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Best miner for ETC on Nvidia GPU

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Hello everyone,

I'm planning to start mining Ethereum Classic (ETC) and I have a rig with 4 RTX 4070 GPUs. I'm looking for recommendations on the best mining software to use for optimal performance and efficiency with these GPUs.

Which miner would you suggest for the RTX 4070 when mining ETC? Any tips on configurations or settings would also be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance!
 
CPU mining is much more efficient than using GPUs. A 5900X or 5950X would give you about the same as a better GPU at less than half the power draw. Then you just need a 6500XT for display and enjoy the 2 watt power draw.
 
Are they still crippled what it comes to mining? Or did everyone just circle that LHR restriction and Nvidia gave up?
 
Ruru said:
Are they still crippled what it comes to mining? Or did everyone just circle that LHR restriction and Nvidia gave up?
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Nvidia gave up but it doesn't matter since it's no longer economically viable to do any sort of GPU mining. The cost of the GPUs and the cost of electricity make it completely impossible to turn any sort of profit within a reasonable time frame. Ethereum is now proof of stake, Bitcoin is too complex, not doable without specialty ASICs, most of its supply has been mined already, the other coins aren't really worth anything anymore since the fad has largely died down. Only a stubborn fool will try to mine on any sort of domestic hardware, including GPUs nowadays - that ship has sailed, and thankfully, since it should never have come to begin with.

OP will make far more money selling these 4 RTX 4070s to people who actually use them for what they're intended for, instead of mining worthless shitcoins.

kapone32 said:
CPU mining is much more efficient than using GPUs. A 5900X or 5950X would give you about the same as a better GPU at less than half the power draw. Then you just need a 6500XT for display and enjoy the 2 watt power draw.
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Assuming a ~260 W load (running a 5950X full tilt at stock PPT + cooling + conversion losses) at 16 cents/kWh (median price of electricity in the US), you're going to make roughly one cent per day with NiceHash assuming zero downtime. That processor currently costs $358.99 on Amazon.com, which means that it would take 105 years to pay for itself, without accounting for motherboard, memory, cooling, electricity, etc. - and that's also assuming a constant in performance and profitability, which is all but guaranteed to decline even further over time.

In short: only a biblical :kookoo: would ever attempt the folly of CPU mining, no matter your view or take on it. It simply doesn't make money anymore even if you have a farm of Threadrippers. It's extremely inadvisable and outright irresponsible to tell anyone to follow this path in current condition, even if they have the expendable hardware and time - you can no longer make money with crypto mining, only trading and speculation (also irresponsible and inadvisable). It's just something you cannot do in good faith at this point in time.
 
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Assuming a ~260 W load (running a 5950X full tilt at stock PPT + cooling + conversion losses) at 16 cents/kWh (median price of electricity in the US), you're going to make roughly one cent per day with NiceHash assuming zero downtime. That processor currently costs $358.99 on Amazon.com, which means that it would take 105 years to pay for itself, without accounting for motherboard, memory, cooling, electricity, etc. - and that's also assuming a constant in performance and profitability, which is all but guaranteed to decline even further over time.

In short: only a biblical :kookoo: would ever attempt the folly of CPU mining, no matter your view or take on it. It simply doesn't make money anymore even if you have a farm of Threadrippers. It's extremely inadvisable and outright irresponsible to tell anyone to follow this path in current condition, even if they have the expendable hardware and time - you can no longer make money with crypto mining, only trading and speculation (also irresponsible and inadvisable). It's just something you cannot do in good faith at this point in time.
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260 Watts? I did not even know a 5950X could go over 150 Watts. You can say what you want but I know what I have made since CPU mining but you can go on. Who mentioned Threadripper? You did. I guess you know more than Monero but you can go on. Expendable hardware? Are you serious? AM4 CPUs are not power hogs especially 5000 series CPUs.
 
kapone32 said:
260 Watts? I did not even know a 5950X could go over 150 Watts. You can say what you want but I know what I have made since CPU mining but you can go on. Who mentioned Threadripper? You did. I guess you know more than Monero but you can go on. Expendable hardware? Are you serious? AM4 CPUs are not power hogs especially 5000 series CPUs.
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260 is a low ball, and even assumes a very high efficiency power supply. Motherboard VRM, memory, even the cooling and SSD add up a few watts. Realistically it's probably closer to 300, more if any type of low end GPU is installed for a video out.

Every mW counts when you are doing a task for money.
 
Dr. Dro said:
260 is a low ball, and even assumes a very high efficiency power supply. Motherboard VRM, memory, even the cooling and SSD add up a few watts. Realistically it's probably closer to 300, more if any type of low end GPU is installed for a video out.

Every mW counts when you are doing a task for money.
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LMAO, I love how you know my systems so well. You would think you were an AMD user.
 
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