NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti - Mining worth it?

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As mentioned in the title I have a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti installed on my i7 computer. I rarely even play games on it, I just wondered if it would be worth mining with it? I am guessing the cost of electricity would outweigh the mining potential, if that is the case I would also like some additional info of potential hardware setups that would be worth it? I am new so I don't have expectations of raking in loads either way.

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[Ortulas]

I have a 560 TI in this machine. I tried mining with it and it only gets like 90Mh/s. It's better than nothing i guess but not really worth it to me.

[cryptodrifter]

If you are looking to enter the mining arena, I'd say play with it and get the mining working. Be warned of low hash rates due to it being nvidia.

But once you have a feel for the gui-miner/cgminer apps etc. Go bigger with a larger gpu.

At this point, the power draw may not be worth the output, but at least you can get a feel for what you will need to do if you want to pick up mining in earnest.

Good luck, and welcome to the fold.

[ebildude123]

Not worth it, you might consider using it to mine LTC when your computer is on anyways.

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Thanks for the replies, I decided it was not worth it after coming across a comparison graph somewhere. The GTX 560 was just above a poor performing cpu and all the other GPU were way above. Maybe one day I will create a custom mining unit but right now I will invest in other ideas.