The farm has expanded!
With my initial purchase, an XFX RX 480 pumping out sweet sweet internet monies, I decided I wanted to expand the operation! Challenge of course is always finding more cards! I scour Craigslist and the Facebook Marketplace each day to try and find someone local selling cards, as finding a new one in stock is like finding the fountain of youth!! I live in a metro area just big enough that finding cards is possible, but rare...
I came across a listing on Craigslist for an MSI R9 270 and Asus R9 270X, $100 each or $175 for the pair. After running them thru some calculators, it seemed like $175 for the pair would yield a pretty nice ROI. Quick phone call later, I had a time set to pick them up, and I was the proud owner of two older, but still capable cards:
I had an old dual core AMD FX chip rig in the house, and decided that would be these guys' new home. As you can see from the first pic in this post, I'm certainly pushing the limits of the power supply they're attached to! And, by God, how did I ever build a rig with that hideous green motherboard in the past??? LOL
Since this bad boy has a way outdated nVidia nForce chipset, it took some massaging to get two AMD cards to play nice in the system! But, after about two hours of wrasslin' with it, it was up and running:
Those puppies are pushing out about $4 USD a day on NiceHash! With an initial investment of $175, that's only a little over a month to break even, which I don't think is too bad at all! Certainly a quicker ROI than the RX 480 I bought for $300!! Here's my current stats at NiceHash:
It fluctuates currently between $9.50 and $10.50 a day at the moment... It's still kind of surreal to me to be creating magic internet monies from electricity!! What a time to be alive!
This is the last rig I had capable of accepting more video cards however... So my next investment will be in a standalone dedicated rig, ideally with 6 slots to mine with 6 cards on a single mobo!
I'd love your suggestions on ways to improve my efficiency with my setup, pools or anything else that you think would be helpful!
Happy Mining!