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Mining For Beginners
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And yeah, I bought an older Dell Precision myself a few weeks ago for €20. It was from 2004 and the BIOS was too old for pci-e mining. The thing was a wreck anyway. Took out the PSU and it turns out it's a server grade 650W platinum PSU. But Dell proprietary so no use as a main ATX PSU. But short the G&B and it's grand as a powerful and efficient additional PSU on a dual PSU mining rig. Have a few GBP8 200W Pico PSUs coming my way soon from China hopefully
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And yeah, I bought an older Dell Precision myself a few weeks ago for €20. It was from 2004 and the BIOS was too old for pci-e mining. The thing was a wreck anyway. Took out the PSU and it turns out it's a server grade 650W platinum PSU. But Dell proprietary so no use as a main ATX PSU. But short the G&B and it's grand as a powerful and efficient additional PSU on a dual PSU mining rig. Have a few GBP8 200W Pico PSUs coming my way soon from China hopefully
Also have a couple of old precisions, one (670) still in use for some legacy apps, the other unused for years (620). The PSUs are big and sit under the main casing, but connectors seem standard. Wouldn't fit into any other case. My 670 already runs a bit hot, so don't really want anything else in the box, might try the GPU in the 620 but have a feeling the BIOS will say no.
If I was starting from scratch, I'd look at a mining specific rig based on something like the new Asus B250 mobo and simple frame rack. This would easily let you start with a couple of GPUs and single PSU and add more later as funds became available. Could be delays in getting the parts but €2k is ample to get a build like this started with two or three GPUs. Probably not a big money spinner, but good fun from a hobby build point of view to get to know the technology. Looking at adverts of late, these rigs also seem to fetch way more than they're worth second hand.0 -
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Prices are all over the place, but the GTX 1050ti gets a decent review for mining and can be got for £156 from Amazon.co.uk. I Picked up a SAPPHIRE Radeon RX270 Nitro 8GB for £217 ex VAT from Amazon a couple of weeks ago but none left at anywhere near that price.
Thanks, just ordered one using the £10 off voucher that's valid just for today, good timing on that
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Thanks, just ordered one using the £10 off voucher that's valid just for today, good timing on that
Cool. Be interested to hear how you get on. Total noob to mining myself, but thinking of building a small rig at some point in the near future when work is a little less hectic. Thinking multi-GPU with a nVidia and AMD mix.0 -
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I'd love to get into but this my time is full already with much less interesting stuff.
Just wondering... if you're mining a particular coin and it doubles in value - does it automatically become twice as lucrative to mine at that point? Or does it become harder to mine or have other factors affect it...
Similarly if a coin drops through the floor I assume it becomes unviable...0 -
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^^ I wouldn't buy a 1050ti, they have a poor hash rate for the money. It's no wonder they're still available
Just wondering... if you're mining a particular coin and it doubles in value - does it automatically become twice as lucrative to mine at that point? Or does it become harder to mine or have other factors affect it...
Good question. The higher the value of the coin, the more interesting it becomes mining it (this depends on the value of other minable coins too), so more people are going to mine it, the difficulty goes up and so the payout goes down. As it stands, the availability of decent graphic cards for reasonable money is poor, so the difficulty is not going up by much. All this can change of course!
Some people change what coin they mine all the time, based on the highest profitability. There are even websites that tell you what to mine, based on your hash rates and your electricity costs 0 -
I'd love to get into but this my time is full already with much less interesting stuff.
Just wondering... if you're mining a particular coin and it doubles in value - does it automatically become twice as lucrative to mine at that point? Or does it become harder to mine or have other factors affect it...
Similarly if a coin drops through the floor I assume it becomes unviable...
Yes and yes. You're mining the current value of the coin.0 -
^^ I wouldn't buy a 1050ti, they have a poor hash rate for the money. It's no wonder they're still available
Problem is, you're caught between a rock and a hard place there. The cards with better rates are either grossly overpriced or unavailable, and the available reasonably priced cards have worse performance. Given I use electricity to heat my office during the winter, I was actually thinking of building a rig out of cheap cards to replace one of the rads 0 -
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