Which RX470/RX480 RX570/RX580 GPU for my first 6 GPU Ethereum mining rig?

kissmarx

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Since nothing has been posted here many months now, I would like to input some as I am going to build a rig. I am currently on the researching mode and here are some amd based gpu that I found to be worth it or in available supply (rx470 or rx480 are hard to find in brand new condition these days):

rx570 8gb
rx580 8gb
rx vega 56
rx vega 64

Of all listed above, my choice for a mining rig would be the rx570. That's because the the price is lower while its hashing power is not that far behind with the rx580. rx vega series is nice to have, but the price is too much for me. But if you have the money, the vegas are the best choice.

For the motherboad, my choice would be Gigabyte GA-H110-D3A since it is designed for mining with 6 gpu. Plus the price is affordable.

Nowadays, if you have the money, the rx vega series are very good choice. On the other side of this hardware competition, I think the gtx1070, gtx1070ti, gtx1080, gtx1080ti, p104-100, p102 are the only best choice.

By the way, I compute profitability using this calculator https://crypt0.zone/calculator . I hope you'll find this one convenient too.

And now: I believe this is all beautiful if you got very cheap or free electricity though. Grin

Nikola991

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Has anything changed since the last post?

I can choose between these cards for ~350-400$:
RX 470 4GB
RX 470 8GB
RX 570 8GB
RX 580 4GB
RX 580 8GB

What would be the choice, ordered from best to worst? I can also choose between different version of these cards, what should I look for when comparing them, memory clock?

I will go with only 2, maybe 3 cards.

Is there any better card in that price range?

According to this calculator https://www.nicehash.com/profitability-calculator NVIDIA GTX 1060 is more profitable than those cards mentioned above, and I didn't see anyone recommends it for mining.

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which one is better now?

Mike011

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You should get about 29 mhs on 570 with oc (and possibly bios mod).

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Hello,

If i buy a GPU from the Type Sapphire Radeon RX 570 NITRO+ 4G
What is the hashrate what i can get with bios editing only with tripe copy and adjust the Memory Speed and other power Setting, without special custom timing

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Ethane

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Frankly just take the cheapest, differences are not that big. Just make sure that it is not a mini version. But at same price, Sapphire is the best brand according to me. MSI is also very good, so take your favourite. No, in facts MSI is better, but always more expensive, so take Sapphire.

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Quote from: rawbot on June 11, 2017, 10:06:36 AM

Quote from: fcaldas on June 11, 2017, 07:49:18 AM

Quote from: rawbot on June 11, 2017, 06:41:47 AM

There is a lot of talk about the GPU brands etc but what about the other components. If I wanted to run SIX RX 580s sapphire 8gb what kind of motherboard/PSU/memory/cpu would be recommended to be capable of handling all 6 cards? What are you guys using in your rigs?

Well, there are so many options out there that is difficult to say. One can't say "Buy Asus model XXX" simply because so many others works just fine.
You need to do a bit of research.
Maybe you wanna buy a mobo with the newest Intel chipset? Maybe you don't...
Obviously you need to make sure that the mobo you're going to buy has at least a mix of 5 PCI lots and 1 M2, or 6 PCI slots, or 4 PCI and 2xM2...
And, for a CPU, I'd go with the cheapest you can find, like a Celeron that fits the architecture of your mobo (generally 1151)
4GB of ram is nough.
PSU will depend on how many GPUs, but generally 850w for 6 cards should do the trick. But, again, you need to check which GPUs you're buying and how much they consume.

Well Like I said I have ordered six Sapphire RX 580s 8gb. The reason I asked is because miners aren't like a gaming rig. I don't need to configure it to suit my complex gaming needs. I need a miner that just works when it's switched on. Surely I don't need to research dozens of motherboards? I just need a solid suggestion for 6 cards. I used an ASrock H81 Pro BTC R2.0 for my first miner (Six RX470s) but I am hoping there is a better board for my second rig with six RX580s

I am not sure why I would need M2 slots, are they SSD related? I have an SSD on my first rig but it's just connected via sata.

I have purchased 2x MSI Z170A Gaming Pro mobos. They should support 7x GPU each.

I can get my hands on 10x Nitro+ Rx 570 for 2500€. Good or bad deal? I am still new to this and what I still don't get is the dependence of the Mhs to the memory. Is it that Hynix is the best, then Samsung and then Epildec (idk how this one was called),... What about Hyper Fury. I have read that this is good as well.

Sorry I am just confused can someone clear this up for me?

oswaldo4

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I have one more simple question, according to this chart https://etherscan.io/chart/difficulty is the difficulty skyrocketing.. Are those online mining profitability calculators reliable? Is mining profitable?

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Quote from: fcaldas on June 11, 2017, 07:49:18 AM

Quote from: rawbot on June 11, 2017, 06:41:47 AM

There is a lot of talk about the GPU brands etc but what about the other components. If I wanted to run SIX RX 580s sapphire 8gb what kind of motherboard/PSU/memory/cpu would be recommended to be capable of handling all 6 cards? What are you guys using in your rigs?

Well, there are so many options out there that is difficult to say. One can't say "Buy Asus model XXX" simply because so many others works just fine.
You need to do a bit of research.
Maybe you wanna buy a mobo with the newest Intel chipset? Maybe you don't...
Obviously you need to make sure that the mobo you're going to buy has at least a mix of 5 PCI lots and 1 M2, or 6 PCI slots, or 4 PCI and 2xM2...
And, for a CPU, I'd go with the cheapest you can find, like a Celeron that fits the architecture of your mobo (generally 1151)
4GB of ram is nough.
PSU will depend on how many GPUs, but generally 850w for 6 cards should do the trick. But, again, you need to check which GPUs you're buying and how much they consume.

Well Like I said I have ordered six Sapphire RX 580s 8gb. The reason I asked is because miners aren't like a gaming rig. I don't need to configure it to suit my complex gaming needs. I need a miner that just works when it's switched on. Surely I don't need to research dozens of motherboards? I just need a solid suggestion for 6 cards. I used an ASrock H81 Pro BTC R2.0 for my first miner (Six RX470s) but I am hoping there is a better board for my second rig with six RX580s

I am not sure why I would need M2 slots, are they SSD related? I have an SSD on my first rig but it's just connected via sata.

fcaldas

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Quote from: rawbot on June 11, 2017, 06:41:47 AM

There is a lot of talk about the GPU brands etc but what about the other components. If I wanted to run SIX RX 580s sapphire 8gb what kind of motherboard/PSU/memory/cpu would be recommended to be capable of handling all 6 cards? What are you guys using in your rigs?

Well, there are so many options out there that is difficult to say. One can't say "Buy Asus model XXX" simply because so many others works just fine.
You need to do a bit of research.
Maybe you wanna buy a mobo with the newest Intel chipset? Maybe you don't...
Obviously you need to make sure that the mobo you're going to buy has at least a mix of 5 PCI lots and 1 M2, or 6 PCI slots, or 4 PCI and 2xM2...
And, for a CPU, I'd go with the cheapest you can find, like a Celeron that fits the architecture of your mobo (generally 1151)
4GB of ram is nough.
PSU will depend on how many GPUs, but generally 850w for 6 cards should do the trick. But, again, you need to check which GPUs you're buying and how much they consume.

rawbot

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There is a lot of talk about the GPU brands etc but what about the other components. If I wanted to run SIX RX 580s sapphire 8gb what kind of motherboard/PSU/memory/cpu would be recommended to be capable of handling all 6 cards? What are you guys using in your rigs?

fcaldas

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Quote from: Mattthev on June 11, 2017, 02:29:32 AM

Quote from: fcaldas on June 10, 2017, 08:38:12 PM

Following this, as I am also looking into building my first rig.
Are you taking in consideration the possibility of bios mod the cards when choosing which card to buy?
I have found tutorials explaining how to bios mod a Sapphire 580 Nitro+ and getting about 30MHs on ETH, but haven't found tutorials for other manufacturers, like ASUS or MSI.

It depends on memory vendor not card mostly. If you have Samsung memory and good card quality you can have 33MH/s. But it can be 29, if the card or memory is bad... From my view RX 580 Nitro+ is not the best option, lot of Hynix, those are tricky, but yeah you can have 31MH/s.

Quote from: oswaldo4 on June 07, 2017, 01:18:46 PM

Sapphire was surely cheaper, I would say 30 % cheaper, for MSI I can not find a reliable price history, in some shops it's available for 400€. Prices in European countries does not differ much. But the price history does not help much.. In terms of making some returns with mining, is a expence of 300€ per card (MSI) or 350 for a Sapphire card, good or not?

I've preorder RX 570 Auorus for $200, they now listed it for $230 Cheesy

I hope they will delivery my order for my price Cheesy

Thanks for your answer! The RX570 are fairly cheaper here in my area when compared to 580. Do you suggest going with the 570 then? Can I hit 30mhs with them as well?

Thanks!

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Quote from: fcaldas on June 10, 2017, 08:38:12 PM

Following this, as I am also looking into building my first rig.
Are you taking in consideration the possibility of bios mod the cards when choosing which card to buy?
I have found tutorials explaining how to bios mod a Sapphire 580 Nitro+ and getting about 30MHs on ETH, but haven't found tutorials for other manufacturers, like ASUS or MSI.

It depends on memory vendor not card mostly. If you have Samsung memory and good card quality you can have 33MH/s. But it can be 29, if the card or memory is bad... From my view RX 580 Nitro+ is not the best option, lot of Hynix, those are tricky, but yeah you can have 31MH/s.

Quote from: oswaldo4 on June 07, 2017, 01:18:46 PM

Sapphire was surely cheaper, I would say 30 % cheaper, for MSI I can not find a reliable price history, in some shops it's available for 400€. Prices in European countries does not differ much. But the price history does not help much.. In terms of making some returns with mining, is a expence of 300€ per card (MSI) or 350 for a Sapphire card, good or not?

I've preorder RX 570 Auorus for $200, they now listed it for $230 Cheesy

I hope they will delivery my order for my price Cheesy

fcaldas

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Following this, as I am also looking into building my first rig.
Are you taking in consideration the possibility of bios mod the cards when choosing which card to buy?
I have found tutorials explaining how to bios mod a Sapphire 580 Nitro+ and getting about 30MHs on ETH, but haven't found tutorials for other manufacturers, like ASUS or MSI.

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Quote from: oswaldo4 on June 07, 2017, 01:18:46 PM

Sapphire was surely cheaper, I would say 30 % cheaper, for MSI I can not find a reliable price history, in some shops it's available for 400€. Prices in European countries does not differ much. But the price history does not help much.. In terms of making some returns with mining, is a expence of 300€ per card (MSI) or 350 for a Sapphire card, good or not?

https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/calculator/eth

oswaldo4

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Quote from: Mattthev on June 07, 2017, 12:51:11 PM

Quote from: oswaldo4 on June 07, 2017, 12:36:06 PM

Ok, but let say that I can buy a Sapphire 480 nitro+ 8gb for 300 to 350€, is it wort the money? What about a MSI gaming for 300€? Are those cards wort the money? Because I am new to mining, I would like to be sure, that the ROI for the price of the cards is feasable..

Depends on country... check the card price history.

Sapphire was surely cheaper, I would say 30 % cheaper, for MSI I can not find a reliable price history, in some shops it's available for 400€. Prices in European countries does not differ much. But the price history does not help much.. In terms of making some returns with mining, is a expence of 300€ per card (MSI) or 350 for a Sapphire card, good or not?

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Quote from: oswaldo4 on June 07, 2017, 12:36:06 PM

Ok, but let say that I can buy a Sapphire 480 nitro+ 8gb for 300 to 350€, is it wort the money? What about a MSI gaming for 300€? Are those cards wort the money? Because I am new to mining, I would like to be sure, that the ROI for the price of the cards is feasable..

Depends on country... check the card price history.

oswaldo4

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Quote from: Mattthev on June 07, 2017, 10:51:37 AM

Quote from: oswaldo4 on June 07, 2017, 10:40:26 AM

I have a question, how much is it wort one Sapphire rx 480 nitro+ 8gb? New or used? How much money is wort to pay for this card? I have a felling that new cards will be in stock soon, what is your opinion?

RX 480 won't be in stock anymore, they do not produce them. RX 580 will be in stock, but lot's of shops says that it will be in July...

Ok, but let say that I can buy a Sapphire 480 nitro+ 8gb for 300 to 350€, is it wort the money? What about a MSI gaming for 300€? Are those cards wort the money? Because I am new to mining, I would like to be sure, that the ROI for the price of the cards is feasable..

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Quote from: oswaldo4 on June 07, 2017, 10:40:26 AM

I have a question, how much is it wort one Sapphire rx 480 nitro+ 8gb? New or used? How much money is wort to pay for this card? I have a felling that new cards will be in stock soon, what is your opinion?

RX 480 won't be in stock anymore, they do not produce them. RX 580 will be in stock, but lot's of shops says that it will be in July...

oswaldo4

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I have a question, how much is it wort one Sapphire rx 480 nitro+ 8gb? New or used? How much money is wort to pay for this card? I have a felling that new cards will be in stock soon, what is your opinion?

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