what would be the cheapest gpu's (but still acceptable speed) that I could purchase for participating in this puzzle?
please any recommendations
You need to understand that is not the right question.
here is my previous post on this subject:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306983.msg59904434#msg59904434or in summary: "you need 2724 2080ti approximately to do puzzle 64 in one
month with bitcrack. 1362 if you correctly guess which half of the range it is in.
or in other words 1,830,035 optimal 2080ti hours for $24,000. mine is a founder edition and can hit 1,400,000,000 Mk/s with -b 4532 -t 32 -p 584."
running
One 2080ti 24/7 is not really advisable.
running
2724 is not worth $24,000.
a 3070 might be similar to my 2080ti and according to some data I have ~954 3090s would do it in a month.
so to wrap it up
1. you have to first guess a lucky number and hope it's close.
2. get as efficient (modern NVIDIA for cuda) a card as you can
3. stick with it for months
...just for the slim chance of getting it.
some 'attempts' have been made at pooling resources but
stick with it for months still applies