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Title: Electricity flatrate, no mining hardware: What do you recommend? Post by: yz426f on January 22, 2017, 12:04:46 PM Hi all,
I am in the great situation that I have an electricity flatrate. But I donīt want to run loud mining hardware in my flat. I would like to use my GPU for mining. I soon realized that I can forget BitCoin mining. Then I tried Ether mining but found out that my GPUs memory is too small for the current DAG size. I have a gtx 460 with 1 GB video RAM. Is there any currency where it would make sense (=profit :D) to mine with my GPU? I am looking forward to hear your ideas! Thanks in advance. Title: Re: Electricity flatrate, no mining hardware: What do you recommend? Post by: adaseb on January 22, 2017, 02:03:00 PM Try ZEC or XMR with that GPU.
You won't make much however since its a very slow GPU. Maybe $0.30 a day. Title: Re: Electricity flatrate, no mining hardware: What do you recommend? Post by: JaredKaragen on January 22, 2017, 02:03:15 PM Hi all, I am in the great situation that I have an electricity flatrate. But I donīt want to run loud mining hardware in my flat. I would like to use my GPU for mining. I soon realized that I can forget BitCoin mining. Then I tried Ether mining but found out that my GPUs memory is too small for the current DAG size. I have a gtx 460 with 1 GB video RAM. Is there any currency where it would make sense (=profit :D) to mine with my GPU? I am looking forward to hear your ideas! Thanks in advance. FYI the 400 series was the most power-hungry of any GTX series card if my memory serves. I used to have a GTX 480 running x11evo; would be 80* solid (liquid cooled cpu and GPU); and the machine (with CPU mining also) drew over 600W.... not something I let run for long... a $40 antminer S3 generated more profit and made a lot more sense since I could run 2 of them. Look into the "other" alts that you see on pools that do multiple algos/coins per algo like zpool.ca Link on my sig I believe. That's if you want to mine with your card regardless. The trick is getting a miner that's compiled with an instruction set that works on your GPU. I was able to mine X11 on a GTX275 not long ago... but I just wanted to see what the 240 cuda cores would do in relation to my 700/900 series cards. Took a while to find a miner that would see that video card. only expect a mind numbing trickle of profit from that card; it will most likely cost more for the electricity than it mines in the end. Title: Re: Electricity flatrate, no mining hardware: What do you recommend? Post by: cptfisher on January 22, 2017, 03:06:49 PM gtx 460 is too old ... as far as i know there is no cuda miner supporting cumputing architecture lower architecture than 2 (kepler) and you have a fermi card..... so lower....
Title: Re: Electricity flatrate, no mining hardware: What do you recommend? Post by: m1n1ngP4d4w4n on January 22, 2017, 04:07:27 PM What is flatrate ? like your electricity never change price right ?
Title: Re: Electricity flatrate, no mining hardware: What do you recommend? Post by: fmz89 on January 22, 2017, 04:40:00 PM What is flatrate ? like your electricity never change price right ? its mean pay 100 usd/month and you can use full time / or not using at allTitle: Re: Electricity flatrate, no mining hardware: What do you recommend? Post by: m1n1ngP4d4w4n on January 22, 2017, 04:53:58 PM What is flatrate ? like your electricity never change price right ? its mean pay 100 usd/month and you can use full time / or not using at allOhhhhhhh ok like a monthly electricity fee, and unlimited use roger :) that's a good deal, go buy some rigs :D Title: Re: Electricity flatrate, no mining hardware: What do you recommend? Post by: JaredKaragen on January 22, 2017, 06:02:33 PM im assuming you have one 110v 20A circuit at your disposal?
I suggest just buying enough second hand newer gear and building a 4-5 card rig. smartest option right there. One S9 and you would melt the circuit. One R4, and you cant really run much else... but hopefully you find an avenue as per all of the above. |