So I decided to join the Dark Side and gave mining a try mainly cause I am the only one that is able to stay at home for work and I'd rather not use the space heater if I can get away with it. Dw, I won't start hoarding GPUs and building mining rigs loll.
So I am using nicehash and it's been quite easy. You install the software, attach your mining wallet, get a pay out to your wallet every 3 hours and then you can with draw to your own btc wallet once you get more than 0.001 btc. The GPUs don't require much frequency in core clocks but it seems that the higher the bandwidth in VRAM, the better. With the optimized settings from nicehash software my Core Clocks are about 1ghz on my Strix 3080 and the memory clock is about 2500mhz.
Now as you can imagine, the GPU temps are quite low always sitting around 55C but the VRAM temps are quite high usually 88 sometimes to 98 then goes back down to 88. You can customize the tuning to your liking but the odds are that the Vram temps are gonna stay high if you want a good MH/s rate.
Hash Rate is about 96 MH/s for my Strix 3080. Because overclocking won't actually do anything, it's probably about the same for most 3080s.
As for my laptops. The 2070 laptop gets about 36MH/s and 2060 MaxQ gets about 26 MH/s
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
