Inquiry on Desktop PC based Cryptocurrency Mining Rig

[LordZhen]

Gamay ra gyud diay ang value sa LTC. So using Gridseed is better mas dako siya og hashrate rather than using GPU, then the price itself is half as the GPU.

So to compare:

GTX 750 Ti 250Kh/s @ 90W = 150$
Gridseed 350 Kh/s @ 10W = 100$

Mas nindot gyud ang Gridseed, less power consumption 1 GPU that's gonna be 9 Gridseeds already. Mas dako pa ang hasrate Then it's cheaper than 750 Ti.

There is also a Gridseed G-Blade consuming only 100W and has a 5.2mh/s - 6.0mh/s and hashrate is great! that's gonna be 24x faster than the 750Ti but they are both the same power consumption.

Gridseed USB Mini Bitcoin&Litecoin Miner

My question, why is it most cryptocurrency miners today are using GPU's rather than using GRIDSEED w/c is a big advantage right?

if asics are out there, the faster the difficulty rises, infact 10 gridseed isnt good enough anymore, lets say below average. Like i said, mining isnt about the income, before you think about income, think about how much you can invest then expand from there, na makaya ba sa imu gi invest na maka income or you will end up negative. To give you an example, last january when price of BTC was like 900-1k usd, the coin mining was on a hype, daghan nag sulod, like 2 gpus lang sa para maka income but as months goes by, specially mid feb then mid march, daghan na ty, kay they are getting negatives and wala pa sila nka roi. What i am saying is not part of discouraging you but giving you a broad daylight experience on my adventures sa mining and the reality itself na you'll never know when mokalit lag hagba ang price sa bitcoin which also affects the prices of your current altcoin na imu gi mine. Like for example ang price sa vertcoin to btc before was 0.0039 recently it dropped as low as 0.001019 for like 2 months? and difficulty in mining rises every single day, sa ing-ana nga situation daghan nashakoy ug ni undang kay negative kaayo sila, lots of people sold their mining gears, ako na negative ko sa bayranan sa kuryente lol but i got balls of steel lol

[LordZhen]

Naa pa pud d.i ko idugang nga info regarding sa hardware or the gpu itself which is the workforce of your mining rig.

There are 2 mem modules used on the gpu's one is Elpidia and the Other is Hynix. The most preferred is the Hynix because it hashes better and more compared to Elpidia. For example, they might be both r9 280x toxics but some toxics have Elpidia mem modules, and some have Hynix. You will see a big difference on the hashing power on both cards, relatively big.

Like for scrypt mining with proper tweak and settings, the Hynix (toxic) can hash up to 800 + k/hash meanwhile for the Elpidia (toxic) mag lugos siya ug abot 700 k/hash usahay.

This is for amd cards. As for Nvidia Cudaminer, 750ti is the only best card to mine. A.K.A Green miner (why green?) Simply because, these cards doesnt need 6pin power to power it up.

[wylliexhan]

That's what i am actually thinking based on my question, ang akong income makuha cuz i am actually planning how it runs if nindot ba or maka ginansya ba ko. Pero hagba cguro ko ani haha, ako pod gi huna2 how much i can invest, gusto jud unta ko mo try aning mining. What's the big thing is it took you so long to mine, but suddenly ni hagba ang rate w/ is really discouraging.

But what is my mainly concern is using the right hardware to mine, kay search man pod ko about using gridseed compared to gpu. Based on what they've said. Using Gridseed is faster and it's a fact but makes the difficulty rise.

You can buy a Gridseed at 150+ USD/Unit. So it's 350 KH/s.

Gridseeds are 11XX KH/s. And 540 USD. Power usage: 21 Watt.
R9 290X is about 9XX KH/s. About 550 USD. Power usage: 300 Watt.

Base plang sa comparison, daog na daan ang gridseeds in terms of hashrate as well as power consumption. But karon i don't know about these things, cuz i am still in the process of learning.

Thanks for the information bro.

[kleruy]

for 3 months boss nka ROI ka? if you dont mind pila tanan gasto nimo sa imo rig? curious lng ko. murag gnhan ko mo try ani. hehe

lami ky ni do ky libre kurente.. ahahaha..

[lloyd_joy]

@ bro LZ,

how about a MSI R9 270X Hawk (mas better man ni sya sa MSI R9 270x Gaming), nice pud ba kaha ni sa mining? taas man sya'g stock core speed... torn between cost of the GPU cash outlay, hash rate performance and cost of operation (monthly electricity bill) and the ROI ko dah... tsk tsk tsk... basin, i'll just down grade to R9 270 or R9 270X instead of the R9 280X ko ani...

[wylliexhan]

Choy man diay og setup imong mining rig bro LZ r9 280x toxic, but heard lot of reviews regarding sa r9 280x toxic about atong "artifacts" ang display,

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Ang akong r9 280x dli lang to toxic, dual-x OC version to pag increase nako sa core clock to 50hz pag run nako sa heaven benchmark naay artifacts.

[LordZhen]

bro @wylliexhan kaluy-an sa ginoo wala pajud intawn naka agi ug artifacts ang akong cards, but some toxics like the one my clients got hold of, naay isa na nag artifact then namatay, there goes rma, pero so far mao pana ang akong na experience sa mga toxics.

Ok mana imu dual-x oc bro, try using the new beta driver, ang driver pud mo matter sa pag mine, or katong 13c version sa driver

and lahi pud ang outcome sa benchmarking compared to mining, sa benchmarking your gpu is working 100% to make display, as of mining it is working 100% for computation, solving algorithms, no display

bro @lloyd_joy ok naman pero downside lang sa higher clocks are ang kaon niya sa kurente hehe, if you ca nget your hands on a gigabyte 270 windforce kana, sulit kaayo na

[lloyd_joy]

^ hehehehe... naa Yeston R9 270... core clock @ 900 MHz (925 boost)... no idea ko if nice ba ni for mining... wla man stock ang JD mall for a gigabyte ron...

oi, naa pud stock sila sa Colorful/Colorfire R9 270X... the same ug physical appearance sa 280X nila... taas lang ni kaon pud kay kusog man ug speed...

if mag 270 (non-X) ko, dako ba sila'g hash rate difference sa 270X (sa Hawk)... nice-san ko mag tan-aw aning mananapa ni... hehehe...

[LordZhen]

Regarding sa hawk, wala ko kahibaw but i guess mas taas ug hash rate prolly, naa raman pud na sa pag tweak and finding the sweet spot sa imu card, kay pareha sa tao, lain lain pud na sila ug kina iya kada gpu

[lloyd_joy]

ah i see bro... okis bro... thanks