Actually la, if you remember my post in the "missing thread" was just sharing my bad experience.

However I also posted the following ............

That's why I put buy coins direct as the first one. I think it's a better option.

Cloud Mining is more like for convenience vs setting up mining rigs.

Incorrect, u can't simply assume.

1080ti is a beast, and it does mine many altcoins, than the ones u are familiar with.

RX series are just good for ETH and ETC, whilist sucks at other Alt coins.

Try AMD and mine Zcash? Nowhere near 1060GTX.

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sorry guys, noob here.
saw alot topic about GPU mining and co-incidentally saw this post, want to ask that my gaming rig at home, powered by I7 7700, 16GB ram, Nvidia 1080. able to do this?
if i do this can i play my games while the mining in progress?

I can barely watch YouTube when I am mining lol

so better not to tax you?

with your spec at siggy?

1. Your rig can do mining
2. Stop mining when you play game

Yup. I can listen to the sound without stops if I don't focus on the window in chrome though lol.

^ the above.

If you look at ETH alone then RX models.

However while GTX 1080 sucks at ETH (yup, my GTX 1060 does almost as good), the landscape changes when you go other coins like say ZCash.

I guess didnt matter spec, as your graphic card will near 100% load during mining. I can watch youtube or movie, but laggy every few seconds.

just got this..gonna try tonight!


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I admit that my opinion was formed based on the most profitable PoW crypto to mine atm. So this should be true for most, if not all of the newer people who's venturing into mining as they usually mine the currently most profitable coin and sell it on the spot.

This is however untrue for those who have a better understanding and confidence in the system, a.k.a. those who mine and hold long term, yes 1080TI can mine other strong potential PoW coins, which in the long term would be more profitable than mining and selling ETH at this point in time.

My opinion does stays. If you've only just started, 1080 TI isn't the card you should be looking into unless you're filthy rich.
The high initial cost doesn't justify as it doesn't mine the most profitable alt coin at the moment efficiently enough for you to get return for your investment.
Unless you have other uses for the 1080TI like gaming, etc., not for sole mining, don't buy it.
Despite that, if you still insist to get a 1080TI to mine, hopefully that you can at least break even if you don't completely wreck your card and sell it as a 2nd hand card at a decent price - loss when selling as 2nd hand + profit from mining.

TL;DR
1080TI is bad at the most profitable coin to mine right now (ETH / ETC).
But does pretty decent at some other alt coins that mine using different algorithm.

This post has been edited by x3Kai: Jul 4 2017, 07:46 PM

You probably want to turn off GPU acceleration for Chrome
Without the GPU process running, it doesn't have to compete with the mining software. At one point the hash rate of my miner dropped because of it.

tbh it shouldn't interfere since Chrome HW acceleration will be using intel gpu unless you forcibly let it run off the nvidia gpu

owaii you are using xeon no wonder no spare intel gpu

agreed , 1080 beast only performed well on other alt coins.. inclusive LBRY, currently my favorite.

understood your point and i also made it clear. 1080 is not for ETH/ETC but its very profitable for other alt coins such as LBRY or HUSH.
mining is for long term. you under-clock and save your GPU and TNB bills.

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