First got into GPU mining back at the BTC / LTC switch over point. Started getting back into it late last year when I found out that ETH was profitable to mine again. Once ETH started shooting up I snapped up cheap R9 290's and currently have 17 GPU's hashing away. I grossly underestimated the amount of heat the R9 290's would throw off, I used to mine on 7950's back in the day but the 290's are something else when it comes to heat. This has made my home office hotter than hell and my wife is giving me serious grief about it.
Now, here's my dilemma; should I go all in and hire a small unit/office to mine in, or should I just sell my cards? Prices have gone up so I'd probably make a small profit on them. My feeling is that with the difficulty ramping up and price volatility it'd be better to sell up now rather than spend more on setting up a new place to mine in.
Find a place that you can rent cheaply and get some air blowing direct onto your cards. ETH isn't the only thing worth mining right now. ZCash and Sia are also viable. If you sell your cards, thats short term income, if you keep them and invest in keeping it going, thats long term income.
Xavier Lewis
I'll bump. Good luck. Veeky Forums is about as useful at answering questions as any other board is so don't expect a lot.
Tyler Wood
idk, but here's a bump
Julian Cook
Thank you for the replies. Haha, I'm not expecting too much from Veeky Forums, but you're the only people who might understand my GPU dilemma.
All cards at max hash do around 350 hash, currently earning around an ETH a week. So I think if I can find somewhere cheap enough with power and ethernet it could be viable.
Leo Garcia
Keep the cards sell the wife ! How much do you want per card though ?
Jonathan Howard
I doubt I'd get very much for her, milage is very high and I've not maintened her as well as I should.
I got the cards for £150 each and they're now selling for around £200 each.
Isaiah Torres
Get a new place to put your miners, if you still wanna sell them mail me at [email protected] I am interested
Elijah Torres
>Build a shed >Make it really shitty looking like you are the poorest man that cant even afford a shovel >Insert cards >install AC >Forget about it.
Pro tier >Sell the land the shed sits on to a third party so your whore wife cant get it after the inevitable divorce. >Add a flat over your mining operation to live in so you can make your exwife and her boyfriend, Tyrone, uncomfortable. >Install a drive way and part your Lambo out front so your wife kills her self after Tyrone leaves her because she got knocked up with his nigger babies. >Buy house back at auction for half what you payed for it >Knock it down and build a garage to hold all your Lambos.
Cameron Adams
I want you as my life coach.
Jason Wright
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Christian Gutierrez
I have looked, but no joy yet. I live in the south of England, pricey and packed to the brim with people who don't understand the joy's of GPU's.
Your email is saved, I'm feeling like, realistically, I'm going to have to part with them.
Alas, we live in a flat, no land to call my own. I trust you work as a high preformence consultant of some kind?
I know how to mine, and I love doing it... I just wish I were as skilled at finding somewhere to do it.
Pictured is the ETH network hash rate, as you can see it's followed the price. If the hash rate continues to climb but price does not then earnings will seriously suffer, I'm already earning less than I did a month ago.
Nathaniel Perez
I have a single RX 480.
Is it worth mining ETH classic?
Colton Sullivan
The Rx 480 is a real beauty when it comes to mining, high hash rate, low power.
Cool, thanks user. I decided to mine ZEC since I finally learned how to properly make a .bat file. One last stupid(?) question: In the settings where you put your wallet as the username or whatever, will that automatically return my 'gains' to my actual wallet then?
Blake Ortiz
you're literally retarded if you know about it but don't mine. Energy is horrendously expensive in Germany, and it's STILL profitable by a large margin. The real question is how you're going to file your taxes and if you should register a business and related lodgings for it.
Wyatt Gonzalez
you should go around holding motivational seminars
Sebastian Green
Put this number in the username and it will send the ZEC to your wallet.
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Hudson Stewart
Right, been doing that. Just checking. Thank you for being the only helpful person on Veeky Forums, user.
Evan Nguyen
thanks user, you saved my gains this day
Bentley Taylor
The question is do you think that GPU mining will remain profitable over the coming months?
Brody Nelson
if that is your question you should sack your cards right now before everyone jumps on this idea. You may be able to rebuy them in 2 months for less. Will the rebuy be better than what you would mine in the meantime? who knows.
Parker Cook
That is the diliemma I'm facing. My feeling is that every GPU avalible is going to be put to work mining soon. Hashrates of anything worth mining are going to rocket, they already are. I could sell all my grear and make 25% profit. Or I could find somewhere cheap and keep mining.
I do like the idea of picking up cheap 290's or Rx 480's though.
Jason Sanchez
You should probably dump anything that excels at mining etherium ahead of the POS switch.
Aiden Cruz
This is a very good point. And ecompasses the entire R9 range. I don't thnk they're anywhere near as good with other coins, power hungry too.
