You can mine ETH easily. It gives you stable profit. On another hand - you can spend your time to search for higher profit with different shitcoins. Some of them are enough powerful but it continue to be a shitcoin. And in any moment your profit can become zero.

The reality is:
2159 Shares with lolMiner vs 2092 with PhoenixMiner. Difference 3% between numbers of shares, 3 %more money with lolMiner, we are payed by shares in the pool not for the Mhs...
 
I know we all like to see lot of Mhs but the reality is other... Also the Watts are more in PhoenixMiner compare to lolMiner too but that is another point, to talk about.

Claymore and Phoenix are know to "inflate" their hashrate. Also with Claymore you will not be able to mine very soon ETH, and now you are not able to mine ETC for example.

At the end you should try to see Shares at the pool... you are payed for Shares at the pool always. With Phoenix is true that you will see a higher hashrate at the client, but this is not the real hashrate. You should check the shares you send to the pool. When you make this test, you will see that the shares are lower with PhoenixMiner. Why?.

1- Highrate is nearly 3 inflated with Phoenixminer
2- DevFee, with Phoeneix you are loosing lot more time in the DevFee, because he generated another time the DAG. In a 1070 that is nearly 10s, each time he makes the Fee + Fee + Regenerate new DAG to continue mining.

At the end this is a high time less mining. So Shares at the pool are lower at the end with Claymore or PhoenixMiner

pretty much matches my advice.

do not overpay more than 10% on a card poem price.

a 400 usd 3060ti is  worth no more than 440-460 usd

a 769 usd 3080ti is worth no more than 850-860 usd

Even domt try to mine this coin. With mining ETH you`ll get some money, and mining different "pegascoins" you`ll get nothing except waste of time. It worked in 2017, nowadays unknown coins remains unknown.

It depends until when the bullrun will last, some say will end this year, some say it will go until the end of 2022. You need to understand that if it goes all the way to 2022 then you will have one more year of overpriced gpus everywhere, eth price hitting 5000 usd plus, that will make people bribe factories in china, overpaying by 5x everything like it happened in the end of 2017. The crash eth had in the beginning of 2018 was beautiful, that made 90% of those $800 rx 580 gpus worthless which later on, were sold for $99 or less and there were no people buying it. See my point, it all depends on the market, maybe nvidia and amd is helping to pump cryptocoins but there is a long way to go yet because mining rewards is not good at all, people here saying mining rewards are good then they have no idea what was in the end of 2017 or 2013, 3 usd per 3080 is very low to what we have seen in the end of 2017 which was around 25 usd per card, eth price needs to increase at least 10 times to be comparable to what we had in the end of 2017.

ETH price would have to increase a lot, first it has to go to 0.15 x btc at least, which would be 5x what is right now then it would have to at least drop 50% of the network difficulty right now. I would not count on either, eth 2 just launched and to get to 0.15 x btc it might happen in 2 to 3 years, I dont expect it right now, second too many hidden 8gb asics on eth network, farms in china are ready to add a lot when 4gb gpus and asics are done this December, so forget thinking difficulty will remain lower after December this year than what it is now. Even if a crash happens in the end of this year, eth 2 will bring the hype every year and with hype comes price increase, we might have a bullrun for the next 4 years, a different bullrun, sideways a lot and price increase every quarter or so during those 4 years. Probably eth might never crash like it happened in 2018, is too early to tell. Place your bets trolls hehe