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Who's mining ZCASH what's your rig setup and why?

I need to add another card to my rig and and want the best card available to mine zcash with it

UPDATE 12/17+1/18
1070 TI Arguably the best GPU for mining ZEC/Equihash

https://youtu.be/jtp4plChU9Y
https://i.imgur.com/paGt3yym.png

EVGA
http://amzn.to/2BjZAQb
Zotac (proven to be ~just as fast and cheaper)
http://amzn.to/2Bi1lNO
ASUS STRIX more cooling
http://amzn.to/2AHRVrX


UPDATE best bang for buck cards to buy at this moment (10-17-17)
1070 8gb is best bang for buck
http://amzn.to/2yuBrUr
http://amzn.to/2xMI9GD
1060 6gb is the next best value
http://amzn.to/2zh3AM6
Followed by the 3gb model and then 1080 TI
http://amzn.to/2xL1h30


Zcash Mining Farm Video

https://youtu.be/wUoSfvNPQiE

https://i.imgur.com/SRELYe2l.png

Zec Mining Farm Video Update #2

https://i.imgur.com/sM36LXJl.png

https://youtu.be/Q5F8mPbce9o

If you want to mine Zcash exclusively, the Nvidia 10 series GPU's will give you the best performance per watt. Between 450 - 700 H/s each depending on the model, but they also cost more than AMD's.

Is there a breakdown of the 10 series cards with their price, their hash rate, and power usage?

Which one of the 10 series would you rec?

i think the most people use the gtx 1070 for zcash mining. some people us the 1060 6gb cause they drain less power, so the sol/watt is better than the sol/watt of the 1070. but the 1070 perform better and have the higher resell value. here you have a calculator to see the difference:

https://www.nicehash.com/?p=calc

1060  300-330 h        I have 1
1070  400 -440 h       I have 2
1080   470 - 515 h     I have 1
1080 ti   630 - 715 h  I have 7 soon to be 8


all rough numbers of the cards I own.

most efficient   one or 2 of the 1080 ti's clock well and may be most efficient

What to buy?

price is key

   a good deal on 1060  if you have space and lots of empty mobos is fine.

  a good deal on the 1080 ti if you don't have space is fine.

same on the other two.

what is a good deal.

A Zotac 1060 6gb mini   was at 219 on amazon  it will do 310-330h  for zec that is pretty good deal 

it is now 239 on newegg
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500402&cm_re=zotac_mini-_-14-500-402-_-Product

I never owned a zotac 1070 mini but it is a really good price on newegg  339   and it will do over 400h

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500408&ignorebbr=1&cm_re=1070-_-14-500-408-_-Product

im sure you talk about the 1060 6gb, right? 3gb performs below 300 as far as i know.

So out of the 1080s what would be the best option available? newegg is giving a lot of options O_O https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=nvidia+1080&N=-1&isNodeId=1

Also the TI -- Per your results it seems that the TI would justify it's price, over the regular 1080?

im thinking about building a 6 gpu rig with 6x gtx 1080 ti, can anybody recommend me a psu wich is strong enough for that?

I just picked up 8 of the Zotac Mini's and will be using them in 2x 4 GPU rigs


EVGA 1600 would do it and would be what I would recommend.

You'll need molex 4-pin or Sata risers though, won't have any PCIE left over to really run the risers unless you buy splitters but I wouldn't do that.

Why isnt 9x 8 pin sufficient ?

thanks alot for your help.

do you think the price of the 1080ti will fall in the next few weeks due tue the release of the new amd cards? im not sure if i should wait 4-7 weeks or something like that.

thanks in advance

edit: and did someone already ran a 7 gpu nvidia rig stable?

The GTX 1080 Ti takes 2 PCIE connectors per GPU, so you need 12 total for a 6 GPU rig. We have an EVGA 1600 watt PSU that just arrived today which I will be using for a new 6x GTX 1080 Ti rig once all the parts are here. ---- You can go with a 2 PSU set up also, ideally with 1 server PSU and an ATX PSU, probably the ideal setup. If you will have your rig mining in a living space though I personally can't stand the higher pitched noise of the server psu fans.... so for us (in a living space specifically) it was a no go this time around.

Our GTX 1080 Ti that I am testing/tweaking right now does ~603 Sols @ ~154 watts for an approximate 3.92 h/w efficiency. Pretty darned good in my humble opinion. It really cuts down on the heat too, running at a mere 61C with the fan at 50% on a reference cooler (FE model). An aftermarket cooler will do even better.

thanks for your reply. can you recommend me a mobo with 12 pcie slots for this case?

thanks in advance

PCIE connectors are the cables that plug into your video card, not the PCI-E slots on the motherboard. There isn't a 12 PCI-E slot motherboard on the market. Ones with 6 slots are rare enough, sometimes you will find one with 7 slots.

Was it a Motherboard with 6 PCI-E slots you needed or a Power Supply with 12 PCIE connectors? Or both?

well i plan to build a 6x (or 7x gpu if possible - but i think its not with nvidia?) mining rig with gtx 1080 ti cards. if you can recommend me a motherboard, psu and cpu for it, it would be awesome.

thanks in advance

These motherboards go out of stock pretty quickly, so grab one now if you're sure you want to build a rig.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138436&cm_re=biostar_tb85-_-13-138-436-_-Product

If you want to do 6 GTX 1080 Ti with a single PSU you need this or something with the same specs and connectors.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817438033&cm_re=evga_1600_watt-_-17-438-033-_-Product

Any socket 1150 Intel CPU will work for mining, even the cheapest Celeron. If you want to use the rig for office work, web browsing, streaming video/music while it mines then I suggest an i3 from that generation.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=-1&IsNodeId=1&Description=lga%201150%20cpu&bop=And&Order=PRICE&PageSize=36

I like the R9 fury if you can get it for a deal. There for awhile they were 239. You can undervolt the hell out of them and still get 400 h. They can do more if you don't want to undervolt them. I have one running right now. 6 Cards and it fluctuates between 2400-2500 and uses 800-840 watts. I think I can get lower, but I'm using MSI AB and it only allows you to do -96mv. I'm going to try to do it manually on claymore to see if I can get a little bit more out of it. 750'ish would make me pretty happy.

Unless the hash rate is ridiculous and the numbers work out (hasn't been the case so far) - I don't like to go too much over $200. The 1080ti is great and has a ridiculous hash rate, but it's also ridiculously expensive and from a ROI standpoint, it doesn't make much sense to me. For some, maybe. That's just my opinion.  

thanks for your help. unfortunately im not from the USA but im sure i will find this mobo and psu somewhere here in europe :D.

yeah, im thinking about wait a few weeks and hope for a price drop as soon as the new amd card is released, what do you think?

I have one Zotac mini 6gb-good card, but have tendency to heat up a little comparing with MSI 1080, which are rock solid at 500 without any tunung. Without any adjustment Zotac does 285mh on Linux. I am gearing up to do some power state improvement; no doubt they can do more.

Both cards work fine on H97 anniversary mobo with risers

Most of nvidia zec miners said 1070 is the best $/hash , in some cases it's the 1060 , i think if eth will turn pos then most of miners will start building nvidia rigs to open more options

well i've seen that i cant run a 1600 psu @ my electric plugs. do you think i can 6x 1080 with a 1200 psu?

Maybe with good settings.

how much watt of the psu would u guys leave for the system? is 150 watt enough to run everything expect the gpus?

if it is a dedicated mining rig 150 watt is okay more like 125.

Say a 50 watt cpu
a ssd or a hdd
a few fans
a stick of ram

I don't have these issues much as I don't use  6 card rigs

I prefer 4 card or 3 card setups.  with overhead for the psu's

One thing that is appealing about a 6 x 1080 Ti rig is that once your ROI is over you can bring in some really sweet profit every year after that. They will also be worth mining with for a good number of years since they're the current top end GPU. The resale value will be excellent also. It's a steep price to pay up front, but I think it's worth it in the long haul. Currently you can bring in over $11,000.00 a year after power costs with a single rig. That's an appealing prospect.

If you're willing to lose a modest amount of production and run them at lower power use and you'll easily fit 6, even 6 1080 Ti. As an example, for ZEC and 1080 Ti, when set to a power limit of 160W I get ~80% of the production as compared to when it's set to 300W.

http://yiimp.ccminer.org/bench?algo=equihash&chip=0

If you do have the money to spent on 1080 ti then It would be the most suited GPU for mining zcash not only on this one but most of Coins that is possible to mine with GPU but considering on the amount or price of that gpu isn't really cheap at all.For now I have Rx 470 but I do have still some doubts on mining zcash I don't know where to set-it up.

I almost exclusively use AMD Fury and AMD Pro Duo.  The Pro Duo will do 1000 sols and I can get them to do 920 sols at about 300 watts.  I have used very few Nvidia cards because of the limited coins that could be mined in the past and typically inferior speeds.

I did order the following items to test out.  They arrive tomorrow so I am looking forward to modding them.

5 - Zotac Mini 1070
5 - Zotac 1070
5 - ZOTAC 1080 Ti AMP
2 - Titan Xp

Edited to add:
The Titan Xp's arrive Monday I think

Guys i just do not understand, why people are saying, that 1080 TI ist good for mining. Correct me if I  am wrong, but:

1080 TI costs about 800 EUR.
You get a used GTX 1070 from 360 to 400 EUR


1080 TI does 600 sols
we need also 1,5 x 1070 to have 600 sols, because 1 gtx 1070 produces about 400 sols

With this performance, the undeclocked 1080 ti consumes 160 Watt
for the same performance 1,5 1070 about 140 + 70 = 210 Watt

so the difference is 50 Watt an hour, that makes 1200 Watt a day, which is depending on the electricity costs (let's take 0,12 EUR for our example) about 14 cents a day,
which makes in month 5 EUR.

So the for the same performance the price difference is 800 - (400 +200) = 200 EUR
that is about 40 month... just to pay for the price difference...  !?!?

not to  disturb you guys , but at the moment , for equihash , BEST SINGLE CARD  (1 pci express ) is not nvidia... but is ATI.... Radeon pro duo. cost around 700 EUR + vat ... brings in from 900 to 1100 sols at around 280 -  380 w according to how u configure)

since op does wrote he does not care about electricity...\

Of course greens are more efficient , but this is at the moment the fastest.

No the best GPU for ZCASH is the Radeon 7950/ 7970/ 280x which you can buy second hand for like $50-$75.

Each will get you 300 H/s. So impossible to lose money on those.

Keep in mind they use 200 Watts however.

Hi thespycry,
 Here are some numbers to go through.

The price of 1080Ti founders edition is $699.99 & 1070 is $400

1080Ti out of the box does about 690h/s for the power draw of 250w
1070 out of the box does about 400h/s(I don't have one so used your number)

To get 690h/s you need 1.72 1070 GPUs

Now for power

1080 Ti                    = 250 * 24 = 6000w = 6kw
1070                        = 140 * 24 = 3360w = 3.36kw
1070 Adj for 690h/s =  240.8 * 24 = 5779.2 = 5.77kw

ZEC Production

1080 Ti    = 0.0571/day Approx(whattomine data)
1070       = 0.0348/day Approx(whattomine data)
1070 ADj = 0.0571/day Approx(whattomine data)

So in a day with ZEC @ $107/coin it is possible to make

1080 Ti = 6.1097- 0.84(power)      = 5.2697
1070    = 3.7236 - 0.4032(power) = 3.3204
1070 Adj = 6.1097 - 0.6924(power) = 5.4173

To get 1080Ti's level of earning(20 cent more) you will be spending $688 instead of $699.99 for 1080Ti a difference of $11.99

Now this is based on the assumption that 1070 will do 400h/s for 140w if not then I don't think 1070 is that efficient.

Hope this helps, If I made any mistake please let me know.

Regards,
BLife

 Yes you can, but I would strongly recommend you against it, because laptops have very power heat dispensing and mining in general will produce extreme heat and so will melt your laptop. And on top of that even laptops with dedicated GPU's produce very less revenue. So please take this into consideration before you begin.

Real Life Example of what happened (http://bitcoinsinireland.com/why-not-to-mine-bitcoin-on-your-laptop-a-e600-lesson/)

Regards,
BLife

how 300 hashes are faster than 1100 ? we are not speaking about BEST COST RATIO but op asked whast is FASTEST CARD not more efficient or faster roi...

the 1080 and 180ti are good also, the ti is too expensive bad roi time, but the 1080 is very good now with the new price, still i think the 1070 is the best from a value/watt/hash ratio, the 1060 3gb is not that good you need many rig and it's worse in efficiency than a 1070

Hi guys,

This is my current video card. I tried to make it as efficient as possible.

Optimized mode (undervolted)
GPU's MODEL NAME: MSI GTX 1070 GAMING Z
VRAM: 8GB
CORE/MEMORY CLOCK: 1898/8604
VOLTAGE: 850 mV
HASHRATE: ~421 Sol/s
MINER SOFTWARE: NiceHashMiner_v1.7.5.9
OS: Windows 10 Pro
TEMP: 63ºC
FAN SPEED: 36% (auto)
POWER DRAW: ~120 W
EFFICIENCY: ~3.51 Sol/W

Link to picture (this was taken 2 weeks ago):
http://imgur.com/a/xhYw8

Thanks everyone for posting great info here, I'm interested in all of this but specifically my question is that I have one spot open on a 6 card rig (currently only 5 cards on it) and I want to use the most powerful zcash hashing card on it even if ROI is a little longer. However if it's obviously not worth it then I want the card that's the best choice.

I pay 14c kwh

I am on my iPad so links are a pain to post .

But my thread has info on the Galax katana 1070 thin slim single slot .

Just read the last few post on the thread.

So with only one open card slot, I'm thinking I should buy the most powerful card I can for it being this as the best deal? 3 fans @ 700

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125955&cm_re=nvidia_1080_ti-_-14-125-955-_-Product

Thoughts?

as i said AT THE MOMENT OF WRITING , stongest card providing HIGHER HASH RATE (no matter the power consumption)  is RADEON PRO DUO ... 900 to 1100 hashes /s  depending on the oc you apply ... of course the higher the hash rates the more inefficient it is... at 900 hashes is a bit less efficient than nvidia cards (4.5 w for each hash)

Per that number the TI only uses 156 w per hash?

It is 3H/J.

Am right or i misunderstood something.

https://www.amazon.com/XFX-Professional-Workstation-Enthusiast-Graphics/dp/B01EFR43ZG

This card does 900/1100 hashes?

Is there any conflict to run Nvidia / amd cards on the same rig?

yes that card does  900 1100 hashes in zcash

62 mhs eth

62 mhs + 1863.518 drceed dual mining

 I've seen up to 16 PCI-E 16-bit slots on a motherboard, but it was a server-specific passive backplane style board and not real suitable to try to mine on AND bloody expen$$$$ive.

 
 It's entirely possible to run NVidia and AMD gpus in the same machine - but it tends to be less stable than a "pure" rig.
 Windows 7 or 10 does this easily, LINUX can do it but need a bit of custom work on installing the drivers.


 The Radeon Pro Dual is 2x Fury Nano on one physical card - can't clock it QUITE as high as a Nano due to the higher heat generation in less space, but can get pretty close per multiple reports.
 

From an owner of 5 Pro Duo's, here is a heads up of what you will face  :

Windows 10
The recommended mining driver 16.3.2     = Maximum 2 Cards, 3rd will BSOD.
The newer drivers which allow 3 cards     = Miner will mine at half speed.


Linux
simpleminingOS : after fiddling , got 3 cards running with no fan control or temps display what so ever, card were almost fried as there was no fan control. its resolved (sometimes) by using on-board vga and main display.
EthOS             : 3 cards will show but only 5 gpu's out of 6 will mine.


I asked Claymore and  EthOS Support, all agreed on one thing, this card have shitty drivers and they can't do anything from their side.

The 1080 Ti can be set to do ~600 sols at ~150-155 watts. About 3.9 hash per watt ratio. You can get it up around 700 sols or higher but it will use the full 250 watts and beyond, making it very inefficient if you run it that way.

so running 6x 1080ti should be possible with a 1200W psu?

I have 5x SAPPHIRE Vapor-X Radeon R9 280X DirectX 12 100363VX-3L 3GB 384-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support TRI-X WITH BOOST (UEFI) Video Card

I want to add one more card to this rig, my understanding is that I should add an AMD card for best efficiency? I'm interested in adding a 1080 TI but I do not want to create a headache for myself. What's the recommended card at the highest performance that would run on this rig as the 6th card?

Is this card compatible with EWBF's CUDA Zcash miner?
Can you post a printscreen of this 900 to 1100 hashes please?

If you had the requisite 12 PCIE connectors on that PSU and you made sure to reduce the power limit on each GPU before you start to mine you might be ok. 150 watts per GPu is 900 watts, depending on the rest of your hardware you could have anywhere from 50-200 watts added onto that. When you take into account your PSU's efficiency rating you will be pulling anywhere from 1050 to 1220+ watts from the wall and you should never load your PSU to the 100% max... 80% is the most I like to do myself. You will burn out your hardware allot faster if you stress it too much. ;)

Would the (240v)2400w delta power supply from Paralellminer be a cheaper alternative to the 1600w EVGA for a 6 card 1080ti setup??

When having a rig that need huge amount of power, i have learned the hard way that is kind of better to go with 2 power supplies.
It's cheaper and when one goes bad you "limp" away with half a rig and still make money till you fix it instead of totally blacking out.
It's also usually cheaper in total price.
It's easy and 100% safe when done right (i use add2psu to connect 2)

Good luck.

Add2PSU is  just a relay to daisy chains the PSU's so they start at the same time. The same can be done by jump starting the PSU with a piece of thin metal between the green wire and a black wire on the slave PSU and then turning on the switch on the back before starting the computer.

https://forum.overclock3d.net/showpost.php?s=3c0b5ead1c29a7c47c0e8fceb274ecf8&p=3815&postcount=1

Or using an automotive relay:

http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDArticles&op=Story&ndar_id=27

You could also connect the two green wires on the PSU's and they will both start at the same time as long as they share the same ground.

The bigger question is when using powered risers is it safer to have the cards powered by the second PSU to also power the riser on the card. Some with experience in the matter claim you should just connect the second PSU to the PCI-E  power connector on the card and have the first PSU power all the risers:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1761303.msg17827649#msg17827649

In researching, i've heards arguments for both without a definitive answer.

Just let you know it may be not that easy to get 6 cards working smoothly, there could be small issues here an there. I right now have 2X 1080TI FE + 1X 1070 on board, I could only start the miner first then EVGA OC software. If I do it the other way, miner will be freezing. In my case, I got 1080 ti up to 740 hashes before I cut its TDP limit to 80%, so definitely for a short while it eats up to 250W. Another stupid thing I could not explain is Nicehash is quite unstable with one of my rigs (I have two sets of 2X1080Ti+1X1070 on the same motherboards).

Better to find some one here with success then you exactly copy what they did (especially get the identical motherboard/OS)

that's a really good point . . these problems remind me of car problems . . massive headache! currently thinking of simply trying to add another SAPPHIRE Vapor-X Radeon R9 280X DirectX 12 100363VX-3L 3GB onto the rig that already has 5 of them and call it a day if I can get that running smoothly

It would definitely be cheaper as long as you have 240v to power it. $109 vs $330 for an EVGA 1600 watt PSU. YOu would still need another ATX PSU to power your risers, motherboard, CPU etc, but you can get one of those for $50-70.

http://www.parallelminer.com/product/2400-watt-power-supply-kit-for-gpu-mining-94-efficiency-200-240v-ethereum-eth-zec-dash/

I just started gpu mining 3 weeks ago . Getting the right gpu is really headache.

I started with mining eth using the following ridge
1) 4 x rx470 will add two or three more gpu
2) 7 x gtx1070


I am thinking of switching the gtx1070 into scabs but I still unsure which miner to use.

Getting 440h/s at 1000mhz clock on a Fury (undervolted), only cost £200, pretty much the same price as a RX480 yet getting double the hashrate, at full pelt 1125 clock I can hit near 500h/s

I am getting about 2800 h/s or so on a 6 card rig with 1070's. They are the clear favorite as far as I am concerned.

I bought 4x Palit GeForce GTX 1070 1632Mhz PCI-E 3.0 8192Mb 8000Mhz for 491 USD

with -40% limit (100 watt GPU), 90 core, 670 memory im having  445 sol.

Is it good deal?

It is quite fast.

yes but the 480 consume less i bet you are consuming 150-200watt at least to have that speed, if you have low electricity cost can be ok, otherwise not i spend more but have better efficiency

480 is completely and entirely inferior for mining zcash. Just go with the 1070.

hey waiting for the test results for Zotac Mini 1070
cuz i want to buy one soon its cheapest 1070 version

I have three coming, will let you know what happens 
 
will be my first real foray into nvidia mining (besides my main gaming PC with a 1080Ti, which I get 670 sols at 3.25 sols/w)

I have 20 of these, I get 400 Sol/s at 130W power limit. At 100W they do 340 Sol/s

wow thats very close from the normal 1070 any heat problems  ? 80 C @ 400 Sol/s  ?

 Hashrates on the 1080s that YiiMP is showing are all WAY low.
 I wonder if they're all running kinda old miner software, or have them tuned WAY THE HECK low for efficiency?


 It's too bad the company that makes the Palit cards avoids marketing their cards in the USA, they seem to have some really good memory on them that make them very nice mining cards compared to most of the cards that are available over here.

ah that's why the palit are not avialable there? too bad they have a fabulous cooling system, like the super jetstream, my memory on them are micron not samsung but maybe they make better micron, i also see in their page that they use 8 phase and not 6 lilke the other, this make the OC more stable

im a bit new in mining but i have a realy good friend who gives me A LOT of instructions

i have evga sc 1060 for gaming now (using this system on everything, setting and testing up miners etc)
and i have asus 1080ti fe too ...

now 1080ti is mining through skein algo DigiBytes with +-850MH/s or +-1200DGB/day (private miner, undervolged on 75% of tdp, +150core, -300 mems....with common ccminer i have +- 550MH/s) for a 230w total system power consumption (+-180w only vga)

and for ZEC:

i tested only ewbf miner (i think it has best results nad is strongly recomended)
1060 (70% tdp, +140 core, -300 mems, +-90w) +-285sols/s (realy quiet, in case)
EDITED: 1060 (75% tdp, +140 core, +400 mems, +-90w) +-305sol/s (didnt tested with 1080ti yet)
1080ti (70% tdp, +250 core, -300mems, +-180w) +-680sol/s but its very noisy to reduce temps :-D and system with this card will be minning rig ... but still dont know what to buy for a cards, maybe another 1 1080ti + 4x 1070 (have now mb with 3*pcie16 and 3*pcei1x) and 1200 p2 evga psu (i think this will be enough)

... there is not a problem with performance vs power consumption on any 1xxx or 4xx/5xx ... problem is with 24/7 load and possible lifetime reduction of vga compared to their prices ... and this applies specialy for 1080ti .... (IMHO - 1080 is out of mining, 1070 has better perform vs price just like 1080ti and their lowering prices)

 Seems low for the 1080 Ti on ccminer, I was seeing about 500 Mh/s with minimal setting tweeks on my 1080, I believe I had the power limit turned down to about 150 watts possibly 160 on the card, stock memory clock, and +100 or +150 on the core clock.

 Were you using an older ccminer version perhaps, I was running the trpuvot (sp?) 2.0 version.

hmm good question :)

those 550MH/s was tried on ccminer-trpuvot rc2 8.0.7 ... and those 860 is from (modified?) sp-mod ccminer klaust

so AMD cards aren´t good at all when it comes to zcash mining ?
I am building a new rig and bought 4 rx480 allready.... damn

Cost per hash AMD RX 480 are better than Nvidia for ZCash. With a memory strap bios mod I get ~315 H/s from my RX 480's at ~125 W each.

Ahh ! So they are not worthless!

Thank you! You saved my life !

I have a number of rigs.

6 x Sapphire RX480 = 1100W = 1800 hash
6 x 1070 = 1150W = 2700 hash

Just that the 1070 cost more but save a little bit of electricity in the long run

I have another rig 2 x 1070, 3 x 1080ti, 1 x 980ti = 1600W = 3600ish hash

No mods nothing. Everything stock with no overclocks

 For perspective, my Gigabyte R9 280x pair was doing right at 600 sol/s (one a hair over 300, the other a hair under) last night when I was doing some testing after moving the rig they're in over to Linux (Windows did one of it's inexplainable no-reason crashes that borked the OS somehow and I didn't feel like fighting with it to fix it) - Claymore 12.4 intensity 6 or 7 I think, 1100/1250 on non-modded cards.

 Oddly enough, I could NEVER get the same identical hardware to work right on both cards with any Windows version of Claymore I tried - kept having to dump one card WAY down on clocks and intensity for it to work at all.

 Down side - they eat a LOT more power than the RX 480 does, though fine-tuning and some BIOS mods would help a lot.

 Up side - they can often be had VERY inexpensively (in my case, I'm sure they have already paid for themselves in the year or so I've already had them so "kinda" free).

What model are your 1070, and are you undervolting at all to get 1150 watts?  Looking to build my own 6x 1070 rig.
Thx,

 Figuring 100 watts for the rest of the system, that would be 175 watts per 1070 - which is higher than the FE version's TDP and slightly less than the 180 watt TDP on my Gigabyte 1070s.
 No undervolt needed for those figures.

 450 sol/s is also in the ballpark of what I see on my Gigabytes when I let them run at 100% power limit - but I usually run them at 80-85 and tolerate losing a small amount of hash in favor of the greater efficiency and cooler running, especially the last couple of days when we had a heat wave here locally (I had 290s thermal limiting a bit due in part to the hot and due in part to the limited ventilation and cooling I can do in my current place).

Can some tell me if the price of a GTX-1080 is worth the extra cost from a GTX-1070? What hash rate can I expect and what are the power requirements when mining Z-Cash?  Any help is appreciated. :D

Only you can answer that question :)

A 1080 costs more but obviously hashes more

Do you have a limited budget?
What is the maximum number of cards you can run?
Do you care how fast ROI is?
How important is system/card density?
Do you care about maximum profits per day?
What are your power costs?
How much power in total can you draw?
How many GPU's are you aiming for in each rig?

For some people a 1060 3GB card is best, and for others a 1080ti is better even though it costs 3X as much

Start here - http://zcashbenchmarks.byethost16.com/?i=1

whats your average return daily on that setup?
~500 usd a month w/ 1200 dgb a day? have any good links on skein / mining it?

On the topic of the 1080 TI, is there anyone one of them in particular that are the best? for example

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814137115&cm_re=nvidia_1080_TI-_-14-137-115-_-Product
x is the best 1080 TI because of x y z

Small rig with 2 x Asus R9 280X
320W total for rig.
580 sol/s
I have been regretting that I sold off my R9 280X Gigabytes, Sapphire Vapor-Xs, even my shitty XFX DD cards.
Only have these two Asuses left.  They are both well into their 4th mining year.

What is an average power draw for 1070? Should 1000w G3 EVGA be sufficient for 5 of these?

My Gigabyte full-length 1070s have a TDP of 180 watts - which is the highest I've seen on a 1070, most seem to be at the "FE" level 155 watts TDP.

 A EVGA G2 1000 in a rig with a low-TDP CPU should handle 5 of them, and if you lower the TDP to under 160 watts (like most ZEC miners do) or use cards with a lower starting TDP (EVGA 1070 SC as an example) it should do so comfortably.

super jetstream can touch 225watt, i tested with my rig of six of them

Would you pls share your MSI afterburner OC settings to get it around 160w?

Thx a lot.

 Out of production for at least a couple months, try FINDING one at all much less at a reasonable price.

 Nice if you CAN find one though.

 

 To crazyivan - I'm not the one with the MSI 1070 cards, mine are all Gigabyte or EVGA and at this time I don't worry about "optimise for sol/s" as I'm on a "fixed price for electric usage" lease.
 (That should change VERY shortly though).

I am going to buy new GPU for my gaming PC and looking forward to get GTX 1080 or 1080Ti. I already have AMD ETH rig.

My plan is making my gaming PC to mine whatever Nvidia card can mine (Zcash, Skein etc.) when I do not game/use it.

This means it will mine likely 20 hours a day. PSU is Seasonic X750-KM3.

I do not plan to use more than two GPUs as I will be using current system without buying any other hardware/upgrading. This is supposed to be gaming PC but why not mine some on it.

Actually my mobo (Asrock E3V5 Gaming) only supports Crossfire but no SLI so  dual Nvdia cards will make no good for me for gaming but only for mining.

One option for dual Nvdia GPU would be using one of them for gaming while the other one mines and both of them mining when I dont game.

Electricity cost 0.11-0.13 USD/Kwh.

I am more inclined to a single GTX 1080ti rather than dual GTX 1070/1080 considering no SLI support.

I think my Skylake Xeon 1260L v5 CPU will not bottleneck a 1080ti as I can OC it to stock i7 6700/7700 level easily as my passmark test result indicate.

If I invest 950-1000 USD local purchase (or 775-800 USD international purchase) for a 1080Ti now does it make sense for my conditons?

If yes which brand and model would you suggest to buy?

Can it ROI in 4-5 months or till the Volta GTX GTX 2070/2080 comes into market and kills it price and performance wise with current coins Nvida can dig?

High performance gaming will be a very good side benefit for me.

Thanks.

The GTX 1080 is the equivalent of 1.3X GTX 1070 in performance, and (here at last) you can have it at the same price ratio ( X 1.3 $)

Phil posted this but best deal I've seen for a 1080TI
http://www.ebay.com/itm/292077280960?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

side note anyone using the gigabyte 1080 TI currently?
http://static.gigabyte.com/Product/3/6275/2017032710491273_big.png

Phil posted this but best deal I've seen for a 1080TI
http://www.ebay.com/itm/292077280960?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

side note anyone using the gigabyte 1080 TI currently?
http://static.gigabyte.com/Product/3/6275/2017032710491273_big.png
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This is the cheapest 1080Ti I can find too. Somebody wrote they are making 1080Tİ rig with Auros.

I wonder results for these cards as well.

I'm not using any of the Gigabyte 1080 ti models, but the one you linked appears to be the 1080 ti version of the pair of 1080 cards I DO have.

 Should be reliable, and fairly cool, for a non-Aorus non-watercooled 1080ti.

 As a general rule, explicit SLI support by a motherboard isn't actually required to do SLI - that's more of a "yes, we tested it this way and certify the slots are positioned correctly to work" thing.
 On the other hand, SLI and Crossfire are going to be a dead issue in a few years, due to DirectX 12 support for asymmetric compute and multi-GPU support with no SLI or Crossfire needed.

 Your Xeon is serious overkill for a mining machine, mining doesn't need much CPU.

 Given the current pricing structure on the 1070/1080/1080ti they're all pretty close to a tossup as far as hash/$ goes at the system-build level on most coins.
 In theory, with your specified system and PS you should be able to use *2* of them eventually.

 Just don't try to stick an Aorus model (or any of the "2.5 slot" models) in a slot that doesn't leave it at least 1 slot worth of fan clearance to the next card over.

1070 is better

Hello Ace,

I just bought:
ASUS TUF Z270 Mark 2 LGA1151 DDR4 HDMI DVI M.2 USB 3.1 Z270 ATX Motherboard
Silicon Power SP120GBSS3S55S25AE SP/S55 120GB 2.5" SATA III 6 Gb/s TLC 7mm (0.28") Slim Internal Solid State Drive
Kingston HyperX FURY Black 4GB 2133MHz DDR4 Non-ECC CL14 DIMM Desktop Memory (HX421C14FB/4)
Thermaltake TOUGHPOWER GRAND 80 Plus Plantium 1200W Full Modular Power Supply PS-TPG-1200FPCPUS-P
2 of EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC Black Edition GAMING, 11GB GDDR5X, iCX Cooler & LED, Optimized Airflow Design, Interlaced Pin Fin Graphics Card 11G-P4-6393-KR
6-Pack PCIe VER 006 PCI-E 16x to 1x Powered Riser Adapter Card w/ 60cm USB 3.0 Extension Cable & MOLEX to SATA Power Cable - GPU Riser Adapter - Ethereum Mining ETH

Can this power supply hold one more 1080TI and two more 1070? Or are you running with two power supply? Also, I'll be using nicehash is that what are your outputs from? Thanks in advance!

What can you get for <$200 with a good hash rate? The RIO on a 1080TI right now is ~100 days. I'm about to make some purchases and doing research is why I'm asking :).

The $190 PNY GeForce GTX 1060 3GB Graphics Cards can do 23.5mh ETH and 268 SOL/s ZEC each @ ~60W per card.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uhSfOpvHks&feature=youtu.be&t=7295

THE ROI on the card for Zcash is less than 2 months currently. Tough to beat if you can get it for less than $200.

https://www.coinwarz.com/calculators/zcash-mining-calculator/?h=265&p=60&pc=0.10&pf=0.00&d=1941897.72385156&r=10.00064000&er=0.09776000&btcer=2586.01160000&hc=0.00

How are you able to get 690h/s out of a GTX 1070!? I'm seeing here and elsewhere ~400h/s average.

Thanks! Unfortunately I cannot find that card for under $225. Does it have to be that same model in the YouTube video? I can get 4x 1070s at 85 day ROI.

 He's not, he was comparing an "equal production" amount of 1070s to a single 1080Ti.
 Refer to the first line I quoted.

From the research I did I saw that the best choice is a 1070 which I can afford in a few months so I will wait but can someone tell me which of the 2 would be better, palit 1070 jetstream or the superjetstream?

on the topic of best GPU to mine ZEC with . . where are you mining your ZEC? Best returns w/ what pool? I've been using slushpool and its a nice design but the returns are simply poor.

Right now the gpu for mining are 1070 and 1080 from nvidia and Rx 570 and rx 580 from AMD. They have  a god ratio for performance/cost. I have tested R9 390 that has 31 MHS but the consuming is 330kwh.

 And it's not melting down?

 8-P


 I'm actually assuming that was a typo and it's eating 330 watts, which would be in line with my R9 290 cards mining ETH.


 At CURRENT pricing, the GTX 1080ti is the overall best card for ZEC - but if 1070 and 1080 pricing drops back to where those cards were at 2 months ago, it becomes a "more or less tossup AT THE RIG level" competition again.

 Before the recent "shortage price gouging", all 3 of them were capable of achieving better than 1 sol/s per $ (NOT counting the underlying MB/RAM/CPU/etc) and fairly close to that counting the entire system with careful shopping for a low-cost system.

 At current pricing, the RX series has VERY POOR performance/cost ratio - they were very good 3 months back before the shortages drove the pricing up though.

Hi guys im a new miner currently i mine with 2x 1060 1x 970 ethereum and planning to try zcash.
I got my inno 3d 1060 for $300 and gigabyte g1 1060 for $360, and thats when the price still normal here before going up. Im not sure for some ppl here bluffing about ridiciously cheaper price than market normal price(maybe if you got lucky and got a couple of units,but not a price to give to others for reference except you want to show off that you`re lucky to get the cheapest price at that time) So anyway i wanna ask what should i get next there are rx 570 4gb $275++ 580 $335++ or gtx 1080ti $900 well i have a tight budget actually and not that much electricity but currently the only avaible gpu is the gtx 1080ti only and nobody knows when the amd will come. So is it rly worth it to take the 1080ti? I think the roi is about 10-12 months(my electricity cost $0.13/kwh). Thanks bfr if anyone answer this

See the post right before yours:


IMHO don't bother waiting for RX cards – even when they start filling backorders it will be a lottery if you get any or not. And if you ever decide to mine ETH then the DAG slowdown will make them slower than they are currently.

I agree with that. For the ZEC, it is still better to use the 1070/1080 and you can make some profit now.

yes i know about ppl whos post before me dude and some didnt make sense thats why i asked for others opinions. some said gtx 1080ti ~100 days ROI thats about 4 months thats impossible where did that guy do the calculation except you can make about 200++ bucks per month? i open the coinwarz calculator links on the above but they havent updated the difficulty on their zcash calculator. Anybody have tried 1080 ti and the ROI? i calculate with zcash the ROi takes a long time 9-11 months, zencash seems giving the best profit now or is there any other coins that have better results for 1080 ti?

There was a point that $7/day on ZEC was possible - but that was a couple weeks ago when profitability on almost ALL coins peaked.
It's dropped a LOT since then on almost everything.


 RX series cards have been recovering quite a bit on pricing the last week - if you're lucky enough to sneak in an order when someone HAS some at a low price, and usually on the mining-specific cards.

 I managed to snag *ONE* Sapphire RX 470 card out of NewEgg over the last week....

What price did you pay for that rx470?

well, you must be a lucky man indeed, cause ny frined is waiting 10 pcs of RX580 for a month already, from IngramMicro he said..
the promised price was good, but ... no card yet, a pity

back to the topic
I think 1070, which can jit 450-460 sol is the way to go
mine asus can do that on PL85 and I bought it for 385$

 $259, it was the "with Samsung memory" version.

 It was in stock for a little less than 2 days on a "limit one per 48 hours" then haven't seen it up since, though I did get a "notify" once since then - it was out less than 4 hours after they sent the notify and I didn't see the notify in time.

The AMD cards are still in short supply. We do not see many Vega around.

The profit is very low those days and I dont see any profit growth in the future...

Im using EWBF with flypool

flypool is one of the best if not the best. If the electricity prices are on the higher side where you live, i suggest you tweak your gpu settings. You can get 680sols while only using 170 watts. 4sols/watt is pretty awesome

I am also using nanopool. It is a very stable pool.
I think it is best to avoid flypool (It has almost 50 percent mining power, and that is making the whole ZEC network unsecure)

the highest hasrate one one pool i believe it is a flypool
so my guees it would be wiser to go there - cause huger hash rates - easier to find new block and get reward

just my 2 cents

by the way, nevere had any problem with it from middle of June when I came to the mining world  ;D

As others have said its not good for one pool to have such a large hashrate. . however I get better returns on flypool as opposed to when I mined on nanopool or slushpool

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814126188&cm_re=1080_ti-_-14-126-188-_-Product

asus blower back in stock here and neweggbusiness

+

pretty nice price drop on the 1070 mini

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500408&cm_re=1070_mini-_-14-500-408-_-Product

I tried on slushpool, the return is not as good.

my buddy states coinotron has better results for him than flypool but I haven't gotten around to testing it  yet so maybe others could chime in .. .

 Irritating timing, I had just bought one of those about a week before that - JUST out of their price-match timeframe.

 On the other hand, Bitcoin dropped over 10% in that same timeframe, so it worked out OK.


 flypool seems to have been suffering from a DDOS attack today, not sure if it's over yet or not - but those seem to happen semi-randomly to ALL the pools at times.

which flypool server are you connected to? I didn't notice anything unusual yesterday O_O

That is irritating, surprised at these recent 1060 and 1070 prices and yet TI's are still stupid high

I am mining with NVIDIA Geforce 1060 3GB and getting around 300 sold out of the box for each...
But when I read about the values of other users cards I feel like I have to cry :D

How much maximum hash rate is everyone getting? I am very new to GPU mining and just trying to do my profit calculations before investing into hardware. Thank you guys.

 I was confused, forgot I'd been working on the system that was on flypool. Ignore the doom and gloom.

 9-0

If I push towards max hash (my norm) I'm seeing 760sol/s right now out of my Aorus 1080 ti - +5% power, +50 cpu, +200 memory - and I'm CERTAIN that's not the most it's capable of, I've been having "crashing driver" issues with the newest Nvidia 3xx.41 junk and am in the process of rolling back to something more reliable.
 At my power cost, there's no point in "efficient" on ZEC mining at this time, I NET more by not being efficient and I'm nowhere near power limits on the new place.

what is the memory in your 1060?

whats your power cost? I'm jealous I pay 10.5 cents kwh that's awesome though keep me posted, I will be messing around with those cards sometime next week, or preferably i'd like to just sell them as all my other cards are X size and theyre 1.5x X size lol

I personally like an 8 GPU build with RX 5series cards and that hashes at about 2200h/s no OC.
With OC settings and BIOS mods for AMD cards as effective as they are on the 4 and 5 series cards I could see that hashrate going up by at least 35-40%

 Well under 5 cents / kwh all-up.

 There's a REASON I spent most of a month last summer moving from Iowa to "The Land Of Very Very Cheap Electric" in Central Washington.

 And yes, the Aorus are bloody huge 3-slot cards - been a while since folks MADE cards that huge (I have a HIS IceQ blower model HD 7870 that is ALSO 3-slot, but only the BLOWER area is that wide).

 They're no worse than some of the other cards out there - at least one Zotac model and at least one MSI model are JUST as huge.

 They have awesome cooling though for air-cooled.

I think zcash is nvidia friendly, it is better to use nvidia card instead of AMD.

This is a new rig with 7 cards soon to be 9.
Running SMOS on a USB.
I have the cards set so the highest one is around 60 to 65c.
100/500 fans at 80%
These are MSI cards
They seem quiet. 50db at 3 feet
They feel warm. Around 115 degrees to the touch.
They run in my unheated 2 car garage and if I don't open the door daily
the temps push 90 degrees.
I've ordered an exhaust fan that I'll be installing soon so I can hopefully
push the power level a bit. Although 4Sol/w seems like a good tradeoff.

https://imgur.com/a/N798r

oh jesus. so jelly :/

At my testing experience: 1080ti, 1070, 1060 and RX 480/580 are best gpus to mine ZCASH. I think the best one is 1080ti.

The best was palit gtx1070 with samsung memory doing 490sol@125wat- but it is impossible to find now and the price diff between gtx1070 and gtx1080 is very small.
Now I think it is gtx1080FE with 510sol@120watt after prices drop for this models.
It is all after fine-tuning  

gtx1080ti is also good but expensive

That's a great rate. Is that residential or commercial rate?

I need to know what GPU that has less TDP but more outcome power
Is 1080ti worth the money to mine ZCASH?

Really cus my G1 does 500+ easy. Im pretty sure if you get your hands on a good 1070 it could come close to a 1080 maybe within 5%.
Mind you electricity for me is free though but I dont want to invest a lot (wont be buying the Vega cards anytime soon).
I'd stick with 1080Ti or 1070 and forget about the 1080.

 Small business commercial rate, but the residential rate here is almost identical.

 I'm going to end up finding out soon what all of my cards are capable of - Vorshalk's recent decision to deploy a BLOODY HUGE FARM (he's one of the CureCoin developers) have ticked me off enough AND have dropped my income to the point I am no longer willing to suffer through the issues with those 2 coins any more - OR try to compete with a BOTTOMLESS WALLET DEV screwing over the rest of us that have been participating in those coins for a long time.

 I don't mind competing with others for my coin - but having a DEVELOPER go out of his way to kill profitabilty by well over 10% *SO FAR AND STILL GETTING WORSE* is just not acceptable.

Sorry to hear that man that's really frustrating. What was his reasoning, why wouldn't he mine a diff coin and auto sell into buying his coin... I see that as a win/win for his coin

Yes it is

R5E10
2x Strix 1080ti on average @ 750 Sol/s each
570W
48-49 Celsius | Gaming rigs rock :-)

 I have never seen a 1070 that managed more than about 460 - SPECIFICALLY INCLUDING my Gigabyte G1 cards.

 You apparently have one that handles a lot higher overclocks better than most do, or you're looking at the "momentary peaks" and counting those as the hashrate where I tend to look at the AVERAGE hashrate instead, or you're in a VERY COLD ambient temp with your cards - or a combination of all 3.
 

 Even with minimal tuning and having "fairly high ambient temp cooling" limitations, most of my 1080 cards easily hit 530 and I suspect when I take the time to fine-tune them they will be able to push closer to 550 - and NONE of those are "high end" 1080 models, most are the Zotac Mini or the bottom-end Gigabyte 2-fan models which are definitely heat limited in my environment.


 On the other hand, with 1070 pricing getting back down into the pre-gouge range, the 1070 is starting to look like a better option even at the system level to the 1080 in many respects - and the recent climb in 1080ti pricing isn't helping any.

Completely agree on the 1070s being the best bang for buck currently
https://goo.gl/7s7Kb6
I've ordered a couple of these well . . because I like the white xD but the zotac mini and now a couple other cards have come down as well to the 400 price which is pretty nice to see.

1080 TI are still stupid priced and it's really deterring my interest in them, looking forward to when they come back down to reality // the 1060s are a good price now as well


What are your preferred settings for getting max performance out of your cards? You probably tune them down a bit like me due to heat issues?

Also does anyone know what the ideal ambient temp is for operating GPUs?

the profitability for mining zcash has gone waaay down. it is more than 1 year for a ROI if you buy a graphic card now and put it to mine. crazy times for zcash.

it's sort of relative from a "daily $ earnings" prospective but with my farm I was getting 1 zec every 33 hours in july/august then ~40 hours then quickly 50+
I hope to see a couple new good coins arise to  be able to spread out all of the miners, for example if bitcoin gold , zencash and say hush or kmd blew up to be 50 100 150 dollar coins that would spread out a ton of hashrate + particularly useful the for nvidia miners

Hey value itself turns to 198 USD now. Using miner gate application and best specification graphics card in the the series Radeon or Nvidia. Zcash and Monero are the best altcoins now to mine using GPU. So I don't know how you are saying the zcash mining with the cards bro.
You only looks crazy to say it is not possible to mine using cards.

i believe he means you get a fair amount less of actual zcash mined today vs even a month ago

 Depends on the rig and the card - most of them I have to turn the TDP down a little to keep them in the 70-75C range when it's cool (like this past week) and under 80 when it's hot (this summer) without going past 85% fan.
 Some I've got down as low as 70% or so, but those are mostly in rigs I've upgraded to "4 card part-riser" and need to keep power consumption down to my target 6 amp max draw for infrastructure limit reasons.

 The Aorus 1080 ti models though are beasts - can run them at full TDP with 70-80% fan even when it's HOT and they stay plenty cool, as long as there is plenty of airspace in front of the fans.


 Profitability has been sliding up a bit this week - seems like something is pulling a fairly large amount of network hashrate out of ZCash this week, more than making up for the minor price drop.
 Not a HUGE jump, but noticeable....



 The ideal AMBIENT temp for operating GPUs is probably around freezing, but I'm not real interested in moving to northern Greenland or Siberia or that recent split-off northern Canadian province to achieve that year-round....

I have been taking note of credibility of smaller alt coins.  Maybe others are too and that's why the hash rate is being redistributed.

A ton of mining power has been pouring over to zen, Mona, and vert

What’s your max efficient sols / settings for that on the AORUS TI

I hate even revealing this but Voskcoin you seem like a cool dude...the Aorus 1080 ti are the gods of 1080 ti’s. There is no better card in the nvidia lineup. I have only managed to buy 12 and they are not cheap but they easily achieve 725 sols with barely any tweaking. The downside is they are almost always on backorder or price gouging is over 800 usd. If you can catch some at 740 you got a good deal. I wish I had 200 of these in my farm I can’t say enough good about them and I’m not even a gigabyte fan until I discovered that card.

LOL, your secret is wrong my friend. The best 1080Ti is the Galax HoF Watercooled edition, followed by the Galax HoF Air edition. They reach 820+ Sol/s

haha thanks xD - Which model as there's two?
As you said they were the cheapest card at the time I bought the pair around 740 iirc, since that time theyve been out of stock or 800 dollars zz

well it's not that exciting at the price point / availability O_o

mine Palit Gamerocks are pushing 750-760sols and I know that Asus Strix can go beyond that. Strix is running  10-15C cooler then my Gamerock and pushes 770-780 sols..  so that means Aorus is just a good card, but clearly not the very best  8)
 

The cards I mentioned go higher I said minimal tweaking. Remember stability is important I could get the Aorus over 800 but I'm talking farm applications not "I have 2 gpu look what I can overclock to" application.

 Base Aorus can match that 780 sol/s with minimal tweeking and runs cool and LONG term reliable doing so (the one in the machine I'm typing this on is at 60C right now, but it's the only GPU in a gaming machine in an air-conditioned environment and a case with good cooling).
 Not sure if the higher-end model does any better, it's got a higher factory overclock but I suspect it might be limited by having the same cooling system.

 I suspect ALL of the "3 slot wide" GTX 1080ti models from the various makers will end up in the same temp/performance range.

are you guys getting these numbers on ethOS?

My Aorus testing is mostly done on my Win7 gaming rig (where one Aorus lives and I can use Afterburner for easy manipulation) on the "base" model Aorus 1080 ti.

The rest come from my XUbuntu mining rigs - though EthOS should be able to match those numbers since it's also Ubuntu based.

Just a heads up guys

As cheap as it currently gets 1080 TI are about to be back in stock
https://goo.gl/ZKpijj
https://i.imgur.com/Wc5eZw6l.png

Also the 1070 TI are shaping up to be a contender for best bang for buck also . . I've got 2 coming in today
https://goo.gl/Wz6VuX
https://i.imgur.com/fWJpu8kl.png

Hi VoskCoin.

I'm a fan of yours, You actually convinced me to get the 1070 ti after i cancelled my pre orders,  I ordered 4 of these MSI 1070ti titanium edition just now.  Some guy reporting very good mining results with these,  Ball bearing fan, big heat sinks and pretty cheap price with rebate.
https://www.amazon.com/MSI-GTX-1070-TI-TITANIUM/dp/B076Q62TDF/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1510455084&sr=8-2&keywords=1070+ti+msi&dpID=517QRohqBYL&preST=_SX300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

here was his comments "Been running this card in my mining rig for almost a week now. Got it at $489 like others and it is a decent mining card. I like the GDDR5 RAM which handles RAM focused Algos well. I am running a stable overclock at +225 Core, +690 Mem. I must have gotten the Samsung memory with that good of a RAM overclock. I like the way it looks, goes well with my 5 GTX 1070 Armor's from MSI."

Hey guys,  long time lurker and new to mining.


I want to say thank you for your input because i'm learning. Anyway, are these numbers look good to you guys?

Mining on equihash algo. with gtx 1080 and gtx 970. Am trying to as efficient as possible.

https://puu.sh/yreCe/f570ea21be.png

I have one of those ASUS "Turbo" blower 1080 ti models. Runs a bit on the hot side, removing the "mounting bracket" near the air exhaust area helps some but it STILL runs a little hotter than my EVGA SC 1080ti model and a LOT hotter than the Aorus.
 Good choice for a "in a case" build, but I'm not sure it's worth the low price for a riser build.


 Did some testing on my Zotac GTX 1080 cards today - anything over +100 on core OR memory cost hashrate , and it was most efficient down around 106 watts, pretty much matching the EVGA SC 1070 ti cards I have (but keep in mind I'm running EBWF on both).
 Testing done on the XUbuntu machine I currently have my pair of 1070 ti cards in, so EVERYTHING was the same except the GPU itself.

 If the PRICE was a match, this would be a good choice - but 10%+ or so HIGHER cost for the same hashrate and tossup efficiency is a LOSS in my book.

 I should probably get around to testing out DSTM soon - have seen conflicting results on "better than" or "worse than" EBWF but they seem to be "model dependent" in part.

Never updated this thread but the 1070 TI is arguably the best GPU for mining ZEC / equihash atm imo

https://youtu.be/jtp4plChU9Y
https://i.imgur.com/paGt3yyl.png

Some cards we've tested
EVGA
http://amzn.to/2BjZAQb
Zotac (proven to be ~just as fast and cheaper)
http://amzn.to/2Bi1lNO
ASUS STRIX more cooling
http://amzn.to/2AHRVrX

Does the Aorus 1080ti come with a power splitter cable for the two 8-pins or do you need your own adapter to run it from one PSU cable? Is it a bad idea to run from 1 cable with potential wire limitations or common practice? My current 1080tis are 6-pin + 8-pin.

 It comes with an adapter for 2 x 6-pin to 1 x 8-pin.
 The non-extreme Aorus has the same "base" TDP as my EVGA SC cards - 250 watts - which is safe enough to run from a single EVGA 8+6 dual cable if you're not pushing the card past rated TDP.

My goal is to get 6 13 card rigs up by the end of 2018.  1 1060 which is up and running, and working on the 4 1070's and 1 1080ti.  Gotta keep the options open lol

 "Best" is subjective, and depends on algorithm and how you intend to mine.

 1070 ti is the current "best" for EFFICIENT mining on equihash, but there are other options that might be better if you are more worried about rig density, or high hashrate and don't CARE about efficiency, or most hashrate per dollar spent, or are mining other algorithms like ethash or cryptoknight.

 Right now though, "best" seems to be "what I can get of AT ALL" given the current extreme shortage on ALL mid-to-upper range GPUs.

currently the evga is still efficient when it comes to mining equihash as stated in the video. 4.7sols/watt is the best settings overall.

i think there are 1070ti cards out there that can top this 4.7 sols. it's just that no one is experimenting / tinkering their 1070tis. how sad.

i hope there would be another alternative to evga. they're overpriced as of the moment.

There are other people could pull out until sol/w 3.8 but i don't know if what his settings .. i was planning to buy 1070ti this following week and hope Voskcoin is right.. i'll start buying 2 pieces this coming week I ask already some supplier near to me that they had stock but limited only for 2 pieces per person..
I'll update soon if i get settings and lowered the 4.7 sol/w

MSI Armor 1070 470-500 Sol/s
ASUS 1070 (white) 440-470 Sol/s
Colorful 1070 470-490
Colorful 1080 Ti 730-750 Sol/s

 Haven't found a more efficient option yet, though all but 1 of the 1070 ti models I have to date can MATCH my EVGA SC 1070 ti cards on efficiency, and that one (ASUS blower model) was very close.

 It's the SAME GPU in the card, with a low power setting that makes cooling differences mostly a non-issue.

Wanting to add this video to this thread, super relevant and I hope it helps someone
I go over some of the best settings Overclock settings for max hashrates w/ dstm equihash miner but will apply relatively to other miners such as ewbf and bminer

https://youtu.be/7oDkGfoJYso
https://i.imgur.com/xs6C3H5l.png

I have 2 rigs on ZEC mining :

RIG01
7x MSI 1060 Gaming X (320-340 Sol/s)
4x ZOTAC 1070 amp (464-492 Sol/s)
1x GIGABYTE 1070 (465-487 Sol/s)
=>1070 cards on power limit %100 and Memory clock (+800-900 in afterburner)
=>1060 cards on power limit %100 and Memory clock 4475 (+675 in afterburner)
Total speed : 4777 Sol/s (MAX)

7x MSI 1060 Gaming X (320-340 Sol/s)
4x ZOTAC 1070 amp (420-440 Sol/s)
1x GIGABYTE 1070 (410-420)
=> 1070 cards on power limit %60 and Memory clock 4151 MHz (+300-350 in afterburner)
=> 1060 cards on power limit %100 and Memory clock 4475 (+675 in afterburner)
Total speed : 4476 Sol/s (MAX)

RIG02
6x MSI 1060 Mining (297-316 Sols/s)
1x MSI 1060 OCV2 (336 Sol/s) MAX
1x MSI 1060 Gaming X (320-340 Sol/s)
=> 1060 Mining cards on power limit %100 and Memory clock 4104 MHz (+100 in afterburner)
=> 1060 OCV2 on power limit %108 and Memory clock 4176 MHz (+375 in afterburner)
Total speed : 2508 Sol/s (MAX)

6x MSI 1060 Mining (271-291 Sols/s)
1x MSI 1060 OCV2 (336 Sol/s) MAX
1x MSI 1060 Gaming X (320-340 Sol/s)
=> 1060 Mining cards on power limit %65 and Memory clock 4082 MHz (+75 in afterburner)
=> 1060 OCV2 on power limit %108 and Memory clock 4176 MHz (+375 in afterburner)
Total speed : 2276 Sol/s (MAX)

Miner : ZEC Miner EWBF - NVIDIA WINDOWS Bench
Pool : Flypool

so I think 1070 is best for ZEC
I use under volt mode because i dont want to barbecue my cards just for 50 box more per year  ;)

Also, I always thought that the best card for ZEC mining is GTX 1070ti. My choice was the ASUS STRIX GeForce STRIX GTX 1070 Ti Advanced A8G 8.0 GB. The ratio of price and quality suits me.

AMD- Advanced Micro Devices brand GPU’s
Nvidia – Nvidia Brand GPU’s

For now I have rig of 6 msi armor 1080 cards. totally satisfied. I think 1080 is best cards right now in terms of price and profitability.

Well, I do not know, the GTX 1070 ti is definitely the most energy efficient card, but I would probably prefer to take 2 GTX 1060 3gb, more hash rate, less costs, on daggerhashimoto can give 48 M/hash if you will be lacy to get Samsung memory, the only disadvantage is the power consumption and the fact that 2 PCE slots occupy.

well, kinda agree here
if we are speaking about performance/cost ratio - then the best choice would be gtx1070ti
it is really fast, if you are lucky you can grab a card which overclocks really high and can reach the gtx1080 level of performance, but still at much better price level...
so hunt those cards down and grab them if you can)

why are we talking about equihash (zec) and ethash (eth) mining?! those are ASIC algos now!


Ugh, looking back on this thread, how quickly times are changing!

The good news is that equihash gpu mining discussion is still valid with some of the recent equihash forks (zhash and 210,0 params)

Best GPUs for mining Zcash

Gtx 1080 Ti
https://miningchamp.com/gpus/57/Evga-GeForce-GTX-1080-Ti-hashrate

GTX 1080
https://miningchamp.com/gpus/83/KFA2-GeForce-GTX-1080-EXOC-8GB-hashrate

GTX 1070Ti
https://miningchamp.com/gpus/125/Nvidia-GTX-1070-Ti-hashrate

GTX 1070
https://miningchamp.com/gpus/53/Asus-GeForce-1070-hashrate

All numbers listed here aren’t guaranteed. They should be considered guidance about how your future cards should perform. If you’re buying a new rig of cards, I suggest that you do further research about the cards themselves, the software, and the configuration.
One of the most important things is the power supply. A rig of GTX&nbsp;1080Ti’s&nbsp;will probably need about 1500-1800w. So you should get a power supply that will provide that range.
Whatever software, graphics card, or power supply you choose, always remember to have fun building your rig!

Funny thing is that trolls thought they could buy 100000000000 rx 580 for $1000 each and $1500 for each gtx 1080ti using a credit card and mine forever with them hehe, in the end they lost huge and most are in debt and you will hear from them their gpus are paid off hehe, how shameful, they will never admit they lost money, their ego is greater than the money they lost ehhe

Facts... I have 12 Innosilicon A9 Zmasters on the way. 50k sols each is too much to pass up and they beat Bitmain to the punch which is great for me.

come on no one paid $1000 for a 580, maybe $700

Hell I never paid more than 750 for a 1080 TI even at the peak. Additionally, mining did prove to kickstart my stack in 2017. I did very well and cashed out and bought a home. Now I am coming full circle back to mining. You can definitely still make money right now but it requires a bit more savvy and patience.  :P

The price of RX580 is below $500 now.

This was really helpful !!

To build that up you will need molex and Sata as that will clearly help you.

for Zcash, nvidia cards rules. end of story

ASICs* lol

This topic might as well be locked.

There are NO gpus to mine ZCASH with anymore unless they decide to fork to a different algo.

Every since the ZEC introduction, every hold of a Radeon 7970/280X switched to ZEC and mined at 300H/s. Good profits were made.

Ever since these ASICs started popping up from various manufacteurs, the only coin slightly profitable with the 280X is XMR. So it wasn't only Nvidia's GPUs that are suffering, its also the older AMDs which couldn't mine ETH due to the DAG Thrashing bug.

The 3gb performance is below 300 if I am not wrong and i guess you are talking  about 6gb.

Building a 6gbu rig is what I am planning to build and hoping it to be great.

with what GPUs and to mine what exactly?

Many of the people use the gtx for the zach mining, which is not bad at all.

possible to mine whit an 7990radeon 6gb ??

What rock do you live under?! Zec is an asic mined coin now and has been for months lol

I think his account was hacked

Basically ever since ZEC was released in November of 2016, most Tahitis like your 7990 went and mined it. The Tahiti's due to the DAG thrashing bug were performing poorly with ETH so most of them did the switch to ZEC. Same with the Pitcairn GPUs like the R9 270X.

Now however most Tahiti's moved onto Cryptonight-V7 and are mining XMR. Since the XMR algo is not very intensive most do a max undervolt to like 0.95V and run at 950/1500 (core/memory) and hash at 500-600h/s (depending on memory type) and it only uses around 125 watts or so. Basically like an RX 470 mining ETH.

Not much profit these days but if you want to put them to work, you can try that algo. I think next month it forks again, so the first week or 2 might be even more profitable as the difficulties adjust.

Somebody still mine ZEC with GPU???
There is no any sense to do that, because Equihash is algorithm only for ASICs now...

this is excellent advice, for anyone still holding these older GPUs and has a decent electric rate only makes sense to run them into the ground (at least I think)

I don't see much of a market for cards older than rx470

270x buy it now $50
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Amd-r9-270x/382577980928

I have a few 7990, so I will mine the XMR V8.

Has anyone ever tried "Colorful" graphics cards, I've never heard of them before and was wondering if their performance is any good?

Prices seem pretty good - https://doodah.co.za/components/26416-colorful-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1050-graphic-card.html (https://doodah.co.za/components/26416-colorful-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1050-graphic-card.html)

Mining ZCash on video cards is not profitable for several months. ASICs such as Antminer Z9 (40.8 Ksol/s) have 3 times better performance than the best graphics cards.

I bought asic z 9 mini. one yields from 12 to 15 k / sol. that's about 4 payouts per day for 0.01 zec each. graphic cards will not give as much.

Prices seem pretty good? Really? XD

use your calculator and your head and re-calculate it