Depends on if $2k includes the monitor. I had a $2k budget and figured I could get high-end everything. Then I realized I had to spend $600-700 or so on a 27" 1440p 144 Hz monitor and could no longer fit the 1080 into my budget (this was last year, before the latest cryptocurrency mining boom).
Depends on if $2k includes the monitor. I had a $2k budget and figured I could get high-end everything. Then I realized I had to spend $600-700 or so on a 27" 1440p 144 Hz monitor and could no longer fit the 1080 into my budget (this was last year, before the latest cryptocurrency mining boom).
Yeah, it's an either or thing, but he could skimp on the 500gb ssd to 256, drop down a digit or two on the cpu, and mid grade mobo. Could save 300 or 400 there.
I am planning on getting a 16GB RAM machine with a i7cpu. I think 250GB SSd should be enough, 500GB is quite costly.
Gonna check out these 1080 gpus...
For the time beeing i am going to use my old monitors, but maybe i have to rethink... anyway, thanx for all your input!
I think my monitor is the next thing I'm going to upgrade.
Would like something along the 27" IPS line. I don't know how much 144Hz would benefit me with the type of games I play. I usually go for strategy or WoW type games instead of FPS.
I am planning on getting a 16GB RAM machine with a i7cpu. I think 250GB SSd should be enough, 500GB is quite costly.
Gonna check out these 1080 gpus...
For the time beeing i am going to use my old monitors, but maybe i have to rethink... anyway, thanx for all your input!
get a 250gb ssd and large normal HDD for games/files. put just your OS and the main games you play on the ssd (make sure the games even benefit by being on one before you use the space)
I think my monitor is the next thing I'm going to upgrade.
Would like something along the 27" IPS line. I don't know how much 144Hz would benefit me with the type of games I play. I usually go for strategy or WoW type games instead of FPS.
I have an ASUS ROG gaming laptop, has an Nvidia 760M 3GB graphics card, core i7 chip, 8GB ram.
Thinking about upgrading RAM, to improve general performance, hopefully both gaming and heavy spreadsheet stuff. I don't really play new games and not fussed about running top settings etc (obv as I'd have a new PC if I was).
Is it likely to be worth it, and would adding 16GB be noticeably better than 8GB?
You can check in Task manager if you're running low on memory when you're doing things, like spreadsheets, which you suspect use lot of memory. I don't think spreadsheets will ever use more than 2 GB so you should be fine with 8, but you should check it yourself.
500 gb SSD isn't really that much. I just checked on Newegg and you can get one for $104, only $5 more than the 250 gb version.
I only installed my Blizzard games, MS Office, and Adobe CC on my SSD and I'm at 200 gb used (iirc, I'm not at the computer now). All my other apps (including Steam games) and data are on a hard drive. You run out of space pretty quickly.
If I lived somewhere with all utilities included (electricity), I'd run 1080-ti in SLI mining bitcoin or ehterneum 24/7. I wouldn't do more only because that might get me kicked out of the apartment.
That said, I seriously doubt it's worth the time/effort if you have to pay for electricity or if you're actually trying to make a real profit.
It is not. You're going up against people who have spent tens of millions on data centers for this specific purpose. Essentially anyone considering dropping money for a personal bitcoin farm is like someone asking if throwing a few thousand dollars worth of tires on their stock Honda Civic is worth it to help them win the Indy 500.
That seems like a really terrible analogy, considering someone who spends 4k on a mini farm isn't trying to win the (mining) race by getting the biggest share of the money, unlike the million dollar datacenter and the Indy 500 teams.
Not that this would make it profitable to mine, but still.
that analogy is about as bad as they come. you are not "going up against" anyone. you don't win some magical prize by having more power. you earn more because you have more processing power. simple as that. a guy with a few thousand dollar setup running it somewhere where they aren't paying for electricity (or have low rates, green energy, ect) is going to make their money back they spent on the system in a month or twos time and would be making pure profit from then on out.
If I lived somewhere with all utilities included (electricity), I'd run 1080-ti in SLI mining bitcoin or ehterneum 24/7. I wouldn't do more only because that might get me kicked out of the apartment.
That said, I seriously doubt it's worth the time/effort if you have to pay for electricity or if you're actually trying to make a real profit.
what effort and time are you referring too? you literally click go on an application and walk away from your computer. there is nothing more to it.
that analogy is about as bad as they come. you are not "going up against" anyone.
Huh?
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The first miner to find the solution announces it to others on the network. The other miners then check whether the sender of the funds has the right to spend the money, and whether the solution to the puzzle is correct. If enough of them grant their approval, the block is cryptographically added to the ledger and the miners move on to the next set of transactions (hence the term “blockchain”). The miner who found the solution gets 25 bitcoins as a reward, but only after another 99 blocks have been added to the ledger.
That's the olden days, and was very likely out of date when written. Now it's all done with pools that basically pay you your EV instantly. You can download nicehash for example, run it for 20 minutes on a geforce 1060 and earn your 0.00000001 BTC. (You won't actually be mining bitcoins though, that's way past the point a GPU is useful. It's other coins these days - Ethereum and the like are what's driving the current GPU frenzy)
That article is 2.5 years old. New crypto currencies are not mined like that.
Nice hash automatically bounces you between whatever currency is most profitable for your GPU to mine at the time. You are paid in bitcoin becusse that is what Nicehash is paid by its customers for providing processing power.
