Help me mine with a gtx 960

[FFrankie]

I don't understand why my topic was deleted but I would like to start mining with my 960. I don't have to pay electric costs as they are built into my lease. So I am thinking it might be better for me to buy another 960 and mine with both after I figure out mining with 1

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[PassThePopcorn]

I don't understand why my topic was deleted but I would like to start mining with my 960. I don't have to pay electric costs as they are built into my lease. So I am thinking it might be better for me to buy another 960 and mine with both after I figure out mining with 1

Probably because it was posted in the wrong section like this post is, try posting  it here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=160.0

[FFrankie]

I don't understand why my topic was deleted but I would like to start mining with my 960. I don't have to pay electric costs as they are built into my lease. So I am thinking it might be better for me to buy another 960 and mine with both after I figure out mining with 1

Probably because it was posted in the wrong section like this post is, try posting  it here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=160.0

No? This is mining support.

Where in my post do I mention wanting to mine alt coins.

[PassThePopcorn]

I don't understand why my topic was deleted but I would like to start mining with my 960. I don't have to pay electric costs as they are built into my lease. So I am thinking it might be better for me to buy another 960 and mine with both after I figure out mining with 1

Probably because it was posted in the wrong section like this post is, try posting  it here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=160.0

No? This is mining support.

Where in my post do I mention wanting to mine alt coins.

GPU mining is considered for mining altcoins as mining on GPU's for Bitcoin is not really a thing. This section is Bitcoin mining support, and last I checked (a few years ago) cgminer and the rest of the Bitcoin mining programs disabled GPU support.

The closest way to mine Bitcoin with a GPU is to use nicehash, and still you are technically mining alt coins, they are just being converted to Bitcoin for the payout.

[FFrankie]

I don't understand why my topic was deleted but I would like to start mining with my 960. I don't have to pay electric costs as they are built into my lease. So I am thinking it might be better for me to buy another 960 and mine with both after I figure out mining with 1

Probably because it was posted in the wrong section like this post is, try posting  it here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=160.0

No? This is mining support.

Where in my post do I mention wanting to mine alt coins.

GPU mining is considered for mining altcoins as mining on GPU's for Bitcoin is not really a thing. This section is Bitcoin mining support, and last I checked (a few years ago) cgminer and the rest of the Bitcoin mining programs disabled GPU support.

The closest way to mine Bitcoin with a GPU is to use nicehash, and still you are technically mining alt coins, they are just being converted to Bitcoin for the payout.

Well interesting. The more you know. I didn't know.

[crairezx20]

There are many guides here that I think could help you about your needs.
Check this guide https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2088803.0 and this guide https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2345911.0

If you are not satisfied then you can ask more to me I'll try to help you.

[swogerino]

If you are on a 2 GB Gtx 960 probably you cannot do a lot of mining except mining Equihash or Cryptonight V7 algorithms which has no limitations like Ethash has from its continuous DAG size which keeps only increasing.

If you have a 4 GB version you can mine a few coins but that card is an old series and would not give you considerable profit. Since you don't pay electricity you got nothing to lose so use it to the max that you can.

[FFrankie]

If you are on a 2 GB Gtx 960 probably you cannot do a lot of mining except mining Equihash or Cryptonight V7 algorithms which has no limitations like Ethash has from its continuous DAG size which keeps only increasing.

If you have a 4 GB version you can mine a few coins but that card is an old series and would not give you considerable profit. Since you don't pay electricity you got nothing to lose so use it to the max that you can.

It's the 2GB.

But I figure since I get free electric, I could spend 2k or so and get eight 580s. Mine for 6 months and than sell them off? Isn't that the only way it's possible to be profitable with GPUs

[honestinvestor]

unless on these maps it makes sense to mine, they are dead already.! Buy yourself 1060 and you will profit

[swogerino]

unless on these maps it makes sense to mine, they are dead already.! Buy yourself 1060 and you will profit

Yes right now the 1060 is the cheaper choice but be extremely careful to not buy the 3 GB card as you can almost not mine any Ethash algorithm with that card with the only exception being the ETP which you can mine with Winminer.

Buying the 1060 6 GB is the perfect choice as you can find used ones to 200-230 USD so you can build a 6 Gpu rig with these cards at 1.5K dollars and to have about 145 mhs as hash rate. That is 35 mhs lower than Rx 580 but it is also 50-55% cheaper in energy price.

The above is for people paying energy, as for OP get even RX Vegas if you can or R9 390 which are power beasts in energy consumption and hashrate and are the perfect cards for you to get.

[leowonderful]

There are also Ethash coins with lower DAG sizes that you might be able to mine with a 2GB card, but you still won't be making a whole lot of crypto. If you plan on mining and don't want to game, selling the 960 is a good idea.

You absolutely can still mine ETH with the 3GB 1060s, especially on OSes like Linux and with a bit of tweaking on Windows, but it's still better to get a 6GB card if you plan on mining ETH as the DAG size continues to increase. You get better performance with the 6GB cards anyhow, and the price gap is shrinking between the 3 and 6GB variants with all the deals recently. I regularly find deals for these cards on www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales.

Even the 200 series R9 cards and 7000 series from AMD are still profitable mining certain coins, though not by much and they'll likely become unprofitable soon if you're mining on non-free electricity. The 300 series cards are decent if you can find a good deal on them; I've found several 390s in my area on Craigslist for cheap and added them to a mining rig a few months ago. The 300 series is similar (a bit faster) in performance to the 200 in mining, and if power isn't a concern like you posted, whichever is cheaper works.