This thread is for miners with older cards that can't mine ETH or other "mainstream" coins anymore.
I was wondering if anybody has any ideas what coin to mine for miners with GPU memory 2GB or less. I would like to use my prehistoric 5850s again. Discuss
1 GTX 960 2GB here and several CPUs. Electricity is included in my rent, so why not flog some older hardware.
I used Nicehash legacy and Nicehash 2.0 rediscovering mining after putting it down in 2015.
The best algorithms for the clock rate and ram available I discovered was:
1. X11 Gost alexa ccminer windows.
2. Neoscrypt via excavator windows.
3. EWBF z-cash miner to nicehash at 170-180 sols/sec (windows) It will run on a 2GB card.
4. Cryptonight via xmrig which take less than 1GB ram on the card to 1.6GB if you go large on the processing array. I am getting about 270-280 H/s at 1495 Mhz , 1024 CUDA cores.
coins 1-3 vary depending on the earnings converted to BTC. Nicehash legacy shows you the rate based on it's benchmark.
coin 4 Stays in the middle on return for time.
However, nothing stopping you from investing in mining your coins on pools to hold the exact coin, but you have to install a wallet for each type of course.
Typical earnings I found was 0.69 to $1.40 a day with nicehash. However, I am banking Cryptonight on a different pool for investment purposes. For the long haul.
For the Nvidia 9xx Maxwell cards, get the techpowerup Maxwell II BIOS tweaker to set your fans, boost, and p0 table for overclock a bit.
cheers.