Best GPU's to mine ZCASH with? - page 3.

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Quote from: Hype88 on December 23, 2017, 02:00:50 PM

Does the Aorus 1080ti come with a power splitter cable for the two 8-pins or do you need your own adapter to run it from one PSU cable? Is it a bad idea to run from 1 cable with potential wire limitations or common practice? My current 1080tis are 6-pin + 8-pin.

It comes with an adapter for 2 x 6-pin to 1 x 8-pin.
The non-extreme Aorus has the same "base" TDP as my EVGA SC cards - 250 watts - which is safe enough to run from a single EVGA 8+6 dual cable if you're not pushing the card past rated TDP.

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Does the Aorus 1080ti come with a power splitter cable for the two 8-pins or do you need your own adapter to run it from one PSU cable? Is it a bad idea to run from 1 cable with potential wire limitations or common practice? My current 1080tis are 6-pin + 8-pin.

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Never updated this thread but the 1070 TI is arguably the best GPU for mining ZEC / equihash atm imo

https://youtu.be/jtp4plChU9Y

Some cards we've tested
EVGA
http://amzn.to/2BjZAQb
Zotac (proven to be ~just as fast and cheaper)
http://amzn.to/2Bi1lNO
ASUS STRIX more cooling
http://amzn.to/2AHRVrX

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I have one of those ASUS "Turbo" blower 1080 ti models. Runs a bit on the hot side, removing the "mounting bracket" near the air exhaust area helps some but it STILL runs a little hotter than my EVGA SC 1080ti model and a LOT hotter than the Aorus.
Good choice for a "in a case" build, but I'm not sure it's worth the low price for a riser build.

Did some testing on my Zotac GTX 1080 cards today - anything over +100 on core OR memory cost hashrate , and it was most efficient down around 106 watts, pretty much matching the EVGA SC 1070 ti cards I have (but keep in mind I'm running EBWF on both).
Testing done on the XUbuntu machine I currently have my pair of 1070 ti cards in, so EVERYTHING was the same except the GPU itself.

If the PRICE was a match, this would be a good choice - but 10%+ or so HIGHER cost for the same hashrate and tossup efficiency is a LOSS in my book.

I should probably get around to testing out DSTM soon - have seen conflicting results on "better than" or "worse than" EBWF but they seem to be "model dependent" in part.

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Hey guys, long time lurker and new to mining.

I want to say thank you for your input because i'm learning. Anyway, are these numbers look good to you guys?

Mining on equihash algo. with gtx 1080 and gtx 970. Am trying to as efficient as possible.

https://puu.sh/yreCe/f570ea21be.png

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Quote from: VoskCoin on November 07, 2017, 08:42:41 AM

Just a heads up guys

As cheap as it currently gets 1080 TI are about to be back in stock
https://goo.gl/ZKpijj

Also the 1070 TI are shaping up to be a contender for best bang for buck also . . I've got 2 coming in today
https://goo.gl/Wz6VuX

Hi VoskCoin.

I'm a fan of yours, You actually convinced me to get the 1070 ti after i cancelled my pre orders, I ordered 4 of these MSI 1070ti titanium edition just now. Some guy reporting very good mining results with these, Ball bearing fan, big heat sinks and pretty cheap price with rebate.
https://www.amazon.com/MSI-GTX-1070-TI-TITANIUM/dp/B076Q62TDF/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1510455084&sr=8-2&keywords=1070+ti+msi&dpID=517QRohqBYL&preST=_SX300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

here was his comments "Been running this card in my mining rig for almost a week now. Got it at $489 like others and it is a decent mining card. I like the GDDR5 RAM which handles RAM focused Algos well. I am running a stable overclock at +225 Core, +690 Mem. I must have gotten the Samsung memory with that good of a RAM overclock. I like the way it looks, goes well with my 5 GTX 1070 Armor's from MSI."

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Just a heads up guys

As cheap as it currently gets 1080 TI are about to be back in stock
https://goo.gl/ZKpijj

Also the 1070 TI are shaping up to be a contender for best bang for buck also . . I've got 2 coming in today
https://goo.gl/Wz6VuX

QuintLeo

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My Aorus testing is mostly done on my Win7 gaming rig (where one Aorus lives and I can use Afterburner for easy manipulation) on the "base" model Aorus 1080 ti.

The rest come from my XUbuntu mining rigs - though EthOS should be able to match those numbers since it's also Ubuntu based.

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are you guys getting these numbers on ethOS?

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Quote from: Makak4R on October 24, 2017, 12:37:32 AM

Quote from: Trade_BTC on October 22, 2017, 08:30:30 PM

I hate even revealing this but Voskcoin you seem like a cool dude...the Aorus 1080 ti are the gods of 1080 ti’s. There is no better card in the nvidia lineup. I have only managed to buy 12 and they are not cheap but they easily achieve 725 sols with barely any tweaking. The downside is they are almost always on backorder or price gouging is over 800 usd. If you can catch some at 740 you got a good deal. I wish I had 200 of these in my farm I can’t say enough good about them and I’m not even a gigabyte fan until I discovered that card.

mine Palit Gamerocks are pushing 750-760sols and I know that Asus Strix can go beyond that. Strix is running 10-15C cooler then my Gamerock and pushes 770-780 sols.. so that means Aorus is just a good card, but clearly not the very best Cool

Base Aorus can match that 780 sol/s with minimal tweeking and runs cool and LONG term reliable doing so (the one in the machine I'm typing this on is at 60C right now, but it's the only GPU in a gaming machine in an air-conditioned environment and a case with good cooling).
Not sure if the higher-end model does any better, it's got a higher factory overclock but I suspect it might be limited by having the same cooling system.

I suspect ALL of the "3 slot wide" GTX 1080ti models from the various makers will end up in the same temp/performance range.

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Quote from: Makak4R on October 24, 2017, 12:37:32 AM

Quote from: Trade_BTC on October 22, 2017, 08:30:30 PM

I hate even revealing this but Voskcoin you seem like a cool dude...the Aorus 1080 ti are the gods of 1080 ti’s. There is no better card in the nvidia lineup. I have only managed to buy 12 and they are not cheap but they easily achieve 725 sols with barely any tweaking. The downside is they are almost always on backorder or price gouging is over 800 usd. If you can catch some at 740 you got a good deal. I wish I had 200 of these in my farm I can’t say enough good about them and I’m not even a gigabyte fan until I discovered that card.

mine Palit Gamerocks are pushing 750-760sols and I know that Asus Strix can go beyond that. Strix is running 10-15C cooler then my Gamerock and pushes 770-780 sols.. so that means Aorus is just a good card, but clearly not the very best Cool

The cards I mentioned go higher I said minimal tweaking. Remember stability is important I could get the Aorus over 800 but I'm talking farm applications not "I have 2 gpu look what I can overclock to" application.

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Quote from: Trade_BTC on October 22, 2017, 08:30:30 PM

I hate even revealing this but Voskcoin you seem like a cool dude...the Aorus 1080 ti are the gods of 1080 ti’s. There is no better card in the nvidia lineup. I have only managed to buy 12 and they are not cheap but they easily achieve 725 sols with barely any tweaking. The downside is they are almost always on backorder or price gouging is over 800 usd. If you can catch some at 740 you got a good deal. I wish I had 200 of these in my farm I can’t say enough good about them and I’m not even a gigabyte fan until I discovered that card.

mine Palit Gamerocks are pushing 750-760sols and I know that Asus Strix can go beyond that. Strix is running 10-15C cooler then my Gamerock and pushes 770-780 sols.. so that means Aorus is just a good card, but clearly not the very best Cool

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Quote from: farmtester1 on October 22, 2017, 09:02:29 PM

Quote from: Trade_BTC on October 22, 2017, 08:30:30 PM

I hate even revealing this but Voskcoin you seem like a cool dude...the Aorus 1080 ti are the gods of 1080 ti’s. There is no better card in the nvidia lineup. I have only managed to buy 12 and they are not cheap but they easily achieve 725 sols with barely any tweaking. The downside is they are almost always on backorder or price gouging is over 800 usd. If you can catch some at 740 you got a good deal. I wish I had 200 of these in my farm I can’t say enough good about them and I’m not even a gigabyte fan until I discovered that card.

LOL, your secret is wrong my friend. The best 1080Ti is the Galax HoF Watercooled edition, followed by the Galax HoF Air edition. They reach 820+ Sol/s

well it's not that exciting at the price point / availability O_o

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Quote from: Trade_BTC on October 22, 2017, 08:30:30 PM

Quote from: VoskCoin on October 22, 2017, 07:11:40 PM

Quote from: QuintLeo on October 18, 2017, 04:50:29 PM

Quote from: VoskCoin on October 17, 2017, 09:30:53 AM

What are your preferred settings for getting max performance out of your cards? You probably tune them down a bit like me due to heat issues?

Also does anyone know what the ideal ambient temp is for operating GPUs?

Depends on the rig and the card - most of them I have to turn the TDP down a little to keep them in the 70-75C range when it's cool (like this past week) and under 80 when it's hot (this summer) without going past 85% fan.
Some I've got down as low as 70% or so, but those are mostly in rigs I've upgraded to "4 card part-riser" and need to keep power consumption down to my target 6 amp max draw for infrastructure limit reasons.

The Aorus 1080 ti models though are beasts - can run them at full TDP with 70-80% fan even when it's HOT and they stay plenty cool, as long as there is plenty of airspace in front of the fans.

Profitability has been sliding up a bit this week - seems like something is pulling a fairly large amount of network hashrate out of ZCash this week, more than making up for the minor price drop.
Not a HUGE jump, but noticeable....

The ideal AMBIENT temp for operating GPUs is probably around freezing, but I'm not real interested in moving to northern Greenland or Siberia or that recent split-off northern Canadian province to achieve that year-round....

A ton of mining power has been pouring over to zen, Mona, and vert

What’s your max efficient sols / settings for that on the AORUS TI

I hate even revealing this but Voskcoin you seem like a cool dude...the Aorus 1080 ti are the gods of 1080 ti’s. There is no better card in the nvidia lineup. I have only managed to buy 12 and they are not cheap but they easily achieve 725 sols with barely any tweaking. The downside is they are almost always on backorder or price gouging is over 800 usd. If you can catch some at 740 you got a good deal. I wish I had 200 of these in my farm I can’t say enough good about them and I’m not even a gigabyte fan until I discovered that card.

haha thanks xD - Which model as there's two?
As you said they were the cheapest card at the time I bought the pair around 740 iirc, since that time theyve been out of stock or 800 dollars zz

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Quote from: Trade_BTC on October 22, 2017, 08:30:30 PM

I hate even revealing this but Voskcoin you seem like a cool dude...the Aorus 1080 ti are the gods of 1080 ti’s. There is no better card in the nvidia lineup. I have only managed to buy 12 and they are not cheap but they easily achieve 725 sols with barely any tweaking. The downside is they are almost always on backorder or price gouging is over 800 usd. If you can catch some at 740 you got a good deal. I wish I had 200 of these in my farm I can’t say enough good about them and I’m not even a gigabyte fan until I discovered that card.

LOL, your secret is wrong my friend. The best 1080Ti is the Galax HoF Watercooled edition, followed by the Galax HoF Air edition. They reach 820+ Sol/s

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Quote from: VoskCoin on October 22, 2017, 07:11:40 PM

Quote from: QuintLeo on October 18, 2017, 04:50:29 PM

Quote from: VoskCoin on October 17, 2017, 09:30:53 AM

What are your preferred settings for getting max performance out of your cards? You probably tune them down a bit like me due to heat issues?

Also does anyone know what the ideal ambient temp is for operating GPUs?

Depends on the rig and the card - most of them I have to turn the TDP down a little to keep them in the 70-75C range when it's cool (like this past week) and under 80 when it's hot (this summer) without going past 85% fan.
Some I've got down as low as 70% or so, but those are mostly in rigs I've upgraded to "4 card part-riser" and need to keep power consumption down to my target 6 amp max draw for infrastructure limit reasons.

The Aorus 1080 ti models though are beasts - can run them at full TDP with 70-80% fan even when it's HOT and they stay plenty cool, as long as there is plenty of airspace in front of the fans.

Profitability has been sliding up a bit this week - seems like something is pulling a fairly large amount of network hashrate out of ZCash this week, more than making up for the minor price drop.
Not a HUGE jump, but noticeable....

The ideal AMBIENT temp for operating GPUs is probably around freezing, but I'm not real interested in moving to northern Greenland or Siberia or that recent split-off northern Canadian province to achieve that year-round....

A ton of mining power has been pouring over to zen, Mona, and vert

What’s your max efficient sols / settings for that on the AORUS TI

I hate even revealing this but Voskcoin you seem like a cool dude...the Aorus 1080 ti are the gods of 1080 ti’s. There is no better card in the nvidia lineup. I have only managed to buy 12 and they are not cheap but they easily achieve 725 sols with barely any tweaking. The downside is they are almost always on backorder or price gouging is over 800 usd. If you can catch some at 740 you got a good deal. I wish I had 200 of these in my farm I can’t say enough good about them and I’m not even a gigabyte fan until I discovered that card.

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Quote from: QuintLeo on October 18, 2017, 04:50:29 PM

Quote from: VoskCoin on October 17, 2017, 09:30:53 AM

What are your preferred settings for getting max performance out of your cards? You probably tune them down a bit like me due to heat issues?

Also does anyone know what the ideal ambient temp is for operating GPUs?

Depends on the rig and the card - most of them I have to turn the TDP down a little to keep them in the 70-75C range when it's cool (like this past week) and under 80 when it's hot (this summer) without going past 85% fan.
Some I've got down as low as 70% or so, but those are mostly in rigs I've upgraded to "4 card part-riser" and need to keep power consumption down to my target 6 amp max draw for infrastructure limit reasons.

The Aorus 1080 ti models though are beasts - can run them at full TDP with 70-80% fan even when it's HOT and they stay plenty cool, as long as there is plenty of airspace in front of the fans.

Profitability has been sliding up a bit this week - seems like something is pulling a fairly large amount of network hashrate out of ZCash this week, more than making up for the minor price drop.
Not a HUGE jump, but noticeable....

The ideal AMBIENT temp for operating GPUs is probably around freezing, but I'm not real interested in moving to northern Greenland or Siberia or that recent split-off northern Canadian province to achieve that year-round....

A ton of mining power has been pouring over to zen, Mona, and vert

What’s your max efficient sols / settings for that on the AORUS TI

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Quote from: QuintLeo on October 18, 2017, 04:50:29 PM

Quote from: VoskCoin on October 17, 2017, 09:30:53 AM

What are your preferred settings for getting max performance out of your cards? You probably tune them down a bit like me due to heat issues?

Also does anyone know what the ideal ambient temp is for operating GPUs?

Depends on the rig and the card - most of them I have to turn the TDP down a little to keep them in the 70-75C range when it's cool (like this past week) and under 80 when it's hot (this summer) without going past 85% fan.
Some I've got down as low as 70% or so, but those are mostly in rigs I've upgraded to "4 card part-riser" and need to keep power consumption down to my target 6 amp max draw for infrastructure limit reasons.

The Aorus 1080 ti models though are beasts - can run them at full TDP with 70-80% fan even when it's HOT and they stay plenty cool, as long as there is plenty of airspace in front of the fans.

Profitability has been sliding up a bit this week - seems like something is pulling a fairly large amount of network hashrate out of ZCash this week, more than making up for the minor price drop.
Not a HUGE jump, but noticeable....

The ideal AMBIENT temp for operating GPUs is probably around freezing, but I'm not real interested in moving to northern Greenland or Siberia or that recent split-off northern Canadian province to achieve that year-round....

I have been taking note of credibility of smaller alt coins. Maybe others are too and that's why the hash rate is being redistributed.

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Quote from: VoskCoin on October 17, 2017, 09:30:53 AM

What are your preferred settings for getting max performance out of your cards? You probably tune them down a bit like me due to heat issues?

Also does anyone know what the ideal ambient temp is for operating GPUs?

Depends on the rig and the card - most of them I have to turn the TDP down a little to keep them in the 70-75C range when it's cool (like this past week) and under 80 when it's hot (this summer) without going past 85% fan.
Some I've got down as low as 70% or so, but those are mostly in rigs I've upgraded to "4 card part-riser" and need to keep power consumption down to my target 6 amp max draw for infrastructure limit reasons.

The Aorus 1080 ti models though are beasts - can run them at full TDP with 70-80% fan even when it's HOT and they stay plenty cool, as long as there is plenty of airspace in front of the fans.

Profitability has been sliding up a bit this week - seems like something is pulling a fairly large amount of network hashrate out of ZCash this week, more than making up for the minor price drop.
Not a HUGE jump, but noticeable....

The ideal AMBIENT temp for operating GPUs is probably around freezing, but I'm not real interested in moving to northern Greenland or Siberia or that recent split-off northern Canadian province to achieve that year-round....

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Quote from: Wipro on October 18, 2017, 09:07:15 AM

Quote from: zuzuca on October 17, 2017, 10:40:31 AM

the profitability for mining zcash has gone waaay down. it is more than 1 year for a ROI if you buy a graphic card now and put it to mine. crazy times for zcash.

Hey value itself turns to 198 USD now. Using miner gate application and best specification graphics card in the the series Radeon or Nvidia. Zcash and Monero are the best altcoins now to mine using GPU. So I don't know how you are saying the zcash mining with the cards bro.
You only looks crazy to say it is not possible to mine using cards.

i believe he means you get a fair amount less of actual zcash mined today vs even a month ago

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