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I was looking into just getting a 3060 Ti for starting on my main CPU, do you recommend that or going for whatever gets a bigger hashing rate in one unit like the 3080 or 90 it seems, they are hard to get! Thanks!
I would personally aim for non-LHR cards like the founders edition 3080 which is hard to find these days, or any 3090. At the end of the day it doesn’t really matter what cards you buy, what matters is your ROI. For example at MSRP a 3090 can pay for itself in six months (or whatever it works out to these days) but at scalper prices that ROI time is more like a year. In the world of ASIC mining a year ROI is actually…
Maybe a new 3090ti if I can snatch one at MSRP, but don't have the money anymore for it...
Was also looking into filecoin mining, but requires lots of HW (would have to buy at least a graphic card, 64gb ram, and lots of disks lol) and you've to pledge/stake money too for each block or tb committed to serve...
Looks like a hassle but high returns, so anyone with more budget than me and enough technical chops, might be inclined to look into that! Just saying
Thanks for all the info, got me into a lot of research, for now I'll keep on the build camp