kram36

inkyvoxel
Do normal users mine cryptocurrency? I can't imagine it being profitible for a user with only 1 GPU and standard household electricity prices.

Yes gamers mine too. It helps pay for the ridiculous MSRP people have to pay to get a card now days. It will probably take a year to recoup the cost of a 3080 Ti just part time mining, but it helps them. There are also people that do the cure mining thing, they are trying to help find cures for diseases and getting paid for doing it.

brokenlaptop14
thats insane amount of gpus, why are they allowed to get that many?

Xavier Zepherious

kram36

inkyvoxel
Do normal users mine cryptocurrency? I can't imagine it being profitible for a user with only 1 GPU and standard household electricity prices.

Yes gamers mine too. It helps pay for the ridiculous MSRP people have to pay to get a card now days. It will probably take a year to recoup the cost of a 3080 Ti just part time mining, but it helps them. There are also people that do the cure mining thing, they are trying to help find cures for diseases and getting paid for doing it.

 
yes regular gamers mine
 
I pay 14c a kwh  with two 3090's is was making about 1k a month for $100 worth of electricity (and that while i was gaming - i could have made more when there was real good prices)
 
after 3 months a card is paid off - in 6 months both (at least was before the price drop) so even if a card dies (which is under warranty) and wait for a replacement im ahead (you haven't lost anything really yet)
isn't it reasonable that your Boy BOX or gaming rig pays for itself somehow??? 
 
 
even with the current prices three cards earns me 1k a month
 
in reality your computer does not run 24/7 - most households it's a few hrs
so during the hrs you don't use the computer you could mine
 
you know it's actually easier on the parts to run 24/7 - because you don't get line spikes from power up and down
and you don't get the expansion and contraction from heating and cooling (metal fatigue) -ie cold colder joints
 
why do you think business used(and some still do) to keep PC's running all time

mopar22

Xavier Zepherious

kram36

inkyvoxel
Do normal users mine cryptocurrency? I can't imagine it being profitible for a user with only 1 GPU and standard household electricity prices.

Yes gamers mine too. It helps pay for the ridiculous MSRP people have to pay to get a card now days. It will probably take a year to recoup the cost of a 3080 Ti just part time mining, but it helps them. There are also people that do the cure mining thing, they are trying to help find cures for diseases and getting paid for doing it.

 
yes regular gamers mine
 
I pay 14c a kwh  with two 3090's is was making about 1k a month for $100 worth of electricity (and that while i was gaming - i could have made more when there was real good prices)
 
after 3 months a card is paid off - in 6 months both (at least was before the price drop) so even if a card dies (which is under warranty) and wait for a replacement im ahead (you haven't lost anything really yet)
isn't it reasonable that your Boy BOX or gaming rig pays for itself somehow??? 
 
 
even with the current prices three cards earns me 1k a month
 
in reality your computer does not run 24/7 - most households it's a few hrs
so during the hrs you don't use the computer you could mine
 
you know it's actually easier on the parts to run 24/7 - because you don't get line spikes from power up and down
and you don't get the expansion and contraction from heating and cooling (metal fatigue) -ie cold colder joints
 
why do you think business used(and some still do) to keep PC's running all time

What are even some good programs that people use to mine? I looked into it years ago before i had anything close to being able to mine

nbminer.exe -a ethash -o ethproxy+tcp://us2.ethermine.org:4444 -u 0x077cEDe6d11411805F42ea53e17269C3dC2a28A2.gtx1080 --memory-tweak 2 --intensity 100 --fee 1

kram36

ty_ger07
It's not so much the program, but more the specific cryptocurrency you are interested in, and the pool you choose to mine with.  Ethereum has been the popular cryptocurrency to mine with GPUs for quite a while.  Phoenix miner used to be a popular program to use to mine Ethereum, but after its origin was put into question, NBMiner and Excavator have usurped it (I think).  Nicehash has been a popular pool to mine with, but there are other options out there.
Switching pools and switching mining programs is really easy.  You just pick one, try it, and then decide over time if there could be better options.
It seems complicated at first, but it really is so simple, it's crazy.
Like, literally, you can download NBMiner, type this into command prompt, and you are mining.

nbminer.exe -a ethash -o ethproxy+tcp://us2.ethermine.org:4444 -u 0x077cEDe6d11411805F42ea53e17269C3dC2a28A2.gtx1080 --memory-tweak 2 --intensity 100 --fee 1

Curious, what does the --fee 1 command do?