The first GPU I purchased to mine Cryptocurrency was a Gigabyte Geforce GTX 750 Ti featuring 2GB of GDDR5 memory. I bought it used on ebay for $100 and it has paid for itself many time over in the last 3 years.
According to Whattomine.com, here are the expected hashing statistics for different algorithms and the most profitable coins to mine using this GPU.
The profitability of coins is constantly changing as miners flock to the most profitable coins, driving their difficulty up and profitability down. As you can see, I am not getting rich mining with this card, but it's very low power consumption helps to ensure that I can still mine profitably.
Since Monero is currently to most profitable coin to mine with this card, I am mining it using ccminer v2.2 running the cryptonight algorithm. As shown below, I'm not quite getting the expected hashing results since I am running this with stock settings instead of trying to push the card harder. But since this GPU has been mining almost non-stop for the last 3 years I think the longevity of the card more than makes up for the reduced mining performance.
Stay tuned as I'll be featuring additional GPUs that I have acquired over the years and am using to mine cryptocurrencies.
Until next time...
