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 Options are:

 BIOS modded RX 480/580.
 BIOS modded RX 470/570 will get into the lower end of that range.
 GTX 1070 will hit 30 sometimes 32 when overclocked, depending on the RAM.
 R9 290/290x/390/390x but those eat a lot of power.
 GTX 1080 will hit the VERY bottom of that range.
 GTX 1080ti will hit mid-30s somewhere.

 Note that ALL of these options are not exactly cheap due to the demand miners are putting on mid-high end GPUs the last 2-3 months.

 (edit)
 GTX 1060 6GB might get close to the bottom of that range - think it's 22 Mhs ballpark depending on how well the memory overclocks per reports.
 RX 460 won't get close to that range.
 (/edit)

 From what I've seen so far, the "mining edition" cards aren't going to be a LOT lower than consumer-model cards as folks "charge what the market will bear"....

use this for 1060

http://cryptomining-blog.com/8852-new-optimized-ethminer-for-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-gpus/

Thanks for the reply. Avaiability wont be a problem really. I've found most cards online here in Norway and those that I haven't found some of will be in by the time I'm ready to order some anyways. I have a 1060 3GB and while testing I've gotten only about 19MH/s after overclock wich is quite low for that card, It's hynix memory and I've probably been a bit unlucky with my unit or something. If I were to buy 1060's 3GB would be enough or will i need to get the 6GB ones?

Well I might be going for some 1070's if I can find them a bit cheaper. Yes I've mainly focused on eth so far but I'l be mining whatever is most profitable with the setup I end up with.

... or get the mining card editions by AMD and NVIDIA coming out soon.

http://cryptomining-blog.com/8856-sapphire-also-to-release-amd-based-crypto-mining-gpus/

http://cryptomining-blog.com/8846-asus-mining-p106-is-a-gpu-for-crypto-currency-mining/

Well it comes down to what you have access to in your area and what your long term goal is..
With the new claymore miner you can get decent hash on eth with the 1060s.

1070's by me are ~$450
1080ti's are ~$669
Amd 470/480 & 570/580 are all sold out

I wen't with 1080ti's due to density as I can't walk into my local store and get more than 2 or 3 without them giving me a hard time and I didn't want to order online.

If your after eth because you think that is the future you can always mine an altcoin, sell it and buy eth. If you want eth you think that is the most profitable coin out there, then you have some research to do as it's not always.

Best of luck.

What cards do you guys think I should get for my upcoming 6-card rig. Im hoping to get about 25-30MH/s per card, with overclock if needed. I see alot of people say we shouldnt invest in 480/580 anymore because they are gonna cut the hashrate. But 1070's are like 600USD retail where I live. Any tips or thoughts on the matter?

This means the card became unstable and reset to DEFAULT settings which is 84c max temp... reduce the core clock down.. and try again... run it for atleast an hour to know if its stable

I got home and looked at the card and it was slightly sticking out of the pci-e so I thought that was my problem. Also went looking for my powered usb risers.. couldnt find those. Hoping they turn up this weekend and I can hang the cards and not worry about temp issues..

It was running perfectly find prior to putting in the 3rd card.. but I am also auto switching coins at nicehash so maybe it gets hung up on a switch?

Have you tried changing the cards around in the slots yet?  THought u were going to try that.  I would unlink all the cards reset all the settings in afterburner then saving the profile.

Also set the heat limit to like 70% so it auto cuts it back on the power if it goes over 70% I dont know if will work if you are having that issue.


I have a weird issue like that sometimes but it is the opposite.  If you go from Skien to Zec after a few days mining one of your cards might stuck using half its power.  A reboot usually fixes it.

My problem from yesterday happened again..
It was fine last night into this morning and when I got to work and checked the first card was 84 while cards 2 and 3 were mid to low 60s..
So I dropped the power from 80 to 70 and it dropped back to mid 60s.. I checked the power usage and prior to me dropping it, the card was running at 100%! Afterburn was set to 80% and the other cards were 80..

Anyone have any idea why the card would run at 100 when it was set to 80? Adjusting the setting to 70 woke it up.. but still..

A 30 amp pdu can do 24 amps at 220/240 about 5800 watts

Or around 6 x 950 watt rigs.  If it has remote on off via Internet it is costly.  Most will not do individual plugs they will reset all the rigs.
Srr will do eight rigs and up to 40 rigs automatic.

And only the rigs needed.

I have a pdu and do not use a lot of rigs.

But if I expand I will be getting srr

There is a switch -sc which has different stratum protocols, here's the help:

-SP, --stratum-protocol Choose which stratum protocol to use:
    0: official stratum spec: ethpool, ethermine, coinotron, mph, nanopool (default)
    1: eth-proxy compatible: dwarfpool, f2pool, nanopool
    2: EthereumStratum/1.0.0: nicehash

I'd suggest trying one of the others if the default isn't working. No idea if this will work or not because I'm using it ok with ethermine.org. Only one downside is it's not reporting hashrate correctly. Still get shares but missing a line on the graph.

I have 4 of this Ethreum PSU running 24x7 for 2 weeks now, isolated in a different rack with its own 20amp circuits... running 500w to 700w at max and never beyond that. Fingers crossed -- all is well. They will be soon replaced by 94% Platinum server PSUs with pico, bb kit.

Compared to the EVGA-G2-1600w, its almost similar in size... but top rated PSUs like EVGAs have very high quality parts, sturdy build, 10-Year-Warranty, etc.....  I have 12 of them in my farm 24x7 since Jan 2016 and all are still alive even today. The fat C19 power cord itself is an amazing piece of piece of engineering.

have you considered a cheaper solution like SRR (SimpleRigResetter) @ https://simplemining.net, if you have many rigs or running a farm this SRR makes a lot of sense vs a PDU.

I only have 2 cards in that rig and I know what they should do and they are doing it.  As my other gear gets here that rig will disappear.  I have a handful of i5 cpu's and motherboards i only used this one because it was already a full system I'd never pulled any parts out of.  Thanks for the tip.

my old gear is still alive and kicking. bought as surplus in late 2013,  4x pcie slots too...

rgarding the cpu, it might affect hashrate, depends on mining software, when eth miner still uses hdd for DAG, my core2duo and pentium 4 are hashing lower than my core2quads..until i upgrade them to core2quads....so if you have time and a little bit of extra money you can hunt/scavenge for an upgrade of the cpu..

if i'm not mistaken most of the old gear with 4x pcie, specially the ones with crossfire tech are the top of the line back then and they are heavy duty...

Got my first riser in the mail today from Ali express.  I did some research to  make sure I got good ones and the ones I got were exactly as per the pictures (high quality soldering etc)  I just went with the free shipping and bought one each from about 6 different places, and one magically showed up  in just 6 days!

I was so excited in instantly shut down my three rigs and swapped out all the power supplies as I got a new 1000W PSU and set everything back up.

I then installed the riser into my old single card PC and with an old 1GB 6590 AMD card just to test it.  I did plan to leave it going overnight as testing but that card cant mine anyways so I through caution to the wind and just slapped in my EVGA 1080 ti SC black and set it to mining.

I have it outside the case just on a bench.

Works perfectly.  This is a 7+ year old motherboard (the cpu is right before core duos) with one big PCI-e slot and 3 mini ones.  So this super old hardware is fine.  Though I think I may run into issues with the CPU if I add more cards or not?  But I have 3 other better CPU old motherboards sitting around anyways.   So I am pretty happy my old useless gear now has a use and I dont have to buy motherboards.

Now the cool thing about the riser is how bloody cold it runs.  SO cold.   I have the exact same card in my main gaming PC (which is openwith all the sides off) along side my Auros but they are very far apart.

At 65 TPD for the one in the case, I run the fan at 55% and it sits around 55C.   The one on the riser sits at 50C and the fan is only at 35%.  I mean I could set it to 25% and it would be fine that was amazing (it is winter here btw).

So I now cant wait for the rest of my risers to arrive.

 Form factor on those "1800 watt" PS is WAY too small to be a legit 1800 watt - and I also find the "90 Plus" certification an issue, as there is no such certification.
 They look suspiciously like the 1100 watt PS I have in some of my Innosilicon A2 units.
 I'm not sure I'd trust them for *1* kilowatt 24/7.

 The "1600 watt" PS are big enough they MIGHT be legit.

I told ya a while ago that I would take the diamonds when ya sold them, but we made no deal or agreement for them at the time so not sure if you are thinking of that conversation or someone else.

All 28 x Zotac 1070 Minis are all mining ETH, currently still using Claymore using nvOC and also tested smOS Nvidia.
Once consolidated to the 7+2 rig I have in mind with Asus Prime Z270, cant wait to test them on Genoil...

My contacts in China recommended me these PSUs - they claimed that it better than Great Wall... but I have my reservations because I have mostly EVGAs 1000/1300/1600w and very happy with them. But since I didn't want my 1080tis to sit idle while waiting for G3s and server PSUs... got a few of them and run it at 50-60% to be on safe side.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/YUNHUI-ETH-ETC-ZCASH-MINER-Gold-POWER-1800W-ETH-miner-power-supply-for-R9-380-RX/32812977559.html?spm=2114.13010608.0.0.2jYr6d

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/The-Ethereum-miners-power-supply-1600W-12V-128A-output-Including-22PCES-2P-4P-6P-8P-24P/32801102199.html?spm=2114.13010608.0.0.HYPGoB