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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: When GPU mining started for Bitcoin
by
ccplz
on 24/01/2024, 08:41:43 UTC
I never mined bitcoin with gpus but I mined Litecoin / dogecoin which was scrypt algo and it was very power hungry.

Back then psus were expensive and capacity wasn’t as high as today. The best bang for the buck was a 750Watt PSU. So I had a rig which basically only had 2 Gpus inside it and it was pulling 700 watts. So pretty much at capacity.

With ETH mining, I think with the same Psu I was able to mine with 4 gpus. Crazy how much power they used.

Litecoin mining with 280x/290 was a blast. I had my 290s flashed to 390 firmware which "unlocked" them and increased the hashrate. I think the wattage was above 200w per card and you had free house heating from the rig. Those cards were power hungry AS FUCK. Good times