It’s damned near impossible to buy a reasonably priced graphics card right now. First, then too. Cryptocurrency miners chasing price bubbles in Etherium, Zcash, et cetera. But new mining-dedicated graphics cards from AMD and Nvidia’s hardware partners might help ease the dearth of gaming hardware. Okay, probably not. A swarm of coin mining cards have hit online e-tailers over the past few days, as reports. Most are based on AMD’s more mining-friendly Radeon “Polaris” GPUs, but you'll also find a couple of cards based on Nvidia designs.

Notably, those use “GP106” branding—that’s the name of the GPU itself—rather than being called GTX 1060 cards. Asus Asus says its Nvidia-powered cryptocurrency card is faster at mining than consumer GeForce hardware. We’ll get to other crucial differences in a bit. First, here’s a rundown of the coin mining cards available so far—in theory. In reality, they’re already all sold out. Asus: and Sapphire:,,,,, and the are all based on the older Radeon RX 470, with varying memory, clock speed, and power configurations that can affect mining speed.

The is based on the RX 560—an odd choice, since that low-powered graphics card isn’t compelling to most miners. MSI: reports that Inno 3D, EVGA, Zotac, and Colorful are also working on dedicated mining cards, and that mining cards based on the GTX 1070’s “GP104” GPU are on the way as well. This mining hardware differs from consumer graphics cards in key ways, with warranty length being one of the most important.

Sapphire’s mining cards on Overclockers UK list a one-year warranty, while the versions sold on Newegg offer a scant 180 days of protection. The company’s consumer graphics cards are guaranteed for two years, by comparison. Miners keep GPUs churning 24/7 so the limited warranty makes sense. Asus The new gear looks similar to traditional graphics cards— almost. Since you don’t need to hook mining hardware up to a monitor, many of the cryptocurrency-dedicated cards ditch display connectors completely, while others limit themselves to a single DVI port. That should make it easy to spot these gaming lemons if unscrupulous folks try to pass them off as proper graphics cards whenever the mining bubble bursts. A graphics card you can actually buy.

Zcash ZEC Mining Basics. The impact on you at home: That’s the million dollar question, isn’t it? Inflated prices have made it impossible to build a, or to buy anything but extremely low-end or high-end graphics cards right now. Don’t expect these mining cards to be a savior though.

Miners are gobbling up all the hardware they can find right now. These new coin mining cards are just more food for that hungry maw.

And while the limited warranties and display connections probably let PC vendors create cards from GPUs that failed quality assurance for consumer hardware, the intense specialization might make them less attractive for hardcore miners. Cryptocurrency mining is all about the return on investment, and reselling graphics cards after bubbles burst is a big part of that calculation. No gamer would want to buy these used.

Some basics: 1. You can mine solo or in a pool The same result should come out over a long period of time. However, luck is also included, because if you are unlucky and never find a block you will never get paid. The pool has more miners and it is more likely that one of them is lucky and finds a new block. The reward will be shared to the pool participants. There is a small pool fee for operating the pool, which can be ignored.

This allows the mining process to shed exorbitantly priced hardware. In the mining process. Burst was the first. Bitcoin BTC Farming Rig. Burst “I'm Interested In Burstcoin.

Mining does not come free You need a running computer, you need electricity for the computer and the hard disks and you need Internet. Each cost a certain amount.

Burst mining has the advantage, that a standard computer (or just your desktop) can be used. The hard disks are cheap and the extension of a mining set is just adding new hard disks and USB-3.0 hubs.

How do we calculate the profitability? What size of hard disk space did you offer for Burst mining? Go to and key in your Total Plot Size in GB/TB or PB The Mining Calulator will tell you what you can expect per day That amount you put into the Price Calculator at the right and you will learn your daily income in Euro or US$. A computer uses about 200 W (if you are just mining).

During your working time the desktop is already used and you do not need to calculate the power consumption during this time for the computer. A hard disk uses power rated by 7 W, whereby this would be if the hard disk is permanently used.

Since during Burst mining you are only using the hard disk for reading and only for a short time, we can save calculate with 3 W per hard disk. If you use your computer 10 hours for working anyway and keep it running 24 hours, then your power consumption for mining would be: Computer:24-10 = 14 hours 14h x 0.2kW = 2.8kWh with 0.1 US$/kWh, this would give you a power bill of 0.28 US$ Harddisk: 24 hours 24h x 0.003kW = 0.072kWh with 0.1 US$/kWh, this would give you a power bill of 0.0072 US$ hardly noticeable!!! My HOME example: I got 8 hard disks, each 3 or 4 TB, total about 27 TB hard disk space At this writing, it brings about 2.82 US$/day. My computer is running 24 hours anyway, since it is also a server. The power bill for the hard disk is less than 0.06 US$/day, so I can safe say, I make 2.75 US$ per day. I use this earnings to increase the hard disk space and so earn next months more and more.

It takes about 5 days to plot a 4 TB hard disk, therefore my goal is to increase each week one or two 4 TB hard disks. A side benefit: The hard disks are only plotted (written) once. If for any reason Burst mining becomes not profitable anymore, then I still can use the hard disks for storage. I see therefore the investments in the hard disks as investments into the future. If you like the post, share it with your friends and social media (just click the social media buttons at the left side.) If you find this article worthy then share some Bitcoins with me: 1PXWTtyAZ5zjrV1PuGGzrZJoJqeZS34g7d.