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The AMD HD 7850 2GB gets ~520 MH/s @ 130 W. You can find them used for ~$60.

Hey! If you want a cheap and good gpu there are alot of budget GPUs out there,  The best one out there now is the GT 1030 which is gives a great performance for its cost, it would be recommended to buy the gtx 1050 if you increase your budget by a bit.

Please stop wasting your time and money trying to get GPU mining to ever work again, the effort and the time that it takes to make the constant system and coin changes is not anywhere near worth the tiny revenue flow that comes from it. If your work boss told you to do ten hours of computer work for $2 a day, you would laugh at them.

7850 is EOL right now you could only get used one.
Try with rx460 or rx560 series. It's <$200 and efficient for XMR mining after rom flashing.

Did anyone else read this in the Borat voice?

LOL yet here you are posting.  Please tell me how mining a coin equates to doing 10 hours of work per day, for 2 bucks a day.

He has a point. Setting up mining equipment and get it running is time consuming.

if on low budget mining's not good
buying coin and holding better

Amazing. I saw the statistics and I get that RX 4 and 5 series now earn about 1.30 dollars per day. Are you sure that GPU with 2GB of memory can now to get 2 dollars a day? In recent years, the cost of production greatly reduced.

For example, for me the best cards are R9 290s. You can get them (used) for around 170usd and with a small OC they easily give You 29-31 Mh/s mining Ethereum :). Just to be clear, electricity here ( in Estonia) is very cheap, so the power usage isn't really a problem. The biggest problem with 290s is the noise (Reference) and heat they put out (winter is coming tho ;)).

1080Ti - it is cheap when you check the Hash to Dollar ratio. This is the cheapest ratio you can get with a new card.

Bro you really make decent income in mining altcoins with the multiple GPU not with the single and all. If you invest little to start mining process you cannot make more money you have to afford for electricity. If you start mining with the 6 GPU atleast with the decent rig. You will able to make 500$ per month with the one rig. Increase more to get the more profit.

Cheap and good at the same time? For around $200 you can get decent ones, maybe not the latest ones like AMD RX4/5xx (The entry level rx460/560 are not worth it), but you can get an older GPU of HD7XXX series. I recently saw a used Hd7950 OC with 3gb of ram for 110 euros. You can definitely find a used one.

so your saying 3 GPU's with a total of say 50MH is better then 1 GPU with 50 MH?  (serious question)

I do not know what he is saying but I would prefer going with the 1080TI and run a single rig with 5-6 or them than run 3 times that many rigs with lesser cards. Unless there was some other advantage like less power consumption per hash rate or something the higher density the 1080TIs would provide will always work out better. Every new rig also incurs a new motherboard, processor, RAM, SSD, risers, etc. so the more powerful a card you can put in a rig the better, again assuming all else is equal. As far as price it works out about the same too, as while the 1080Ti is more expensive it is not more expensive than 3x lesser cards.

that was exactly my though process..... which is why I was wondering what he was saying (As I'm always open to learning new things on here)

Maybe he was approaching it from a "dip your toes into the water before going big" angle, but even then I think it would be better to buy a single 1080Ti than say 3x 1060's, price and performance is about the same along with all the other advantages I listed earlier.

Nicehash considered a pool?

It is quite good to mine at nicehash. You are paid bitcoin directly.

1060 is not bad if you have a sp mod or maybe you can look at some good cpu second hand with that budget, but why monero? zcash is better

And what good sir would you be mining on a 1080TI today? Sigt? Dgb? Come on. That is poor advice to a newbie miner. The risks are way too high for the price tag of the 1080ti. Zcash would have been a good coin to mine with the 1080ti but that turned out to just be another pump. 1080tis are too overpowered to simply mine ETH. All you will be left with is mining shitcoins hoping they get a quick pump. A better suggestion IMHO would have been the 1070 or the Vega. Do the math boys.

I suggest AMD the 400 series and 500 series, always good hash and really not too expensive to buy. And good luck with your project.

you can CPU mine at Nicehash as well?

With a $200 budget, I think 1060 should be your choice, or maybe AMD rx570..

Are you using free electricity? With old GPU's you cannot pay your electic bills with mining XMR.
1080 ti is nice price-hashrate raito but roi is too long for me. Why don't you directly buy coins instead of mining?

Is that true for all coins though? Some are more optimised towards GPU instead of ASIC miners no like OP's post no?

Has anyone a Hashrate for a GT1030 for the timetravel algorithm?

Nicehash for the day

R9 380 is good and cheap now. You can buy it greatly below 200$ espesially 2G version. and it's good enough on Cryptonight algo and Ethereum forks (with small DAG file)

But it gets sold out very quickly. even gamers are struggling due to this recent gpu units unavailability .