Thanks for the feedback! The mention of FUD & the fact that POS won't happen all at once does make me feel a lot better. Who knows, it could be another year before the 1st of 100 blocks is POS & even then they could go back to all POW for some reason. I'm still trying to figure out exactly why they'd want to switch to POS in the 1st place. Sure I get there are advantages but from my understanding, which I'll admit is somewhat limited, is that POS would have to be WAY superior in order to change the way the entire network runs. Anyway, no need to make this into yet another POS thread..
PiMP actually looks really good & I'll definitely have to give it a shot! As for cards I was leaning towards 1070s, but now am considering 1080TIs or even the new 6GB mining 1060s. The 1080s would have higher resale & obviously higher hash rate but the 1060s would be much more power efficient.. This is a battle I'm sure we all go through quite often, especially when even more than price, power efficiency & hash rate you have to factor in whether or not you can even get the cards you want.
On that note any feedback on buying used cards? Although even if the eBay listing says "only used for gaming" I'd still expect they'd be mined & while I've had good results buying other used/refurbished electronics, I'm not sure of any other downsides to buying used cards other than maybe having to clean a bunch of the previous owner's dust/dog hair etc out of them lol.
Or is my best bet to just buy all new cards?
Thanks again for your help! Just got my motherboards this morning, put together a rough CAD & am going to start building my rig/case this weekend
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