It was once the era of the 960. Then the 1060. Now we double the hashpower and up the temperature a little bit.
The original 1060 had long paid for itself, then the hashpower has been amped up to twice the rate. Two cards means twice the everything - including heat and power draw.
Before installing the second card I needed to upgrade the power supply to one that was 850W. As well I had to get a new motherboard, which required a new CPU as well. What a drag, it's a lot of money when you work hard for not much pay like everyone else. However the positive note is that the new CPU, a Ryzen 1600x can mine about 50 cents a day, a nice bonus. That should do me just fine.
Updated mining stats:
- Temperature of GPU: 79 C
- Combined hash rate: 460 H/s (Unspecified Equihash)
- CPU hash rate: 380 H/s (Cryptonight)
In the overall scheme of things, it's not a huge amount. However it's a welcome contribution from my computer's idle time. In fact it's mining as I write this post, with very little slowdown in the interface. Nice!
What will I do with all these riches you ask? I think the answer is obvious by now.
Convert it all into DOGE!!
The best cryptocurrency.