Looking to get into GPU mining

[Mr.Ease]

Hey there - It's been some years since mining was interesting to me.

I really only mined Bitcoin with a 5gh/s miner way back when 5gh/s was an awesome miner.
But I had always wanted to try out CPU mining.

Does someone have a good idea on what a first miner would be for someone just getting into it.
I hear a bunch about graphics cards - but i'm not really sure where to begin.

I'm looking to get a small miner going in the background that doesn't cost much just to start out.

Ideas? please share!

[bhadz]

You can compare it on through https://whattomine.com/

[shield132]

Hey there - It's been some years since mining was interesting to me.

I really only mined Bitcoin with a 5gh/s miner way back when 5gh/s was an awesome miner.
But I had always wanted to try out CPU mining.

Does someone have a good idea on what a first miner would be for someone just getting into it.
I hear a bunch about graphics cards - but i'm not really sure where to begin.

I'm looking to get a small miner going in the background that doesn't cost much just to start out.

Ideas? please share!

To be fair GPU mining isn't something where you need to buy one gpu for test to learn on it, it's pretty easy. Personally I would take gtx 1070 and up, to my mind great choise is gtx 1080ti, I prefer nvidia cards because you don't depend on ethereum like on amd, you can mine a lot of coins with great profit.
For profitability comparison, you can use whattomine.com as it was already mentioned by user above me.
Also I suggest you to use 1stminingrig.com for GPU reviews, overcloacks and a lot.

[Mr.Ease]

To be fair GPU mining isn't something where you need to buy one gpu for test to learn on it, it's pretty easy. Personally I would take gtx 1070 and up, to my mind great choise is gtx 1080ti, I prefer nvidia cards because you don't depend on ethereum like on amd, you can mine a lot of coins with great profit.
For profitability comparison, you can use whattomine.com as it was already mentioned by user above me.
Also I suggest you to use 1stminingrig.com for GPU reviews, overcloacks and a lot.

Does gpu mining require a lot of processing power?

Is it something I can install a card and set 1 processor and it won't dramatically slow down a computer.
Or is this something people dedicate a computer to?

I have an old dell desktop I don't use.
Was planning to modify it for mining and staking different tokens.

[shield132]

To be fair GPU mining isn't something where you need to buy one gpu for test to learn on it, it's pretty easy. Personally I would take gtx 1070 and up, to my mind great choise is gtx 1080ti, I prefer nvidia cards because you don't depend on ethereum like on amd, you can mine a lot of coins with great profit.
For profitability comparison, you can use whattomine.com as it was already mentioned by user above me.
Also I suggest you to use 1stminingrig.com for GPU reviews, overcloacks and a lot.

Does gpu mining require a lot of processing power?

Is it something I can install a card and set 1 processor and it won't dramatically slow down a computer.
Or is this something people dedicate a computer to?

I have an old dell desktop I don't use.
Was planning to modify it for mining and staking different tokens.

Not really, people dedicate a computer when they want to install and mine with two or more GPUs and in this situation use cheap CPU, cheap Ram but good motherboard.
That's why I suggested you to use website: 1stminingrig.com <-- here are great tips and suggestions for building GPU mining rigs.
For example here is list of recommended hardwares for 6X GTX 1080 mining rig: https://1stminingrig.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-mining-performance-review/

[Saugani]

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To be fair GPU mining isn't something where you need to buy one gpu for test to learn on it, it's pretty easy. Personally I would take gtx 1070 and up, to my mind great choise is gtx 1080ti, I prefer nvidia cards because you don't depend on ethereum like on amd, you can mine a lot of coins with great profit.

exactly what he said above

It’s best to try mining with GPU well buy 1 pcs GTX type 1080TI or 1660TI will look performance and make its own value for you. Currently CPU is I think a little difficult given the level of difficulty and a lot of hashing miners will look which better result. however, if you want to try the CPU needs please test with algorithm CN.

I’m a fan of product Nvidia because of looks like the Nvidia is worth to push running mineable coins with limit other VGA/GPU.

[Mr.Ease]

~snip~

To be fair GPU mining isn't something where you need to buy one gpu for test to learn on it, it's pretty easy. Personally I would take gtx 1070 and up, to my mind great choise is gtx 1080ti, I prefer nvidia cards because you don't depend on ethereum like on amd, you can mine a lot of coins with great profit.

exactly what he said above

It’s best to try mining with GPU well buy 1 pcs GTX type 1080TI or 1660TI will look performance and make its own value for you. Currently CPU is I think a little difficult given the level of difficulty and a lot of hashing miners will look which better result. however, if you want to try the CPU needs please test with algorithm CN.

I’m a fan of product Nvidia because of looks like the Nvidia is worth to push running mineable coins with limit other VGA/GPU.

This GPU mining is such a rabbit hole... I feel like I'm wondering around like Alice in Wonderland.

Honestly, at this point, I think building a rig from scratch is a bit over my head. Figuring I don't know what I'm doing. So I've been looking online to buy a used one someone already has set up.

But I'm getting even more confused - Can any GPU rig be set up to mine any algo?

I found a rig using this: 8x Nvidia ASUS GTX 1060

Seems Good? But it promotes that it mines Dagger-Hashimoto algo. Is this the only Algo I can mine or can I set it up to other coins?