Hi all,
I am in the great situation that I have an electricity flatrate. But I don´t want to run loud mining hardware in my flat.
I would like to use my GPU for mining. I soon realized that I can forget BitCoin mining. Then I tried Ether mining but found out that my GPUs memory is too small for the current DAG size.
I have a gtx 460 with 1 GB video RAM. Is there any currency where it would make sense (=profit
) to mine with my GPU?
I am looking forward to hear your ideas!
Thanks in advance.
FYI the 400 series was the most power-hungry of any GTX series card if my memory serves. I used to have a GTX 480 running x11evo; would be 80* solid (liquid cooled cpu and GPU); and the machine (with CPU mining also) drew over 600W.... not something I let run for long... a $40 antminer S3 generated more profit and made a lot more sense since I could run 2 of them.
Look into the "other" alts that you see on pools that do multiple algos/coins per algo like zpool.ca Link on my sig I believe. That's if you want to mine with your card regardless.
The trick is getting a miner that's compiled with an instruction set that works on your GPU. I was able to mine X11 on a GTX275 not long ago... but I just wanted to see what the 240 cuda cores would do in relation to my 700/900 series cards. Took a while to find a miner that would see that video card.
only expect a mind numbing trickle of profit from that card; it will most likely cost more for the electricity than it mines in the end.
