Oh, is the Asus Z170-PRO a good motherboard for minning?  I see it has 7 PCIe slots, figured 7 GPUs?

I recently opened an account with an exchange (it took 5 hours before my account was created) I used their ripple buy option, and choose purchase with Bitcoin from my wallet.  1 hour later bitcoin left my wallet and disappeared.  5 hours after that it finally appeared in the exchange in a bitcoin wallet, with an email that said I need to enable a trust...  I linked the two within their interface and it says it could take a couple hours before my coin is placed in my ripple wallet...

So my question is, how does it calculate.  When I opened the account price was at 30 cents per coin.  when I got the email it was at 70 cents per coin.  it is still not completed, and prices are at 86 cents per coin.  I am almost positive I won't get the 30 cents price.  But would it lock it in when I initiated the buy which would have been around 46 cents, or do I get the price it is at when it finally hits my wallet?  Just trying to figure out if I will get 10 coins or 25 lol.

I hear ya.  I looked ad the anticipated hash rates and see the 580 is at like 24 or so, and the 1070 is at 27 or so.  Just wasn't sure if its worth $200 more for 3 MH/s  however those are just based on numbers I saw online, so I could be off.

Is it true that some coins mine better with AMD others mine better with Nvidia?

That helps a lot too!

Last question...  for now I hope.  I have a radeon 580, I'm thinking of a 2nd card, I can get another 580, OR I can get an nvidia GTX 1070.  the 1070 is about $200 more.  it is the normal 1070 not the 1070 TI.  is the 1070 worth the bump in price?

Thanks!  Is there a big difference between 4 gig cards and 8 gig cards?  I can get an 8gig version of this card for about $60 more...

Also, if I wanted to do 2 GPUs would I be better off doing 2 of the RX580 cards, or keep the on 580 I have, and add a GTX 1070?

I've been lurking on this board gathering info, and have parts to start building my first rig.  Found old computer parts laying in my basement, Pentium D CPU, with 4 gig of ram, and the motherboard has 2 PCIe ports.  So I have an Asus Raedon RX 580 on its way (the 4 gig version), and am tempted to buy a 2nd 8gig version and run both.  but for now just the one.





Based on what i've seen the has rate on this card is somewhere around 24MH/s.  when I type that into a calculator I find I can mine ETH for about $40 a month...  When I calculate BTC I lose $8 per month.  My question is, I know that GPU mining is mostly dead for BTC, but am curious about the different ATL coins.  does the 24MH/s stay consistent when looking at different Altcoins?  or when mining some, does that hashrate go down depending on the currency being mined?