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tential said:
How long til it pays back your 1080ti?
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No one can tell you that with certainty. It could be as few as four months discounting the power and cooling costs if the current crypto craze holds, or it could never pay for itself if everything crashes in price, as it has before.
 
I am seriously considering taking the 390s out of my desktop machine and replacing them with a 1080Ti. I figure at worst it should pay for the loss I'd take when Volta hits.
 
IEC said:
No one can tell you that with certainty. It could be as few as four months discounting the power and cooling costs if the current crypto craze holds, or it could never pay for itself if everything crashes in price, as it has before.
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Ya of course I understand that. I'm just getting an idea of how crazy it is to highend mine. I don't even care if I never get my cards cost back. Even getting 30% off a top end gpu like a 1080ti is more than enough to make me feel great about getting a top end gpu chip.

My new ssd just came in the mail so I have enough physical space to mine and still hold games on my gpu (mining was taking up enough gpu space equivalent to s game or more depending on the era of game you're talking about).

I been waiting to mine for awhile now since I don't want to use my 290 and prefer to use a more efficient chip.

I'm excited ethereum is still profitable to mine I didn't understand it would last this long. It sounded like this was drying up awhile ago.

MrTeal said:
I am seriously considering taking the 390s out of my desktop machine and replacing them with a 1080Ti. I figure at worst it should pay for the loss I'd take when Volta hits.
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Same feeling except Vega is just so close and I know it's a better choice for me since freesync and crossfire.

If you don't have a tie in to buy Vega like I do, get it now for the mining bonus.

How much usd would a 1080ti generate at current rates and prices over the next 2 months?

I probably should have been using a 1080ti as a stopgap/mining card since it came out lol.
 
tential said:
Ya of course I understand that. I'm just getting an idea of how crazy it is to highend mine. I don't even care if I never get my cards cost back. Even getting 30% off a top end gpu like a 1080ti is more than enough to make me feel great about getting a top end gpu chip.

My new ssd just came in the mail so I have enough physical space to mine and still hold games on my gpu (mining was taking up enough gpu space equivalent to s game or more depending on the era of game you're talking about).

I been waiting to mine for awhile now since I don't want to use my 290 and prefer to use a more efficient chip.

I'm excited ethereum is still profitable to mine I didn't understand it would last this long. It sounded like this was drying up awhile ago.
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It was reaching breakeven awhile ago. Then this happened.
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tential said:
Ya of course I understand that. I'm just getting an idea of how crazy it is to highend mine. I don't even care if I never get my cards cost back. Even getting 30% off a top end gpu like a 1080ti is more than enough to make me feel great about getting a top end gpu chip.
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That's how I convinced myself to spring for 1080 last year and a 1080 Ti when the first non-blowers showed up.

How much usd would a 1080ti generate at current rates and prices over the next 2 months?
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It looks like $6 in profit is possible today with the right coins.
 
Been able to sell some 480s and pick up 1070s at little or no cost. Why are people paying 300+ for Polaris cards? Well, other than them being oos.
 
Bigbadwu said:
Been able to sell some 480s and pick up 1070s at little or no cost. Why are people paying 300+ for Polaris cards? Well, other than them being oos.
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Most people are still under the assumption that the NVIDIA cards don't mine well. If I had a choice between a $300 580 and a $350 1070 I'd go the 1070 any day of the week. Better resale value, stronger gaming card, more efficient at mining and pulls slightly more per card.

It's really too bad that AMD has had their head up their rear ends for the past six years in regards to mining. It's a big money maker for them and for the most part they have ignored the market. I'm sure they could easily crank out some custom designs geared towards mining. It's mind blowing they allowed the ASICS with BTC to literally steal billions from them.
 
AMD shouldn't sell video cards. They should hoard them themselves and just mine their own crypto. Kinda late for them to start now, but whatever.
 
AMD have made money, but actually lost market share because of mining. They couldn't get products to market properly before miners bought them by pallet full. It's caused them nothing but big headaches, especially from the 290 onwards. Not too many economics cases for having to deal with selling out of inventory at full expected value, yet continue to lose market share. Which has been the case for AMD gpus & mining. They should've done what Asrock did and brought specific products for it, but the cost versus reward probably never made it worth it since it comes in waves.
 
IEC said:
And apparently they even had a demo system set up:
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Need... details. Doesn't look fully setup.
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it was running windows and the amd drivers currently dont support over 8 cards in windows. there were 13 cards with only 8 hooked up. kinda like they were hoping for a driver patch/update to come while the event was still running and hook the other 5 cards up. or maybe run *nix and get the full 13 running that way.

supposedly they are working with amd to have > windows 8 gpu limit fixed.
 
With difficulty going insane, is this the beginning of the ice age? Thoughts on a hard fork to remove the ice age while POS is being created? I know it's been talked about, just not sure if there has been any new developments.

Also, what are you guys going to start mining after ETH inevitably fizzles out for mining?
 
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