Eth and 3 Gb GPU end date?

[Bones972]

When will Eth be too big for 3gb cards?  Anyone have an estimate?  I have a rig with several 1060 3gb cards and just wondering when it will no longer function.

Thanks

[Nebell]

I made a similar thread here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1963279.0

But from what I heard, 3gb limit will be hit mid 2018. Don't quote me on that though.
I read it on reddit, which I can't find now atm, but here's a post that seems to share the same idea: http://crypto-mining.xyz/eth/ethereum-dag-size-predictions/

On a side note, how are your 3gb cards working so far? I assume they are GTX 1060?
I read that 3gb cards are hashing lower than they should because they don't have that much ram.

[Vaccinus]

even if 3gb gpu will be useless for ETH you can mine other dagger coin like ETC or musiccoin, and with a 1060 i would not mine ETH anyway but zen or zcash or zcash classic

[Nebell]

even if 3gb gpu will be useless for ETH you can mine other dagger coin like ETC or musiccoin, and with a 1060 i would not mine ETH anyway but zen or zcash or zcash classic

Yeah but the reason why I mine ETH is because it's steadily rising in price. I can mine 5 coins now and earn maybe $1500 with current ETH price. But if I keep those 5 coins and sell them in a year those 5 coins could be worth $8.000. I doubt that other coins will go up as much as ETH.

[Bones972]

even if 3gb gpu will be useless for ETH you can mine other dagger coin like ETC or musiccoin, and with a 1060 i would not mine ETH anyway but zen or zcash or zcash classic

Yeah but the reason why I mine ETH is because it's steadily rising in price. I can mine 5 coins now and earn maybe $1500 with current ETH price. But if I keep those 5 coins and sell them in a year those 5 coins could be worth $8.000. I doubt that other coins will go up as much as ETH.

I agree... Everyone is hating on Nvidia for mining Eth but they do pretty well stock.  My 3gb cards are running around 20 Mh/s.  I get around 290-305 on my 3Gb cards on Zcash but right now I am just burning Eth to hold. 

I have 3 AMD rigs and 2 Nvidia rigs up and running right now.  I had been using the Nvidia for Zcash and transfering it to Btc to cash out and pay the bills while the AMD just burn and hold Eth but the transfer fee from Zcash to BTC and then from BTC to my Coinbase bla bla bla... I am actually doing better just mining Eth and when I need to pay Electric or buy more gear Eth transfer fee and time of transaction are much quicker and cheeper than ZEC-->BTC-->Coinbase-->USD.

Once Eth is too big for the 3gb cards I'll switch them over to some other profitable coin.  They are already ROI'd so as long as they cover Electric... Anything else is profit.