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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Mining into the future
by
xxcsu
on 01/02/2018, 05:31:12 UTC
At roughly $850 per card, a $50,000 investment in GPU rigs would equate to roughly 50x1080 Ti's, including all other components and hardware to run the farm (rough estimate).

1st ... There is a word wide GPU shortage ... I dont think you can buy 1080Ti cards for 850$/cards ... those cards are way over a 1000$ without taxes ... and the limit is one-two card/customer right now , its not going to be easy to get that 50 cards Smiley ... as of today February 1 - 2018

2nd ... you still need racks , pdu's , surge protectors , network switches , wiring , cooling equimpent , framing , if you want to build a rigs with customer grade psu , those psus price are crazy high also , those psus price doubled in the past few months ...  400-1000$...

3rd ... If you building your business from someone else money,  and risk your family future, based on what whattomine.com telling you , you are a idiot ( sorry ) , you going to be one of those members on the forum who is coming back and asking questions like : " WHY MY EARNING IS LESS THAN ALL THOSE ONLINE CALCULATORS TOLD ME ", none of those calculators dealing with difficulty increase  ... there is a great reading for you  HERE

4th ... If its not your money , go for it  Grin


I don't think a 50k investment justifies a move of your family or changing your day job, 50k is like 25 antminers if infrastructure is free, or say, 15-20 GPU rigs depending on the cards involved.  

You can not get 25x  S9 from $50k - as of today February 1 - 2018
Last time Bitmain was selling Antminers it was $2320  / S9 , you still need a psu , and pay for shipping ...
Shipping to USA from China for 20 x APV3++ psu with fedex is around 500-600$ + custom fees if you get any Smiley
Shipping to USA from China for 20 x S9 Antminer with fedex is around 1100-1200$ + custom fees if you get any Smiley
And you have to make sure you have 35KW available Smiley and you can deal with the heat and noise Smiley

So ... 20 x S9 going to cost you $2320x20=46400$ + 1200$ shipping + Psu $105x20=2100$ + shipping 600 Subtotal: 50300$ Smiley

20x S9 13.5TH/s going to give you around 270TH/s...