Asus 1060 3G. just bought. Can I use it mining next 3 years ago from now.

[facenew111]

Hello,

I just bought Asus 1060 3G. 
GDDR5 3GB
Engine Clock
OC Mode - GPU Boost Clock : 1809 MHz , GPU Base Clock : 1594 MHz
Gaming Mode (Default) - GPU Boost Clock : 1785 MHz , GPU Base Clock : 1569 MHz

CUDA Core : 1152
Memory Clock : 8008 MHz
Memory Interface : 192-bit

1. Can I use it mining next 3 years ago from now.

2. normally I mining eth but it is just 17MH rate. Should I try another coin?

thank you.

[Dukebit]

Hi Bro,

I'm also new to mining, I'm no expert on mining but almost 100% sure that you won't be able to mine with that gpu 3 years from now. I might be wrong, as I said I'm also new.

sorry not sure of the coins to mine.

[adaseb]

The GPU will last 3 years for sure however in 3 years mining might not be profitable anymore so you won't be using it to mine.

[Nebell]

You will be able to mine ETH up until DAG 175 or so, I know for a fact DAG 180 doesn't work on 3gb cards (I have 10x 1060 3gb). You can probably use them to mine other coins in 3 years, but there will most likely be better cards suited for mining.

[informatuss]

How much MH do you have from these 10 cards? Can he overclock from 17 to 24mhs?

[surix]

I have 6x EVGA GTX 1060 3GB running.  

I can get 140MH/s ETH and 700MH/s Sia dual mining with Claymore's 9.7 under Win 10.

I do power target between 55~65% and memory +600~+750. 750 is not 100% stable though... it varies from card to card but I think the time I spent to tune card by card is just not worth it...

Stock setting will give you 17Mh/s, OC will put it to 22Mh/s, latest version of ethminer or claymore will add another 2Mh/s. rough numbers.

Personally I will go with ETH till DAG 180 (beginning of next year?), then switch to Zcash, at least this is my plan for now... google "what to mine" and you have a very good calculator (only draw back I think is that it can no forecast future difficulty increase)

Of course the moment I can not take my electricity cost back, I will start to sell the cards and get some new ones, or stop mining at all.

[Nebell]

I'm not getting much hash rate from my 1060 3g since they have Hynix memory and Hynix sucks balls. I get about 15 mh/s out of the box and 18.5-19 mh/s overclocked.
However I have stopped mining ETH weeks ago. It's too difficult and the price has gone down a lot so I've switched to other algorithms, mining the coins that have about the same daily/monthly income as ETH and then trading those coins for coins that have a chance to grow in the future. So I'm mining to invest.