i have several old Sapphire Radeon HD6870 1gb cards laying around, i have read many a thread that say 1gb cards aren’t up to snuff anymore because of the DAG file, all of these thread assume that you only have 1 card in your system.
my question is this - can they be paired with my R9 390x or do each card need to have a separate instance of the dag file to operate.
if not what could i mine, power is not an issue. one of many redeeming feature of Quebec Canada.
as far as I know no.
even when you use crossfire it isn’t possible. I know that there is a new kind of sli that could combine the vram, but not with normal crossfire(aka SLI for nvidea)
well they where usefull a couple of years ago. and yes they are gaming cards and you can still them for that.
you could use nicehases miner to check if there is still a coin that you can mine with it, but I doubt it’s still that usefull for mining ATM
i will try NiceHash miner. Even if i find something to mine that will give me 10-15$ a month, in my view it will cover the electricity expense.
i was looking at maybe getting some risers to add the HD 6870’s i have with my R9 390x. the down side is i’d have to completely rework my gaming rig into some kind of hybrid caseless dual purpose rig . . . . ohh the noise . . .