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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: 8th Alt coin thread. Or what to do now that asics are all over the place.
by
JaredKaragen
on 17/06/2018, 22:15:21 UTC
To be honest here;  I haven't splurged on buying any new video cards yet....     I am still holding out for 'that new model' that we know is being held back from us.
(remember word of a new model that is basically 4 1060 dies crammed together?)
I am waiting for that.



Here is a preview of dual P106 gpu by OhGodAGirl and she mentioned she have a dual P104 card laying around. 55mh/s Eth for Dual p106 at 150-175w, nothing groundbreaking given P102/1080ti can achieve this and GDDR6 cards right round the corner unless it's $400 usd.

So a dual 104 should do 80mh/s or so.

Video: https://youtu.be/A3i3jpJqgoo?t=24m37s

The price point better be worth though.

Knowing how much people are trying to keep GPU value inflation up from 6 months ago;  It's hard for a little guy like me to justify a purchase of them....   And would rather take that risk on the 'latest and greatest' new version....   Knowing historically every new model has always had a major benefit over the previous generation at some point;  when it comes to ROI....   I feel I need to hold out for the new next best thing.


I am considering having an ASIC or two again;  but it needs to fall into the realm of the S3;  ~400W power consumption, and very inexpensive ($200 max purchase price) and easily re-sellable.     A smaller miner like me can easily justify it and find paths to ROI with my power and budget constraints.   When I see things like the D3 hit that range, where I can buy, use sell and buy again like I did with S3's a bit ago....  Winning strategy.