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A friend of mine has a R7950 farm, and I would like to know on his behalf if it is still usable for mining coins, perhaps accompanied by some global/estimated statistics if possible. I know ASIC mining, but I know jack about GPU mining.

It concerns 40 pieces of the XFX type; I am already aware these are somewhat crappy cards, but I would like to know which algorithms can be mined with GPU's, and which would be best suited for GPU's. The SHA256 and Scrypt algorithm can be left out.
If possible, kindly provide some roughly estimated hash speed(s) along with the corresponding algorithm(s); doesn't have to be exact, just some rough numbers; I would highly appreciate such.

My 7950's are mining ETH at the moment. They were on Feathercoin for awhile but I switched to ETH when the price jumped up however Feather jumped up the past few days as well. Look into them both.

Thank you, will do.

And what algorithms are your 7950's set at, and what rough speed do you reach with them?

Whatever Ether uses, I just mine and sell the coins for BTC. I have no interest in the coin other than profit.
Feathercoin uses NeoScrypt.

On Ether I get about 19MH/s per 7950
On FTC I get about 400KH/s per 7950 (if I remember right)

I am just curious, roughly how much profit do you earn per day per 7950 GPU, after subtracting electricity?

Don't account for hardware amortization, just electricity cost.

Some quick and dirty math tells me I make about $1.70 or so per day per 7950 after electrical cost. This is mining Ether and at current price.

The cards are old and paid for themselves back when you could GPU mine Litecoin so its all profit now (minus electricity). Ive considered building a larger farm but Im not sure Im comfortable with the risk. Also not sure I can efficiently cool any more.

why are you pushing FTC here for god's sake? are both these accounts yours? I bet they are. Why not recommend coinwarz?

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My question is genuine. I do not know what FTC stands for, and just googled coinwarz to see what that is about.
And no, I bet you back both accounts are not mine. I use only 1, which is this one. Be my guest and check it out, you did jumped a bit early to assumed conclusions my friend...

That is right. It is quite profitable to mine the Ethereum at the moment. But the difficulty is rising fast.

ETH and X11 coins still profitable, but now ETH the best.
It's not a good time to buy new hardware. Just run the old cards and make some extra profit. Also if you want to sell the 7950 cards now you can sell them for a good price. In my country a used 7950 worth 150-200 USD.

Pushing it hard? Calm down, killer. I answered a question based on personal experience. While it may not be the top coin, its been a steady profit for awhile and recently the price jumped up (probably just a PnD but still).

Is Etheruem mining still better than X11 mining? The price of Ethereum has dropped a lot and the difficlty has risen a lot.

If you have a huge GPU farm I would break it down and sell half now whilst there is still a good price for these cards. I mean I see these 7950 going for 60-65% of brand new gen cards of the same level. That is a good price after 2-3 years of use out of them. If eth mining becomes unprofitable again these cards will sink.

fuck mining,
i wish i had those cards, with that hardware i would build a cloud based password cracking service, in long term i believe would be much more profitable than mining any worthless coin

has FTC come even close to eth in mining profit lately?

Some guy on the Eth forums said it was 50% more profitable.  I haven't been following price - so maybe there was a short term pump?

Many thanks for your contributions thus far.

How about the Qubit algorithm, might that something worth doing as well with those cards?

Mine Diamond coins and sell the crap out of it before it tanks.
Groestl Algo

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=580725.0

Dev team so slack, they never fixed the Timewarp issue.

Cheers,
AG18

Based on my rough calculation, ETH is still more profitable but FTC is much higher than its been. I also personally see more value in FTC than ETH but others may not feel this way.

With ccminer (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=826901.0) you can mine
                          anime       use to mine Animecoin
                          blake       use to mine NEOS (Blake 256)
                          blakecoin   use to mine Old Blake 256
                          deep        use to mine Deepcoin
                          dmd-gr      use to mine Diamond-Groestl
                          fresh       use to mine Freshcoin
                          fugue256    use to mine Fuguecoin
                          groestl     use to mine Groestlcoin
                          heavy       use to mine Heavycoin
                          jackpot     use to mine Jackpotcoin
                          keccak      use to mine Maxcoin
                          luffa       use to mine Doomcoin
                          lyra2       use to mine Vertcoin
                          mjollnir    use to mine Mjollnircoin
                          myr-gr      use to mine Myriad-Groest
                          nist5       use to mine TalkCoin
                          penta       use to mine Joincoin / Pentablake
                          quark       use to mine Quarkcoin
                          qubit       use to mine Qubit Algo
                          s3          use to mine 1coin
                          whirl       use to mine Whirlcoin
                          x11         use to mine DarkCoin
                          x14         use to mine X14Coin
                          x15         use to mine Halcyon
                          x17         use to mine X17
 
so.... possibilities enough

If your electric cost at that farm is low, it should be profitable for a while longer on X11 - but Ethereum seems to be the most profitable coin for AMD-based vidcards right now.

The prifotability of Ethereum is dropping fast. The Ethereum price is dropping and the difficulty is rising fast.

I would mine coins at launch, nothing else will make you more than a few bucks. way too much hashing power to compete with otherwise- mining pools and such. as another user said, use your GPU to crack passwords, that's valuable :)

For the long established coin, the mining profit is very average. You can make a lot by mining new coins.

Check out links on my sig for deploying your rigs for ethereum mining, in the fastest way possible.