There’s no doubt about it – buying and assembling a GPU mining rig can be a time consuming and costly adventure. When I first started, I spent countless hours trying to determine what the best components for my mining rig were. I scoured the internet to determine what the best price was, what the best […]
GPU Mining
Happy New Year, and welcome to the crazy crypto world of 2019! As the market for cryptocurrencies as a whole heats up, the ability to find the best mining GPU will be what sets your profit above all the rest. Especially in times of a market turn down like we saw through most of 2018, […]
If you’re building a GPU mining rig as a business, side hustle, or just to make some extra change, then you’ll want to look into getting an electricity usage monitor. You can use the electricity power meter to measure how much power your mining rig has consumed in order to calculate total profit. In addition, […]
Looking for a way to contain your gpu mining rig in a handy little package? Are you ready to move past the stage of having GPUs, computer parts, and PCIe and USB cables spread all over your floor? While cases don’t actually contribute to the profitability of your mining rig, they do make it easier […]
So you’ve been bitten by the Bitcoin bug and you want to build a mining rig – and you’re looking for the best GPU for mining Bitcoin? Seems simple enough, but first, let’s clear something up. You can’t use a GPU for Bitcoin mining. Well, you can, but you won’t make any money. Back in […]
The GTX 1070 is a solid choice for a mining rig. It has decent speed, great power usage, and is widely available. Slated in NVidia’s graphics card lineup above the GTX 1060 6GB card, the GTX 1070 comes with 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory, and straight from the factory, comes with a 3 year warranty. […]
On February 11, Intel’s senior vice president, Raja M. Koduri, announced that Intel is “declaring our intent to contribute to the development of blockchain technologies.” It’s exciting, and yet completely confusing at the same time. More specifically, Intel has a “roadmap of energy-efficient accelerators.” They want to promote and engage an open and secure blockchain […]
If you’re building a GPU mining rig, then the most important piece of it is the mining GPU! However, other than the wide range of brands, prices, and choices, in a way that’s the easy part of the build. The often-more-confusing part of a gpu mining rig is all of the other mining rig parts […]
When comparing the GTX 1060 3GB vs 6GB mining GPUs, at first glance, they would seem the same. They seem to have nearly the same hash rates for ethash and equihash gpu mining, and they look basically the same. However, when we look at the actual specs on the 6GB vs 3GB cards, we can […]