Claymore's ZCASH miner v1.0
Equipment: 6 x RX470
Results: 258 SOL
SOL per GPU: 41
Pool: FlyPool
Watts per GPU: 58
Watts at the wall: 669
Running Steady for 10 min
How come Watts per GPU is that low with only 58 Watt. When I check all videos, youtube, google websites regarding TPD power of RX 470 is 150 Watt , have you tweaked them or something or have you modded the Bios like many persons are suggesting on the internet ? Also I am getting a core i3 6100 with an Amd RX 460 is it worth mining Zcash as Ethereum it isn't (in ethereum only 18-22 USD per month profit) ?
How much profit you make in Btc with 41 SOL for a month ?
I have modded all of them to include overclocking and undervolting to answer your questions on watts. Claymore's ZCASH miner v1.0 just came out and I just downloaded it on 4 of my rigs. I will let the group know the $ SOL as soon as I can have a few hours of operation. Right now with only 2.5 hours of operation. I just got my first payment of .01SOL=$6.97 for 2.5 hours of operation. I just started configuring my 4 rigs to ZEC 2.5 hours ago and did not get all of them running for an hour. So..not too bad right now. haha I think I am liking this ZEC!
Also, i think Aries calculates his W usage per card differently that some others. Through his help, I have modded the exact same GPUs via the same method and got them close to what he is getting (I'm low to mid-60's vs his 58) but to clarify, these are the wattage readings per card that apps such as Wattman and others show, and they do not necessarily capture all of the power being consumed by the GPU (this is my understanding anyway). As an example on my rig when it was running ETH using CDM... I showed about 75W per card being used for a total of 300W. But, my total at the wall was 625 or so. At that time, my system running nothing but MinerGate mining XMR was using 140 at the wall. So... 625W - 140W = 485W being used by the 4 GPUs (~120W/card)... not the 300W I calc using 4 x 75W.
Although I don't know what else Aries is running on this rig (I suspect not much, if anything at all), you can do a similar calc using his stats to get the "effectve" wattage pull of the GPUs.
6 x 58W = 348W. 669W at the wall... maybe about 100-120W of that is system at idle or other minor usage... so, say 550W total for 6 GPUs = effective use of about 92W per GPU. I don't claim to understand why there is a difference between what certain apps show per card and what they actually pull, but just trying to say there are difference ways to look at it. Also, Aries seems to be very adept at getting the most out of his cards at very low wattage. I have been trying to match his results for a few weeks now and can only get within 5% on 1 card... the other 3 are still using 10-15% more wattage than his 6-card average... for the same exact MSI RX-470 4GB GPUs.