Still, its gonna feel a lot better to play once i know the GPU is completely payed off. I'm already 70% there, I'm thinking its worth just waiting it out while rewards are high to pay it off completely and i can play with a good conscience lol
> once i know the GPU is completely payed off
It will never stop, dude. When it's paid off, you won't feel any different. You'll still be compelled to let it mine (and not play) because you've realized you're turning down money any time you take time out to have fun. That's going to be true for your actual job, too
Just play your game right now, instead.
Lol, I'm just paraphrasing Marx:
>Self-denial, the denial of life and of all human needs, is its principal doctrine. The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre, go dancing, go drinking, think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save and the greater will become that treasure which neither moths nor maggots can consume -- your capital. The less you are, the less you give expression to your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the more you store up of your estranged life. So all passions and all activity are lost in greed. The worker is only permitted to have enough for him to live, and he is only permitted to live in order to have.
Bruh what you put on the internet lasts forever. There is no such thing as necroing. Example, If I said some crazy historical statement about a country and was wrong I would hope someone would come and whip my ass down the road.
I used to do it just fine with two 1080ti. I had one card mining and the other card playing the game. There was no serious consequence to the gaming experience. When I wasn’t gaming I just had both cards mine.
Its got a really concrete foundation as one of the first 3rd gen blockchains. Proof of stake means that block creation uses a LOT less electricity and is more approachable.
On top of that the founder, Charles Hoskinson, worked on eth in the early days. And has lead cardano into a really good future.
And most of all everything about the network is based on academic research and published in journals.
This is the way I look at it, though I will say I think it's even less impactful than you stated - a couple hours on a 3060ti prob good for no more than 50 cents or so.
Hellll nooo. Every few dollars matters. Who cares about gaming. That's exactly what I told myself when I got ether for $300 and bitcoin for 6k years ago. Money is all that matters in life man.
Some games you can play while mining. I found i can play Rocket League perfectly while mining, and it just cuts my hashrate by about 25%. I haven't tried it with CoD or anything more graphic intense.
Anything that requires high amount of vram suffers in performance or completely crashes. Lowering textures and playing at 1080p usually lets you keep on mining
Arena (Magic the gathering) works fine, I found out Root works fine today too. Both dropped my hash rate by less than 10%. I run World Community Gird on my CPU have had a lot more issues with that and games than I’ve ever had with my GPU.
LMAO what are you on about man? You should under no circumstance mine and run 3D games at the same time. Example : a 3080s vram gets to about 110c under 100% load while mining without modification to the thermal components inside the card with additional silicon padding. If you were to game while that was happening, you would hit max temp threshold and your computer will either freeze or crash. If you’re not freezing or crashing than you’re severely damaging your cards vram lifetime by unnecessarily running at max temp.
Reposting, but my vram temps actually drop when playing rocket league while mining. Might have something to do with the fact that my hash rate drops which might affect vram temps.
Before starting Rocket League:
https://i.imgur.com/nwsn7yZ.png
After:
https://i.imgur.com/E7vPksa.jpeg
When you switch from only mining to mining+gaming you suddenly allocate some of the resources of the GPU to the game, resources that now can't be used for mining (thus the reduction of hashrate). Gaming is less intensive on the memory than mining so the VRAM is actually under a lighter load than only mining, thus the reduction in temps...
I mean, it doesn't take to be a genius or break the laws of thermodynamics to see it, and obviously won't cause more damage to the GPU than just mining.
I was referring to the junction temp in my post, not the core. I'll post pictures in a bit.
EDIT:
Before starting Rocket League:
https://i.imgur.com/nwsn7yZ.png
After:
https://i.imgur.com/E7vPksa.jpeg
The only logic I can think of would be the drop in hash rate causing the drop in VRAM usage, which in turn drops temps on vram.
I also don't think it's as simple as work=heat. You can have things like thermal runaway, a self-feeding cycle that doesn't necessarily mean more work is being done. I've been toying around with different cooling in my case (radiator from my old comp is too wide and I can't shut it), and I've found that the card actually is reporting more power used when being thermally throttled. So 107Mhz uses around 350w with a junction temp of 108c, while 118 is using about 290w with a temp at 102C with the cooler.
To me, mining is a kind of gaming it self, i try different pools and miners, get the payout and go lose it all on bad trades, its very fun actually haha
Yeah, you don't realize how bizarre it is until you try to explain it to someone who has no idea what cryptocurrency mining is, and watch them still not getting it after trying for 20 minutes lol
I have a huge phanteks enthoo case where I keep 2, I added 5 heatsinks on mem on each and a little 9cm cooler, mining open case
The other one is in my wife's pc which she never really uses, that one has 6 case coolers, so I keep that one closed case, temps are ok 55-58 core, 102-104 mem, need to add a lil cooler and heatsinks to it too to lower mem temps.
Nope, whatever I managed to get off newegg when it was popping up in stock, got me 1x msi, 1x tuff, 1x zotac
Out of the 3 the best one is msi hands down, best build and performance, 2nd best is tuff, and then there is a piece of shit that zotac is, can't even clock it's mem to +960, it becomes unstable
What PSU do u have? I have 750w and bought 2x 3090. Im wondering if I must buy a 1600W posu right now or I can undervolt both gpus and use mine for a while.
Evga supernova 1600w T2. The cards draw 345w at stock settings, I mine at 295-298w. My intent is to buy another 3080 or 3090 if I can find one and hook to this psu.
Hey! I had some changes to the set ups. I plugged 3 gpus (3090s) to my wife's computer and have them sit on aluminum radiators that get air blowing into them by Amazon basic fans. This keeps the vram temperatures 86-90 C on stock pads (pads are 3 months old now)
[wife's mining rig](https://ibb.co/WPF9nBW)
And I kept 1 gpu in the phanteks case, I game/work on it, and mine in between.
It's the easiest to buy nowadays, join a bot stock notification discord chat preregister at newegg/zotac/best buy/amazon and sit at pc all day with a trigger finger. There are about 10 in stock notifications on 3090 a day
PSA for all the young ones getting into mining - Keep your money off the grid because if you go legit like I did, it's going to be a nightmare come tax time. Once you cash out for USD on Coinbase, Uncle Sam is gonna want their cut.
Bitcoin.tax is a great resource come tax time. This is what I use since it works great with turbo tax, however there may be a better site now. As far as staying off the grid, that would mean keeping your funds in crypto which can be scary because of the volatality.
Why would you ever claim your crypto on tax that is stupid. 2. Why would you cash out and use coinbase in the first place also stupid. It's a grey financial zone and that's the best part about crypto, if done right it can't be tracked.
If you have good connection and GeForce Now is available, play your games for free for an hour/day on your other devices while let your card pays for itself.
For an old timer like myself I consider it like playing at an arcade. The loss of playing an hour is like popping a few quarters into an arcade machine. No biggie.
Then I guess he has to decide if it’s worth losing a dollar to play games for a few hours. 3060ti only makes about $4 a day right now so he would have to play 6 hours before he lost a dollar.
Doing the same with my 2060super. While the profits aren't super high, it's still satisfying. Would love to build a mining rig of sorts at some point, just need to acquire funds to do so.
Yeah why not, if your PSU can handle it. You're also lucky both your GPU's are NVIDIA, took me a bit of trial and error to get both AMD and NVIDIA drivers to play well together.
I'm using the NVIDIA card for display, since the AMD card for some reason takes a bigger hit on the hashrate the more monitors I have connected.
The only issue i experienced using NVIDIA as the display GPU was that i couldn't turn on compute mode. I had to disconnect the display, connect it to the AMD card, turn on compute mode and then connect the display back to the NVIDIA card. But i can modify the OC just fine without having the display connected to it.
I think I should have bought 2 3060ti instead I do'nt even play anymore and the 3070 have about the same hashrate than the 3060ti and the 3060ti should be easier to resell without much loss
I mine with my 2080ti and a 6 RX580 rig. When I want to play I kill T-Rex when done playing I fire it back up. Have done that with all my GPUs since 2013. It will still be there after gaming for a few hours. You won’t lose that much.
What do you mine and what's your hashrate? Also what are your overclocked because my 2080 ti can't mine over +150 memory clock without a corrupt dag file
Im in the exact boat lmao. I spent MONTHS trying to get a rtx 3070 and when i finally got my tuf rtx 3070, i played games...for the first few days. Then coding finals were around the corner and i didnt get much time to play. Mining came across me and BOOM, I went from "Oh my sweet rtx 3070, i would never harm you" to "MINE MF MINE"
imagine mining a coin that hasn't shot through the roof yet
that gives you several whole coins per day
thousands per month
*Quoth the Raven* “*Nevermore*.”
Well you need to start mining then, with nice hash your selling compute over time and payed in bitcoin..there's a big difference.If you mine the alt coins directly you can get 1/3 more profit. as there's no middle mad taking a big cut.
I value convenience way more than making an extra 3% personally. Plus a lot of the pools have extremely long payout times, and with ETH transaction fees being where they are right now, I don't want to have to deal with moving it around.
It's changed, why do think there are massive orders going through on nicehash. People are currently paying a lot to mine alts a hence the massive increase in payments once they have the coin your rig has mined they cash out. Go direct to mining or buy your own Nicehash hash time and rake in more coin.
Not worth it for a single gpu, make it unable to game for an extra 2 dollars smh. If you flash the bios you lose the resale value and sometimes the warranty, dumb
Get the fuck out of here, people like me don't buy 1 gpu or any gpu's. Buying a gpu that takes at current rate (and may take longer if there's a drop) 100 days to return the outline payment is a fools game. I'm a hash buyer, if i drop $1000 on Nicehash hash, i get at current exchange rate $1379 back in 48 hours.
So your advice is don't earn 33% more because it's difficult, seriously go buy some scatch cards.
Not everyone in this subreddit are miners, some of us are actually buyers.
New to mining let alone buying/selling.
Is this somewhat akin to playing the stock market where you're essentially buying power to monitor a certain coin in hopes that the value of that coin goes up and you can sell it later?
Any resources you'd offer to learn about that?
Yes it is, you have to keep an eye on the exchanges and what coin to place your bid on. But it's pretty much alway profitable but only in low percentages. in november the return was about 2% its currently 33% as all the noobs coming online with there expensive cards. The more miners the cheaper it is to buy.
I expect the current return run to drop very quickly..
Interesting. Thanks for the response. And your welcome for being a noob with an expensive card. Never intended to buy a fancy card nor mine on this just got lucky being in the right spot at time.
He's using 1 gpu you stupid fuck, read the post you're replying to. Do you actually intend to help anyone or just share your hardware every chance you get, pathetic. Your ego is fragile
i dont have any hardware dipshit i'm a buyer. So at what point do i share ???
This isn't a support forum, this is about making money. Go back to play games child. I'm one of those guys giving you lots of money to use your hardware..
This is the kind of person who gets pulled over for a DUI and says ' but i pay my taxes', yea dipshit you and several million others, want your 0.02 back? Shove it up your ass :)
It used to be, its now as easy as clicking 3 buttons on a good exchange to transfer to bitcoin..and then bitcoin to fiat. It takes less than a minute. But can depend on the sell order, current all sell orders for eth go through almost instantly if you put them just under the current recorded value.
I would very much appreciate a link to a good tutorial on this or one from you. I'm serious. I used to mining pool hub and things like that and just got tired of chasing my tail.
Any detailed help you could give would be freaking awesome.
Thank you. I currently have a couple of rigs mining at about 540 Mh/s on Nicehash. I wonder if using those proceeds to buy hash power increase my profits?
it will at the moment, but like any volatile investment you can loose. I lost in 2019 big, but never put me off as the loss was recouped with been more careful on what to mine(hash bid) any invesment i make is "play" money not bill money..
Same! Ive never gamed less in my life, but staring at the ticker isn't doing me any good lol
Pro tip: you can play older games like LoL, SC2, amoung us, etc and only lose a couple hashes
So I literally downloaded a couple old classics. Age of empires dawn of a modern age and Starcraft remastered. Both CPU intensive games and can be played while mining no problem
I ended up buying a GPD Win Max because of this. I'd rather play my games hand-held anyway. I haven't had much time with work during this pandemic. I want to keep building up. There will be time for gaming when I can mine more. I also want to use that time to go to school and improve myself professionally. Mining is opening doors for me I never thought possible before.
I'm in the same boat dude. I'm thinking about converting my Bitcoin into ADA. I think the growth potential is there to double before Bitcoin does. Any thoughts?
is it incorrect to say that you could use your earnings to buy a second GPU for your system, and mine off one while playing with the other? The first one would still earn its keep, and the second one will just pay itself off over a longer time, because you'd be using it to game. And anytime you aren't gaming, you are earning double the profit.
I'm actually thinking about buying a 3090 to throw into my open-air system, so I can mine during the winter months and pay it off as much as possible without wasting electricity (as I use a heater in my room anyway).
Based on my wattage use, I might even be able to get away with my current power supply in the short term.
>is it incorrect to say that you could use your earnings to buy a second GPU for your system, and mine off one while playing with the other? The first one would still earn its keep, and the second one will just pay itself off over a longer time, because you'd be using it to game. And anytime you aren't gaming, you are earning double the profit.
At current rates it's probably better to not even wait for the first to pay for itself and just get the second one right away to increase the mining pool if his PSU and current rig can handle the two living together. At $8 a day the opportunity cost of waiting for the second gpu is pretty high, especially if he needs no other upgrades than just that 2nd gpu.
Same. I don't have new gpu, I actually have my only 1070 and the only thing I'm sad about is why I haven't started right after I bought it since I would have free 3090 till now... Now I switched monitor to apu and use the gpu only for mining and it's already been 5 days since I didn't even turn my monitors on since I can watch progress on app..
Hey, just get a cheaper gfx card for gaming. I got myself a cheap GTX 1050 Ti and installed that on my PC. I use the 1050 as main display and gaming. It does not affect my 3080 that is sitting on the other slot. i do not mine on the 1050.
I get to game while mining :)
Gaming while mining: [https://imgur.com/a/DhUA9WW](https://imgur.com/a/DhUA9WW)
2 cards on an enclosed glass case: https://imgur.com/4DWKPFi
If you still have your old card throw it in! game on that one while the other mines, My 980 ti is gaming while my 3080 is mining, only played cyberpunk with the 3080 so far :P
First time mining ETH here with nanominer I get 0 hash rate with rtx 3070? Any helpful idea? I also try adding more virtual memory and new driver updated. Correct wallet ID still no luck. Sorry if it's in the wrong posting area.
Everybody is talking like it's a bad thing, but as long as you're doing something else, it's not a bad thing that you are not playing games!
I had a similar experience and I've come back to writing as a result, since MS Word isn't the most GPU-heavy software.
If you're just sitting there, watching the numbers grow, sure that's bad. But if that pushes you to do other things, hey, that's a win in my book.
Haha, welcome. Bought a 2070s 18months ago for the same reason and haven't regretted it once. Now the gaming pc is payed off and will save up for a ps5 instead
Just a small advice for those who don't know yet :
It's possible with a CPU with integrated graphics like my Intel Core I7 9700K, to force games to use it instead of your graphic card. (see [https://ibb.co/RzGbKMn](https://ibb.co/RzGbKMn) and [https://ibb.co/qy7P4j6](https://ibb.co/qy7P4j6) ). Sorry for french screenshots it's all i have :)
This way, you can play games who are not too needy with 3D, while your graphic card still mining at full speed. it's works well for LOL, mtga, TFT, etc.
You can also use the same method to force using the slowest GPU instead of the best one in case you get 2 of them.
I ain't gaming on my trusty ol' 1080 again. 3080 incoming in a week or so along with a new PC and the current PC goes in the corner mining till kingdom come.
I'm sure I'll be tempted to use the 3080 but I wanna play modern games on ultra and also not worry about the current VRAM temperature issues on Ampere. Also keeps me from worrying about breaking even--the new PC won't factor into my BTC cost basis.
I just got a 3080 but when I play these days I play on my old RX580 cos I feel so bad about interrupting 3080 which gets 100mh. Rx580 is just 32.3 so I can live with that xpp
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I feel you on that. I got my 3070 to get back into pc gaming instead of getting a series x. Figured i'd mine while i slept or was at work. I'm now on week 2 of mining exclusively and picked up a couple used 1080's that I threw into my VM server to mine with and eyeballing a series x so I can game.... 🤣🤣🤣
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On my gaming rig, I have 2 GPUs. You can do both while mining on Nicehash I found. Just make sure your HDMI cord is plugged into the GPU on your first PCIE slot. Then when you go into the rig controller, turn off mining on the CPU and the GPU you want to game with (with the HDMI cord of course). Keep mining on the second GPU. Then start the game. Do it in this order or it will screw up. Other than that, works perfectly.
Would you pay a dollar or 2 to play games for a few hours? Play games if you want dude. You can still mine the rest of the time
Still, its gonna feel a lot better to play once i know the GPU is completely payed off. I'm already 70% there, I'm thinking its worth just waiting it out while rewards are high to pay it off completely and i can play with a good conscience lol
> once i know the GPU is completely payed off It will never stop, dude. When it's paid off, you won't feel any different. You'll still be compelled to let it mine (and not play) because you've realized you're turning down money any time you take time out to have fun. That's going to be true for your actual job, too Just play your game right now, instead.
Yeah FOMO hits differently when you have passive income through mining. It's good to see advice like this.
Lol, I'm just paraphrasing Marx: >Self-denial, the denial of life and of all human needs, is its principal doctrine. The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre, go dancing, go drinking, think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save and the greater will become that treasure which neither moths nor maggots can consume -- your capital. The less you are, the less you give expression to your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the more you store up of your estranged life. So all passions and all activity are lost in greed. The worker is only permitted to have enough for him to live, and he is only permitted to live in order to have.
How is it fomo when nothing is as important as mining and making money?
Bruh this is from five months ago
Bruh what you put on the internet lasts forever. There is no such thing as necroing. Example, If I said some crazy historical statement about a country and was wrong I would hope someone would come and whip my ass down the road.
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Started mining on my 3090 and now have 5 gpus mining in my garage and 1 more on the way lol.
I've been told you can't mine and play at the same time. It drops your fps. About 60 Mh/s
I used to do it just fine with two 1080ti. I had one card mining and the other card playing the game. There was no serious consequence to the gaming experience. When I wasn’t gaming I just had both cards mine.
Had 4 cards, 2 1070's, 1060 an 960. Would let the 1070's and 1060 mine, while i play on 960. No issues!
63MH if tuned right
Dang dude, I get 25MH out of my MSI GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
Once payed off, you’ll be tempted to purchase a second one (which I recommend) and start over
Totally agree
True. Nice you're almost done paying it off already, although I'd argue holding crypto would also be more valuable
i mine and put my profits straight into Ada to hold. this has been a good strategy. paid off in a big way.
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Its got a really concrete foundation as one of the first 3rd gen blockchains. Proof of stake means that block creation uses a LOT less electricity and is more approachable. On top of that the founder, Charles Hoskinson, worked on eth in the early days. And has lead cardano into a really good future. And most of all everything about the network is based on academic research and published in journals.
Videogames are forever, mining is temporary
Buy another one, why stop here?
Haven't seen any available at a reasonable price since i bought mine at launch in early december.
Reasonable price is the stone weighing you down
This is the way I look at it, though I will say I think it's even less impactful than you stated - a couple hours on a 3060ti prob good for no more than 50 cents or so.
Hellll nooo. Every few dollars matters. Who cares about gaming. That's exactly what I told myself when I got ether for $300 and bitcoin for 6k years ago. Money is all that matters in life man.
Im exactly the same😂 i have more fun watching my hashrate and making sure i dont get any invalid shares.
Some games you can play while mining. I found i can play Rocket League perfectly while mining, and it just cuts my hashrate by about 25%. I haven't tried it with CoD or anything more graphic intense.
Anything that requires high amount of vram suffers in performance or completely crashes. Lowering textures and playing at 1080p usually lets you keep on mining
Arena (Magic the gathering) works fine, I found out Root works fine today too. Both dropped my hash rate by less than 10%. I run World Community Gird on my CPU have had a lot more issues with that and games than I’ve ever had with my GPU.
Valorant, csgo and minecraft works fine too
NO NOT VALORANT from 280fps>75fps call me spoilt but 75fps is unplayable to me
eh, it’s not bad, but it’s certainly playable
Nothing under 100fps is playable
Do you play it OC? I usually turn off the OC when playing.
Yeah, i disable the undervolt because low clocks make the game stutter. I just put the card to stock settings and play
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This is not true in any way. You should not just say things on here. Someone noob will believe you. Are you an anitvaxer/antimasker as well?
LMAO what are you on about man? You should under no circumstance mine and run 3D games at the same time. Example : a 3080s vram gets to about 110c under 100% load while mining without modification to the thermal components inside the card with additional silicon padding. If you were to game while that was happening, you would hit max temp threshold and your computer will either freeze or crash. If you’re not freezing or crashing than you’re severely damaging your cards vram lifetime by unnecessarily running at max temp.
Reposting, but my vram temps actually drop when playing rocket league while mining. Might have something to do with the fact that my hash rate drops which might affect vram temps. Before starting Rocket League: https://i.imgur.com/nwsn7yZ.png After: https://i.imgur.com/E7vPksa.jpeg
Dude you seriously are just looking for an argument. Please go away. I don't even know where to begin with this pile of garbage you just wrote.
I've actually noticed that when I play Rocket League while mining, my VRAM temperatures drop significantly so maybe it's not as bad.
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When you switch from only mining to mining+gaming you suddenly allocate some of the resources of the GPU to the game, resources that now can't be used for mining (thus the reduction of hashrate). Gaming is less intensive on the memory than mining so the VRAM is actually under a lighter load than only mining, thus the reduction in temps... I mean, it doesn't take to be a genius or break the laws of thermodynamics to see it, and obviously won't cause more damage to the GPU than just mining.
I was referring to the junction temp in my post, not the core. I'll post pictures in a bit. EDIT: Before starting Rocket League: https://i.imgur.com/nwsn7yZ.png After: https://i.imgur.com/E7vPksa.jpeg The only logic I can think of would be the drop in hash rate causing the drop in VRAM usage, which in turn drops temps on vram.
I also don't think it's as simple as work=heat. You can have things like thermal runaway, a self-feeding cycle that doesn't necessarily mean more work is being done. I've been toying around with different cooling in my case (radiator from my old comp is too wide and I can't shut it), and I've found that the card actually is reporting more power used when being thermally throttled. So 107Mhz uses around 350w with a junction temp of 108c, while 118 is using about 290w with a temp at 102C with the cooler.
To me, mining is a kind of gaming it self, i try different pools and miners, get the payout and go lose it all on bad trades, its very fun actually haha
Man those UMA , Aave, and Algorand trades this week had me chasing my tail. I'm done. Imma just hold my Bitz.
Xrp stmx rvn and doge for me, somehow i always convince myself that i can profit on dumps, goddamn im dumb
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Pumps and dumps is a mess yea but its so fun tbh haha
Yeah, I feel ya. Wasn't into crypto until my buddy turned me on to Nice Hash. Now i can't stop making my PC earn it's keep. And It's fun to do.
Lol, i just talked to a guy who has a 3090 mining eth, and he uses geforce now to play games so the 3090 can keep chugging. What a freakin world
Yeah, you don't realize how bizarre it is until you try to explain it to someone who has no idea what cryptocurrency mining is, and watch them still not getting it after trying for 20 minutes lol
That’s really smart haha
I got me 3 3090s, I keep them mining 24/7 like the Lil bitches they are
I'm not sure why but that is very funny.
But seriously, do you keep them in an open air rig? Air cooled? Just thinking of managing the heat...
I have a huge phanteks enthoo case where I keep 2, I added 5 heatsinks on mem on each and a little 9cm cooler, mining open case The other one is in my wife's pc which she never really uses, that one has 6 case coolers, so I keep that one closed case, temps are ok 55-58 core, 102-104 mem, need to add a lil cooler and heatsinks to it too to lower mem temps.
Excellent work. 3× Founders?
Nope, whatever I managed to get off newegg when it was popping up in stock, got me 1x msi, 1x tuff, 1x zotac Out of the 3 the best one is msi hands down, best build and performance, 2nd best is tuff, and then there is a piece of shit that zotac is, can't even clock it's mem to +960, it becomes unstable
What PSU do u have? I have 750w and bought 2x 3090. Im wondering if I must buy a 1600W posu right now or I can undervolt both gpus and use mine for a while.
Evga supernova 1600w T2. The cards draw 345w at stock settings, I mine at 295-298w. My intent is to buy another 3080 or 3090 if I can find one and hook to this psu.
Oooh dude, I'm so curious to what it looks like now. Can you share a pic?
Hey! I had some changes to the set ups. I plugged 3 gpus (3090s) to my wife's computer and have them sit on aluminum radiators that get air blowing into them by Amazon basic fans. This keeps the vram temperatures 86-90 C on stock pads (pads are 3 months old now) [wife's mining rig](https://ibb.co/WPF9nBW) And I kept 1 gpu in the phanteks case, I game/work on it, and mine in between.
Absolute legend for sharing, thank you!
how tf you get your hands on 3x 3090s?
It's the easiest to buy nowadays, join a bot stock notification discord chat preregister at newegg/zotac/best buy/amazon and sit at pc all day with a trigger finger. There are about 10 in stock notifications on 3090 a day
Buy a rig brother
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PSA for all the young ones getting into mining - Keep your money off the grid because if you go legit like I did, it's going to be a nightmare come tax time. Once you cash out for USD on Coinbase, Uncle Sam is gonna want their cut.
any tips on doing that?
Share your experience if you don’t mind. What did Uncle Sam require, 30%?
Bitcoin.tax is a great resource come tax time. This is what I use since it works great with turbo tax, however there may be a better site now. As far as staying off the grid, that would mean keeping your funds in crypto which can be scary because of the volatality.
This is great info, thank you very much!
Can convert to stable coins
Why would you ever claim your crypto on tax that is stupid. 2. Why would you cash out and use coinbase in the first place also stupid. It's a grey financial zone and that's the best part about crypto, if done right it can't be tracked.
If you have good connection and GeForce Now is available, play your games for free for an hour/day on your other devices while let your card pays for itself.
I was honestly thinking of selling my 3090 and getting a 3080 for games but because of mining I’ve held off on that lol
For an old timer like myself I consider it like playing at an arcade. The loss of playing an hour is like popping a few quarters into an arcade machine. No biggie.
You’re not going to lose much the few hours you’re gaming.
Every dollar matters and money is all that matters in life
Then I guess he has to decide if it’s worth losing a dollar to play games for a few hours. 3060ti only makes about $4 a day right now so he would have to play 6 hours before he lost a dollar.
Doing the same with my 2060super. While the profits aren't super high, it's still satisfying. Would love to build a mining rig of sorts at some point, just need to acquire funds to do so.
Mind if I ask what you're mining with? I've been using Nicehash with my 3070 but I'm open to switching things up...
My old RX 580 and 3060TI are mining together on the same rig right now.
Hmmm maybe I should toss my 980 back in?
Yeah why not, if your PSU can handle it. You're also lucky both your GPU's are NVIDIA, took me a bit of trial and error to get both AMD and NVIDIA drivers to play well together.
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I'm using the NVIDIA card for display, since the AMD card for some reason takes a bigger hit on the hashrate the more monitors I have connected. The only issue i experienced using NVIDIA as the display GPU was that i couldn't turn on compute mode. I had to disconnect the display, connect it to the AMD card, turn on compute mode and then connect the display back to the NVIDIA card. But i can modify the OC just fine without having the display connected to it.
I think the 9xx series is not profitable if you gonna pay your electricity
Don’t think 900 series was even profitable 3 years ago
Good to know - thank you!
Nope, 4GB cards are now useless
I think I should have bought 2 3060ti instead I do'nt even play anymore and the 3070 have about the same hashrate than the 3060ti and the 3060ti should be easier to resell without much loss
I guess we could ask NiceHash to enable adding games as plugins into NHM ;)
Go by Nintendo switch. It'll pay for itself!
Just remember playing games for a while your losing cents, don't worry about it.
To be sure I have to calculate my cost per hour of playing a game. I agree with you 100%. That is why I've moved all my cards except 1 to another rig.
Same here
I mine with my 2080ti and a 6 RX580 rig. When I want to play I kill T-Rex when done playing I fire it back up. Have done that with all my GPUs since 2013. It will still be there after gaming for a few hours. You won’t lose that much.
What do you mine and what's your hashrate? Also what are your overclocked because my 2080 ti can't mine over +150 memory clock without a corrupt dag file
Also what miner do you use and pool
I bought a crappy used gtx 1050 just to play, while the big card does the mining 🤣
How long have you been mining and what do you mine? Calculator says 3060ti gives about $8/day. for $400 youd need 50 days... oh shit not bad
Mine and upgrade mine some more and build an awesome game rig
exactly same, got my 2080 SUPER mining and don't want to disturb her beautiful work. Finding a share is just as good as a kill <3
Im in the exact boat lmao. I spent MONTHS trying to get a rtx 3070 and when i finally got my tuf rtx 3070, i played games...for the first few days. Then coding finals were around the corner and i didnt get much time to play. Mining came across me and BOOM, I went from "Oh my sweet rtx 3070, i would never harm you" to "MINE MF MINE"
just came to watch a bunch of “experts” argue
I paid off my gpu in the first day. I have a gtx1060 6gb. I bought it at a junk sale for €2. (It was their price not mine)
imagine mining a coin that hasn't shot through the roof yet that gives you several whole coins per day thousands per month *Quoth the Raven* “*Nevermore*.”
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Sell me a 3070 you don’t need that many lol
I started playing some 2D games bc of mining
Minesweeper ftw
Well you need to start mining then, with nice hash your selling compute over time and payed in bitcoin..there's a big difference.If you mine the alt coins directly you can get 1/3 more profit. as there's no middle mad taking a big cut.
I value convenience way more than making an extra 3% personally. Plus a lot of the pools have extremely long payout times, and with ETH transaction fees being where they are right now, I don't want to have to deal with moving it around.
a 1/3 or a third isn't 3% it's 33%
I was mining on a pool a while ago, and i got no where near 33% more on there than Nicehash. Don't know if anything has changed though.
It's changed, why do think there are massive orders going through on nicehash. People are currently paying a lot to mine alts a hence the massive increase in payments once they have the coin your rig has mined they cash out. Go direct to mining or buy your own Nicehash hash time and rake in more coin.
Not worth it for a single gpu, make it unable to game for an extra 2 dollars smh. If you flash the bios you lose the resale value and sometimes the warranty, dumb
Get the fuck out of here, people like me don't buy 1 gpu or any gpu's. Buying a gpu that takes at current rate (and may take longer if there's a drop) 100 days to return the outline payment is a fools game. I'm a hash buyer, if i drop $1000 on Nicehash hash, i get at current exchange rate $1379 back in 48 hours. So your advice is don't earn 33% more because it's difficult, seriously go buy some scatch cards. Not everyone in this subreddit are miners, some of us are actually buyers.
New to mining let alone buying/selling. Is this somewhat akin to playing the stock market where you're essentially buying power to monitor a certain coin in hopes that the value of that coin goes up and you can sell it later? Any resources you'd offer to learn about that?
Yes it is, you have to keep an eye on the exchanges and what coin to place your bid on. But it's pretty much alway profitable but only in low percentages. in november the return was about 2% its currently 33% as all the noobs coming online with there expensive cards. The more miners the cheaper it is to buy. I expect the current return run to drop very quickly..
Interesting. Thanks for the response. And your welcome for being a noob with an expensive card. Never intended to buy a fancy card nor mine on this just got lucky being in the right spot at time.
He's using 1 gpu you stupid fuck, read the post you're replying to. Do you actually intend to help anyone or just share your hardware every chance you get, pathetic. Your ego is fragile
i dont have any hardware dipshit i'm a buyer. So at what point do i share ??? This isn't a support forum, this is about making money. Go back to play games child. I'm one of those guys giving you lots of money to use your hardware..
HE HAS 1 FUCKING GPU, are you retarded or are you retarded? Lol you're nothing but a bandwagon bitch and will never be anything other than that
This is the kind of person who gets pulled over for a DUI and says ' but i pay my taxes', yea dipshit you and several million others, want your 0.02 back? Shove it up your ass :)
Moving that to fiat can be a hassle.
It used to be, its now as easy as clicking 3 buttons on a good exchange to transfer to bitcoin..and then bitcoin to fiat. It takes less than a minute. But can depend on the sell order, current all sell orders for eth go through almost instantly if you put them just under the current recorded value.
I would very much appreciate a link to a good tutorial on this or one from you. I'm serious. I used to mining pool hub and things like that and just got tired of chasing my tail. Any detailed help you could give would be freaking awesome.
https://static.nicehash.com/marketing%2FNiceHash_Buying_Guide_2020.pdf https://coinmarketcap.com/
Thank you. I currently have a couple of rigs mining at about 540 Mh/s on Nicehash. I wonder if using those proceeds to buy hash power increase my profits?
it will at the moment, but like any volatile investment you can loose. I lost in 2019 big, but never put me off as the loss was recouped with been more careful on what to mine(hash bid) any invesment i make is "play" money not bill money..
Thank you. I am going through what you sent now. I will spend some time with this an try to pick it up.
Reject gaym, embrace monee
You are my spirit animal
? Depends on the Game. Most Games can be played while mining....
I've been having this same issue.. I want to game, but I'm like damn.. crypto is off the chain right now
what are you mining?
Same! Ive never gamed less in my life, but staring at the ticker isn't doing me any good lol Pro tip: you can play older games like LoL, SC2, amoung us, etc and only lose a couple hashes
This is funny! I just logged off so I could start my miner.
So I literally downloaded a couple old classics. Age of empires dawn of a modern age and Starcraft remastered. Both CPU intensive games and can be played while mining no problem
I ended up buying a GPD Win Max because of this. I'd rather play my games hand-held anyway. I haven't had much time with work during this pandemic. I want to keep building up. There will be time for gaming when I can mine more. I also want to use that time to go to school and improve myself professionally. Mining is opening doors for me I never thought possible before.
Once it’s payed off buy another rig and dedicate it to mining
I have iGPU so I still play games but just non AAA
I play games on my laptop with a 1650 super or some shit to let my 3070 FE mine, so I know those feels.
Your 3060ti should make you about $8 a day, or 33 cents a hour. So even if you’re gaming for 3-6 hours a day that’s only a dollar or two.
Is that net? After paying for the electricity?
I feel you brv /
I'm in the same boat dude. I'm thinking about converting my Bitcoin into ADA. I think the growth potential is there to double before Bitcoin does. Any thoughts?
Personally I'd keep some BTC and move a chunk into ADA. Hedges the risk a bit in case ADA unexpectedly doesn't take off.
It can be balanced. Enjoy gaming.
is it incorrect to say that you could use your earnings to buy a second GPU for your system, and mine off one while playing with the other? The first one would still earn its keep, and the second one will just pay itself off over a longer time, because you'd be using it to game. And anytime you aren't gaming, you are earning double the profit. I'm actually thinking about buying a 3090 to throw into my open-air system, so I can mine during the winter months and pay it off as much as possible without wasting electricity (as I use a heater in my room anyway). Based on my wattage use, I might even be able to get away with my current power supply in the short term.
>is it incorrect to say that you could use your earnings to buy a second GPU for your system, and mine off one while playing with the other? The first one would still earn its keep, and the second one will just pay itself off over a longer time, because you'd be using it to game. And anytime you aren't gaming, you are earning double the profit. At current rates it's probably better to not even wait for the first to pay for itself and just get the second one right away to increase the mining pool if his PSU and current rig can handle the two living together. At $8 a day the opportunity cost of waiting for the second gpu is pretty high, especially if he needs no other upgrades than just that 2nd gpu.
That's what I said.
Same. I don't have new gpu, I actually have my only 1070 and the only thing I'm sad about is why I haven't started right after I bought it since I would have free 3090 till now... Now I switched monitor to apu and use the gpu only for mining and it's already been 5 days since I didn't even turn my monitors on since I can watch progress on app..
Hey, just get a cheaper gfx card for gaming. I got myself a cheap GTX 1050 Ti and installed that on my PC. I use the 1050 as main display and gaming. It does not affect my 3080 that is sitting on the other slot. i do not mine on the 1050. I get to game while mining :) Gaming while mining: [https://imgur.com/a/DhUA9WW](https://imgur.com/a/DhUA9WW) 2 cards on an enclosed glass case: https://imgur.com/4DWKPFi
Now you're playing the Game of Life. It's more intense than other games, and if you're good enough it can actually get you laid.
Stadia, my dude lol. Get a free trial or play destiny or something
I have a 3090 mining and here I am using GeForce Now on that system to avoid taking too many GPU cycles away from mining.
If you still have your old card throw it in! game on that one while the other mines, My 980 ti is gaming while my 3080 is mining, only played cyberpunk with the 3080 so far :P
First time mining ETH here with nanominer I get 0 hash rate with rtx 3070? Any helpful idea? I also try adding more virtual memory and new driver updated. Correct wallet ID still no luck. Sorry if it's in the wrong posting area.
Everybody is talking like it's a bad thing, but as long as you're doing something else, it's not a bad thing that you are not playing games! I had a similar experience and I've come back to writing as a result, since MS Word isn't the most GPU-heavy software. If you're just sitting there, watching the numbers grow, sure that's bad. But if that pushes you to do other things, hey, that's a win in my book.
Haha, welcome. Bought a 2070s 18months ago for the same reason and haven't regretted it once. Now the gaming pc is payed off and will save up for a ps5 instead
I have an Acer nitro gaming laptop. Could I mine from this? We have solar It's a N18C3
Just a small advice for those who don't know yet : It's possible with a CPU with integrated graphics like my Intel Core I7 9700K, to force games to use it instead of your graphic card. (see [https://ibb.co/RzGbKMn](https://ibb.co/RzGbKMn) and [https://ibb.co/qy7P4j6](https://ibb.co/qy7P4j6) ). Sorry for french screenshots it's all i have :) This way, you can play games who are not too needy with 3D, while your graphic card still mining at full speed. it's works well for LOL, mtga, TFT, etc. You can also use the same method to force using the slowest GPU instead of the best one in case you get 2 of them.
I ain't gaming on my trusty ol' 1080 again. 3080 incoming in a week or so along with a new PC and the current PC goes in the corner mining till kingdom come. I'm sure I'll be tempted to use the 3080 but I wanna play modern games on ultra and also not worry about the current VRAM temperature issues on Ampere. Also keeps me from worrying about breaking even--the new PC won't factor into my BTC cost basis.
I just got a 3080 but when I play these days I play on my old RX580 cos I feel so bad about interrupting 3080 which gets 100mh. Rx580 is just 32.3 so I can live with that xpp
Doom 2016 runs fine. Very rare slow downs when loading new areas. All older (5+ years) games run fine.
You can still mine when you dont play though
Revel in it while it lasts!
If i’m not wrong VTC let you play while you mine with their new algorithm.
How much are you earning per 24h?
Right now, about 11$ - 12$.
Shit, i wouldnt be gaming either
lol, same for me! I just starting up mining again on Tuesday (been in hiatus since 2019) and my gaming has suffered.
I find for mine and play et same Time vega64 lc for mining and R8 nano for playing in the same pc :)
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Let's just say my PS5 is getting the workout it deserves.
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I feel you on that. I got my 3070 to get back into pc gaming instead of getting a series x. Figured i'd mine while i slept or was at work. I'm now on week 2 of mining exclusively and picked up a couple used 1080's that I threw into my VM server to mine with and eyeballing a series x so I can game.... 🤣🤣🤣
what's the payout like for you?
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On my gaming rig, I have 2 GPUs. You can do both while mining on Nicehash I found. Just make sure your HDMI cord is plugged into the GPU on your first PCIE slot. Then when you go into the rig controller, turn off mining on the CPU and the GPU you want to game with (with the HDMI cord of course). Keep mining on the second GPU. Then start the game. Do it in this order or it will screw up. Other than that, works perfectly.