Re: mining gpu: 4 or 8 GB of RAM?

I don't have any MSI's but there are some threads around here expressing discontent with the quality of the MSI rx 4xx cards. Just FYI.

the armor sucks

the red led gamers are fine

as to the op are you in the uk?

I know this may sound off the wall.

but go with the nvidia 1070, 1080 or 1080 ti and mine ZEC coin.

I would even say if they are too pricey get a nvidia 1060 with 6gb ram

this is decent for a low end nvidia

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zotac-NVIDIA-GeForce-GDDR5-Graphics/dp/B01IA9FEOO/ref=sr_1_1?

Zotac NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Mini GDDR5 Graphics Card - Black

this is the next jump up the 1070

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-Nvidia-1070-GDDR5-PCI-E/dp/B01GXZ7Q3Y/ref=sr_1_4?

Gigabyte Nvidia GTX 1070 G1 8GB GDDR5 PCI-E

mine zec with them.

Curious, why have you been so all in on Nvidia and Zec all of a sudden?

Zec has a tiny market cap

http://coinmarketcap.com/

# 12 just under 80 miilion

1   Bitcoin Bitcoin---   $19,726,021,089------   $1211.66---   16,280,162------- BTC-----   $279,562,000
2   Ethereum Ethereum   $4,493,149,901--------   $49.47-----   90,824,282------- ETH-----   $58,390,900
3   Ripple Ripple-----   $1,267,992,282-------   $0.033784   37,532,331,339--- XRP *   $6,844,360
4   Litecoin Litecoin-   $543,990,574---------   $10.73-----   50,691,482------- LTC   $101,200,000
5   Dash Dash--------   $536,637,315---------   $74.14------   7,238,084-------- DASH   $12,362,600
6   Monero Monero--   $296,715,962---------   $20.73-----   14,313,568------- XMR---   $6,275,570
7   NEM NEM--------   $245,396,700---------   $0.027266--   8,999,999,999---- XEM *   $1,687,750
8   Ethereum Classic--   $240,451,683---------   $2.65-------   90,678,313-------- ETC   $3,881,150
9   Augur Augur-------   $133,762,200---------   $12.16-----   11,000,000-------- REP *   $1,549,600
10   PIVX PIVX---------   $100,231,002---------   $1.89------   53,036,205-------- PIVX *   $1,434,310
11   MaidSafeCoin-----    $94,788,460-----------   $0.209453   452,552,412------- MAID *   $1,142,330
12   Zcash Zcash-----   $79,162,833-----------   $71.16-----   1,112,419---------- ZEC   $3,159,980
13

Only 80 million

Nvidia has a market cap over 59 billion

https://ycharts.com/companies/NVDA/market_cap

AMD has a market cap of over 12 billion

https://ycharts.com/companies/AMD/market_cap

Nvidia is clearly on-top at the game of gpu building and making profit.

Until Zec was created last year AMD was a clear winner in one area over Nvidia and that was mining coins.

I believe (no hard proof) that Zec was built for Nvidia so they could beat amd in some not all of the mining game.

Nvidia 1060 6gb vs Amd rx 480 8gb

the Nvidia hashes higher 320h vs 300h
the Nvidia uses less power
they each cost about 240 usd

So to me mining Zec using Nvidia is the way to go.

Note I never go all in

nvidia   1161.00 Sol/s   0.00 Sol/s (0.00%)   1024.0   1182
nvidia2   1248.00 Sol/s   0.00 Sol/s (0.00%)   512.0   637
nvidia3   798.00 Sol/s   0.00 Sol/s (0.00%)   256.0   788

   below are all rx 480 8gb rigs

panda1   928.00 Sol/s   29.00 Sol/s (3.03%)   512.0   417
panda1   653.00 Sol/s   0.00 Sol/s (0.00%)   256.0   628
panda1   711.00 Sol/s   0.00 Sol/s (0.00%)   256.0   587
panda1   609.00 Sol/s   0.00 Sol/s (0.00%)   256.0   589
panda1   783.00 Sol/s   0.00 Sol/s (0.00%)   512.0   590

I mine at nice hash
i have about 4000 h in nvidia cards.
i have about 4000 h in amd cards.

the op really wants a 1 card miner as I read his post.

So I think he should do nvidia and mine zec. he could start with the 1060 and he could use nicehash to convert to btc instantly he card would pay off 100% in arounf 110 days.
he could sell it here for say 125 usd which would be 250 in roi with coin in 110 days the sale for 110 makes for a 125 usd profit.
I think no other card makes sense for him.