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Quote from: Sledge0001 on February 15, 2021, 11:48:16 AM

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Quote from: Sledge0001 on February 14, 2021, 05:05:47 PM

Honestly I'd rather hold out for the new RTX 3060's that are supposedly shipping soon.

They have loaded them with an adequate 12GB memory so for ETH they should be good!

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/30-series/rtx-3060-3060ti/

Good choice, the RTX3060ti is less power consuming and also don't have that sick high memory temp like the RTX3090 does, for those who lives in a hot country RTX3090 is a bad choice, your memory chip will die on you cos that thing gets hot over 100°C, very scary

Still to this day haven't had any issues mining with my 3090s...

I'm more curious about the soon to be released standard RTX 3060 (Non TI version) since these are going to have 12GB of Memory built in.

The news says that February 25 will be the start date of sales, but if these video cards show a good result in mining, they will not reach stores

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RTX3060 test in a laptop, 38 MH. Weak hashrate.
RTX3060 in laptop and discrete RTX3060 showed approximately the same results

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Quote from: Samayuki on February 15, 2021, 07:03:13 AM

Quote from: Sledge0001 on February 14, 2021, 05:05:47 PM

Honestly I'd rather hold out for the new RTX 3060's that are supposedly shipping soon.

They have loaded them with an adequate 12GB memory so for ETH they should be good!

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/30-series/rtx-3060-3060ti/

Good choice, the RTX3060ti is less power consuming and also don't have that sick high memory temp like the RTX3090 does, for those who lives in a hot country RTX3090 is a bad choice, your memory chip will die on you cos that thing gets hot over 100°C, very scary

Still to this day haven't had any issues mining with my 3090s...

I'm more curious about the soon to be released standard RTX 3060 (Non TI version) since these are going to have 12GB of Memory built in.

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Quote from: Sledge0001 on February 14, 2021, 05:05:47 PM

Honestly I'd rather hold out for the new RTX 3060's that are supposedly shipping soon.

They have loaded them with an adequate 12GB memory so for ETH they should be good!

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/30-series/rtx-3060-3060ti/

Good choice, the RTX3060ti is less power consuming and also don't have that sick high memory temp like the RTX3090 does, for those who lives in a hot country RTX3090 is a bad choice, your memory chip will die on you cos that thing gets hot over 100°C, very scary

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Honestly I'd rather hold out for the new RTX 3060's that are supposedly shipping soon.

They have loaded them with an adequate 12GB memory so for ETH they should be good!

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/30-series/rtx-3060-3060ti/

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Quote from: gathermind on February 12, 2021, 11:39:42 AM

Thanks' all advices! Now, I am confident to build 8 pcs 1660S Rig with 1000W Power Supply. Wink

hehe maybe 2 3090

No, 3090 isn't a good choice for those who are new to crypto mining and graphic cards, this RTX3090 should go to those who can manage the memory temp because that's the only thing dangerous about RTX3090

he did not give price for 3090. looks like 1660s getting 320$ each 4x320=1280$ and if he can get 3090 at msrp then 3090 good choice i tell you why. 1660s old card and have 6g memory but here you are getting 24g of super fast gddr 6x. and im sure 3090 will give very good results in any algorithm. maybe there will be new coin for them who knows also 3090 will not loose price in 3-4 years. as soon as ethereum explodes these 1660s will loose price very quick.

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Quote from: batsonxl on February 12, 2021, 04:23:27 PM

Quote from: gathermind on February 12, 2021, 11:39:42 AM

Thanks' all advices! Now, I am confident to build 8 pcs 1660S Rig with 1000W Power Supply. Wink

hehe maybe 2 3090

No, 3090 isn't a good choice for those who are new to crypto mining and graphic cards, this RTX3090 should go to those who can manage the memory temp because that's the only thing dangerous about RTX3090

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Quote from: arielbit on February 12, 2021, 09:39:26 AM

Quote from: FireBallex on February 11, 2021, 11:54:54 PM

Quote from: arielbit on February 11, 2021, 11:36:49 PM

Quote from: KaratX on February 11, 2021, 05:22:17 PM

Both are good, if you are going for RTX3090 make sure you buy better brands with three fans and good thermal pads tweaks, you can watch youtube videos about best RTX3090 cards available on the market, I just find the 1660 Ti and super to be extremely quiet and cool

LOL if you pack 1660ti together they ain't cool no more and you can add the trouble of managing 4 pieces of them.

go for 3090..what is this bull market for?

It's not hard to manage 4 GPUs at all, I have 6x 1660 supers and they mine at 31mh each at 54°C per one, they are all Zotac brand with just two fans, try getting that temp on a RTX3090 and you will be the difference

if 4 GPUs (1 rig) is all you have then i agree that they are not hard to manage, if you have 10 rigs (or more) of then you will understand why. hehe

What's there to understand? I'd then have to buy extra motherboard and build a separate rig with 4x cards or 6x max, I don't like anything over 6x graphic card on a single motherboard, there will surely be some hiccups like one card not getting recognized or having to use two power supplies on a single motherboard

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Hi friends,

I ordered 8 pcs Gigabyte 1660S to build a Rig.
Gigabyte brandname 1660S is good for mining? I still don't know it is good or not.

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Quote from: gathermind on February 12, 2021, 11:39:42 AM

Thanks' all advices! Now, I am confident to build 8 pcs 1660S Rig with 1000W Power Supply. Wink

hehe maybe 2 3090

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i think 3x 3060ti is better

if you can find in msrp price

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Thanks' all advices! Now, I am confident to build 8 pcs 1660S Rig with 1000W Power Supply. Wink

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Quote from: Sledge0001 on February 11, 2021, 11:58:35 PM

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Quote from: arielbit on February 11, 2021, 11:36:49 PM

Quote from: KaratX on February 11, 2021, 05:22:17 PM

Both are good, if you are going for RTX3090 make sure you buy better brands with three fans and good thermal pads tweaks, you can watch youtube videos about best RTX3090 cards available on the market, I just find the 1660 Ti and super to be extremely quiet and cool

LOL if you pack 1660ti together they ain't cool no more and you can add the trouble of managing 4 pieces of them.

go for 3090..what is this bull market for?

It's not hard to manage 4 GPUs at all, I have 6x 1660 supers and they mine at 31mh each at 54°C per one, they are all Zotac brand with just two fans, try getting that temp on a RTX3090 and you will be the difference

My 3090's rarely see 60c.. That's air cooled wtih a fan...

So it takes 6 cards to pull in 186MH/s vs 1 x 3090 tuned can bring in 120MH/s... I'll stick with the single 3090's (although I have many more) in this scenario...

Not to mention the 1660 has a 100% power draw of 120W.... The 3090 draws 350w-375W....

It feels like you are the first or probably the only one I've seen that achieve 60°C on RTX3090, most are over 70°C when mining around the clock, congrats on that mate, about 1660 using 100% power draw that's your fault, if you have any 1660 super or even the To version you need to put the max power draw to 65% and lower cclock and memory clock to zero, this will boost hashrate to 31Mh @80 watts to 82 watts, this is confirmed and tested

88-92% power (311 - 322w per card) with a +1020 mhz bump on the memory clock and that's it for 120MH/s. 8 GPU Open Air Racks with Fan's behind, custom fan ramp up in afterburner and a box fan over the top. That's all it takes.

Hi sledge0001 are you even watching the memory temp of your gpu? I'm sure that will be over 90°C, the problem isn't the normal gpu temp itself, the problem is the memory chip temperature, they are extremely high and the only way to cool them down is additional fan on the back plate of the gpu

Yes and I have seen them peak out at about 90c - 91c. Having a fan run over the top of them as well as from behind does the job!

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Quote from: geck on February 12, 2021, 10:45:00 AM

Quote from: gathermind on February 12, 2021, 08:57:10 AM

Hello,

If I build 8 pcs 1660S Rig, how much Watt of Power supply I needed to buy?
I can buy 1 big Power Supply / 2 small Power Supplies.

Moreover, my country's 1660S price is about $320 per card. Is it good to buy them building a Rig?

my 8x1660s is drawing under 700W. It would run very comfortably on a 1kw psu, so 2x 550w would work

A single power supply is better than two but if you are a techy guy then no problem, if not it's not safe for you to set that up unless you look for videos online and follow tutorials

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Quote from: gathermind on February 12, 2021, 08:57:10 AM

Hello,

If I build 8 pcs 1660S Rig, how much Watt of Power supply I needed to buy?
I can buy 1 big Power Supply / 2 small Power Supplies.

Moreover, my country's 1660S price is about $320 per card. Is it good to buy them building a Rig?

A 1000watt power supply is enough for all the 8 graphic cards, the reason why I like gtx1660Super is the ability to lower power consumption and it works, the max energy draw of this card is 83 watts, most of mine do 82 watts but few do 83watts and 8x of the 1660 super will give 656 watts of 680watts.

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Quote from: geck on February 12, 2021, 10:48:24 AM

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Quote from: FireBallex on February 11, 2021, 11:54:54 PM

Quote from: arielbit on February 11, 2021, 11:36:49 PM

Quote from: KaratX on February 11, 2021, 05:22:17 PM

Both are good, if you are going for RTX3090 make sure you buy better brands with three fans and good thermal pads tweaks, you can watch youtube videos about best RTX3090 cards available on the market, I just find the 1660 Ti and super to be extremely quiet and cool

LOL if you pack 1660ti together they ain't cool no more and you can add the trouble of managing 4 pieces of them.

go for 3090..what is this bull market for?

It's not hard to manage 4 GPUs at all, I have 6x 1660 supers and they mine at 31mh each at 54°C per one, they are all Zotac brand with just two fans, try getting that temp on a RTX3090 and you will be the difference

if 4 GPUs (1 rig) is all you have then i agree that they are not hard to manage, if you have 10 rigs (or more) of then you will understand why. hehe

Managing 10rigs of 12gpus is not hard at all. Just make sure you standardize the motherboards, and label the gpus with its pci bus number.

until it gets old hehe

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Quote from: arielbit on February 12, 2021, 09:39:26 AM

Quote from: FireBallex on February 11, 2021, 11:54:54 PM

Quote from: arielbit on February 11, 2021, 11:36:49 PM

Quote from: KaratX on February 11, 2021, 05:22:17 PM

Both are good, if you are going for RTX3090 make sure you buy better brands with three fans and good thermal pads tweaks, you can watch youtube videos about best RTX3090 cards available on the market, I just find the 1660 Ti and super to be extremely quiet and cool

LOL if you pack 1660ti together they ain't cool no more and you can add the trouble of managing 4 pieces of them.

go for 3090..what is this bull market for?

It's not hard to manage 4 GPUs at all, I have 6x 1660 supers and they mine at 31mh each at 54°C per one, they are all Zotac brand with just two fans, try getting that temp on a RTX3090 and you will be the difference

if 4 GPUs (1 rig) is all you have then i agree that they are not hard to manage, if you have 10 rigs (or more) of then you will understand why. hehe

Managing 10rigs of 12gpus is not hard at all. Just make sure you standardize the motherboards, and label the gpus with its pci bus number.

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Quote from: gathermind on February 12, 2021, 08:57:10 AM

Hello,

If I build 8 pcs 1660S Rig, how much Watt of Power supply I needed to buy?
I can buy 1 big Power Supply / 2 small Power Supplies.

Moreover, my country's 1660S price is about $320 per card. Is it good to buy them building a Rig?

my 8x1660s is drawing under 700W. It would run very comfortably on a 1kw psu, so 2x 550w would work

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Quote from: FireBallex on February 11, 2021, 11:54:54 PM

Quote from: arielbit on February 11, 2021, 11:36:49 PM

Quote from: KaratX on February 11, 2021, 05:22:17 PM

Both are good, if you are going for RTX3090 make sure you buy better brands with three fans and good thermal pads tweaks, you can watch youtube videos about best RTX3090 cards available on the market, I just find the 1660 Ti and super to be extremely quiet and cool

LOL if you pack 1660ti together they ain't cool no more and you can add the trouble of managing 4 pieces of them.

go for 3090..what is this bull market for?

It's not hard to manage 4 GPUs at all, I have 6x 1660 supers and they mine at 31mh each at 54°C per one, they are all Zotac brand with just two fans, try getting that temp on a RTX3090 and you will be the difference

if 4 GPUs (1 rig) is all you have then i agree that they are not hard to manage, if you have 10 rigs (or more) of then you will understand why. hehe

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Hello,

If I build 8 pcs 1660S Rig, how much Watt of Power supply I needed to buy?
I can buy 1 big Power Supply / 2 small Power Supplies.

Moreover, my country's 1660S price is about $320 per card. Is it good to buy them building a Rig?

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Quote from: Sledge0001 on February 12, 2021, 12:48:19 AM

Quote from: Bitbtc8 on February 12, 2021, 12:27:29 AM

Quote from: Sledge0001 on February 11, 2021, 11:58:35 PM

Quote from: FireBallex on February 11, 2021, 11:54:54 PM

Quote from: arielbit on February 11, 2021, 11:36:49 PM

Quote from: KaratX on February 11, 2021, 05:22:17 PM

Both are good, if you are going for RTX3090 make sure you buy better brands with three fans and good thermal pads tweaks, you can watch youtube videos about best RTX3090 cards available on the market, I just find the 1660 Ti and super to be extremely quiet and cool

LOL if you pack 1660ti together they ain't cool no more and you can add the trouble of managing 4 pieces of them.

go for 3090..what is this bull market for?

It's not hard to manage 4 GPUs at all, I have 6x 1660 supers and they mine at 31mh each at 54°C per one, they are all Zotac brand with just two fans, try getting that temp on a RTX3090 and you will be the difference

My 3090's rarely see 60c.. That's air cooled wtih a fan...

So it takes 6 cards to pull in 186MH/s vs 1 x 3090 tuned can bring in 120MH/s... I'll stick with the single 3090's (although I have many more) in this scenario...

Not to mention the 1660 has a 100% power draw of 120W.... The 3090 draws 350w-375W....

It feels like you are the first or probably the only one I've seen that achieve 60°C on RTX3090, most are over 70°C when mining around the clock, congrats on that mate, about 1660 using 100% power draw that's your fault, if you have any 1660 super or even the To version you need to put the max power draw to 65% and lower cclock and memory clock to zero, this will boost hashrate to 31Mh @80 watts to 82 watts, this is confirmed and tested

88-92% power (311 - 322w per card) with a +1020 mhz bump on the memory clock and that's it for 120MH/s. 8 GPU Open Air Racks with Fan's behind, custom fan ramp up in afterburner and a box fan over the top. That's all it takes.

Hi sledge0001 are you even watching the memory temp of your gpu? I'm sure that will be over 90°C, the problem isn't the normal gpu temp itself, the problem is the memory chip temperature, they are extremely high and the only way to cool them down is additional fan on the back plate of the gpu

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Quote from: Bitbtc8 on February 12, 2021, 12:27:29 AM

Quote from: Sledge0001 on February 11, 2021, 11:58:35 PM

Quote from: FireBallex on February 11, 2021, 11:54:54 PM

Quote from: arielbit on February 11, 2021, 11:36:49 PM

Quote from: KaratX on February 11, 2021, 05:22:17 PM

Both are good, if you are going for RTX3090 make sure you buy better brands with three fans and good thermal pads tweaks, you can watch youtube videos about best RTX3090 cards available on the market, I just find the 1660 Ti and super to be extremely quiet and cool

LOL if you pack 1660ti together they ain't cool no more and you can add the trouble of managing 4 pieces of them.

go for 3090..what is this bull market for?

It's not hard to manage 4 GPUs at all, I have 6x 1660 supers and they mine at 31mh each at 54°C per one, they are all Zotac brand with just two fans, try getting that temp on a RTX3090 and you will be the difference

My 3090's rarely see 60c.. That's air cooled wtih a fan...

So it takes 6 cards to pull in 186MH/s vs 1 x 3090 tuned can bring in 120MH/s... I'll stick with the single 3090's (although I have many more) in this scenario...

Not to mention the 1660 has a 100% power draw of 120W.... The 3090 draws 350w-375W....

It feels like you are the first or probably the only one I've seen that achieve 60°C on RTX3090, most are over 70°C when mining around the clock, congrats on that mate, about 1660 using 100% power draw that's your fault, if you have any 1660 super or even the To version you need to put the max power draw to 65% and lower cclock and memory clock to zero, this will boost hashrate to 31Mh @80 watts to 82 watts, this is confirmed and tested

88-92% power (311 - 322w per card) with a +1020 mhz bump on the memory clock and that's it for 120MH/s. 8 GPU Open Air Racks with Fan's behind, custom fan ramp up in afterburner and a box fan over the top. That's all it takes.

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Quote from: Sledge0001 on February 11, 2021, 11:58:35 PM

Quote from: FireBallex on February 11, 2021, 11:54:54 PM

Quote from: arielbit on February 11, 2021, 11:36:49 PM

Quote from: KaratX on February 11, 2021, 05:22:17 PM

Both are good, if you are going for RTX3090 make sure you buy better brands with three fans and good thermal pads tweaks, you can watch youtube videos about best RTX3090 cards available on the market, I just find the 1660 Ti and super to be extremely quiet and cool

LOL if you pack 1660ti together they ain't cool no more and you can add the trouble of managing 4 pieces of them.

go for 3090..what is this bull market for?

It's not hard to manage 4 GPUs at all, I have 6x 1660 supers and they mine at 31mh each at 54°C per one, they are all Zotac brand with just two fans, try getting that temp on a RTX3090 and you will be the difference

My 3090's rarely see 60c.. That's air cooled wtih a fan...

So it takes 6 cards to pull in 186MH/s vs 1 x 3090 tuned can bring in 120MH/s... I'll stick with the single 3090's (although I have many more) in this scenario...

Not to mention the 1660 has a 100% power draw of 120W.... The 3090 draws 350w-375W....

It feels like you are the first or probably the only one I've seen that achieve 60°C on RTX3090, most are over 70°C when mining around the clock, congrats on that mate, about 1660 using 100% power draw that's your fault, if you have any 1660 super or even the To version you need to put the max power draw to 65% and lower cclock and memory clock to zero, this will boost hashrate to 31Mh @80 watts to 82 watts, this is confirmed and tested

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Quote from: FireBallex on February 11, 2021, 11:54:54 PM

Quote from: arielbit on February 11, 2021, 11:36:49 PM

Quote from: KaratX on February 11, 2021, 05:22:17 PM

Both are good, if you are going for RTX3090 make sure you buy better brands with three fans and good thermal pads tweaks, you can watch youtube videos about best RTX3090 cards available on the market, I just find the 1660 Ti and super to be extremely quiet and cool

LOL if you pack 1660ti together they ain't cool no more and you can add the trouble of managing 4 pieces of them.

go for 3090..what is this bull market for?

It's not hard to manage 4 GPUs at all, I have 6x 1660 supers and they mine at 31mh each at 54°C per one, they are all Zotac brand with just two fans, try getting that temp on a RTX3090 and you will be the difference

My 3090's rarely see 60c.. That's air cooled wtih a fan...

So it takes 6 cards to pull in 186MH/s vs 1 x 3090 tuned can bring in 120MH/s... I'll stick with the single 3090's (although I have many more) in this scenario...

Not to mention the 1660 has a 100% power draw of 120W.... The 3090 draws 350w-375W....

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Quote from: arielbit on February 11, 2021, 11:36:49 PM

Quote from: KaratX on February 11, 2021, 05:22:17 PM

Both are good, if you are going for RTX3090 make sure you buy better brands with three fans and good thermal pads tweaks, you can watch youtube videos about best RTX3090 cards available on the market, I just find the 1660 Ti and super to be extremely quiet and cool

LOL if you pack 1660ti together they ain't cool no more and you can add the trouble of managing 4 pieces of them.

go for 3090..what is this bull market for?

It's not hard to manage 4 GPUs at all, I have 6x 1660 supers and they mine at 31mh each at 54°C per one, they are all Zotac brand with just two fans, try getting that temp on a RTX3090 and you will be the difference

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Quote from: KaratX on February 11, 2021, 05:22:17 PM

Both are good, if you are going for RTX3090 make sure you buy better brands with three fans and good thermal pads tweaks, you can watch youtube videos about best RTX3090 cards available on the market, I just find the 1660 Ti and super to be extremely quiet and cool

LOL if you pack 1660ti together they ain't cool no more and you can add the trouble of managing 4 pieces of them.

go for 3090..what is this bull market for?

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3090 hands down... Buy a small fan and make more $ with 1 card and much less hassle than trying to tune 4 cards..

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Both are good, if you are going for RTX3090 make sure you buy better brands with three fans and good thermal pads tweaks, you can watch youtube videos about best RTX3090 cards available on the market, I just find the 1660 Ti and super to be extremely quiet and cool

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Quote from: Apostlekin$$$ on February 11, 2021, 04:08:12 PM

It makes sense to have more GPUs than a single one because of losses, the risk is limited with 4 GPUs instead of one, for example the gtx1660 super can cool at 54°C to 58°C, this will simply keep the graphic card alive for a longer time but with one gpu that can do 80 to 90°C anything can happen

I think it's easier to cool a single gpu like RTX 3090, you can also leave the fan variants and go for liquid cooling types, this will keep the high temp to minimum level and thus makes mining experience more enjoyable, less electricity power at higher Hashrates, nothing comes close to this

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Quote from: Skinny48 on February 11, 2021, 01:42:23 PM

Quote from: geck on February 11, 2021, 12:18:30 PM

I would get whichever one is available. If both are available, i would get the 1660supers.
With a motherboard like this:

you could pack 8 of them, remove the fans on the gpu and use 3 120mm fans to push through the heatsink

Just because this motherboard have 8x pcie slots doesn't mean its good for 8 graphic cards

1. Graphic cards are of different sizes, they might not sit well side by side, some are giant and some are bulky and fat

2. The space between the slots are not enough, even if you insert slim gpus the heat will be much, the highest I can put on that motherboard is just 4 pieces of graphics card for better air flow and less heat

Any person that plans to use this motherboard must order their graphic cards wisely because some fat graphic cards won't be able to sit next to each other, you need to find a brand that isn't fat gpu but still I prefer using risers

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Quote from: Skinny48 on February 11, 2021, 01:42:23 PM

Quote from: geck on February 11, 2021, 12:18:30 PM

I would get whichever one is available. If both are available, i would get the 1660supers.
With a motherboard like this:

you could pack 8 of them, remove the fans on the gpu and use 3 120mm fans to push through the heatsink

Just because this motherboard have 8x pcie slots doesn't mean its good for 8 graphic cards

1. Graphic cards are of different sizes, they might not sit well side by side, some are giant and some are bulky and fat

2. The space between the slots are not enough, even if you insert slim gpus the heat will be much, the highest I can put on that motherboard is just 4 pieces of graphics card for better air flow and less heat

This motherboard has 8x pcie slots, and it's good for 8 gpus. With these type of motherboards you need to be selective with the gpus you get. The fins of the heatsink needs to be horizontal, and you need to have very small spacing between the cards. Yes small spacing, so ideal cards will be 2.5 slot gpus with horizontal fins and you must remove the stock fans. Check out red panda's recent video of server case builds.

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It makes sense to have more GPUs than a single one because of losses, the risk is limited with 4 GPUs instead of one, for example the gtx1660 super can cool at 54°C to 58°C, this will simply keep the graphic card alive for a longer time but with one gpu that can do 80 to 90°C anything can happen

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Quote from: Rowenta on February 11, 2021, 01:32:04 PM

I will go with the gtx1660 super instead because of long life span, trusting two or more things is better than trusting one thing, if the RTX3090 fails it's overs, if one gtx1660 super fails you still have three left, more hope I believe

If cooling is all that RTX 3090 needs I'm here for it, i prefer mining with one RTX3090 than more GPUs, it makes things look cleaner and again a single RTX 3090 can do 120mhs but at least wattage consumption, 4x gtx1660 will draw 320 watts and a single RTX 3090 will draw just 290 watts

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Quote from: geck on February 11, 2021, 12:18:30 PM

I would get whichever one is available. If both are available, i would get the 1660supers.
With a motherboard like this:

you could pack 8 of them, remove the fans on the gpu and use 3 120mm fans to push through the heatsink

If I have this motherboard right now I will still use risers because there won't be enough space in between the graphic cards once you insert all the 8 gpu onboard and that's even if all the 8 gpu fits the motherboard

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Quote from: geck on February 11, 2021, 12:18:30 PM

I would get whichever one is available. If both are available, i would get the 1660supers.
With a motherboard like this:

you could pack 8 of them, remove the fans on the gpu and use 3 120mm fans to push through the heatsink

Just because this motherboard have 8x pcie slots doesn't mean its good for 8 graphic cards

1. Graphic cards are of different sizes, they might not sit well side by side, some are giant and some are bulky and fat

2. The space between the slots are not enough, even if you insert slim gpus the heat will be much, the highest I can put on that motherboard is just 4 pieces of graphics card for better air flow and less heat

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I will go with the gtx1660 super instead because of long life span, trusting two or more things is better than trusting one thing, if the RTX3090 fails it's overs, if one gtx1660 super fails you still have three left, more hope I believe

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RTX 3090 is hot, that's a fact that you need to know before buying the card, make sure you know how to cool the card and bring it down to safe temp, also the memory of RTX3090 heats up so fast and you will have to buy a fan to send cool air at the back plate of the card

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I would get whichever one is available. If both are available, i would get the 1660supers.
With a motherboard like this:

you could pack 8 of them, remove the fans on the gpu and use 3 120mm fans to push through the heatsink

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Quote from: batsonxl on February 11, 2021, 11:54:32 AM

All depend on price....? how much is 4 1660s and 1 3090?
If it is same price of course 3090 better, alot gpu means alot headache.

Alot of headache and more money to spend on risers too, probably even power supply, a single RTX3090 don't need two but one PCIe x16 slot and one motherboard too, very easy, go for the RTX3090

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If you don't have slot problems, I will go for the 4 cards, simply because the depreciation and the risk on the top card are both very high.
Much easier to sell 4 used average card than selling 1 that was very good year ago.

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All depend on price....? how much is 4 1660s and 1 3090?
If it is same price of course 3090 better, alot gpu means alot headache.

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Hi peeps, I want to ask if this idea is good enough, I believe that a single RTX3090 can do what 4 pieces of gtx1660 super can do in hashrate power, the 4 gtx1660 super can give 120MH and a single RTX3090 can do 121MH per second so is it ok to go for the single card or the 4 pieces? Which one will you prefer and why?

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