I miss GPU Mining

[420]

I miss my Radeon's

[Red Emerald]

Mine vanity addresses with them.

[crazyates]

I see all of those 5xxx cards for sale, and I kinda wish I could put them to good use. Vanity mining is in my future, but it's not worth investing in.

[2GOOD]

I miss them too, I used to heat up the kitchen with one rig very nice.. now siting in the cold smokin' cigarettes

[gyverlb]

I see all of those 5xxx cards for sale, and I kinda wish I could put them to good use. Vanity mining is in my future, but it's not worth investing in.

Vanitypool is nice, but it's not often worth more than Bitcoin mining. Currently I would lose money activating it (at ~$0.15/kWh) even with 90% PSU power efficiency and GPUs at 0.95V.

Clearly you're right: not worth investing in.

[crazyates]

I see all of those 5xxx cards for sale, and I kinda wish I could put them to good use. Vanity mining is in my future, but it's not worth investing in.

Vanitypool is nice, but it's not often worth more than Bitcoin mining. Currently I would lose money activating it (at ~$0.15/kWh) even with 90% PSU power efficiency and GPUs at 0.95V.

Clearly you're right: not worth investing in.

But that doesn't mean I can fool around with it once BTC mining becomes unprofitable.

[Red Emerald]

I see all of those 5xxx cards for sale, and I kinda wish I could put them to good use. Vanity mining is in my future, but it's not worth investing in.

Vanitypool is nice, but it's not often worth more than Bitcoin mining. Currently I would lose money activating it (at ~$0.15/kWh) even with 90% PSU power efficiency and GPUs at 0.95V.

Clearly you're right: not worth investing in.

But that doesn't mean I can fool around with it once BTC mining becomes unprofitable.

I wouldn't buy cards for it, but if you have cards running, it might worth looking into depending on your cost of electricity.

[dunand]

Is this thread from the futur? GPU mining is still profitable.

[gyverlb]

Is this thread from the futur? GPU mining is still profitable.

Yes it is. But we are counting the last weeks here...

[mufa23]

I'm still mining away on my cards. Even though a few will be getting the first pre-orders, I don't think the majority of everyone will be getting theirs until January. Or at least, I'm not expecting mine until then.

It looks like I won't have to heat my small apartment this winter. I plan on using the rigs for LTC. Hopefully I can get about the same heat out of them.

[monstrs]

LTC could be alternative. Too bad HD 7970 is not stable doing them, atleast ad far as i know.

[420]

I miss them too, I used to heat up the kitchen with one rig very nice.. now siting in the cold smokin' cigarettes

Stop smoking cigarettes

Is this thread from the futur? GPU mining is still profitable.

Thanks for you to finally notice, I am from the future

LTC could be alternative. Too bad HD 7970 is not stable doing them, atleast ad far as i know.

That's interesting. I'd love to see what 7990 could do. or even if NVidia's next chips will be compatible

[DobZombie]

I'm gonna keep mining until I feel like stopping.  Free electricity for some work I do

[tacotime]

LTC could be alternative. Too bad HD 7970 is not stable doing them, atleast ad far as i know.

They work okay, but they get about the same kh/s as 7950s.

[deathcode]

Is this thread from the futur? GPU mining is still profitable.

Yes it is. But we are counting the last weeks here...

I will keep mining, unlike others, I see the big picture and I'm in for the long run... so if I make 1 btc or 20 today, I don't really care...
worst case scenario I'm upping my electricity bill and lowering my heat bill so... maybe in 10 years when I have 10,000 - 15,000 BTC then BTC might be worth more than $10...

[legitnick]

Is this thread from the futur? GPU mining is still profitable.

Yes it is. But we are counting the last weeks here...

I will keep mining, unlike others, I see the big picture and I'm in for the long run... so if I make 1 btc or 20 today, I don't really care...
worst case scenario I'm upping my electricity bill and lowering my heat bill so... maybe in 10 years when I have 10,000 - 15,000 BTC then BTC might be worth more than $10...

What if they're worth $0?

[AmDD]

I wish I would have found bitcoin sooner. I'd love to have built up a massive 10+Gh/s mining farm! I always wanted to do this for Folding@home but could never come up with the funds to do so. Doing this a year or more ago would have paid for itself if bitcoin mining.As it is now, my 2.3Gh/s of GPUs will JUST pay for them selves by the end of the month.

[firefop]

I will say this - I'm looking forward to being able to shut some windows in next winter... If only asics arrive before then 

[lightlord]

LTC could be alternative. Too bad HD 7970 is not stable doing them, atleast ad far as i know.

? That's completely false, I get 524 K-HASH 24/7 Stable.
If anything 7970 is one of the best for litecoin mining.
I am using reaper. Btw increasing the aggression above 13
lowers the hash rate I noticed this, though if you put it
as a second card, and a different card as main,
its possible to get higher aggression, and yield more hash rates.

Here are the settings:
(litecoin.conf)

host ltc.kattare.com
port 9332
user xxxxx
pass xxxxx

protocol litecoin

worksize 256
aggression 13
threads_per_gpu 1
sharethreads 16
lookup_gap 2
gpu_thread_concurrency 21000

-------------------------------
MSI AFTERBURNER:

Core Voltage (mV):   1049 from 1174
Core clock (MHz) :    1000
Memory Clock (MHz): 1375
Fan speed: 54%
7970 Temp: 84 C
-------------------------------
524 KHSAH Mining Rates:

Do note I found a article some where, don't remember, but they
state that AMD cards can run almost indefinitely at 90 degrees.
and their limiting temperature is around 105 degrees.



I even undervolted to 1049 from 1174, as well as overclocked.
Its a good card.

[MrTeal]

I really don't see the difference between having a GPU you could sell for $200 but choose not to in order to mine Litecoin/Vanity addresses, and investing $200 to purchase the same GPU for the same purpose. Either way you're giving up $200 in order to mine.