How is Pascal for mining?

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Stoly

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I know that nvidia has traditionally sucked for mining, is pascal any different?

I'm getting a 1070 anyway but might also get a RX480 for mining if need be.
 
Looks moot. Geforce 1070 24mh/s RX 480 28mh/s However, at this point it now costs me more to mine ethereum then my electric bill. so i am dropping out for now.
 
buttons said:
Looks moot. Geforce 1070 24mh/s RX 480 28mh/s However, at this point it now costs me more to mine ethereum then my electric bill. so i am dropping out for now.
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I read someone was getting like over 37 mh/s under linux
 
Quix said:
Is it 12 months assuming no difficulty increases or value decreases? Because that's never going to happen. Sounds like a bad idea.
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I can't calculate for future changes, but the point i am trying to make is its a bad deal for mining. r9 380s have been as low as $135 for asus strixs and they get 20-21mh/sec at stock clocks
 
buttons said:
I can't calculate for future changes, but the point i am trying to make is its a bad deal for mining. r9 380s have been as low as $135 for asus strixs and they get 20-21mh/sec at stock clocks
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Yes, I agree with you. I was just trying to point out to anyone else that your estimate is a best-case scenario, in actuality you'd be lucky to EVER hit ROI. I've seen a lot of people get in to cryptocoin mining without knowing that much about it and putting down a bunch of cash and it going nowhere.
 
Quix said:
Yes, I agree with you. I was just trying to point out to anyone else that your estimate is a best-case scenario, in actuality you'd be lucky to EVER hit ROI. I've seen a lot of people get in to cryptocoin mining without knowing that much about it and putting down a bunch of cash and it going nowhere.
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I currently have 13 video cards mining ethereum. My AMD R9 380s hit their ROI in 7 weeks (after rebates they were $160). I started very slowly in april with 2 video cards, by may i was at 7, i just keep taking my mining $ and investing towards more hardware. Its risky for sure, but at the moment it looks like ethereum is not switching to Proof of Stake for months and i can always fall back on decred coin. So far i estimated ive paid $380 in electric but ive cashed out just under $1500. What is killing me, is my power company charges me double from june - september. I am planning on heating my house this winter though with video cards. I dont want to discourage people from cautiously mining, just from Nvidia :)
 
Every new cryptocurrency is worth mining for a while, until it gets popular enough to hit that wall. Ethereum is one I'd stay away from because of the pre-mine. I'm out of mining right now. At this point I have to weight any time I'd spend on the miners against the amount of money I make with my web-design sideline business, and that's very profitable.
 
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Quix said:
Every new cryptocurrency is worth mining for a while, until it gets popular enough to hit that wall. Ethereum is one I'd stay away from because of the pre-mine. I'm out of mining right now. At this point I have to weight any time I'd spend on the miners against the amount of money I make with my web-design sideline business, and that's very profitable.
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Yes, please stay away with your incorrect information..It helps keep the difficulty level down for those of us that are enjoying our profits...I've made over $1300, and am still bringing in a couple hundred after electric costs..Ethereum has no where to go but up..
 
Stoly said:
I know that nvidia has traditionally sucked for mining, is pascal any different?

I'm getting a 1070 anyway but might also get a RX480 for mining if need be.
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Honestly, I'm surprised the mining community still exists because I heard that mining currency was laundering or something like that, so what is going on with Mining and why is it so hard for me to find and buy an ASIC anymore. I don't see why it's illegal or anything else because if someone wants to pay me or anyone else to encrypt their digital currency then what's the problem with that and being paid for it. The problem I see is that even though it's that low end computers aren't secure enough for folding or mining or any thing that involves sharing idle processing power and even higher end ones still might not be, so the only ones that really are would probably be the servers farms located somewhere secure that most people either couldn't afford or be allowed in anyway and even then that might not be secure enough. However, as Linus Torvalds put it security is never perfect, but also though it's like an onion you add layers that can or do make it more secure.
 
if you read on the ethereum forums, a member got his gtx 1070s up to 39-40mh/s

rx480s when modded can get 30mh/s with 150w draw at the wall, i believe
 
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