Like tens of thousands of other folks who viewed Wills latest video on crypto it got me thinking. I noticed a mention of NiceHash by him and thought of starting there.
In a few minutes, I set up an account and put to work a computer that is not being used during the week. The computer is a Hades Canyon NUC with an i7-8705G CPU running at 3.1 GHz and a Radeon RX Vega M GL GPU with 4 Gb of RAM. The machine has 8Gb of RAM and runs Windows 10.
So far it has been in continuous employ for 36 hours and I have made 0.25 USD. Slightly underwhelming but given my minimal efforts so far and extremely limited understanding I am not completely surprised. IF I am going to pursue this it looks like a purpose-built rig is the way to go.
After more hours of research I want to set $5/day as a goal and build something to accomplish that.
I want to mine, or get paid, in Bitcoin due to a number of reasons.
My current understanding is that the GPU is the main driver for success and likely building up to a multi GPU open frame system is the best with 6 GPU's as a reasonable long-term goal but the GPU's are crazy expensive currently.
Will has a good starting list of components on his video.
That makes me think of building a system with scalability to 6 GPU's but I may start out with 1 GPU if it will generate a reasonable return.
Can anyone with experience say if 1 GPU can make this happen or do you need multiple GPU's to get a $5/day target return?
PS- My preference is not to use inefficient and loud ASIC miners.
In a few minutes, I set up an account and put to work a computer that is not being used during the week. The computer is a Hades Canyon NUC with an i7-8705G CPU running at 3.1 GHz and a Radeon RX Vega M GL GPU with 4 Gb of RAM. The machine has 8Gb of RAM and runs Windows 10.
So far it has been in continuous employ for 36 hours and I have made 0.25 USD. Slightly underwhelming but given my minimal efforts so far and extremely limited understanding I am not completely surprised. IF I am going to pursue this it looks like a purpose-built rig is the way to go.
After more hours of research I want to set $5/day as a goal and build something to accomplish that.
I want to mine, or get paid, in Bitcoin due to a number of reasons.
My current understanding is that the GPU is the main driver for success and likely building up to a multi GPU open frame system is the best with 6 GPU's as a reasonable long-term goal but the GPU's are crazy expensive currently.
Will has a good starting list of components on his video.
That makes me think of building a system with scalability to 6 GPU's but I may start out with 1 GPU if it will generate a reasonable return.
Can anyone with experience say if 1 GPU can make this happen or do you need multiple GPU's to get a $5/day target return?
PS- My preference is not to use inefficient and loud ASIC miners.
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