Old Gaming CPU - Turned altcoin miner??? Specs included.

[markuber01]

Trying to dip my foot in slowly before building an open air rig, my current laptop has been earning me 3 - 5 per day mining alt coins through nicehash (I know they got hacked, but I'm just testing anyhow), I have an Nvidia 1070m. Plan is hopefully outfit the older gaming cpu with 3 new GPU's to start learning over next couple weeks before going for a full linux open air rig likely using simpleminer as the OS. I haven't been following as well as I should have and have obvioiusly missed many upgrade rounds on this old CPU. I'm just not sure if this could handle 3 1080 ti's haha, or if I should go for 1070 ti's or some combo there in. I know 3 1080 ti's I'd likely just upgrade to an EVGA 1600 (so I could port that to my mining rig). Would love to know if I can find some way to make that work, because then just 3 more 1080 Ti's and I can get the next rig started, use this old fart as my test bench potentially. I am guessing however there may be a problem with the MoBo doing too well with these since it can't utilize DDR4 memory which from my research would help both 1070 ti and 1080 ti's.

My rig:

CPU: amd phenom ii x6 black edition 1100t

Mobo: ASUS ROG Crosshair V Formula Z

GPU: (WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND) (current is AMD 6870 1GB lol!)

PSU: 800W Gold Cooler Master Silent Pro

Case: Coolermaster Haf X

RAM: G. Skill 1600 2x4 and corsair ram 8gb ddr3 (2x4gb) 1600mhz

Hard Drive: 240GB Samsung Pro and a bunch others.

OS: Windows 7 (guessing I'll need to upgrade to 10)

Let me know if there's anything else important, I'm guessing not, the CPU is water cooled (recirculating Corsair h100?) but that doesn't matter unless it pops since CPU wont be doing squat. Ambient pretty stable all year round at about 20 - 22 C. If I could run the 1080 ti's but suboptimally due to lack of DDR4 access then maybe I could start with that until I'm comfy enough to build the next 6xGPU or 8xGPU rig.

 

[ragnar-gd]

Most money you earn will drain away for your power-bill, as both CPU and chipset burn power on idle and on load.
This baby cries for an AMD FX 8350, and with that, and a (used) GTX970, or 1050 ti, you can still expect to game at full HD.
With that PSU of yours, using this platform for mining will be a tight fit even with two cards like the GTX 1070.
In short: Don't.
If you have the money for buying multiple GTX 1070 or better *now*, you should have enough to invest in a more power-efficient platform, and make sure your PSU carries the show...