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Any advice about 1060 3gb settings ?

In which pools can I mine with a GTX 1070? And which are the best coins or algorithms?

any recommendations for a powerful fan like Scythe's Ultra Kaze

purpose: to bring hot air out of riser-less 1080ti from the top

on the hot summers day, the temps can really creep up past 80c easily

alternative is to reduce intensity and mine less aggressively.... :-(

Skein is still down unfortunately. ZPOOL had some issues, but I think it was more the frontend glitching than any real lost income mining. Skein has taken a dip in price on markets, but am hoping it will rebound in a bit.

Anyone been back on Skein? I have a few things I need to do before I test it again but has it been behaving?  Or more has zpool been behaving.

if you can find any RX cards today it wont be same price.... gpushack offered me 300 bucks for my 1 year old R9 Nano.... no way jose

even though the Nano is a 400+++ sols card, it has TDP of 175w -- so around the specs of 1070 with TDP 150w or less after some tweaking.

For ZEC at least, the current graphic architecture seems to be much more superior to AMD so you are likely to get same hash for less NVIDIA cards vs AMD

I have 4 x GA-Aorus-1080ti 2600-2700sols but eats nearly 200w per card..... but I need at least 6-7 x Nanos to achieve the same results

So I think the math works in favor of Nvidia.... at least for ZEC.

For ETH, memory intensivity will be key and cranking that up will increase power consumption but NVIDIA cards can go even higher MHs per card ~ 1080ti can go up 34-36MHs... so maybe NVIDIA cards will thrive on Equihash algo but perhaps not for Ethhash/Dagger-Hashimoto

For XMR, I've found the old FX-8320e is great.

Microcenter sells them for $80. Bundle a motherboard with an extra $30 off == winning.

Mine gets ~320 sols undervolted with the system pulling less than 120 watts. I don't really know what just the CPU pulls.

https://www.nicehash.com/?p=miners&addr=1JdC6Xg3ajT3rge3FgPNSYYFpmf53Vbtje

nicehash miner and I only pick xmr for the 8 cpus'


my cpus are

i7 6700t
i5 6400t  3 or 4
i5 7500t
i5 7600
i3 6100t

So on one rig you are running whatever say 3 1080tis for zec then you also get the CPU mining XMR and it doesn't really effect the zec?  What are you using for this?  I assume you are using nicehash pool but what miner? and are you doing it manually?  Do you lower the intensity so there is some CPU for the Zec mining?  This could be worth it for me as I have high end gaming CPU anyways.

power cost
heat
area used

If I run 3 1080ti's I can do 1950 for zec at under 580 watts
if I run 6 580's I can do 1750 for zec at 800 watts

3 1080tis on sale = 1770
6 say 580's = 1500

psu a beast for the 580's say the evga 1300 g2  about 200

psu a 750 watt evga for the  750 p2 about 130

risers 1 for the 3x 1080ti's or even none

risers 6 for the 580

psu a good one for the nvidia and run xmr  the i5 6400t my cpus used on eBay are about 130 I earn 3 a day  so the 8 I have are all paid off  so the extra mobo extra psu extra cpu costs all go by the way side.

as I simple do not go past 4 cards on my 1080 ti builds

Thanks for the advice  Cit & Chilidog... the Z270's look like really nice boards, so if and when I can find some decently priced GPU's I may consider going for 1-2 of them.  I already am running 4 6x MSI 470 rigs, and would like to get 1-2 more up and running, but as Cit mentioned, the reality is that it would cost a severe premium to build more rigs now due to 1) global shortage of 580/570 and pretty much no 480/470's left in the supply chain and 2) the 2 to 4x cost of NVidia cards compared to Radeon.

I'll be honest, i never really looked hard at the NVidia prices until earlier today, and was astonished to see how much more they cost than AMD cards. Even the lowly 1060's are ~$300, and I think at best they can do what, about the same as a 470 on ZEC (250 S/s)?  From there it only seems to get worse... a 1080 can do what, 450-500 S/s on ZEC?  Sure, that's 2x what a 470 could do, but about 3x the cost (retail 470, which of course is non-existent now).  

The thing i can't figure out is the profitability of these higher end NVidia cards. Just plugging the comparison of a 1080 (non-TI ) vs a 470 in whattomine, the 1080 mining ZEC is only 10% at most more profitable than a 470 mining ETH, but at 2-3x the cost, will take much longer to ROI, correct?  And, I'm not adding in the extra you could easily get by going dual ETH + DCR or SIA. In that case, the 470 would actually be more profitable than a 1080. So, kind of wondering what the appeal of going NVidia would be, especially before the shortage of 4xx & 5xx cards. Probably I am missing something...

I know Phillip knows WAY more than me on this, but you can also try to turn down the intensity of the miner itself. For example my MOST efficient settings for skein algo that i spent many of hours fine tuning on my gigabyte cards is unable to run half the other coins on zpool list, so one way i got around this via reading about it in another post is to turn down the intensity, 15-30 range, 15 is the lowest, 30 is heavy duty... then run it for a while and see if it stable, then turn up the core clock... My current skein settings is 64TDP/70c/+307/-502 with intensity of 25 on skein.. at intensity of 27 i couldnt get it stable over 250 core...*dropping intensity does drop the hashrate tho...

I also took the mining batch further, i created a secondary batch with the intensity turned down to 15 on my GPU0, then full tilt on 27 intensity on the other GPU and running these settings i can play league of legends without any fuss or lockups.. the intensity at 15 is low enough that its still partially mining, but still able to process the game so i can play while mining.. I just start up both batch files and play my game

Intensity command is "-i 15"

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 The Aorus has a very high stock core.  So don't go past in your case 100+ for core.
Push ram to 450 if it holds try

Ram at 475 then 500

This is for eth

Phil, How do you like those white Gigabyte 1080 ti's?

No I don't mine on 100% TDP.  I just was saying the best I had got on stock.

I tried using settings I saw you post for auros +130 core but it locked me up.

Then I tried this before seeing this post based on other auros settings I saw you post but they might have been for zec/skein mining.

TDP 75%
Just tried +80 core
-100 ram
75 Fan

getting 31-32.

Tried the settings you posted above.  Getting from 32-35  when it says set work seed it drops down to 20.  I think this is normal though I have not mined eth for a while.  Thanks for the settings.

  75% tdp
+75   core
+400 ram
  75 % fan manual

=32-35   I could try going higher on the core? I know it locks up at 130.

@GabryRox  I am running 7 GPU's on a msi m5 z170. ran it on ethOS & nanopool didn't like nanopool
switched to Win 10 & nicehash had a ram problem went from 4 to 6 solved it. making 8 usd a day more on nicehash.
Runs perfect.
having said that I would suggest getting the Z270. if it was me.

100 % tdp is not the way To mine on a 1080 ti

aorus  should be

  75% tdp
+75   core
+400 ram
  75 % fan manual

 for eth mining.  do those settings  and see what you get.

  please trust me on this    no 1080 ti need or like 100%  tdp

I didn't knew about the 1500 eths thing .. That's a lot , and not many people would be able to afford it ...
Seems not possible , in price particular if chart continue to rise ... 1500 ETHs @ $1000/eth for example? 

OK it is probably just the clock settings.  On auros they are more sensitive to messing with the clock and mem settings.  I got lockups so didn't play with it too much.  If it was simply playing with those settings I may try again though I think I am better off just mining zec to BTC and buying direct.

Storx so you are mining your pool earnings directly to where? Poloneix or your coinbase.   I live in new zealand.  So cashing out is pretty tricky all round.  I think the best way for me to cash out is to convert to BTC on an exchange and then transfer it to localcoins or a similar service and sell the BTC here.

@GabryRox
The MSI-Gaming M5 is based on the Z170 chipset which is ... to be frank... its PITA... pain in the ass
If you want to venture into 7,8,9 GPU rigs --- get the Z270 ones which is much more reliable on smOS, nvOC Linux and W10.
However there are special images by smOS and nvOC specifically for this board to work.
But frankly.... the reality is mining will be expensive to get into soon -- even NVIDIA has a mining GPU GTX1060 Mining edition.

@vg54dett
My advise to you is go for riserless rig, 2 or 3 x 1080tis and let it mine at NH and collect BTCs, if not..... more downtime means no money... :-(
Phil has many good examples on riserless rigs -- its cheaper to deploy and you can get into mining action quickly.
Once you have the right "farm" environment... maybe get your first few 6xriggers with proven mobo (ie. Asrock H81 pro BTC, Biostar TB85, newer Z270 boards etc.) and good quality risers and PSUs.
The key to controlling heat etc, is undervolting (Afterburnerv4.3 to reduce powerlimit/powerstage etc) and the main objective is stable rigs -- ie. dont go for maniac speed 30MH+++ (AMD cards)... you need extra juice to power those rigs and needs a lot of babysitting otherwise you can also try out custom roms.... however NVIDIA rigs is a different story.
All my RX470 rigs are 27MH-28MH per GPU -- around 164-166MH per rig.... they run cooler sub 70c.... around mid-60c... and super steady with Claymore. RX480s 28-29Mh rigs also runs cool and stable.
Use open cage rigs and a bunch of boxfans and help the rigs blow the hot air UPWARDS.... naturally hot air goes up... from there... guide those hot air out of the warehouse with a exhaust/blower/bigass fan/hot air curtains/tarps... For more information on how to do this... go visit yun6666 thread - plenty of good and practical solutions for mini DC or warehouse for GPU mining.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.17588677

The cashing out before POS (we are not cashing out 100%), this is my group's strategy to achieve ROI of farm, get into the profit period quickly and put one foot into the ETH Hybrid POS-POW game. To be in the POS game, you need to put a 1500 ETH stake -- thats a lot of money tied into POS. My group wants a certain flexibility on how they use the revenue and we are eyeing ETC very very closely for continued POW action.

Talking about wallets... I use Coinbase (I can deposit BTC, ETH and LTC) -- Coinbase links to my bank directly so I cash out every week for my group.
It's not wise to use Poloniex as a long-term wallet. Also have a cold-wallet strategy... Phil has an excellent cold wallet solution using Mac's Time Machine