The new series brings up a good point. I'm actually using it for 14 to 15 months most realistically. So it will be early spring when I am actually selling the cards. The specs for the 2018 cards will be out by than and what I would be selling will be compared to something soon to hit the market 2 generations after. I will have made some BTC by than which would stand to get some appreciation anyway I'm surely profiting in the end either way
NVidia and AMD can both lose a lot of profit if any of their key coins were to flop. All the network mining power would shift to one of their alternatives. Best argument is that XMR and ETH are more established while ZEC and forks are more unknown. The thing I am more concerned with is power draw for the summer when I can't really afford to tap too much electric and heat more so. With NVidia I know I can run ETH at 50% power for the summer. With AMD not one person answered this for me and I can only speculate that I can't based on the OC screenshots in the claymore threads. @Amp, I'm not buying SP's LBRY miner with the modded Pascal kernel. I don't have a farm or a 6 GPU mining rig. LBRY would likely get overly pumped and dumped if ZEC crashed and I would be better off mining ETH. It's pretty much ZEC or ETH for me on NVidia
In the summer, a 1070 at 50% power on ETH keeps at below 60 Celsius when I am hitting 50% fans, and it requires some degree of AC on money saver while I am away. Right now in the winter I am running the 1070 at 82% power at 70% fans and it is at 54 Celsius on the colder days and 59 on the warmer days. I'd have to max out the fans if I were running that power to temp
Even though there is hundred of thousands of cards sold for mining purpose, it's less than a drop of water for either nvidia or amd, i don't think they focus on anything related to mining on their cards or/and don't care.
