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hello guys
i have a question about buy vga card for mining etherume

in document and forums, users wrote example : vga RX 480 is good ! (for example)

and when search RX 480 in google, google show : ASUS RX 480 and ROG Strix RX 480 and XFX TX 480 and MSI RX 480 and another brand viewed !

Which I should buy ?
Is only a 480 chipset suitable for this ? Or is the brand important ?

I pay attention to the chipset or brand ?

Best Regards

It doesn't matter which brand you buy from those you listed, they are all good brands and very popular too, just make sure you don't buy nameless brands from china, yes there are some cards like that, and they are dirty cheap

You mentioned ASUS, XFX, MSI, all these brands are very good, even others like ZOTAC, Gigabyte, Colorful are good too, if you can get your hands on any RX480 at cheaper price it will even be better, just make sure the gpu video memory is 8gb because all those 4gb version are obsolete and less profitable now

If you plan on mining 24/7 with the graphic cards don't not buy those with single fan, make sure you buy two fan gpu or three for easy cooling unless you are from cold country where its most snowy, also you can safe lots of money If you buy used RX570 or RX580 through eBay

If you can ventilate the miners very well there won't be any problem with the cards, I have a rig with complete 6 mini cards, they all have single fan on them and they are cooling very well around 62°c, just make sure there is enough space between the GPUs

Video cards based on 480 chipset are not produced; 580 chipset came out to replace it. But 480 chipset was better :)
According to many miners, Sapphire or MSI has the best cooling system. My sapphires 488 have been working for almost 4 years. During this time, I only changed the thermal paste once.
But now there is no choice in stores, so you will come to mine on what you buy.