Hello all, I just got into mining about a week ago, spent alot of nights up late reading and trying to understand. I decided on my first rig and after trying lots of different coins, algos and software i wanted to give an update on what I have.
Win 10 pro x64
Let nvidia experiance update drivers
MSI z97 gaming 5 board
Intel Celeron
2 x ASUS gtx 1060 3gb
1 x PNY gtx 1060 3gb
CORSAIR 750 mod PSU
Best first post 2017 so far, nice to see there still are people who actually read. I see you have done your homework, nice rig and plenty of free pcie slots...
Welcome bughatti!
Thanks, that is a much appreciated and needed comment. All the reading on many forums, I have come across many naysayers and even a few at work I spoke with today who thinks it is pointless to mine at home. Granted maybe you cant make 100's of dollars a day like you could at the beginning of bitcoins but from my calculations of my rig with 8 cards only using 30$/month in power I can make over 200 to pay my electric bill, Id say that's a win.
Im still in testing phase so it may be a few weeks before im stable on something. The one thing I have not tried is installing ubuntu or EthOS. I think once I want to pass the 7 card gpu I will have to as I have heard that windows does not like more than 7. We shall see. Im going to build a rig chassis this weekend, parts I can get from Lowes. Lots of instructions on the net.
I decided to give the new nicehash miner a try today from here
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1747789.0. I have to say its pretty nice but I am not really seeing it outperform EWBF all that much. Both I have scene bounce between 600 to 1k with all 3 cards so I would have to do a true 24 hour earnings test to see. I dont know if the bounce is normal or not. The cards I bought are all OC edition so when I try to crank them I get crashes. I am content now with them as they are especially only using 75 to 80 watts each and I found them all used for under 200 a piece. If I get really brave after a few months I might try to buy 7 pci splitters, 2 800w PSUs and try to get 14 of these running in ethOS.
Doing some reading I have sort of decided on 2/3 main coins to mine, eth and zcash/classic. Seems many say AMD is the better for eth so if I go down the road of a second rig in a few months I might go with rx470's if I can find used ones cheap enough.
Let me save you some longer nights - shoot for 6 cards if you are running nvidia on the z97 board from MSI. 7 is possible with the splitter but a nightmare to get going / maintain.
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