Not exactly a bargain deal, more like in-stock deal but seems this trend will continue well into 2021
Found some stock here as well but not sure about the reliability of seller
Asus GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Dual OC 8G Graphics Card $799 (Free Pickup or $10 Delivery) @ Umart
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yes at about the same rate as a 2080ti (or more if overclocked) 53-60MH/s
Which is not great, at least not for the price.
ummm.
payoff time of 3-4 months is not great? Wtf?
You should get a dual bios card for mining. Mining requires flashing the bios to get the perfect setting for the best hashrate. That usually means changing settings which are not good for gaming. Usually involves reducing power consumption. So if you have two settings you use one for mining and one for gaming.
But honestly it will hurt your components having it run 24/7 to make a few bucks a day. Not worth it unless you are using a rig. I used to build them as a hobby. Tested many configurations and environments. I did ruin a few general use computers that were not purposefully built. Some of the damage is not very apparent at first. For example the motherboard sound chip stopped working and USBs randomly worked etc.
Why flash BIOS and not just use Afterburner to under/overclock?
I'm using a single BIOS 3070 Eagle OC, -500 GPU, +1400 MEM, 55% power. ~60MH/s @~130W. Then when I game I just change the preset.
@303-Acid: Depends what you are mining and how foolproof you want to make it. People usually boot off a USB into a shell environment to get the best hashrate, reduce power consumption, enable auto reboots and restarts for 24/7 mining and eliminate hacking. Believe me I learnt that the hard way. I doubt anyone will target you when using a single GPU. But my first two weeks of mining when I first started was stolen by a hacker.
@303-Acid: Yep, doing this also on my 3060 Ti TUF between 2 presets, +975 memory, 56% power, ~57MH/s @~112W using NiceHash.
@mizx: Before electricity, how much does that make a day if say BTC is worth $35k?
I was mining back in 2017, and regret stopping it and not doing it sooner than that (was going to buy a dedicated ASIC miner back in the day)
@TEER3X: For me and my 3070, which is very similar to the 3060ti, I'm getting about 0.0001BTC a day on Nicehash with NBMiner daggerhashimoto. Going by your $35k, about $3.5 per day.
That's just a rough estimate, basing on my last full day of mining yesterday. I'm currently mining with my 1060 6GB and 3070, so subtracted what the 1060 was getting on its own.
Yesterday's payment for the 1060 and 3070 was 0.00013298BTC, which at current prices is about AUD$6.44.
@303-Acid: Thanks for the tips, just used these settings as a base line, basically slid everything to left and left power on -40 and memory at 1300. Currently at 57mh/s with my asus tuf 3060 ti 3x at 119w.
I'm getting downvoted giving advice on something I did for a living. Unbelievable the kind of people on these forums.
@[Deactivated]: "Mining requires flashing the bios" - You're getting downvoted because this advice is completely wrong.
@[Deactivated]: Can you point to anyone flashing a 3060ti for efficiency gains?
But honestly it will hurt your components having it run 24/7 to make a few bucks a day.
Mining 24/7 at sane settings/temperatures is probably less harmful to a GPU than hot/cold cycling under normal use.
@[Deactivated]: I didn't downvote but can you define for a living? Making like a $1k per week or something?
@Caped Baldy: I designed these rigs. I use to both mine and sell these across Australia. Some of my rigs are still being resold on eBay.
I also heard that. I only run digger when I started the computer but don't play a game (3 hours a day at 130W), it would be fine I guess.
Lots of risers and all the fans!
I’m surprised it’s still even profitable at this period that people are thinking about it, it was barely so a couple years ago.
@slowmo: I'm guessing its only really profitable for people with solar + battery power. In SA I'm paying about $0.31 kw/h which kind of makes it not worth the headache. A few years ago when 1080ti's could bring in $15 or so a day was great though. Then mining got popular…
@Bruceflix: yeah. I used to run separately on a vps a p2pool and get some $ on it as well. popularity in the coins kind of killed all the different streams with the increasing difficulty.
although it was funny to mine dogecoins and give it around. it's kind of worrying to see people (new to cryptocoins) mining it, the returns are not a lot, and because its done on gaming rigs than mining rigs, the overall cost over wear and time is going to be greater than the cheap $1xx mobos 'specialised' for mining risers.
Yes, i have this card mining currently while i do a 3060ti roundup for my channel.
-300 core + 1200 mem 65% TDP hashing at 60.5mh/s at ~130 watts. which is quite impressive.
The cooler on the card as well is Verrryyyy decent, especially when compared to other cards like the MSI twin fan for $749 or the Inno3d for $749 as well, 12/10 would recommend
Genuine question, do people mine coins just because they can/hobby, or is this genuinely profitable? I'm no expert and have no data to back my statement up, but I just genuinely can't imagine this being profitable at all
Its currently decently profitable with a multi GPU setup, if you were to ask me 6 weeks ago i would have laughed at the prospect.
Prices of crypto increased a few weeks back - plus the 30XX cards are amazeballs at it so you may as well.
I started over a week ago with my 3080 @ 80-90MH/s (still not fully optimised), 1070 @ 30MH/s and 1060 laptop at 20MH/s and got my first ETH payment of 0.05 on Sunday - on target for another this week.It's literally money for nothing except power - if your on solar you are laughing and if not you will still make profit. It just warms the house a little too much so I open a few windows rather than run aircon.
3060 has 12gb of vram, oof
Oof useless when it can never get to use all of them in gaming lol
Yes haha
If you game in 1440p, 8GB will be limiting.
At max settings, which the 3060 won't be able to cope with
@ln28909: It depends on the settings. If we're talking about AA or lighting effects or other image processing than yes the 3060 isn't really up to the task but these settings don't consume much vram. Vram really comes into play when you select texture quality, you could have ultra quality textures and reduce the other post processing effects and get decent fps as long as you have the vram to load those textures.
I guess you can always use DLSS and render at lower texture resolutions if you're hitting vram limits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG5h3Ex2SQ8&ab_channel=Testi…
looks like most games have around 4-6 gb vram utilisation at 1440p, with hzd and msfs going up to 7.5 . Might be just enough for most people. 12gb would certainly have been nice though.
@naturaldecay: Whats funny is modded Skyrim SE uses more VRAM than MS Flight Simulator (If you have a lot of 4k textures)
The modpack/ list im playing right now reccomends an RTX 3070 for optimal performance (though you will run into VRAM limits with that card). It also takes up 245GB on my SSD due to it containing 1364 mods. Outside of character models, it looks better than most 2020 games. The only games I can think of that are harder to run are Cyberpunk without DLSS and Flight Simulator
How does ram work? If it runs out, does it use slower system ram? Or just dies?
It's 12 GB because it can only be 6, 12 or 24, and it needs at least 7-8 for its maximum intended use cases.
then explain how the 8gb 3070 exists
I mean my answer already did… it has 8GB so it meets the needs of the card, though you can make an argument about the speed of the memory.
Unlike the 3060's 192-bit bus, it's operating on a 256-bit bus, so its options are 8, 16 and 32 GB, I believe.
Any analysis that looks at VRAM usage - instead of the VRAM allocation figure that most monitoring apps substitute in - will show you that unless you're hitting the RT settings hard at 4K (or using super-textures), you don't push past 8GB.
Further to this, there's a least a couple of features in Ampere (and at least one in Turing) that seek to reduce how many assets need to be held in memory at any given time, this reducing VRAM requirements as they slowly get implemented into game engines.
AMD also have these in RDNA2, but what they don't have is the same standard of memory compression and bandwidth optimisation that NVIDIA architectures do. Part of their huge performance leap is the giant cache that they added, a move that NVIDIA is likely to make next gen, leaving AMD with no technical advantage to hold onto.
good gaming headsets
Nice bait, but that's currently an oxymoron. Good audio gets cheaper, and yet headsets basically stay the same, because it seems marketing is cheaper than R&D.
@blergmonkeys: You're here, in an unrelated thread, trying to get me to throw down with you. I'm not the classless one. :)
@jasswolf: I have the audeze and the steelseries, I also have an HD800 - the steelseries is better than the audeze and the HD800 is a class above. The audeze is all marketing.
The 12GB Models/Variation doesn't come out till the next few months or so.
The 8GB is the launch model which is available now.
This is a completely different model, that's been out for over a month, with a completely different chip in it.
The VRAM comparison is irrelevant: the Ti is a substantially higher performance card.
Basically nvidia got caught out by amd with higher vram cards, so now they're fixing it =p
Why? You need all that for clicker games!
getting lower still waiting for under 700 though.
No chance soon, $750 is my buy price for mining
You're holding out to save $50 that you can make in around 2 weeks mining?
It's kinda hot rn, so unless it's a good price, I'll just hold off till weather becomes cooler
And at this price, to me it's worth more to buy 3080 at around $1500
@ln28909: I agree tbh, I'm mining on my 3070 til I find a cheap 3080. Kicking myself for not doing more research on hashrate differences.
Says OOS for me.
Umart is still in stock
I'll take my chances and wait for another 6 months or longer if I have to.
sold out delivery, wanted one for my lounge room vr setup :(
Can I mine coins with this?