What motherboard and cpu and PSU are you using for the next build?
I managed to snag them thanks to text alerts from nowinstock. Regarding my builds, here's what I've got/what I'm planning:
Crate Rig #1 (built, running)
CPU - Intel Core i5 3570k
Mobo - Asrock Z77 Extreme4
Mem - 2x4GB Gskill V DDR3
PSU - Seasonic X850 Gold 850W
Cards - 2x MSI RX580 Gaming X+, 2x Sapphire RX580 Pulse (total of 6x 8pin connectors required)
OS - Win10
Drivers - 17.4.4
Got 2 of the Sapphires plugged into the x16 slots, and the 2 MSI's are plugged into x1 to x16 powered USB risers.
Crate Rig #2 (future, building)
CPU - Intel Pentium G4400
Mobo - Either MSI Z170A SLI Plus or Asrock Z270 Pro4 (not sure yet)
Mem - 2x4GB Gskill V DDR4
PSU - Seasonic X850 Gold 850W (already purchased)
Cards - 1x MSI RX580 Gaming X+, 2x Sapphire RX580 Pulse, 1x XFX RX580 something or other (already purchased)
OS - Either Win10 or Win7
Will likely again plug the 2 Sapphires into the x16 slots and then use x1 to x16 powered USB risers again for the other 2.
Honorable mention to the MSI RX480 in my personal gaming rig pulling part time mining duty overnight and while I'm at work
Successfully 'paperclipped' my PSU last night, and wrapped it up in electric tape. Seems to be working fine, so I'll watch it now to see if I have any issues.
In addition, I gave all 5 cards a +500 on memory, and +100 on GPU overclock (left power static on those due to power limitations on the circuit). Gave my 960 +500/+50, and my 1080 in my 'real computer' the same +500/+100 along with a 5% bump on power, since I game on that too. All total it pushed me up by another ~$300/mo (around 20% boost in $/mo) for all cards. Looks like the 5 1080TI's are doing 3500? or so sol/s average with equihash, which is what it's been mining for the last couple hours. That fluctuates though (peaks as high as 4900).
No, the difficulty will always increase. I may make less ETH/day nine months from now with those cards, but I am okay with that as long as the Ethereum price keep rising. I am happy as long as I can keep $100/day profits for the first 40 days. 40 days is all I need to break even on these cards. Everything after that is ROI.
Each card at stock should gen around $230/mo after electricity (only .08/kwh where I am), based on Nicehash's card calc for 1080ti's. I'd need to be at home to see a calc of my benched cards specifically (or of the whole rig), but they should be roughly in line/slightly over. That'd give a total of $1150, not counting my gaming rig. With my slight OC, that might go up to $1200/1250/mo after electricity.So what are five 1080 Ti's earning you after hydro approximately?
Read this post?Good blog on the state of Bitcoin and Ethereum. Recommend reading.
https://forums.prohashing.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1541