Such a waste of a thread... If you're willing to lose your house to a cryptocurrency addiction I'd hope you have Noone depending on you other than yourself.

I've been waiting on NomNom to pay out to me for quite some time.
Pending Balance: 51.43837524
Credited coins awaiting payout.

I received 3 payments prior to this all 15-25 coins each but no payment for the 50 I've mined for them so far. I've reached out to their twitter and email but to no avail. Anyone else got any ideas?

So, I signed up on the site and it looks like you have to pay to unlock bonuses of the free coins you will be getting?
https://qoinpro.com/2c2d7b63156c08b6d3173bbcdacead13

I love this coin, although I've had nothing but problems trying to get my miner config file setup to work/mine it
Still buying them on Bittrex as I can though!

It's either issues with the config or the pool... I just can't get the blame thing to work.

Well, the problem is when trying to buy the Zotac cards they're never in stock or they're marked up now through the roof. I'm at a fork in the road currently where I cannot decide if it's best for me to buy another three 1060's (asus) or buy two 1070's judging the math/roi of it I believe the ROI on the 1070's may be faster but Math has never been my strong suit.

I see a lot of them always sold out or they are being marked up by other amazon vendors that have a few by as much as $100 dollars per card.
Other options such as the Asus are still around $300 for a 1060 6GB card and haven't been affected by this type of price gouging. I'm wondering if I'm not seeing something in particular when it comes to the Zotac cards as opposed to other cards in the 1060 series (6gb only) and should keep my eyes peeled for these in particular, or if I'm fine going with the Asus Cards or another of that variant?

So far, I've bought two EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB SSC GAMING ACX 3.0, 6GB GDDR5, LED, DX12 OSD Support (PXOC), 06G-P4-6267-KR https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487275
But am still waiting on them to get here and wanted to buy more cards, however I just wanted to make sure I got the best bang for my buck.


Thanks guys!

EVGA offers a $299.99 unit that's a full size card with 2 fans or the EVGA (SC) which is only $274.99. The clock speeds and other things are identical, but I feel that the larger card with two fans is preferred. Is that correct?

No, I want to pool mine and will pool mine, I just wanted to see what the "vets" thought my options were or if it was even worth doing on these machines. I've done the calculations and the hardware I have is nowhere near efficient but like everyones saying if it's easy money then it's a no-brainer.

Thank you Breadginger56, would you recommend the EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB's? I can find them for roughly $300 ea (25 +/-) on Newegg it seems so start out with a couple of those? I have some spare i5's and ssd's laying around so I won't have to come up with that money which is good. If I scrap the spare PC (pc2) and toss it's video card into PC1 I can scavenge the mb/psu/hdd out of that machine which will save me some money right now.

It seems everyone recommends ETH mining with a alt-coin but I wasn't certain I could do that using XMR-Stak, I'm using it as it's the one I'm semi-familiar with how to setup. With the difficulty rising at a steady rate I just don't want to buy miners then it be obsolete before I'm able to get a good ROI.

Thanks @Abhorrent_Anger, I'll adjust to mining on 3 threads immediately for the CPU. I simply started the XMR software and it determined the cores in which it was going to use for the GPU so I figured it was correct and needed no changes. Would you recommend mining a alt-coin while mining the monero as well.

Thanks! I'm really thinking about investing in a middle of the line rig with a pair of 1060s in it just to see where it takes me. I could simply place both of the Nvidia in one pc  then purchase new cards and put them in one of the pcs I have now.

While that web page is helpful, it does not advise people what to mine with lower cards.

Nah, this is just two machines we have doing nothing at my home that I turned on and tested mining possibilities on them. At this point I'm considering biting the bullet and buying some 570's and throwing together a couple of mining rigs. Just wanted to really get any advice on my current setup and if there was more I could sqeeze out of it before giving up and expanding.

Thanks AdolfinWolf, I say that because what I'm wondering is if my hardware is running at its most optimal setting or if I could squeeze more out of it by using a different miner or a different coin. I was hoping to really just have someone say "Yep, that's about the best it can do" or "no, you can improve if you change this and this". Free power makes any penny worth it, I agree. I just can't find a good calculator that addresses hardware as outdated as mine.

Still looking for answers, thanks everyone!

Hello Everyone, thank you for taking a second to read this! I've got a couple computers laying around that I get free power for so I thought about putting them to work but at the same time I wondered if it's even worth it. The specs are listed below for each one.
PC1:  Windows 10 64bit - Intel i5-3570 @ 3.4GHz - NVidia 650Ti - Currently Mining Monero for SupportXMR and gets roughly 300 H/s
PC2: Windows 10 64-Bit - Intel i5-2300 @ 2.8GHz - NVidia GTX 560 - Currently Mining Monero for SupportXMR and gets roughly 150-300 H/s

I've got them both mining Monero with SupportXMR pools using just the "out of the box" settings with no tweaking and will include what they're hashing below.
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I'll assume as per a lot of what I'm reading that I'm wasting my time and if I want to get into the coins I should simply buy them or purchase new hardware. I don't believe the hardware I have is completely worthless as I've seen threads of people using it to mine in some instances but the gains aren't much (sub 1,000 a year). I'd just like to find out if the hardware I have could support some farming which may make me some additional income through the year.

I'm mining monero as it's the one I found easiest to understand and the configuration was fairly easy. I'm hoping to get to .300 for the payout on Monero and push to something else if it's more worthwhile. If you got this far, thank you for taking the time to review this and any input would be greatly appreciated.