Quote from: sushimi123 on June 14, 2017, 04:35:56 AM

Quote from: Vann on June 14, 2017, 03:23:17 AM

Quote from: sushimi123 on June 14, 2017, 03:06:20 AM

Quote from: Vann on June 14, 2017, 12:59:31 AM

Nvidia GTX 1060 3GB or 6GB are about your best option out of what is more readily available to put together a rig ASAP with all the same cards, at a resonable cost. BBT posted a video of the 6 card rig he built with the PNY GeForce GTX 1060 3GB XLR8 OC Edition

165+ GPU
1000+ MEM
~23.5mh ETH and ~268 SOL/s ZEC each @ ~60W per card.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uhSfOpvHks&feature=youtu.be&t=7295

Dag won't reach 3GB until early next year, so you should be good until then. The only problem with the 3GB cards you won't be able to dual mine effectivly.

Hey ive been in bitcoin for a while but honestly im pretty new to altcoin mining, could you explain what you said about the dag reaching 3gb, also dual mining. Should I wait for the dedicated miner card that nvidia is coming out with very soon?

The mining cards that Nvidia will be realsing will be based on the 1060 from what I have read. Mainly just without a video output. I think performance will be similar, maybe ~10% - 20% better and probably cheaper since they only have a 3 month warranty. The Dag is the dataset needed to be stored in memory for the POW mining algorithm used by Ethereum. It grows in size by roughly 0.73x per year. Current size is ~2.1GB and once it exceeds the VRAM on the card, it can no longer proceses the transactions required for mining. Dual mining is a feature where you can mine two diffrent POW algorithms at the same time, therefore incressing the efficiency of mining.

Thank you! does the difficulty increase as more miners/higher hashrates come in similar to bitcoin? Wow ive never heard of dual mining, so you could get almost double your profit, as long as the altcoin has similar profits? Does it run slower or can this cause overheating on your hardware?

Yes, difficulty increases the more miners mine that coin. No, you can't get double profits but you can get a bit extra. It will cover the power cost and then some (depending on GPU and power costs) but you won't get close to double.

Check out Claymore's ETH miner, that's the only dual miner available and only supports a few select coins.