mining is a good way to pay for the card, and if done casually could buy your next GPU so it'll be virtually free.

Chris21010
mining is a good way to pay for the card, and if done casually could buy your next GPU so it'll be virtually free.

That sounds like a win. Is there specific software that can direct my gpu to use it’s free energy for mining?

Xantac
eth+ Sia

I tried to lookup Sia but all of my google hits were for an Aus pop artist. What do you mean?

Well just to pitch in, I set up last night with Excavator miner to mine Zcash when idle. I spent like 4 hours trying to get Ethereum mining correctly but couldn't get it to go above 11MH/s. On Zcash I am averaging 429sol/s according to Nanopool, where as on the cmd window it is showing ~421sol/s. Unfortunately this is my first time mining, but once you get a handle on some of the -flags for the .BATs it is not too difficult. Ethereum mining was  a total failure, and this was with Optimize Compute Performance enabled on NVCP. 
 
During my reading on ETH mining it seemed a lot of people had the same issue as me with Nvidia cards and that the solution was to roll drivers back to 347.something, which means for 980 Ti's you have no option for full performance mining on Windows 10 since that driver doesn't support the 980 Ti.
 
It's not really about making huge money through mining, more just figuring it might help heat my apartment through winter. 

No, I Fold for the Cure and Run BOINC Projects for the Future.

I have 2 1080s that run nicehash when I'm not gaming. They are set at 75% power clocking around 1850 Mhz ~60°C. They generate about $10-$14 a day

I have been mining eth with me 2 1080 ti's since it is worth more than double zcash i think it is better atm.

So Crates
How much are you making with eth?

$7 per day i think.

The 1080 ti earns a lot fewer ETH coins per day though, so your actual profits are normally higher on ZCash - and there are options that earn more than ZCash on the the 1080 ti most of the time.
Nist5 of late has been quite nice for them, they also do well on coins using the lbry, LyraRE2v2, and Skein algorithms (but I think Baikal might have added Skein on their current ASIC model).
 
 

If you HAVE the hardware already, no reason not to earn a few spare $ with it.
 

ZEC -> ETH (Poloniex) or ZEC -> BTC (MANY exchanges), then BTC to Coinbase.
Normal type route for most altcoins.
 
Or just point your equihash miner at the NiceHash equihash pool with your Coinbase deposit address.
 

I've been mining VSX (xevan algo) while i'm not gaming....it's the best i've found that leaves my computer fairly usable for websurfing.  But i'm using a gtx 750 ti....so it's hardly a monster....but it's a quiet little kitten earning me like $0.50 a day.....not bad when that coin goes 1000x price (it's not actually on an exchange yet...so 1000 time zero is zero....i'm there already)....but when it does hit an exchange i hope to retire it and get a 1080 and then mount that 750 on the wall and give it a high five every morning.

 

That is why the vast majority of miners set their power target to 60-80%. That and because it's more power efficient to do so.

Chris21010
That is why the vast majority of miners set their power target to 60-80%. That and because it's more power efficient to do so.

 
I had the V64 since launch but didn't redo this set up till about last week. Only been mining since Thursday and nup...
I still need to tweak this card so hopefully I'll find a the sweet spot.

QuintLeo
Vega is not a good ETH mining choice anyway - it does MUCH better mining Monero (XMR) and other Cryptonight coins.
For perspective, AMD RX 470/570/480/580 cards can get into the 27-30 Mhash range with a BIOS mod to tighten up the memory timings - pulling ballpark 100-120 watts as I recall when undervolted and the core UNDERclocked a little but the memory pushed to the max.
ETH is a VERY memory-intensive coin, and doesn't respond well to high latency like HBM/HBM2 and GDDR5x have - and on most cards it's not picky about core clocks at all as the cores are usually waiting on data a lot of the time anyway.
 
Wattman is junk, always has been, Afterburner is a ton better.
I'm not QUITE inclined to say that NOTHING is a better option than Wattman, but it's close.

Thought V64 does well if you can push the HBM clocks to 1000?
Probably won't mine with this set up at all and just leave it to the 580s for now.

Rei86

Chris21010
That is why the vast majority of miners set their power target to 60-80%. That and because it's more power efficient to do so.

 
I had the V64 since launch but didn't redo this set up till about last week. Only been mining since Thursday and nup...
I still need to tweak this card so hopefully I'll find a the sweet spot.

QuintLeo
Vega is not a good ETH mining choice anyway - it does MUCH better mining Monero (XMR) and other Cryptonight coins.
For perspective, AMD RX 470/570/480/580 cards can get into the 27-30 Mhash range with a BIOS mod to tighten up the memory timings - pulling ballpark 100-120 watts as I recall when undervolted and the core UNDERclocked a little but the memory pushed to the max.
ETH is a VERY memory-intensive coin, and doesn't respond well to high latency like HBM/HBM2 and GDDR5x have - and on most cards it's not picky about core clocks at all as the cores are usually waiting on data a lot of the time anyway.
 
Wattman is junk, always has been, Afterburner is a ton better.
I'm not QUITE inclined to say that NOTHING is a better option than Wattman, but it's close.

Thought V64 does well if you can push the HBM clocks to 1000?
Probably won't mine with this set up at all and just leave it to the 580s for now.

Vega is ok at ETH but is a beast at Cryptonight.  You can get it to the point where you're doing 1800+ H/s and you'll be pulling in a much larger amount of cash with Cryptonight than you would with ETH.  Remember, mine smarter, not harder.

I'm seeing 1940 more or less out of my Vega 56 card. 1800 is actually a bit on the low side, unless you have RAM you can't push past the high 800 Mhz range on clock for some reason.
Sweet spot on my card seems to be at 935 Mhz RAM clock - 940 gets unstable after a while.