NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards
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Hateyou
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Where do you even start with mining? I’ve thought about looking into it. More curious about the process and setting it up than actually running it all the time and making money.
Tripamang
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I use nicehash because I'm lazy. It has an auto tuning miner and they pay you to rent your hash rate out so it will auto switch to whatever is most profitable. You just sign up for an account, download the miner and you get paid out every few hours with bitcoin.
NiceHash - Leading Cryptocurrency Platform for Mining and Trading
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Crone
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I mean, yea mining maxes your gpu out but if you have appropriate cooling I don’t feel it’s gonna kill your card.
Hateyou
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I fired up nicehash to check it out. Once it starts and does some connections it says I’m making $8 a day. I haven’t tried to do any optimization or anything as I don’t plan on actually doing this, so idk if I could go higher.
Holy shit what a wasteful thing. I’m not even a climate conscious person but this seems like a ridiculously wasteful amount of energy and resources just to decrypt transactions.
Holy shit what a wasteful thing. I’m not even a climate conscious person but this seems like a ridiculously wasteful amount of energy and resources just to decrypt transactions.
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Avatar of Nyx
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Yeah, I feel like if it were something I wanted to do, I'd have needed more cards than what I had at my disposal to offset the higher power bill, especially with warmer weather coming up. It gets fucking nasty humid and hot in Georgia during the summer, that power bill would be disgusting.
Hateyou
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I could set up a dedicated rig for it in my unfinished basement which is pretty cool. It still just seems wasteful. Adding all that power to the electric bill to make $200 a month.
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Tripamang
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If bitcoin doubles in value it's only 5 months!
As someone who was a long term hold until several years ago and would be living a completely different life right now if I continued to hold it's probably best to keep the bitcoins and buy the cards with cash. Money printer go brrr but bitcoins don't.
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Quineloe
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Yes it is, and if we stay the RCP 8.5 course it's not gonna be around much longer
Hateyou
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Yeah this would have been great 10+ years ago when I wasn’t doing too well financially. Now I’m like hell no I’m not wearing my pc out like that lol
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Lenas
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Just sent in my 2060S for the 3070 replacement. When I took it out I realized my case only has 2-slot clearance for the GPU. So I bought a new case. Then I had to buy a new PSU because I didn't notice the different form factor in the case. So while I was at it, might as well buy that AIO I've been wanting...
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