https://gpuminer.sapphiretech.com/Radeon-RX-570-16GB-Blockchain/

If this is legit.

Also if it is the price is way to high for such an old card. I would rather buy the new 7nm vega if that is the case.

Read this, stop fooling yourself and feeding the greedy shits who lie to your face and take your money:

https://1stminingrig.com/asic-vs-gpu-mining-profitability-in-bear-markets/

GPUs are still the way to go.

https://medium.com/@lincproject/is-verge-fixed-or-how-to-hack-verge-again-and-get-more-than-2m-usd-only-with-cpu-3af241e648a9

The autor is a dev for the LINC project where he is developing and testing some meassures for preventing such attacks and similar ones on the blockchain. Interesting read.

Hello people.

We all know current situation on the GPU market is not exactly bright. So I was thinking about actually buying used R9 290X AMD cards. Now this card is old, but its a beast of a card still. I have one at home mining ethereum at 28.2 MH/s without overclocking. I just have the bios moded for lower consumption. If I OC this beast it mines 31 MH/s but its not stable. It seems my card had not the most quality RAM.

Anyway its not only ETH hash rate that is impressive but also other algos. It does (stock settings):

- Ethereum: 28.2 MH/s
- Neoscrypt: 1 MH/s. Yes it does 1000 KH/s. Very impressive
- Equihash (ZCash): 360 Sol/s
- Cryptonight: 760 H/s

Its a very versatile and powerfull card. Now ofc the bad part. Its a power hog. It can literally use 280-300 W from the wall. It can be optimized but I did not yet try how much low I could get. Now the good thing is I pay around 0.06$ per KWh so electricity is cheap here. The card can be bough at around 280$ on Ebay.

The question I can't seem to answer is: Is it worth it?

I mean with current prices of cards its a great deal looking power / price wise. Also while RX 580 and other newer cards are mostly one trick ponnies this card is very versatile and can mine basically any popular coin efficiently. But yea the consumption is horrible.

Your thoughts on it?