What are the best replacement for RX 480 / 470s for Ether Mining? - page 2.

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Quote from: adaseb on June 10, 2017, 12:54:10 PM

Quote from: CryptoSocial on June 10, 2017, 11:58:19 AM

So finally I went ahead with Zotac GTX 1060 3 GBs.

Created 2 new rigs of 5 cards each.

Using claymore miner and stock settings, each card gives ~18.5 MH/s.

The best thing about this card is the power usage, I have both the rigs using ANTEC 750 Watts supplies and are doing good. Tough the GPU-Z, for some reasons, would show the power consumption in % of TDP, I believe that the cards are taking no more than 70-75 watts each.

My previous 2 rigs with 5 x RX 480 each, needed additional PSUs as each card was consuming ~95 watts, and one of them, for some reasons, 125W.

Any suggestions towards increasing the MH/s for 1060s?

Yes, stop mining ETH like someone said before and mine ZEC instead.

That is right. For the nvidia cards, it is better to mine zec.

adaseb

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Quote from: CryptoSocial on June 10, 2017, 11:58:19 AM

So finally I went ahead with Zotac GTX 1060 3 GBs.

Created 2 new rigs of 5 cards each.

Using claymore miner and stock settings, each card gives ~18.5 MH/s.

The best thing about this card is the power usage, I have both the rigs using ANTEC 750 Watts supplies and are doing good. Tough the GPU-Z, for some reasons, would show the power consumption in % of TDP, I believe that the cards are taking no more than 70-75 watts each.

My previous 2 rigs with 5 x RX 480 each, needed additional PSUs as each card was consuming ~95 watts, and one of them, for some reasons, 125W.

Any suggestions towards increasing the MH/s for 1060s?

Yes, stop mining ETH like someone said before and mine ZEC instead.

CryptoSocial

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So finally I went ahead with Zotac GTX 1060 3 GBs.

Created 2 new rigs of 5 cards each.

Using claymore miner and stock settings, each card gives ~18.5 MH/s.

The best thing about this card is the power usage, I have both the rigs using ANTEC 750 Watts supplies and are doing good. Tough the GPU-Z, for some reasons, would show the power consumption in % of TDP, I believe that the cards are taking no more than 70-75 watts each.

My previous 2 rigs with 5 x RX 480 each, needed additional PSUs as each card was consuming ~95 watts, and one of them, for some reasons, 125W.

Any suggestions towards increasing the MH/s for 1060s?

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Quote from: alucard20724 on June 04, 2017, 10:51:04 AM

Quote from: QuintLeo on June 04, 2017, 07:18:28 AM

Mixing AMD and NVidia on the same machine is pretty easy to do under Windows - it's one of the VERY rare things Windows does better than LINUX.

Stability takes a hit, but it DOES work.

works well and is virtually painless under windows 10

windows 7 is different beast all together Cry

Nope - I find mixed rigs under 7 to be MORE stable than 10 - though not by a lot - and NO more difficult to set up.

Mining ETH on a 1070 is not a real good choice - ZEC would be a better choice, some of the smaller-cap coins better yet, under current conditions (skein and groetsl based coins like DGB have been VERY nice most of the last couple weeks).

29 Mh/sec on ETH out of a 1070 is reasonable, but 90 watts would need better-than-average memory to achieve.

400+ sol/sec on ZEC out of a 1070 is trivial using EBWF miner, and you probably can get there with some tweeking on under 100 watts.

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Quote from: QuintLeo on June 04, 2017, 07:18:28 AM

Mixing AMD and NVidia on the same machine is pretty easy to do under Windows - it's one of the VERY rare things Windows does better than LINUX.

Stability takes a hit, but it DOES work.

works well and is virtually painless under windows 10

windows 7 is different beast all together Cry

CryptoSocial

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How about GTX 1070, I read on one of the forums that it produces 29 MHs @ 90 Watts. Should I go ahead and add a couple of 1070s to the rig, or would you suggest 1060s?

Considering the fact that 1070's cost a little less than double of 1060's
If 1060's, would 3 GB make sense or would it lag far behind the 6 GB version
Out of MSI / ASUS / GAINWARD / ZOTAC, which one should be preferred
How different would be the OC versions and Gaming X versions

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Mixing AMD and NVidia on the same machine is pretty easy to do under Windows - it's one of the VERY rare things Windows does better than LINUX.

Stability takes a hit, but it DOES work.

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Quote from: Toxicable on June 04, 2017, 03:15:59 AM

570/580

That Troll Cheesy

You need to wait about 2-3 weeks to be again in stock.
1060 has lower hashes, 23-24MH/s I think look at benchmarks, but better power consumption.

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Quote from: Toxicable on June 04, 2017, 03:15:59 AM

570/580

Running out of stock almost everywhere Sad

and if available, are overpriced.

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570/580

CryptoSocial

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With RX 480/470s vanishing from the entire globe, I wonder what could be the best alternative in terms of hardware cost, power consumption and Hashing rate?

Moreover as most of us would be using the RXs, what could be a compatible GPU, to add to existing rig with RX 480s.

Could GTX1060 sit comfortably with RX480s on windows 7?

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