Quote from: ambien22 on December 02, 2017, 10:05:55 PM

Hello Bitcointalk!

After watching countless YouTube videos, hundreds of google searches and browsing the forums I'm getting closer and closer to purchasing my first mining rig. I'm leaning towards NVIDIA cards but could be swayed to AMD as I am still new. I'm currently mining with nicehash with a GTX970 and able to still make profits to keep the rig running. However I want to invest in a bigger standalone rig and venture into using claymore and other custom mining software.

The two major things I am hoping to get out of my rig is:

Return on Investment
Resale Value

I'm unsure what NVIDIA cards currently have the best ROI and it appears most agree that the 1080TI family is going to provide the best re-sale value. I'm really not crazy about making profits but want to get into this as a hobby and if profits come with that I am fine. If I lose money thats fine. Just looking for some advice from the community to get me started.

I'd say my ceiling spending is about $3,000 USD; however I'd like to keep it around $2,000 USD.

Thanks ahead of time for any responses!

Agree with DannyH here, it really depends. If you pick a good coin to mine you can ROI very quickly. My most recent build (6x NVIDIA 1070) ROIed after 40 days of mining Zencash due to a large spike (+500%).

As for what cards to get, NVIDIA cards are still the king for gaming IMO. Also, I prefer Equihash coins to CryptoNight/Ethash coins, which NVIDIA cards are much better at mining. However, I do have a couple of AMD Vega 56s mining Electroneum.