Find the Best GPU for Mining… and more
When building a GPU mining rig, you want to make sure that all the components in it are the right fit – you need to find the best motherboard for gpu mining! The good news, is that basically any motherboard will do. There are some that are better choices than others, but if this is […]
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. […]
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 […]
People building their own Cryptocurrency GPU mining rigs have been eagerly awaiting the next generation of video cards that would allow them to mine more, faster. Disappointingly, at Computex last week, NVidia’s CEO Jensen Huang announced that the 1100 series video cards won’t be available for a long time. The 10-series cards were announced in […]
Gigabyte, in order to stay competitive with Asus, was also quick to jump on the B250 bandwagon and create a cryptocurrency specific mining motherboard. Gigabyte’s offering has 12 total PCIe slots – 11 of them are PCIe 1x slots, and one of them is a PCIe 16x slot. Gigabyte says the 12 PCIe slots are […]
The ASRock Pro BTC+ gpu mining motherboard is a very popular choice among mining rig builds – it’s fairly inexpensive, has great reviews overall, and it supports an amazin 13 GPUs! The board supports the 6th and 7th generation Intel processors, and uses DDR4 RAM. For the 13 PCIe slots, only 1 of them is […]