Are mining rigs good for gaming?

A mining rig is an arrangement of hardware elements, either CPU, GPU, FPGA or ASIC that have been arranged to perform cryptocurrency mining.

For example, one featured Bitcoin mining rig costs USD $1,767 to build and operate and generates $4.56 in profit per day at current prices.

The short answer is yes, your power usage will go up a decent amount . The power consumption of your PC will greatly increase by mining for Bitcoins, especially if you are effectively mining with one or more GPU and mining 24/7. If you are not a full time miner, I suggest you mine at night when electricity is cheaper.

The new custom crypto mining chips won’t work for gamers . Many professional crypto miners stuff 10 or more GPUs into their mining rig, and some rigs use as many as 78 GPUs. … So I built my PC around a single GPU — the Nvidia GTX 1070. Even that one GPU was extremely hard to find.