If you are looking for a cheaper card with high hash rate and dont care about consumption I would look into the AMD R9 Fury (original fury not the X). Out of the box it does 450 sols just like a 1070 and you can find them for under $300 if you snoop around enough.

980ti burn too much power to be profitable even at 0.05 cent and heat too much .. A good budget choice could be a 1050ti.

If you are going to do this at least remove your laptop battery so it doesn't explode.

I dont condone this fuckery, $370 for a 980ti??

I got all my 1070's for right around $300! And the 980ti is a major power hog compared to most cards, you are lucky with VERY cheap power but still.....

One other thing, you DO know these are crippled as of DAG 155 for Ethereum right? they hash less than a 1050ti now. I dont like the idea of buying what is realistically a pig of a card thats already crippled in some aspects.

If you are going to buy old power hungry cards you may as well buy $50 Radeon 7850's to mine Cryptonight with. $370 is just WAYYYYY too much for a 980ti. We are talking a 6 month ROI here, and who knows what will happen in the next 6 months, but certainly the next gen of Nvidia cards will drop.

How cheap is cheap power?

If fans are running at 100%, or close to 100%, it won't last long. Laptop fans are typically much smaller than the fans on desktop graphics cards, so in order to achieve similar airflow, they must spin at higher RPMs. This causes additional wear.

Laptops were not meant to be pegged 24/7. Removing it from the case and adding your own fan setup could make it a better plan, but I doubt it's worth it.

In general, if you have a laptop that's recent enough to offer a reasonable hashrate, and you don't mind gradually ruining it by mining, it's better to sell the laptop and put the money towards a real rig, or put it into coins.

So, in the US, 1000/140 = 3?

Congrats I guess.  I think this was a terrible option but good luck, I hope it works out.  I guess there wasn't much to lose and maybe this can act as a proof of concept and self tutorial before wading in deep with $10k+ rigs.

What psu did you get?  Prob doesn't matter much with such a small rig but I'm curious.

Are you physically up and running yet?

Even though these threads pop up more frequently than a bad Herpes flare up, I will say this is probably the most grounded one;  Asking what it will take to make a certain amount, instead of announcing you have a $60,000 bankroll and know nothing about about computers    But I digress.

A few things about this question.  First of all, does this house have a basement or a space to put this gear?  In my bedroom I have a 5 card rig and the heat is insane, noise was also insane until I broke down and bought 2 water coolers for my 1080s.  And this rig maybe makes me $30-$40 a day, just to give you an idea of the scale of economies you will need.  Before starting any venture like this, its good to know where you plan to put this equipment.  As far as electrical goes, I don't think you will need to start fucking around with the circuitry (unless the house is super old) and I definitely wouldn't tell your landlord.  He won't understand what you are talking about and will most likely panic.

2nd, with the GPU card shortage there is no way you will be able to acquire everything at once and hit the ground running.  It will have to start out slowly, which is good, because even if you are well versed in computers, I'm sure you have no experience trying to hook up 8 graphics cards to a single motherboard  And beyond that, it will take some time to learn the tricks do doing this cheaply, like buying an old HP server on ebay for 500 bucks or getting a 1200w server psu for $20.  I started my rig by buying all of the components from newegg and amazon.  I don't regret it because I also am using my rig as a personal computer.  But as I expand, I am now starting to figure out how I can install new equipment into a rack and better organize it.

On the same note as the GPU shortage, do not pay over retail for cards.  Your earnings will flucuate like high tide on a full moon.  All of my currency holdings have been cut in half since 3 weeks ago.  I'm not worried, but if I had been mining with a bunch of $1000 1080ti's my cheeks would be stretched right now.  You need to think of the resell value of anything you buy.  If I sold all of my cards today, I would make a profit, despite having used them for a year.  In 2 months they will be cheap again.  I got into mining at the height of the Ethereum craze.  At the time it was hard to find cards, then a month later there were nothing but articles about people selling their cards after Ether lost half its value.


Now to answer your question about the best way to go about this, there are different schools of thought.  By far your best bang per buck on a card basis would be the 1050ti.  You get about 45 of those running at once and you will make your $2k a month.  Of course as you have probably already thought, running 45 cards requires a lot of overheard with multiple motherboards and computer to monitor.  The equivelant would be about 10 or 11 gtx 1080tis, or around 15 or 16 1080s or 1070ti.   The larger miners favor the gtx 1080ti because they are more dense;  10 cards take up a lot less space than 45!    Your best bet would be to scour the internet and if you see any 1050ti and up at retail or below, buy it.  You are going to have to put this together piece by piece.