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The prices of graphic cards are starting to drop. I'm starting to see GTX 1080's under $600.

I'm completely new at mining. I've only mined a couple of alt coins on my laptop. My question is, should I buy a new gaming PC with a motherboard that allows multiple graphic cards? When I'm not using the machine, it could be used for mining? Would buying multiple graphic cards over time be worth it? And would I be able to get a 100% return on investment before the end of 2018?

Any answers would be great. The other option would be to get an AntMiner instead of multiple graphic cards. So, what are your thoughts?

If you were thinking of buying a new gaming PC anyway, and plan on mining with it while it would be otherwise idle, then yes that might be a great idea.

I would also agree you should choose a motherboard that has multiple PCIe slots, 6 or so would be ideal, but even 4-5 will work to start out with. I would advice to start with one GPU at first and see how prices react int he coming weeks, as I havea feeling they will come down some more.

Thanks for the advice. I'll be keeping an eye out on the prices and profability of mining. The good thing is, if the profability of mining goes down, then the prices of graphic cards should decrease as well.

Either way, I'm excited to build a new gaming computer soon.

-whether PC game or ordinary PC most important have PCIe to plug your GPU, actually, PC for mining enough using Celeron processor and RAM 4GB.

-at this time, I think the difficulty for 100% ROI if saw price almost all coin was diving but in Cryptocurrency, anyone doesn't know what will happen.

You want minning buy i mine pos coin.

yes i do that. when it's idle i'll just set it for mining.

just make sure that all parts is under warranty.  ;D

why not wait for the 20 series? it would be more efficient

Hello friend
I think it's worth using a graphics card (GPU), because it's like an investment, you can sell it if you do not use it. Antminer (ASIC) keeps upgrading its products, so the price goes down.
You should do some research before buying!

yeah, you can purchase that PC. I doubt before end 2018 can ROI. better you wait until price a GPU really down. while waiting you can learn about all mining and which coin would be mined.

Yes. I'll be waiting at least a month or two at least. Should I buy the new 20 series? Or will it be overpriced? The price of the 1080 ti should decrease. I guess it depends on what deals I can find for adding graphic cards.

It's fine to have a dual machine, but a couple things to understand:

To get the most out of your GPU, you will need to BIOS mod it, and potentially use different drivers, plus overclocking it for mining. All of these things are not really something you can do while also using that GPU for gaming, at least I wouldnt recommend it.

If you are fine not having an optimized card, just keep in mind you will drastically reduce the lifespan of the card, and may see some issues while gaming. Heat may also quickly become an issue in a standard closed gaming case.

You can forget about your plans. The payback period for the equipment for mining for about a year. This means that I can confidently say that you will not be able to return your investment until the end of 2018. Many people mistakenly think that there is no risk for mining. That's not so. Now for example it is not known what will happen to the cryptonight algorithm. And I have a lot of different arguments.

i have 8 vegas on my gaming pc, with a strong cpu and enough ram u can even play on 1 vega and mine on the other 7 ;D

If you plan to part-time mining, maybe you need to read up more info about pool payment systems such as PPS, PPLNS, DGM, etc. It will give you information about a correlation between time stay and miner's rewards on the pool. Some pool payment scheme even can be tricked by the practice of mining called Pool-Hooping (popular 1-2 years ago).


Depend on many things.


A few threads have given a comparison of ASIC and GPUs, may, can be your reference. Use the search function.

If you were gonna build a dual gpu PC for gaming - the SLI combo would only be necessary for 4k res or games that can utilise it. Otherwise - I wouldn't fry a really good CPU corei5 or i7 for mining. Not necessarily frying it, but you might as well buy an extra Celeron CPU, but swapping them out would be a slight hassle.

Games don't support triple SLI combos anymore.

IMO make seperate systems and move the graphics cards around. At the moment you're looking at around 1-1.50usd per day per gpu. So maybe just make a nice gaming PC with 1 GPU with 3-4 PCIE slots so if you want to add more later on you can!

Good luck and let us know what you decide!

I believe that 2080(supposed the new series is going to be named like this) will be slightly more powerful than 1080ti and the hashrate power rate would be higher, it might be overpriced but it is still the better choice to choose 2080. And it is said that the manufacture of 1080ti is being halted gradually now, you may have no chance to buy brand new 1080ti if the new series is released.

Do you currently have a gaming PC? Just do hand-me-downs and use that motherboard as your mining rig start.

Thanks for the information! Will definitely try to get my hands on the new 2080. I'll keep an eye out.

Thanks for the reply. I'll have to an update!

I wasn't planning to mine with the cpu. The idea was to get build a gaming PC with one really nice GTX 2080 and then buy a motherboard that would allow multiple graphic cards to be connected. Then gradually add on graphic cards to increase mining profability.

It also depends on how much I'll be using the computer on a daily basis. Wouldn't want to be mining while trying to game/stream.

O wow! That's great. May have to try that out. It may be too noisy if I wanted to stream along with gaming? I'll have to keep researching this stuff :D

how noisy it is depends on how you clock/undervolt & what algo you mine with your gpus, in mining mode my cards run @ 40% fanspeed/60°C on cryptonight what is pretty silent.t he card im using for gaming is alot louder ;D

algos like ethash/lyra/neoscrypt heat up the gpus much more what would need more cooling & will increase noise level. im just talking about vega reference design...other gpus/ custom design with better cooling could be very silent too

Open air ? Or do you use a closed gaming pc. Im pretty sure open because of the heat. Im also mining with my gaming pc but closed and with a good airflow. Only 2 GPUs but there is already enough heat to warm up my room :D

yeah ofcourse openair, this rig is under my desk so i always have warm feet ;D

The problem is I have a dust allergy and thats why im using a closed righ with enough filter. I would love to use more GPUs but thats not possible in this situation. I can put 1 more GPU in my closed rig, but im a bit paranoid about the overheat and dont want to smelt my equipment.

if you keep your gpus cool and everything wired properly it should be safe. you can also buy some big tower for more room :D

8 vegas? Hm.. Sounds very unlikely that you'll be able to mine while gaming.

Vegas are notorius for being unstable as shit. Running 8 at a stable hashrate alone would be a feat, much more playing games while mining. So sorry but unless pics can be posted i call major bullshit on this guy. Probably the reason for red paint.

fuck off noob, i dont need to proof you anything. its not my problem if you are to dumb get 8 vegas running stable, its nothing easier than that

I do it. I'm playing Solitaire when my rig on mining. Maybe treanski (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1118186) play another game, Minesweeper or may FreeCell, even 3D Pinball, who knows.