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Title: small test rig before spending 300k Post by: noam46 on October 10, 2017, 01:38:55 PM Hi guys,
im new to this mining thing, my in law has a big solar farm and he wants to use his almost free electricity for mining. i was thinking of eth maybe some other coins to split the risk. i saw a few posts recommending the NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti any suggestions what i should start with at home as "proof of concept"? i need to test out the power usage vs income and get accurate numbers before spending a large amount of money. any help would be highly appreciated, thanks Title: Re: small test rig before spending 300k Post by: Smashingmanson on October 10, 2017, 01:48:53 PM Gtx 1050 ti is a cheap /lower power and efficient card.
However with that budget, solar power and lack of knowledge i wouldnt go for something like that. Since its a cheap/low card the number of GPU's would be bigger and therefore increasing the number of rigs and difficulty of setup and maintenance. The most popular options are: AMD - rx 580 or vegas Nvidia - gtx 1070 / 1080 ti I advise you to read up alot more before making any decisions. Title: Re: small test rig before spending 300k Post by: Sev18 on October 10, 2017, 02:24:12 PM Free electricity will provide good additional profit.
Try with VEGA series or 1080ti. Title: Re: small test rig before spending 300k Post by: shibob on October 10, 2017, 02:28:11 PM He has large mount of electricity in hand, and 300k budget, I think he should go with state-of-the-art GPUs such as Vega 64 or 1080 Ti. They have better ROI.
Title: Re: small test rig before spending 300k Post by: DarrenJC on October 10, 2017, 02:52:43 PM Hi guys, im new to this mining thing, my in law has a big solar farm and he wants to use his almost free electricity for mining. i was thinking of eth maybe some other coins to split the risk. i saw a few posts recommending the NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti any suggestions what i should start with at home as "proof of concept"? i need to test out the power usage vs income and get accurate numbers before spending a large amount of money. any help would be highly appreciated, thanks 300k.... id buy 200 1080Ti cards and spread them over 20 rigs... but thats just my crazy brain Title: Re: small test rig before spending 300k Post by: dagarair on October 10, 2017, 03:01:17 PM I think you are better off buying 1070's for mining Eth and Zcash etc. IMO 1080 Ti are just too pricy. I have 50-60 1070 6 card rigs and over a 100 others RX, 1060 etc. IMO 1070 is best bang for the buck.
Title: Re: small test rig before spending 300k Post by: philipma1957 on October 10, 2017, 03:03:04 PM Hi guys, im new to this mining thing, my in law has a big solar farm and he wants to use his almost free electricity for mining. i was thinking of eth maybe some other coins to split the risk. i saw a few posts recommending the NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti any suggestions what i should start with at home as "proof of concept"? i need to test out the power usage vs income and get accurate numbers before spending a large amount of money. any help would be highly appreciated, thanks Where do you live? If you are close to New Jersey I could build a simple machine with 1 card, you could test with it. I also would say get an asic like the Avalon 741 . |