Crypto Currency Mining & Graphics Cards

[smeezekitty]

Yes litecoin can be mined with NVidia cards although not as efficiently as with AMD cards. (look up cudaminer)
Like I said before the maxwell cards may have better compute performance

 

[RussK1]

You can mine litecoin with NVidia cards but with less performance than AMD cards. But NVidia Maxwell may change that.
Bitcoin cannot be effectively mined without an ASIC

Actually bitcoin is about $500 per coin right now

oh dang, the video I watched said that it was 82 a coin "at the time" so it must've been an older video, my mistake and thanks for correcting it

I have a GTX 760, isn't that a maxwell? Will maxwell be able to mine bitcoin?

My brother just bought 2 Asus R7 265's, they seem to be great cards they were only $169.99 and have 2gb vram and a 256-bit interface. There's a 2 per customer limit cause all the crypto-miners have been buying them up. Sapphire makes one as well for $149.99. Just letting everybody know as this card will probably be sold out by the end of the day.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121868

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aj3vcsuY-JFNdHR4ZUN5alozQUNvU1pyd2NGeTNicGc&usp=sharing#gid=0

Vertcoin is where it's at.

A good calculator - http://www.coinwarz.com/miningprofitability/litecoin

Can I use nvidia and AMD for vertcoin?

Yes litecoin can be mined with NVidia cards although not as efficiently as with AMD cards. (look up cudaminer)
Like I said before the maxwell cards may have better compute performance

You got it wrong... nVidia cards are MORE efficient. nVidia cards have dominated performance per watt since the release of Kepler. You lose a little hashrate but make up for it in efficiency...

So there you have it, NVIDIA dominates our GPU Power Consumption Showdown - in a very, very big way.

Read more at http://www.tweaktown.com/tweakipedia/39/gtx-780-sli-vs-r9-290x-cf-power-consumption-showdown/index.html

http://www.tweaktown.com/tweakipedia/39/gtx-780-sli-vs-r9-290x-cf-power-consumption-showdown/index.html

 

[smeezekitty]

No you lose a lot of hash rate because the gimped compute performance. It may be more power efficient but the card cost versus hash rate is very poor.

Maxwell (750/750ti) seems to change that

Those are gaming graphs not mining graphs

 

[RussK1]

No you lose a lot of hash rate because the gimped compute performance. It may be more power efficient but the card cost versus hash rate is very poor.

Maxwell (750/750ti) seems to change that

Those are gaming graphs not mining graphs

If the hashrate is "poor" what's the hashrate on a GTX 780? I want you to tell me and everyone else so I can prove you have no idea what your talking about.

Very perceptive, and yes those are "gaming" power consumption numbers (does it really matter?). Do you think power draw would be different mining because you are implying that it would? Full load is full load and power draw is power draw no matter how you slice and dice it.

I pull an average hashrate of 1300kH/s under 500w (650kH/s Vert). Take a guess as to what I'm using?

Josh pulls more than I with similar hardware although his clocks are probably higher. Onus even said that nVidia cards tend to be better scrypt miners. And this is on efficiency alone.

Here's the pudding:

if you DO NOT pay for electricity then use a Radeon card.

if you DO pay for electricity then use an nVidia card.

**Note I have another machine with 2x 7870's mining and not only does my "nVidia" machine pull much better numbers (it better it's more expensive) but consumes about the same power (unless Kill-A-Watt is lying).

 

[smeezekitty]

All you need to know about hash rates: https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison

The numbers you have posted seem outright impossible

 

[RussK1]

1300 seems improbable considering the raw data shows most getting 1/2 that. can it do that 24/7 365 ?

Times have changed.

A quick screeny, but if you want to see Vert numbers that's fine too. I mine when I'm not gaming or doing video stuff which quite a lot esp. over night.

 

[RussK1]

Oh boy.

Look at my hardware profile.

1300kH/s @ 500w. ----> that's the point.

 

[coolman1610]

The money in mining does'nt come from actually mining, the money is in selling the systems to mine.
mining Is a scam.

 

[mehere2]

I'm interested in the results of the GTX 750Ti. I believe the low power usage will make these the ideal card to use for mining.

yes GTX 750Ti by gigabyte oc the best card of all. hash/watt I have 3 mining now just with cuda miner at 265 kh each. thats 800 kh for 3 cards at 60 watts each. With this code. cudaminer.exe -l T5x24 -C 1 -i 0 -o stratum+tcp://pool1.us.multipool.us:7777 -u yourname -p x -d 0,1,2 It could be push to about 900 kh but i didnt get to it yet.

 

[mehere2]

No doubt the 750ti has the best watt/hash rate but not the best cost/hash or slot/hash rate.

what card would you say is the best cost/hash? thank you

 

[mehere2]

I'm interested in the results of the GTX 750Ti. I believe the low power usage will make these the ideal card to use for mining.

r9 270= 430-450k/hs for 169. on sale
r9-270x= 450-480 k/hs for 189. on sale
r9 280x= 730-780 k/hs for 289 on sale
hd 7850 = 330-400 k.hs for 139. on sale

My rule of thumb is 100. dollars per 300 k/hs

evga 750ti oc 60 watts with extra oc 320k/h one can't beet it thats 960 k/h for 3 at 180 watts

 

[smeezekitty]

Twice the wattage is significant unless your elec is cheap or free. (its pretty cheap here, but some places its very expensive)

 

[James Mason]

Hey guys, I'm curious on your opinions about how good/safe this single card mining setup is. my GPU has been holding steady at 57C, so for a "use my gaming pc to mine while i'm at work" how's it holding up?

 

[James Mason]

After doing the math on the pool I was in, turns out it would take me 900+ days to earn 0.01 bitcoins -_-

So much for that idea...

 

[smeezekitty]

You can't mine bitcoins with GPUs effectively anymore. Try litecoins

 

[GetOwnedGaming]

I'm interested in the results of the GTX 750Ti. I believe the low power usage will make these the ideal card to use for mining.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-750-ti-review,3750-17.html

Should have read the 750ti review, Tom's did a LTC mine with it.

246 kh/s

Gigabyte gtx 750 ti
Forbes reported 284 kH/s with a mild overclock. The question is which 750tis to buy?

 

[cst1992]

Is mining down lately? I heard someone mention in the threads, and also that used AMD chips are getting on the market for cheap.

 

[James Mason]

Well the US government decided they could tax bitcoins, so it's possible everybody is abandoning ship because most of the proponents of bitcoins are all radical anti-government types.

 

[cst1992]

But people are mining other currencies too, right?
And bitcoins are anyway unminable by most now that they're so "hard"(computationally) to mine.

 

[James Mason]

But people are mining other currencies too, right?
And bitcoins are anyway unminable by most now that they're so "hard"(computationally) to mine.

I think the government will do it for all the other currencies as well.

At least for any where the profit is great enough.

 

[cst1992]

I guess that's economics.
Milk the common man wherever possible(isn't that how Bill Gates got rich?).

As a gamer, I'm pleased.
I'm also sorry for the guy who just bought his newest 100 cards, though...

 

[Onus]

It's not traceable though. The parasites can't tax what they can't find.

 

[cst1992]

That makes it black money, then...

 

[Onus]

"Black" money? Hmmm, this might get into a whole "legal vs. moral" debate, which the rules really don't permit, and would likely be a better topic for a different kind of site altogether. People need to think for themselves, and accept full responsibility for the consequences of their actions. That's probably the best we can do.

 

[cst1992]

I apologize. The 'can't find' thing automatically triggered my response. You know, it's one of the biggest problems in our country, corruption and black money(I'm Indian, BTW).
Of course, you're free to delete it if you have to.(But if it's against the rules, I don't have a say in it anyway).