Hello, so im a mining newbie, and i know its not really the best time to get into mining right now with how crazy hardware prices are, but I am a fan of pc building and decided to get into it anyway. When ordering the parts for my first rig, I decided to go with 5 GTX 1050 2GB cards, scraping the bottom for viable mining cards I know... but they get a decent hashrate for the price. I bought these because every decent graphics card is in the stratosphere as far as pricing goes and I dont want to pay these ridiculous prices. However I just decided to get a 6th card to fill up my 6 gpu mobo, and I stumbled upon the 980ti, and while these cards are still overpriced atm, they are much cheaper than pascal cards and it looks to perform well. I watched a youtube vid and a guy was getting 420 sol/s on zcash with a 980ti... thats the same as a 1070 would hash and not too much lower than my 1080 in my gaming rig (purchased well before the gpu shortage) And heres the thing... I just picked up a used 980ti on ebay for 370 dollars. Compare that to the 1070 which gets almost exactly the same hashrate and is about double the price... Im now heavily considering picking up 5 more 980tis to replace the 1050s in my rig. I guess the main point of this post is the 980ti is an amazing value right now.... and I know what youre gonna say... it is less power efficient than pascal. Good thing I have very cheap power so thats hardly a factor haha.