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August 26, 2016, 09:05:21 PM |
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for $500 assuming you don't have any existing hardware, you can BARELY put together a single-board RX470, RX480, R9 290/390 system.
Technically, you MIGHT manage a system with a single GTX 1060 but that's pretty close to a money-LOSER even now, unless you have FREE power, as the 1060 isn't a good Ethereum miner and doesn't seem to be very good at mining anything else.
The 290/390 will get you about 30MH on Ethereum at a fairly high power usage, the RX470/480 closer to 24MH with quite a bit less power draw.
NONE of those options are going to be particulaly profitable, as the power draw is going to be noticeably higher per hash due to the MB/CPU/RAM power draw.
On the plus side - if you build it with the right motherboard, you CAN expand it fairly easily later by just adding more GPUs once you have more money to put into it.
The other thing to keep in mind is that Ethereum profitability has been dropping pretty hard the last couple months, combination of more folks pointing more rigs at it and the INHERENT "DAG file size increase" reduction in hashrate on any given setup. Achieving ROI on Ethereum for any new build is looking like "if you have FREE power, you might manage it, otherwise probability pretty much ZERO" at this point in time, unless you put together a build you can resell a few months down the line for VERY close to what you paid for it - and somewhat iffy even THEN unless you have VERY VERY cheap power.
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