Mining for dummies - My personal experience

My name is Santiago and iam a online marketing specialist, i remember in 2011 i read something about bitcoin but didnt pay much attention back then. Then i read it went uo to usd 1200 and then back down to around usd 200. I forgot about it until last april i saw bitcoin going up so fast and all alcoins too. I knew it was imposible to mine bitcoin with a normal computer and i thought it was like that for all the other cryptocurrencies, 3 weeks ago i realized that i could mine ethereum with videocards and a computer, with 2 other friends started to read all blogs possible about the subject and decided to get into the mining.

I finally made have 6 cards mining but it took me 2 weeks of researching and trying endless configurations.

I want to share some knowledge i have gained with you, and I hope you can profit from this too.

If possible use ati cards rx470 4gb or 8gb, the problem is that now they are sold out almost everywhere but you can still find some nvidia cards at a fair price and mine zcash that is a ethereum derivated coin and get decent profits
If you dont know much make it easy, go to simplemining.net , create and account, make the pendrive and just plug the cards on the computer (dont even need a disk), boot from the pendrive and you will be mining in less than 30 min, you can then control everything from a web panel, this is a great option if you dont want to waste time configuring, all you have to pay is usd 2 per card per month and considering a card is making usd 100 per card profit is not much to ask
If you dare a little more i advise to flash the cards before, it it not difficult, i leave a tutorial here:
http://1stminingrig.com/sapphire-rx-470-nitro-oc-4gb-bios-flash-mod-tutorial-hynix-elpida-samsung-micron/#Save_original_Default_BIOS
If you want to use windows I recomend nicehash, it is very easy to use, you can choose your protocol and with it the coin you want to mine, it does a benchmark and tells you how much you will make on each card, really great : https://new.nicehash.com/
-One disclaimer if you are using windows with flashed cards you have to put an old driver because new ones will not work with flashed cards.

I hope this serves you and any questions you have i will love to help you