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Title: Can mining rigs be monetized by renting them as render farms? Post by: joerazor on August 17, 2016, 07:12:26 PM I was wondering if it was possible to rent my mining rigs for render services online.
I have 5 rigs with a total of 15 x R9 390x cards and would love to know if there is any other way to monetize them apart from mining :) Have been googling for the past 2 hours, but couldn't find any viable source. Title: Re: Can mining rigs be monetized by renting them as render farms? Post by: vedutadesign on October 10, 2016, 11:08:28 AM I was wondering if it was possible to rent my mining rigs for render services online. I have 5 rigs with a total of 15 x R9 390x cards 3d rendering calgary (http://www.vedutadesign.com/)and would love to know if there is any other way to monetize them apart from mining :) Have been googling for the past 2 hours, but couldn't find any viable source. thank you, it really helped! reagrds sid Title: Re: Can mining rigs be monetized by renting them as render farms? Post by: Shiroslullaby on October 10, 2016, 12:27:14 PM Its not a bad idea, but you would need to be very professional and be able to provide customers some sort of guarantee their work would remain confidential/ untouched.
Since I'm assuming you are talking about rendering image/ video files etc, people may be hesitant to hand over files that contain intellectual property that they have worked on to a source they are un-familiar with. If you could prove you are trustworthy there may be a need for this type of service, its definitely an interesting idea. Title: Re: Can mining rigs be monetized by renting them as render farms? Post by: popcoins on October 29, 2018, 08:35:28 PM So now after two years since the last post, are there any solutions yet to see whether the current usage of those GPU mining rigs can also be setup to use for 3D rendering like setup? ::)
Title: Re: Can mining rigs be monetized by renting them as render farms? Post by: ShareAccepted on October 29, 2018, 10:16:39 PM I theory there are some coins out there to do exactly that, in practice I think that you mining cards a bit to old to be competitive. In any case, I think it would no be profitable.
Title: Re: Can mining rigs be monetized by renting them as render farms? Post by: bathrobehero on October 30, 2018, 02:03:20 AM So now after two years since the last post, are there any solutions yet to see whether the current usage of those GPU mining rigs can also be setup to use for 3D rendering like setup? ::) Could be but I don't know of any. Problem is, even if there was some, very likely they'd only need to use your cards for just a few hours at a time. And rendering usually comes with big filesizes not just tiny hashes so GPU mining rigs might require lots of disk space and high bandwidth connections. Profesisonal rendering or other professional uses of GPU arrays might also require secrecy and they might just invest the money into GPUs as well. Anyway, I'm hoping something will pop up but it's hard to imagine that whatever would come up, it wouldn't be instantly oversaturated by all the GPU miners, essentially bringing down the profits to mining levels - which are not great these days. |