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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Just inherited 100 RX 470 8GB cards and may have access to free electricity.
by
ronnieb
on 10/01/2024, 15:53:30 UTC
Thanks everyone for the replies.
It looks like DNX is the best one to mine a the moment. Spent the week/weekend setting up the cards and have 90 online as of right now, the last 10 seem to be duds or non functional. lets see where this goes.
10 percent of non-working video cards is still normal. Check the fuses on these video cards, but just don't test them on good mining motherboards to avoid blowing them. Just first watch the video on YouTube on how to do it correctly. Perhaps you can repair a couple more video cards.
I have it reduced down to 5 cards being duds due to the GPU's pcie bus being burnt to a crisp. I have purchased 10 more BC-160 cards from aliexpress for around 130 USD each to replace the broken cards and theyre running great.
Need more video cards.  Smiley LOL
The Kawpow algorithm will be good for AMD video cards for a long time. On Nvidia video cards it is not always profitable.
AMD BC-160 are more reliable due to turbines instead of coolers. But cheap video cards also take up a lot of space, but the payback of $130 in 9 months is good.
Kawpow+ AI bases coins seem to be the winning formula right now lol.

Since electricity is free for now, it seems like stronger older RNDA cards like RX 5700 or BC 160 seem to be a great cheap option compared to stronger Nvidia cards.