6x RX 580 4GB or 4x GTX 1070

[MrN1ce9uy]

With a ~$2000 USD budget (for GPUs + mobo, risers, CPU,[PSU and RAM already owned]) which would you get?

6x RX 580 4GB for $1530
or
4x GTX 1070 for $1640

The 1070 has room to expand, plus I already have 1x GTX 1070 that would make 5x total and would leave room for an additional 1070 later. Is the 1070 the logical choice?

[m1n1ngP4d4w4n]

Nvidia's rigs have more versatility and much easier to setup imho for beginners.

[MrN1ce9uy]

Well I ran a mostly AMD mining rig earlier when ETH was at $50-$399, then when it dropped under $300 I sold all my equipment. And yes, Nvidia does not require modded BIOS or special drivers (at least not that I'm aware.) and are easier to OC. So yes I had thought about that and am leaning toward Nvidia.

[m1n1ngP4d4w4n]

Well I ran a mostly AMD mining rig earlier when ETH was at $50-$399, then when it dropped under $300 I sold all my equipment. And yes, Nvidia does not require modded BIOS or special drivers (at least not that I'm aware.) and are easier to OC. So yes I had thought about that and am leaning toward Nvidia.

Oh ok you know your way around then well the versatility point is still valid 

[MrN1ce9uy]

Okay, I only mined ETH so I'm not familiar with the long-run of these other alt-coins. I mined some VIVO and MONA this past week with my single 1070 to get a feel of it. I'm thinking of mining MONA until it drops below profitability of ZCASH and Bitcoin Gold.

Or does using Nicehash (aside from the hack) and the auto-switching work out best? I'm not familiar with it.

[m1n1ngP4d4w4n]

Well if you want autoswitch, zpool or any of them is pretty good i guess if you want directly BTC like nicehash, nice isn't probably dead because of the theft, but until they show alot of improvements i don't think i'll trust them ever again, their system was so flawed even though they were swimming in money, i prefer to switch over different algos & pools but it depend alot on what time you want to invest in scripts, researchs, and so on to exploit new algos and do alot of switching.