Rule of thumb a 480 uses about the same amount of wattage as a 1070 (of course their compute power is completely different). The exception to this is of course Equihash, which is the weird ass algo for Nvidia.


And yes, everyone can 'prospect' when it comes to cryptos. It's a silly game of chance. Not all coins go up, matter of a fact most don't. There are more buried and dead coins then I can shake a stick at, even coins that have been around for awhile devalue extensively and never go back up... Library for instance.

Investing is an entirely different ball game. That is definitely where the money is to be made, but it isn't made by a bunch of miners taking guesses randomly at random coins in a BCT thread. Bag holding is a good way to get burned, hard.