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Looking into building a rig for mining XMR ect. What are the best GPU's for that right now?

Thanks for the help and this should help newbies in there research as well. Also I'm not looking for necessarily energy efficiency more hash power I know 290s are good but price wise better to get 280s and run them in crossfire or sli?

280x and 290 are definitely the way to go. 290 is a slight performance increase but the 280x costs less. If you get the right 290 you can flash the firmware and run your 290 as a 290X which will give a marginal increase. But the newer 300 series are not worth it, they cost more for the same hash power. If you can get your hands on some used 7970s at a good price they are about the same as the 280x. They provide a little less hash power, but they cost less as well. The difference between the 7970 and 280x is about the same as the difference between the 280x and the 290.

If Energy efficiency isn't your concern you could look at some older 6990 or 7990 dual GPUs, but they're harder to find

And whatever you do, don't run them in Crossfire, that will only hurt their performance mining.

Thanks, so sli is fine as there all running independently correct? I've only ran one GPU so upscaling now.

No SLI is for nVidia graphics cards only. Crossfire is for AMD cards. You won't be able to put the cards into SLI if you have AMD cards (which is the 280x/290 product line). For mining the best thing to do is run each card independently. You would just install them like any other graphics card and then not go through with the setup for Crossfire. If you're using Windows it should have no problem detecting multiple graphics cards.

280x for ethereum of 370x but i actually prefer 970 for everything else, and for ethereum it's not so bad either, i like low consumption

I just got the R9 380 for 200$ brand new I'm going to test it out anyone have any experience with that one?

For Ethereum, R9 380 can get you 20MH/s. Do you have the 2GB version? 2GB should be slower than 4GB in the future.

No 4GB for 200$ Brand new couldn't turn it down.. :)

That's a good price and probably worth it because a used 280X would cost ~$180. But you should be able to reach 22-23 MH/s on an R9 380. If you're comfortable with firmware flashing you could attempt to flash it to 380X firmware, it might give you a a small performance increase. I did this with my R9 290 and saw a a small increase

Also good you got the 4 GB version because 2GB cards will not be able to mine for much longer (some people have reported already they can't mine with a 2GB card)

Yea just cant flash yet as i have a 2 year warranty on it so i have to keep it at stock. But i can get more of these if anyone is interested..?

You can flash it using the modified BIOS. When You need to RMA, you can flash back. You card should not be too dead to flash.

Hmm did not think of that will have to look into that thanks.

But you have to be sure that the card is not too dead to be flashed back.

If it's dead, how can they know the bios as been flashed?

They will have special tools to revive the card. After they make the card alive, they will know if that has been flashed.

what are those special tools? you're talking about software tool or hardware?

Anyone have a guide to flash bios of GPU? Tnx

You should be able to google up good guides on how to flash the BIOS of AMD 280X/7970 and 280/7950 cards,
and even 290 reference cards.
For newer AMD cards it is more difficult, although somebody just posted a way to undervolt the Sapphire R9 Nano card..
I am looking for a way to undervolt my R9 380X card by BIOS mod, but havent found anything that works yet.
Tried the Hedzin BIOS reader, but that wouldnt recognize my Sapphire Nitro 380X card..

Do you know a why to mod the XFX R9 390 cards? They consumes a lot of energy, so it is beneficial to reduce voltage.

Nope, sorry.
I tried to undervolt my own Sapphire R9 380X in Win 8.1 using Sapphire TRIXX, but gave up.

I used the Trixx to undervolt my R9 390. It is quite good to have -200mV core voltage change, but it has no aux voltage option.

Is there a GPU setup program that can change the R9 390 memory voltage? I mean the program such as MSI afterburner or Trixx?

You can use the HawaiiBiosReader to change the voltage of memory controllers. https://github.com/OneB1t/HawaiiBiosReader

You cannot use the MSI afterburner to change the voltages. It was possible for the 7970 or the 290.

The AMD R9 nano is the most efficient miners so far. It is even more efficient than the nVidia cards.

But if you run the R9 nano at 1000MHz, its efficiency is lower. I am not sure if that is lower than the nVidia card.

yes and it cost 60% more lol

Than nVidia cards? No way.

The nVidia cards that are on par with the nano regarding hash rate are even more expensive.


Anyhow, it's true though, core clock @ 1000, even with a heavy modified bios will still use up to much energy.

The holy grail setting (for me at least) is 800 core, 300 mem. Best Hash/power setting.

nvidia 970 cost around 300 now new, nano is 500, consumption is the same without your mod, or even worse for nano

i know you did get a discount for you nano, but that's not what casual miners will get, we must be realistic here

For the same consumption, I think the hashing of nano is higher. Even without mod, you just need to reduce the voltage in MSI afterburner.

True..

Dont' know what the hashrate on a 970 (Ethereum) is, but when mining with a nano (stock 1000 core) at -100mV in afterburner it will use around 4.9A (1000 watt) for 6 cards. 175-180Mh/s

I have a small feeling that a 970 isn't going to beat that...

With Eth prices tanking buy a Nano right now to mine Eth is a very risky proposition.  Used cards only or don't mine.

I just gave an example. There are other Algo's where the Nano is even efficient.

And, yeah, Eth is dropping, but Btc is rising. So it isn't weird that Eth is dropping :)

Which algorithm is more efficient for the nano compared to other cards? I am interested in mining with nano.

mine does 22 mega and with six card i'm consuming exactly 1k, but the overall hashrate is not 180, like the nano, but 132, so 25-30% loss, but they cost 40% less

also i think that the g1 gaming from nvidia is much more easy to resell than the nano, acerage gamers do not like to buy expensive card

My AMD R9 nano with undervoltage and underclock, with 6, it does 160MH/s, but with 800W power consumption.

You can go even lower with my Bios mod :)

Thanks for your efforts. I used your Nano mod, it works perfectly. I think the power consumption of the memory part is reduced a lot.

You're welcome, i'm still working on that part. Might get it even lower and stable :)

Any progress with the AMD R9 390 mod? The potential to save the power consumption is also big in this card.

new gpu are out, so wait before buying old one, 1080 is 2x faster than a 980 and 1070 the same 2x faster than a 970 and consume less and they cost around the same, 10% more it seems, so this is a no brain if they have the same boost in mining

That power consumption is from the gaming. It is not necessary for the mining. But it will be more efficient that last generation.

 Uh, no. Release date on the GTX 1080 is late May (25th? I forget offhand) and GTX 1070 on June 10th (I HATE that delay between the 2).

From the benchmarks I've seen to date, the GTX 1070 should be a little faster than the GTX 980ti, the GTX 1080 30-40% faster than that - BUT they need some architecture changes that might not have happened for some of that to translate to Ethereum mining.
 The increased clock rates should translate directly which would make them at least 40% faster.
 The move to a new node appears to be most of the reason they're also a LOT lower power consumption despite their significant performance jump.

 
 For reference, my GTX950s hash at almost the SAME rate as my GTX960s (the 960s are right about 10% faster) at essentially identical clocks, even though the 960s have a LOT more CUDA units and more memory.


 Folks that use NVidia cards where they are efficient (they're not real efficient on Ethereum for some reason, possibly for similar reasons to why a Nano doesn't even come close to scaling vs lower-end AMD cards on Ethereum when factoring Stream units x clock rate) should find the new 10xx cards kick some serious numbers for relatively low power usage.

So far, the 1080 is not the fastest to mine the Ethereum. It might need further optimisation to make it faster.

Yeah, been seeing the posted 1080 benchmarks - very underwhelmed, it SHOULD do better than a 960 at least!

 I suspect the drivers need some serious optimisation, but I'm sure NVidia is already working on "in general" optimisation for Pascal in their drivers.
 Just gotta hope the "in general" stuff makes them work better on Ethereum SOON.

it's because of the memory access, nvidia can not be pushed like amd, the bus was doing 50%

i suspect that if the 970 was not limited, it would have been piushed to 30MH, like the 390

if nothing will change i think i'm going to go with amd at this point, 490 polaris look more promising...

490 could be good if it still has the 512 bit memory bus like the 390.

But why 390x is the same speed as the 390 in Ethereum mining?

Yes. If it has wide memory bus and more efficient than the 390, we think that is good for Ethereum mining.

The memory should also be fast for the random access for the Ethereum mining.

XMR doesn't use a lot of power and the cards don't produce a lot of heat mining XMR. That said since there's so little profit and even unprofitable at times to mine I suspect there are FPGA's mining it so you'll never be able to mine more than you could just buy if you spent your money on coins instead of GPU cards.

I still think nano will be king

1024 memory bus and only one fan 26mhs out the box for 80-100 watts i cant see even the 490 beating that efficency and the 490 will cost like $599

I still think nano will be king

1024 memory bus and only one fan 26mhs out the box for 80-100 watts i cant see even the 490 beating that efficency and the 490 will cost like $599

490 could be good if it still has the 512 bit memory bus like the 390.

For reference - my GTX 950s are legitimate 10-11 MH miners per card, NOT overclocking them (just letting them boost themselves).

 970s should be more like 40MH if they scaled lineraly with clock x CUDA cores.


 On the other hand, my slightly-damaged 7850 (can't clock it much over 600Mhz or it crashes) is pulling about 8 RIGHT NOW despite the major underclock on the GPU - the MEMORY I can clock up but it doesn't see to help much past stock.


 I'm going with Genoil's comments and theory about it being at least in part limitations in the TLB hardware, it's NOT just the clocks, NOT just the memory, NOT just the cores, it's something deeper.

i'm curious at the consumption of your 950? just to have a clear look at the scaling about nvidia

right now 120w for 20MH with a 970 is possible, your is doing 10-11, at what wattage?

I hope this can help   https://www.nicehash.com/index.jsp?p=calc

So the 490 will cost the same as the nano? That is very expensive. I will buy nano when it is cheaper.

no 490 will cost 400, it need to match the 1070, so it will be cheaper, and i presume that it will consume less than the nano

If the 490 costs 400, that is 20% higher than the today's 390 price. If it mines efficiently, I will buy some.

So there will be new arms race. The old cards like the 280, 280x or 370 will be out of the race soon.

I think so. these cards are just 28 nm technology. They are much less efficient than the 14/16 ones.

 2 in one system by themselves.
 84W on the one running the desktop, 78W on the other one, per nvidia-smi - I do remember seeing a little variation, couple watts or so each way.
 Looks like the 970 is more efficient.

 Third one is in a system with my pair of 960s, but I don't have individual measurements on those as it's a Win7 box.
 The really SAD part is that the 960s are only good for about 11MH - they don't scale vs the 950 at ALL, lot more cores and they clock 2-3 percent highr and RUN cooler, but dang they should be a lot faster hashing.

 I also have a 750ti running in a low-profile system now, it's pulling 18 watts for 3.5ish MH (bounces between 3.1 and 3.6 but mostly 3.6) - now THAT is efficient, but the $/hash is pretty sad.

GTX 1080 is out.   And the price ......  $900 USD.
WTF


http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-Founders-Graphics-08G-P4-6180-KR/dp/B01FWI6F08/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1464457420&sr=1-1&keywords=gtx+1080+nvidia
 (http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-Founders-Graphics-08G-P4-6180-KR/dp/B01FWI6F08/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1464457420&sr=1-1&keywords=gtx+1080+nvidia)

Like, 3 R9 390s for the price of one of those...

Nah,
R9 390 for me then

So buy 3 R9 390 new from Amazon

Mine 1-1.5 month and when R9 490 will be released sell 390s on ebay

Do not buy the 1080. It is useless for mining the Ethereum. Buy the 390, it is the best for the time being.

1080 seems to be vary scarce right now - give it a couple weeks to a month, supplies should get more available and price come down to less than list.

 And yeah, it's NOT a good choice for Ethereum even at list, even with the energy efficiency it should have - apparently the drivers for it are a long way from compute optimised, so it's a very low hashrate miner.

 I'm STILL waiting on someone to post Folding PPD on them though.....

I m very happy about my ASUS  R9 280 x ( 4X ) , old generation, but still solid !

And Asus have 3 years warrantly, so i never have any problems with us... some fans bug, but asus changes my problems so fast.

Sapphire is good too, and i hate gigabyte :D

How much you can earn daily with r9 x4? looks like this one one of a cheaper gpu to install.. and i am looking for the best mining rig..
Can you share your daily earnings With your 4 gpu..

4x 380x is about 80 MH/s, so it will earn about 0.8 Eth per day. But be careful, the difficulty is rising fast.

Figured I'd jump on the ETH bandwagon with my own mining experiment.

Trying to decide which PSU to use, I have EVGA 1300 or XFX 850 available and will be powering 3 Sappire Toxic R9 280X 3G D5 plus mobo ssd. will the 850 be enough?

 I'm seeing about 20 MH/s out of each of my 3x R9 280x, split between 2 different rigs at this point.
 Gigabyte 3GB Windforce units, 1100/1500 and running pretty cool at those settings despite the somewhat hot weather we've had this week (as opposed to my Sapphire R9 290s that are thermal limit throttling some despite the massive airflow in their cases).


 I do wish the R9 2xx cards would pay attention when I set their clocks to UNDERclock with ATICONFIG. 8-(

mining is becoming too competitive.   over 1 TH/s added in the last month.

It now takes me 2-5 days to find a block with 350 mh/s solo mining.

It seems i'm forced to goto a pool now :/

I never bothered trying to solo Ethereum - though I'm up to around 230ish MH now.

 I DID play around with the new Antpool for Ethereum - and dropped it after about 2 hours and ZERO reported hashrate even though my MINER reported a couple shares found in that timeframe. I'm just glad I decided to use one of the Ti750 rigs for that experiment, small loss....


 Mining has ALWAYS been competative - folks shifting to the "new hot coin" is VERY OLD news, and that's not factoring multi-coin pools or even multi-ALGORYTHM pools/miners like NiceHash....

230 MH/s is not enough for solo mine. For solo mining, you also need a very good network connection.

I do not solo mine. My network connection is not good enough enough. It will disconnect some times. The geth will not recover connection.

The 380X seems to be the best middle ground for space + buy in cost + ROI.
What motherboard would be best for doing a 4x380X setup? Or do you recommend using something like pci risers to keep them out of the case and put them in milk crates like old times?

The best motherboard for mining is the ASrock H81 pro btc. It is very solid and price is not high either.

I use the Asrock H61 and H81 pro BTC, they are working very well, you do not need to short the card presence pin.

buying R9 390 2nd hand with price arround 0.546
now im searching how to start mining ETH

Thank you both!
Since it only has one x16 slot, I assume it was designed to have the cards outside the case for the rest of them.
Which Risers did you use?

Thanks for all the great info in this post. so Im go with 4 380x cards and a H81 pro btc mobo per rig. Now Im using miningrigrentals to rent hashing power and I feel I'm just making money for them. so Im invest in my own rig. Thanks again.

You can use either the USB or the flat cable riser. If you use the flat cable, you need to plug the two molex socket on the mother board.

Which brand and model do you recommend?

brand for riser? they are all the same, just don't buy from chinese on ebay, high % of having many not working, and result in burning your gpu

i'm buying from a german guy on ebay, his risers are very good, all working for me, no issue

Is that USB riser made in Germany or made in China? I have all my risers from China, all working well.

+1 for stay away chinese usb riser on ebay. I bought 5 and more than 50% of them are not working... >:(

i prefered buy hardware near from my place, it's high risk to buy hardware from other country

N card is best,like GTX980.

i don't know, but i know that risers from china soem times are defective

   Can you send me a link?

this in english, i payed 5 euro at first and then 7 euro, now they are at 8 euro apprently he is rising the price, too much demand i think

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEU-25cm-Extender-Riser-Flex-Kabel-PCI-E-PCIe-x16-Karte-x1-Slot-Cable-/291076040426?hash=item43c57be6ea:g:tu8AAOxyiRlSbV2F

What about these?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EUW4F4K?psc=1
Without the ribbon cable, are these recommended?

Also the 390 with 8GB of RAM should be able to get around 30MH correct?

The 390 should get around 30MH/s when the Core frequency is around 1060mHz and memory 1250MHz.

I have R9 390X and have around 27MHZ now in windows 10...Just for you information and your future action

Try 625 mhz mem, you will still get 30MH/s  :)

In order to get 30MH/s, 1125 MHz is the minimum. Have you tried the 625 MHz memory frequency yourself?

Just tried it on my 290X, I get the same rates, 27-28MH, however Overdrive and the miner still report 1250mhz, so could just be a fluke.
But Afterburner shows 650Mhz

What does the GPUZ show? It is impossible for the miner to reach 27 with 650 MHz.  If I change the memory to 750 MHz, it is 21 MH/s.

Will have to check GPU-Z to validate.

Also I got a 390 and 390X, sadly both volt locked.  So my -100mv 290X can almost reach a 390 stock.
Windows 10, latest AMD drivers, getting 29-31MH, 33MH with extreme overclocking.
390X runs a bit cooler and can crank out higher engine OC, but I need to upgrade my PSU to make things safe to test long term.

I have not messed with memory clocks, as I'm happy with those speeds, but curious if anyone else has feedback.

You can use the HawaiiBiosReader to modify the voltage to be lower than the stock. It will save you lots of energy.

so it seems that the new 470 is better than the 480? same bus but less consumption

It depends on what is the limiting factor. If the memory bus is very fast, you need the 480, if it is slow, you only need 470.

From the information from early miners of the 480 RX, the memory is the limiting factor, the core frequeny does not matter much.

There is no best GPU for mining, only altcoin with enough market cap that is mined by GPU in decent rate, atm that is ethereum which hold at least ~70% of GPU mining altcoins, if that fall profitability in instant would go to zero

and depending what algo for mining that coin use you chose the GPU

I think the Ethereum holds at least 80% of all the GPU mining power. It will soon by 90% in the near future.

There are roughly 150'000 Gpu's mining ethereum at the moment.

If the hash rate increases like it did not in the past, in 4 months, there will be 600,000 GPUs to do the hashing.

At the current rate of rise, in 4 months, most miners will be not profitable. So most of them are confident the price will rise.

same old, same old... The litecoin boom (and bitcoin obviously) followed the same pattern, people notice it is still profitable to mine, lots of people join, profit naturally drops. Only thing I see is different now is that profits where a lot higher then and dropped faster, now profitable mining lasted surprisingly long but profit was a lot lower also. Tells me something about what will come in the next wave, a year or two from now, less profit, less fluctuation. Any thoughts? Am I perhaps way out there in my prediction? :D

I think you're dead on. Also this time we KNOW that mining will end when they attempt to move to PoS which has actually kept the difficulty from rising faster IMO. The bust is going to be ugly, lots of cheap GPU's for gamers is my prediction.

I had the same problem in the past, Amazon is actually much better since you can read reviews.  Ebay is more of a gamble.
Gpushack which made ethos sells risers, I never puchased them but I'd trust them more than chinese sellers on Ebay
http://gpushack.com/search?type=product&q=riser (http://gpushack.com/search?type=product&q=riser)   

I definitely believe that. 470 is gonna be much better than 480 for GPU mining, with less than 50 watts of power consumption. 480 hasn't proved much to be too good for mining, but I'm pretty positive for the 470 and would definitely wait for it to arrive here at my place.

It depends on the memory frequency of the 470, if it is the same as that of the 480, then it is good for mining.

hello, i need help, how i can undervolt my amd rig card?? i have one r9 290x 8gb, one r9 380 2 gb and one r7 370 2gb...

where a find good modded bios for flashing it? or where i can find good support for guide me to flash it?

thanks for help me

If you use the Windows, you can use the MSI afterburner and the Sapphire Trixx. Both are good, the former is more popular.

thanks, but what are the best setting for mining eth?

In terms of reaching your ROI back the 7950s  are good with an average of 17MH/s per gpu it beats its power consumption with its mined cryptocurrency. Its hard to find a new one, also be careful when looking for a refurbished one. Test it out first before buying it.

The power consumption of the 7950 is too high. If you pay $0.2 /kWh, you will not ROI due to the increase in difficulty.

If that's true why do people still prefer the 7950s rather than the R9 280X? It's even hard to find a new one. Your best bet is to find a refurbished model in the market. Also from what I heard 7950s ran quiter than the other models.

For my set up, I found the 7970 are faster than the 7950. I would rather have 7970 instead of 7950.

Yes 7970s are obviously faster than 7950s , but in terms of Hash Rate to Power Consumption. You will still profit more in 7950s rather than the 70s. Not an opinion it is a fact. But good for you if you ar making a profit with your gpu. After all is all were after. :)

I have some 7970, I undervot them and they achieve better hash/power consumption rate as they have more core.

The best GPU for mining Ethereum is 1070 in Linux. When the issues with AMD RX480 is resolved, it could also be good.

From the http://cryptomining-blog.com/8054-performance-of-the-amd-radeon-rx-480-for-other-algorithms/
1070 is better.

That is right. It seems that the RX 480 is only good at Ethereum mining. But it is less efficient than 1070.

If you just want to mine the Ethereum, the 480X is the best. But if you want to mine other coins, 1070 is the best.

That is right. But the 1070 is too expensive. We may have have ROI. Maybe we can wait for the 490X.

It is better not to wait for the 490 or the 490X. When they arrive, the difficulty will be so high, not profitable to mine.

Anyone seen results for 1060 on different algos? Can't decide between it and 480

I think so. For the time being, it is better to buy the 480 or 470 or even 1070 to mine the Ethereum now.

Hi Joe,

For GPU mining I recommend using 380X Nitro's. Is a reasonable price for them are they are having a really good hash power compared to the price.

Be aware of the motherboard that you are using. I use ASROCK H81 BTC Pro and they are a really good deal.

Good luck,

I have quite a few Asrock H81 Pro BTC motherboard, they are very robust. I used them for some time already.

The main problem about the Asorck H81 Pro BTC is that it will not be produced. You have to buy other MB.

I like the H61 and H81 Pro BTC version of the Asrock. They each have two molex connectors on the board.

The new Asrock motherboards have only one molex connectors. You need to use a few powered risers.

The best gpu for scrypt mining is the Asus strix r7 370 4gb. This bad boy is power efficient. It draws 110w and gives you 15mh (17mh OC) of ethereum mining. Right now you can get them with a $30rebate brand new. https://www.amazon.com/Radeon-Overclocked-256-bit-DisplayPort-Graphics/dp/B00ZQ3QVJK/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1471500653&sr=8-1&keywords=asus+strix+4gb&linkCode=ll1&tag=technology304304-20&linkId=15ea6672c1c998b748dfe71d0d8ab041


 I have 5 of these gpu´s in my rig. To power my rig I chose Evga 1000w Gold with 6 pcie vga cables.

Very important to get a real good power supply.

It is better to use the RX 470 to mine the Ethereum. The price is lower than the 480 and has similar mining performance.

I heard that Eliovp has modified the RX 480 BIOS and can mine the Ethereum at over 31 MH/s. But he has not made one for 470 yet.

Some people has made some BIOS mod for the 470. It seems the 470 can achieve similar results as the 480.

there are modes for the 480x also which will give you more hashes if care fully done. the price difference matters after an extend!!!

Do you mean if both are mod to the maximum, the RX 480 is still better than the 470? If that is the case, I will buy the 480.

yeah that's correct , also it a bit tricky for the mod to implement , but once you get it working it is much better than 470..head down to the forum post about 480x

If that is the case, I will buy some RX 480. 480 is better for other algorithms as well as it has more cores and it can be mine more than you're expecting you need a tricky mod there to implement did you try at Remote Desktop ? or VPS ?

Yeah, that's it!
Best result i've heard about :
- rx 480 31Mhash
- rx 470 25.5Mhash
So it depends on required density and the price that u can get

If that is the case, then I shall buy the RX 480. It has better density so I can have more hashing power per rig.

The RX470 can get like 28mh/s and also dual mine SIA with the equivalent hashrate of like 31mh/s. Just need to bios hack the vbios and mod the memory strap settings.

Would you mind share some tips about this BIOS ?
I have only 480, but if those are the hash rate i will buy 470 too

p.s. 4Gb or 8Gb ?

Did you just copy the memory strap settings from the lower frequency to the higher frequency or make other modifications?

Yes that's what I did. There are many guides on the steps involved and how to hack your Windows signature checks.

Don't bother. time for XMR mining was 2013.
Mine other coin and trade for XMR if you think it will raise further.
Good alternatives are LBRY (if Nvidia) or traditional ETH + 2nd coin combo if AMD

That is right. The mining difficulty for the Monero has also risen quite a lot recently. So it is not the most profitable.

The mining difficulty of Monero has dropped about 20% in the last 4 days. That is similar to the price drop.

The mining difficulty of the Etheruem is an all time high now. It increases with the increase of the Eth price.

The hashing power for the Ethereum dropped a little in the last few days. Where did not hash go?

RX 480 nad  R9 390X are good GPUs to mine.

I wonder if the CPU-motherboard configuration affects the ethereum hashing or not.I use pentium cpus with asrock h81 pro mother boards.

Is there a specific brand of RX 480 that is outperforming the rest? I am interested in getting a Sapphire, Gigabyte or MSI though still not sure whether to get 4GB or 8GB.

There is no mining performance difference between the 4GB and the 8 GB. The extra memory is not used.

Total bullshit. How can you give an advice if you even did not know ((

The best cards for mining are cheap reference ones. Also I like red devils 480 8gb

The reference and Red Devils are both low on stocks on Amazon. It is interesting to see the reference cards selling for $20-30 more than the ones with 3rd party cooling.

The reference cards has only 6 pin PCIE power connections. It will draw a lot from the PCIE slots, it is not safe.

IMHO it's because there are good custom bios for reference cards and they are easy to find and used.

You can also do some mod yourself. There are many instruction on how to do that. It is not so difficult.

All you do is use 1500 straps on the higher freqs.

470/480 seem to be getting good hashes at 28mh and 30mh with modded bios.

The only potential problem I see is that some sapphire cards are starting to come with a bios that has settings for 2 types of memory so they can not be edited in the Polaris editor.

If you know the type of the memory, can you still do the edit. I heard you can do that on the Tahiti cards.

If you mod the Bios they are out of warranty.On the other hand you get 25-26 Mh at standard and 29-30 Mh at modded Bios.It is a preferance.

If you have dual bios, it is quite safe to mod the bios. If anything wrong, you can just flip the switch.

Indeed I do not recommend you to mod the bios because its dangerous and you will void your warranty and it can due to that provide you some big problems too.
I would not do this.

No one will discover that the bios has been modded if u restore it before sending it back ;)
IMHO they will not even check

I had problems with a RX 470 that was strange and crappy from day one.
I flashed the card and later on it just died.

I returned it with flashed bios and got a new one the same day.
If a gpu is dead it is dead, nobody will put hours of work to figure out what bios is on the card.

It is nice indeed but the fact that you voiding your warrantly makes it for me not an option.
I will take a look into it but I think that I'm not gonna do it honestly.

I'm good with my XFX RX 480 8 GB cards. 3 GPU's mining at 80 Mh/s overall with 60 W power draw of each according to GPU-Z (of course I know that it's far from being accurate). Not much of overclocking done because I don't want my any of the GPU's to die or to lower the life duration.

You are doing okay and I think that is pretty nice, you also should not overclock it because it can get you into trouble and its also that its really lowers the life duration significantly.
These cards are by the way pretty powerful so that is nice.

yea also you can mod it, there is a video on youtube of one guy who gets 29mh/s on his R470

He must have a very good RX 470 with good quality memory. Not many 470 can reach that even after mod.

What is to get into trouble for overclocking? If it doesn't work revert, it not like the overclocking police are going to come to your house, lol.

Also, it is not the overclocking that will lower a devices lifespan, it is the heat and/or too much voltage. If you can overclock a little, and in many cases with the BIOS mods, under-volt at the same time, you will not only lower the voltages going through your card, you will significantly lower the heat being generated thus prolonging the lifespan of your card.

As with all things moderation is the key, but for me I can pull a fresh RX 470 out of the box and get 22-23 MHash/s out of it with it reading about 70-80 Watts on GPUz and ~120 W at the wall. I can apply a simple BIOS mod, lower the default GPU clock, increase the memory clock, and reduce voltages a bit and up my hashrate to ~27-28 MHash/s while at the same time reducing my GPUz reading to around 50-60W and at the wall to under 100 W.

There is nothing wrong, illegal, or immoral about this. It is simply re-tuning the GPU for a different purpose (mining) than what it was tuned for at the factory (gaming). Considering these cards have the lowest common denominator for settings so that the absolute worst binned part will perform ok, in most cases there are significant improvements to be made over factory defaults.

Nice post, very clear !
Your wattage are calculated during dual mining or solo ethereum?

Well said. The AMD RX 470 and 480 is the best for the Ethereum mining at the moment. No cards can beat that.

i just have a question please is there any program for GPU solo mining for an altcoin with algo x13
i try sgminer on windows but didnt work for me i have AMD readon HD 7650M
should i create pool mining for this coin ? any solution please

I'm planning to create a new rig with few GPUs.
I can get some decent price for XFX Radeon RX 480. I'm pretty sure that this has been asked a few times, but I couldn't remember:

Should I purchase XFX Radeon RX 480 4GB or 8GB? Will the memory affect hashrate?

For the ZCash mining, the memory speed is very important. So you have to increase the clock or change the timing.

I am new in mining and also i dont have graphics card in the computer. I am looking for the normal graphics card for the mining which i can buy and can use for the mining through my own pc. i have quad core processor. so please suggest me a good graphics card. Here in my country these are much costly.

like it was said for beginners that don't want to spend too much the 470/480 4gb is the best option right now, you can mine both etheruem and zcash with a decent profit

hello, anyone can help mio whit mod bios of rx480 red devil 8 gb? thanks

Overclocking done right can give the most performance out of the cards. At the same time if one is not good at overclocking, it is best to leave it alone. I am totally new to overclocking GPUs safely. Do you have any good tutorials or links to good videos to start with? I am sure experience is the best teacher, but I don't want to burn any GPUs trying to overclocking it especially  when I can take good advises from the experts in bct. 

You are right. But the mining profitability is not so high now. So if you pay high electricity cost, it is better to downclock.

Can someone tell me why the 4GB HIS Radeon RX 470 iCooler OC does only consume 75W instead of 120W like "normal" RX470 gpus?! Couldn´t find any difference so far.

There is no way that  4GB HIS Radeon RX 470 iCooler OC does only consume 75W instead of 120W like "normal" RX470 gpus.

They might talk about the GPUZ power readout.

What you think about gtx titan x and gtx 1080?

Hi i'm going to buy gpu gtx 1070 is good for mining :o

Hi i'm going to buy gpu gtx 1070 is good for mining Shocked

Hello I want to know if the gtx 1070 is good for mining and if it is profitable to conquer it and if possible you can tell me when money gives every day many thanks

GTX 1070 is good for mining, it is very efficient. but it is too expensive.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1707546.0

GTX 1070 is a poor choice for mining as it costs about 2x vs many RX 470 and some RX480 cards, but mines about the same hashrate.

The only reason I have a BUNCH of them is that my intended usage for them isn't mining - they're just mining to help pay their cost while the mining is profitable.

A GTX 1070 is very good card for gaming and mining as a hobby.
For a gpu farm, semi professional mining, amd card are a better choice (less expensive -> less initial investment, similar hashrate on most important algo, but higher power usage, better ROI).

A small miner may aims at less popular coins, without pools or big exchange and have a higher profit per card.... A gtx 1070 is very good for spreadcoin for instance (a small interesting coin on bittrex with low volume), or lbry ( not a small coin).

you can show this too :

https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/#/equipment

for me, the best choice is sapphire nitro rx470 8gb.
it's cheap, consume is very low.
with zcash gpuz and hwinfo show 70W, with eth 100W, with anorak's ps mod bios.

Before we start, if you’re new to Bitcoin mining and don’t know what it is watch this short and simple explanation, For me the best bitcoin mining GPU is the Antminer S9 with hash power of 14.0 TH/s for $3,000 dollars but if you buy this you are also trouble in the electricity but this is worth is for me this is the best GPU for mining if you give me to chance to buy this why not heheh :)Bitcoin is the new hot thing. It is a virtual cryptocurrency that is distributed or "minted" by having computers do SHA-256 calculations often called hashing. This currency can be used as payment online and entirely decentralized so it can be transferred quickly and is nearly untraceable and has little to no transaction fees.It is easy to earn yourself some bitcoins by employing an idle gpu to do these hashes so you may have your piece of the Bitcoin pie. The first step of getting on your way to earning bitcoins is getting a wallet. You have several options, but in this tutorial I will be walking you through the vanilla bitcoin-qt. You will want to acquire this by going to http://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet You can find a lot of interesting info on the official bitcoin website and if you are curious about the specifics of how it works, they have a very informative video on the front page that you may want to watch.I drew an arrow to point out the bitcoin-qt icon. You can click on this to bring you to the download of the client. Download this and it should be your usual installation process that you are accustomed to in windows or mac or linux.

so what gpu for the professional mining I recommend that I buy that the investment is good but I can recover the invested ... and if you can tell me exactly what you are buying for a PC of 6 gpu miner you would be very pleased

































     

so what gpu for the professional mining I recommend that I buy that the investment is good but I can recover the invested ... and if you can tell me exactly what you are buying for a PC of 6 gpu miner you would be very pleased

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16814150775
Does anyone here use this before?? i need some review regarding to card's temperature and fan noise level.

That's a good 480, the best is the XFX RX480 GTR

The GTR has a higher quality cooler, and has a custom PCB. It will overclock a little better and run cooler, but not the end of the world of you have the RS model.

Personally I would buy a RX470, that being said I do like the 480's so that's what I got.

 Sapphire is my primary go-to brand, but the Nitro is overpriced for the performance on mining.
 I just wish their blower-type RX 470 model wasn't a backplate design.

For mining, it is better to use the cheap brand and unvolt or under clock. It is not profitable without underclocking now.

That is right. If you pay high electricity price, it is better to undervolt.

Guys i will install a new gpu mining rig, witch card is perfekt for gpu mining ?
I will use NiceHash Miner!

Is this Card ok   "Asus ROG Strix-RX480-O8G-Gaming" ?

Yeah, that is a very good card

is a nvida 980 ti better then the amd ?

I have in my PC system a 980ti so i can buy a secord an make sli. so i can use it for gaming too

The AMD is better then the 980ti at mining.

p.s. SLI or crossfire are useless in mining, but you can mine with multiple GPU

The 980ti is good for ZEC mining, but that is too expensive.

The new RX 580 Series will have a 6+8 Pin power connector.

This is going to be a problem to connect to most PSU's.

Thats 6x6 pin + 6x8 pin connectors.

Which PSU has those? My favourite HX1200W and Evga G2 1300W cant connect that many cards...

EDIT: Evga G2 1300W can in fact connect those.

Anyway, be carefull if ur buying PSU's for the RX 580 rigs  :D

You can use some adaptors.

I just bought the rx 460 4gb for $109 today, mining GRS at 8.35 mh.

could i have done better for price? I can still return it.

EDIT: also my electricity is $ 0.02534200 per kw/h

Somewhere on here someone mentioned being able to plug only the 8pin in without suffering more than a 1% drop in performance, can anyone confirm?



With that electric price, go for a 480. 460s are crap at mining.

 Brandwise, Sapphire is quality and performance king.

 I wont touch xfx since they started making voltage not modifiable then pasting on their boxes that voltage IS modifiable

 Asus builds nice but I dont like their custom software

XFX has some cards which you can modify the voltage.

Does anybody know what the

ATI Sapphire 16GB AMD FirePro S9150

Will do with mining an altcoin?

I can't find it anywhere, but it's very expensive......not a guarantee for good mining results?

Next time, go for RX 470 or 480. These two are the best, you would have been getting a good hashrate with these two.

RX 460s are not good at all in mining.

But hey, you've very cheap electricity!

Me and my friends have gonne for the Sapphire Nitro+ 8GB RX 480 as from our tests it is the most efficient card on the planet for mining in a budget up to 300 Euro per card. You cannot find a better deal as a GPU for mining at this price. I think it will continue to be so even after some time as the RX 500 series looks its only a re brand and just a bit higher clock speed, not much improvements.

That is right. The 5xx should be similar to 4xx.

Try mining with the Nicehashminer at Nicehash they pay per share in bitcoins....

You should read the OP post right before replying and its not a mining site .He is asking the Best GPU unit for mining purpose.

I was replying this question and he has already a GPU but recieved no coins with mining at some pools, so that's why I advised him NH to test,
because since they pay per share you have a faster result and you know if something is wrong or not.

But eventhough thank you for your wiseness and pointing me at something that isn't relevant, get a life

At miningpoolhub you must be aware there is an autoswitch option which can make you mine at altcoins and get paid in bitcoins or whatever.
Look into your personal account setting at Minepoolhub according the "autoswitch option"

I bought some MSi GTX 1080ti today but they are pretty good mining CPU's, nice profit

You can view the profitability for various GPU's mining any of the major GPU mineable coins here:

http://www.mycryptobuddy.com/

Just select various GPUs from the "Hardware" drop down menu

I've never tried nicehash before. Is it pretty easy to setup? I've got a rig of (4) 280Xs and another of (4) MSI 480 8GB being built right now.

Still waiting for that best gpu, I want it to shine on ethash, equihash and cryptonight. Some niche algos would be great too.

Vega?

Nowadays I pointed all my riggs at Nicehash, some say it's bad, some say it's good.

My experience is that it's all about average and it won't matter if you'ra at a pool or Nicehash.

The advantage of Nicehash is that they pay per share and that they pay a lot sometimes if there is a lot of demand for hashpower...

Yesterday started with some MSi GTX1080ti GPU's and they produce €4 / day

recommend from me ,, i said gpu rx series RX 470 can be choice because from price , watt and hashrate ,, i said be better than all , but you use more RX470 , ex : use minimal 3 , becuase if you use only one , i think not effisien for ROI .

These are the cards Ive mined with:
GA7950
GA 7970
Sapphire 280x
Sapphire 390
MSI 580 Gaming X 8GB
Sapphire 580 Limited 8GB

My favorite card is the Sapphire 580, based on:
-Huge heatsink, they are very quiet
-Seems to be very stable
-Dual bios
-Comes with 2 sets with fans
-Kinda sexy

https://i.imgur.com/puk6CaB.png

Hi Guys,

I gonna start mining and i have a budget up to 10.000 dollar.
After a lot of research if found out the Sapphire Nitro+ 8GB RX 480 should be the best option. 8gb is not neccacery for ETH, but it is for some other coins. So better pay some more for more RAM, so you never have problems mining other coins right?

Or is there a better options with this budget?

Another questions. Lets say if i dont have to pay for electricty what is then the best GPU on the market? Offcourse with a bad power usage :-)

Thanks a lot guys!

I'm going to go for the Sapphire Nitro+ RX 580 :D

Can i aks you why? If i take a quick look , it cost more money for less hashrate?

Moeilijk

Wanna buy new cards or used, a rack or server?

If you are mining for memory intensive ETH, ETC, EXP, and UBQ then the best cards are probably the RX 470 or RX 480. (maybe the new 5xx series) If you are mining core intensive coins like ZEC, ZCL, and LBC then the GTX 1070's are the undisputed champ.

Moeilijk gaat ook.

yes i wanna buy a lot of videocards :-) I have in fact a big budget. so if there is any card out there who cost me 500 dollar but is better, then its ok for me!  I have cheap power, so in fact if one card is giving more MH/S and using a bit more power, that is the last of my concern ;-)

With that kind of budget (and knowing what I know now...) I would have probably went with either GTX 1070's or GTX 1080ti's.  

You can still mine everything with them and arguably comparable to baseline Rx series cards for Eth.

I started off with RX470's and RX480's but have been steadily picking up GTX1070's and plan on upping to 1080ti's over the next few months.

I got 20 x 1080 and 4 x 180ti, but today my first RADEON Pro duo arrived, and if you look to the benefits and purchase value the RADEON is more profitable

Can u explain me why, because i find less information about this cards and hashrates..
I just found this on internet... i dont know what you think about it?

"So the only thing that is left to do if you already got a GTX 1080 GPU or more than one and want to mine Ethereum with it is to go for Linux. Under Linux people are reporting about 23 MHS on average as hashrate for mining Ethereum on GTX 1080, a speed that is a bit higher than what you can get from GTX 970, GTX 980 or GTX 980 Ti, but still a bit disappointing compared to what you can get from high-end AMD GPUs. The GTX 1070 that we already mentioned is doing better for Ethereum should be capable of around 27 MHS under Linux (in Windows they apparently have the same low performance issues for the moment), though we have not yet been able to personally verify that. So even with the low power consumption these hashrates from the GTX 1080/1070 are not that great and when you add in the high price of the GPUs at the moment and the driver issues with Windows, you can pretty much forget about being happy with mining Ethereum with these video cards. They should be better capable for other altcoin algorithms that are not memory intensive like Ethereum and we are off to checking that next, so stay tuned for more results."

I think if you guys are building large budget rigging operations you need to really take into account coin stability. I realize the term "Stability" is almost an oxymoron in crypto, but I would not want to build a $15-30k  Nvidia only mining operation and have ZEC drop 30% in value in a week. Eth over the last year has a strong history of development and ecosystem. Zec has not developed or proven itself as far as ETH has. Diversify as Phil does and maybe have 20 AMD rigs on Eth 20 Nvidia rigs on Zec. Spending $699 per card on 1080 Tis is not cost efficient if ZEC value plummets and ETH stay the same. You now have those same cards mining eth when you could have saved $450 per card and just bought 480's anyway. I guess i'm just saying perhaps its better to diversify for long term stability. Thoughts?

Well I agree with the sentiment but not really the need to have to diversify based on brand of cards. You can build out 20 rigs with 1070's and if ZEC flops then there are any number of coins that still can be mined just a profitably as ZEC. There are DMD, LBC, VTC, ZCL, and that is just a few I can think of off the top of my head. They really do different things but I really do now prefer NVIDIA over AMD and just to be fair I have mined with 470/480's and also 1070's. The 1080TI's are definitely not cost effective though. The 1080TI's are so expensive but the 1070's are a great value and you can easily pick up some of them for as low as $350 or below with even better deals through distributors. 

That's the reason why I only buy hardware with the profit I had made with mining.

Beside all my Nvidia cards I have 30 x R9390's mining Ether. I try to mine at 3 different algo's

Originally I was mining Dash with "used" R9290's wich I sold after 1,5 year mining for 100 euro each.
So all the hardware I use mining at the moment I will sell within a year as "brand" new.......

Yes you are right! This is a very important reason for me to build my own rig. So i can switch between coins if i need to. With 480 you do ETH, MONERO, ZCASH, etc

But in fact if i do calculations i start always with ETH, because just like you, me believe is the strongest in this coin ;-)

I really did not get the point why the 1080 was so more expensive, while i does not so much better on ETH, but now i think i get the point... Its because the guy who posted it maybe is mining zcash, and for him this card is the best?

But after a few days research i noticed the RX 470 or RX 480 are perfect. Sapphire should be the best, but i see that the difference between brands is not so big so whatever. 4gb is MORE then enoufh for ETH, but if i want to mine litecoin maybe in future (when price go up more and more) then i should keep in mind that i need 8gb for that.

And also the OC version's should be a bit better because its better for OVERCLOCKING?

I just wanted to share my idea after some days of research :-)

I wouldn't even bother mining Litecoin with GPU's since those new L3+ ASICS give you 504 MH/s and that blows any GPU rig out of the water. The RX470/480 or the newer 5xx series cards are certainly the way to go if you are mining Ethereum. It might be worth it to buy the 8 GB cards though since the DAG is getting larger and larger and you will have until 2019 for 8 GB mining. The other main thing might be that Ethereum might switch to POS because of the problems with EThash being too memory reliant. Just my 2 cents. I believe in Zcash and if development goes as planned it will do quite well. The other upside is there a huge mining cycle left for ZEC while ETH POW mining is on the inevitable decline.

Yeah dont try mining any LTC with GPUs thats been overwith for a while now. You're burning too much electricity for little profit. I don't run 4GB cards so i'm not sure what they're hashing.I have several rigs of rx 480 8Gbs, and they are running around 29.5 mh/s on Eth+Decred after strapping and some afterburner adjustments.  I have one zec rig right now which is basically the sad bastard child of my old 280X mining rigs from last year. They are pulling around 300 sol/s each at 210 watts, so not very efficient but still making profit on totally paid off gear. If Eth switches to POS don't worry everyone will go to ETC. Eth and Vitalik have too much money now and they will create some shitty halfway step between POS and POW.

Ok thanks for the information ;-) good points of view :-)

I have been looking for the antminer l3. It was my first plan, order one to have it by 15july... i dont know.

I am pretty sure i gonna buy the 480's now

I want to buy RX 480 to... I want to rig bitcoin by these hardware. maybe 6pcs RX 480 is good enough for a single pc! what is recommended CPU setup for 6pcs RX 480 rig? thank you in advance.

I have to be honest that I bought all my 1080's for 300 euro's each, that's the reason why I have them, otherwise in my opninion they where too expensive

Ok good to know. Then is was a good deal ;-)

Anybody can advise a website in europe where to buy them the chrapest?

 I still prefer 470s over 480s, and either over the new 5's. The companies are playing too many new branding games with the 5 series for some reason wanting ot make it harder fo rus to tell which are better or worse, especially sapphire this time.

I and a few friends have just built a 6 pcs RX 480 Sapphire RX 480 8GB Gddr5 PC. The processor we choose is a simple one from 6th gen of Intel, the celeron G3930. We bought a few risers and choose the ASUS Z270 Prime Strix motherboard with 3 PCIEX16 and 3 PCIEX1 which keeps 6 cards as a breeze in Windows 10. A normal ssd and 8gb of cheap ddr4 ram is enough. For the PSU we have choosen a 1200 watt platinum EVGA, it's working good since a few days that we build this mining rig.

So I have been running a gtx 1070 and a rx 480 for a few days now.

The 1070 mines about 0.0005-0.0007 btc more per day than the rx 480 while consuming 30-40 watts less power. It also was about 110$ more expensive to purchase.

I have found that the 1070 is best for mining Digibyte (Skein, Myr-Gr), and Feathercoin (Neoscrypt). That is the main problem with the NVIDIA cards. They are best for mining small coins that aren't very stable and used mainly for trading.

However, there are also plans for Eth to move to PoS from PoW, which will break AMD mining. Nobody has any ideas when this might happen though.

I think it is good to diversify, since mining on both AMD and NVIDIA even on the same system is not much of a problem.

You should think about mining on zpool.ca or miningpoolhub.com and you can auto convert to BTC as you mine.
If you use profit switching you will be constantly switching coins but it doesn't matter as all you see is BTC payments :)

My 1080ti's are getting over $10/day per card right now mining mostly skein, blake2s, and nist5 based coins :D
It is pretty rare that Neoscrypt becomes profitable enough to mine over the others

Hey! May I ask your rig setup? I'm planning to build one, but I'm not really sure on what to buy..

Thanks!

I have been using miningpoolhub & multipoolminer. I really like the auto-profit switching and auto-exchange features. I have not tried zpool.

You can see the hashrates for different algos here (1070 and rx 480). The rx 480 is steady at around 0.0019 btc/day and the 1070 varies quite a bit. I also just picked up a 1080 and probably will install that tomorrow.
https://i.imgur.com/KvnNScC.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/UakV6uW.jpg

Miningpoolhub fee is 0.9% and Zpool seems to be 2%. But mph has 0.0004 btc transaction fee for any withdrawals, and doesn't have as many coins as zpool.

do you prefer using zpool to miningpoolhub?

It really depends on your budget but many people have asked the same questions you have. Check out this website: http://www.coinminingrigs.com/how-to-build-a-6-gpu-mining-rig/

this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1884572.0 and there are many many other threads on this sub-forum. That should help you get started but you need to do your own research and experimentation.

I am totally beginner in mining and which graphic cards to you advice for mining Ethereum and Litecoin, also I think maybe I will also try to mine Monero an Zcash.
What do you think about Radeon R9 390 and rx 580?

Those will be good for dual mining Ethereum/ETC (Ethash) + DCR/Sia. Check out claymore's dual mining program.

Nvidia cards do better on Zcash (Equihash) and I think Monero (Cryptonight) as well.

There will be little profit in mining Litecoin.

Hi all, I bought 4 rx 470 and  5 1060, began to collect and one of the 470 issues on the air only 4 MH/s what might that be? To give the warranty?

I'm not 100% sure what you are asking, but if you mean that you only get 4 MH/s on one of your 4 Rx 470 GPUs when mining, then try this ---  If you are mining Ethereum using Claymore's Miner you need to set your Windows Paging File (virtual memory) to the same as your total amount of GPU VRAM. So for 4x Rx 470 you need it to be set at 24 GB or more. 

Thanks, I'll try

Plug your monitor into the card doing 4mh/s. That should fix it.

Thanks for help

Did that solve the problem?

Looks like this one is so optimum rig. I am also planning to have a few rigs with same components.  8 GB for GPU is a good choice for future. Hope you can make good profit with them. Good luck.

Yea i look for those sapphire cards but can not fikd them. Any good alternatieve?
Whats the best card in the 500 dollar range by the way?

I'm try to mining torcoin on my PC but i not success because of my GPU.i have low quality GPU for this reason i unable to mine it but after some day I will buy an Nvidia GPU and I know its really working to mine tor.can you all suggest me which GPU are best to mining.

Well the best one under 500 dollars to mine with is the GTX 1070.

What do you think about this Graphic Card:
MSI GAMING Radeon RX 480 GDDR5 8GB CrossFire VR Ready FinFET DirectX 12 Graphics Card (RX 480 GAMING X 8G)
https://www.amazon.com/MSI-GAMING-RX-480-8G/dp/B01K1JTT8S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1494955415&sr=8-1&keywords=Radeon+R9+390

and also which one is better for mining:
MSI GAMING Radeon RX 480 GDDR5 8GB CrossFire VR Ready FinFET DirectX 12 Graphics Card (RX 480 GAMING X 8G) this one or
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB GDDR5 256 bit PCI-E 3.0 x 16 Windforce OC (GV-N1070WF2OC-8GD) this.

I've seen 1080's for $419, 1070's for $319...you just have to keep an eye out for great deals and strike when the timing is right :D
Hopefully we'll see a 1080ti price drop as vega comes out

+1 for that. i am hunting GTX 1070 in EU @ 310-340€ range. managed to get 10 cards like this :P

remember that you can't mine x11 x13 and other x algorithm with gpu there are asic for that algo, it's better if you use your gpu to mine other gpu coin, like skein or skein 2 or timetravel coin, blake2s coin are also good, check yiimp this pool have many coins to mine

I have 3 1070 gtx dual 8gb i have about 78 MH on minig poll 
26,675 mh x card
Waht you think about this rage of mh? Is good or not?

well i used to be a miner back in 2012-2013 with r290 and gave up when bitcoin drops around $200.I now have 2x980gtx watercooled and would like to know which coin to mine?

You can use the 980 to mine the ZEC.

anything equihash, LBC is good on Nvidia as well. Neoscrypt, oh shit there 10 algos, and 100 coins highly profitable for you to mine right now with those :D
I would suggest LBC its a great price and a solid coin.

As far as the best cards to mine, 1070's are still best price performance, but DENSITY and RESALE matter too imo. I am going all 1080ti, the ti models of cards always seem to hold value, damn a 980ti is STILL high price new :)
unless you WANT to upgrade every 3 months and fight over supply in the streets, buy big bad ass cards imo
I could hold my top of the line 1080ti's for a year  and 5+ ROI's and still get 75% value for them easy i bet

I agree with that. 1080ti is better.

Is this hashrate for mining ETH?

If so, it is a bit low, I can get about 31MH/s with a 1070 GTX mini (ITX) from Galax with 75% TDP and +700 set on the memories.

1080ti rules imo also just because of the value it will contain.

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What do you think about this Graphic card?
XFX R9-290X-EDBD - 4GB

Maybe this is the highest rate card we have right now, and this is the latest version and made only for mining purpose. This cost the normal people can't bare. What is the exact hash rate for this card? And what is the price in your country? I asked in my place here it's still not yet came and if it comes also, i can't afford that money. 

It's a really decent one for eth, but eats up power. If power aint an issue buy several and you are good to go.

IMHO the best would be 2nd hand video cards. You get ROI faster.

Of course, go for the best profit/power-consumption ratio. Nicehash has a great tool for this. https://nicehash.com/?p=calc

I have rigs with used cards too. Buying second hand cards was good strategy back in the days when the price in ebay was normal.

I did that in the past. but the price is too high now.

for the price of (1) 1080ti. you can buy

3 pcs. 106-100 6gb mining card running at 25mh/s  = 75mh/s

75mh/s > 36mh/s

I have 2 AMD 480 8gb XFX Reference cards for sale.

1 immediately and 1 1st week of september.

If you are interested shoot me a PM. They go for around 4-600 new, so 280-300 price for them used.

pfft, that 106 card will have ZERO resale, and you will need TWO more slots for equal to 1080ti you say?  meaning  like 3x as many rigs in the end to build and maintain, put THAT into your cost lmao

ill stick with 1080ti, bought another today, a MSI FE, price is dropping nicely lately

Rx 580's all the way baby, 8GB version of corse. If you like to save a few bucks then the Rx 570.

If you mine ZEC, the best is nVidia 1080 ti.

On lbry too. How much hashrate 1080ti on zec?

Depends on the brand but you can get as high as 800 sol/s per 1080 TI with 100% TDP. I would say the average is 730-760 though. I think the 800 sol/s is on a Aorus 1080 TI.

On 1080 I have just about 550-570. 1080ti too much better

I'm considering buying a new 1080ti, but I find many models with different prices.
My question is: does something change between models, or just the manifacturer?
If there is any, what is the best brand?

Yeah, will give you about 30Mhash mining ETH slightly overclocked. Will use a lot of power, about 300watts.

do you know hashrate on lbry best model 1080ti? I think it's 500? Or better?

Look it up using google. In stead of asking here, look for it yourself. Much faster too.

The 1080 ti's consume way too much power and are way too expensive. For me I can get 1060 3gb cards for $299, while the lowest I can find a 1080 ti for is $929.  My 8 x 1060 rig pulls 750w, my 8 x 1070 rig pulls 1200w. If you run 8 x 1080's at 65%, you're still going to hit over 1500w.  That's double the power of the 1060 rig.

I don't get the ROI argument either on the resale of the card. If my 1060 cards returned me $0 in resale next year, and 1080 ti's could get 75% of their value next year, that's not even close to a good deal! Run the numbers in cryptocompare.. it doesn't add up.

as it has been mentioned many times, DENSITY is where you "price for performance" guys will lose everytime
Did you add needing THREE TIMES as many rigs to have as much hash in the end? thats ALOT of cost...
Eh, maybe only TWICE as many slots, but still.
and you have in the end:  200 1060's OMG, GOOD LUCK doing ANYTHING with those in 6 months, they will be worth nothing, and too many around to sell
1080ti's, you will have 75, they will sell like HOTCAKES in 6 months for 75% value (as 980ti still does today)

Well I agree with you. In 6 months I would rather be in the position of selling 1080 ti's instead of 1060's. The 1060's will be at the bottom end while you'll still get good value for the ti's. Good value but you paid an arm and a leg for them. I'm small time though! I don't have a density issue but I guess if I did, I would go for ti's.

1070 give 500 H/s on Zcash and 25 MH/s on ETH, 1080ti give 750 H/s on Zcash and 30 MH/s on ETH, so if you can buy 8GB 1070 for half a price of 1080ti, go with 8GB 1070 (you can always use them for mining new alts and keep them in stock for several months, till they go up in value, before you sell them). Or just drop it, and try speculating with a test account on alt exchanges (may be you'll get more successful in trading alts than mining them).

I still would say RX470 4GB and RX470 8GB is the best card I ever had. Undervolt king and easy to manage.

Better than 1060's?

this is a great question I'd also be very curious about, would be much appreciated

There is no single best brand. Some manufacturers have their top-of-the-line card for each GPU, but the chip is essentially the same (might be factory overclocked). The amount of memory may also be different, in addition to the fan(s) and possibly the PCIe power connectors available (probably not for the 1080ti, but in general).

For example, with 24/7 mining, I would avoid buying single-fan 1060-based cards designed for compact mini-ITX cases unless a significant price difference made it worth it. 1060s with 2 fans or a blower-style cooler would be preferable.

Some people swear by certain brands, but it tends to be pretty hit-and-miss. No manufacturer guarantees you'll get the memory manufacturer you want (Samsung vs Micron, Hynix, etc.), or that your card won't be DOA. Customer service experiences and whatnot also vary case-by-case. Look closely at the warranty periods available, if the differences are of importance to you.

By the way, any of my 1070 and 1080 are well-earned zen cash and lbry. All except zcash. Is there a problem in the miner or power?

Yes better, better hashrate.

Better in what? In eth? 1060 6Gb gives 25Mh/s. But who cares as far as there are many other algos and coins to mine much more profitable than eth. And AMD is miserable there.

Can you tell me what's better algo for nvidia?

Thanks for replying.
You mentioned the memory manifacturer: why is this important? I thought it would be important only for the chance to flash the gpu, but not for any other reason.

Samsung memory generally gives you more flexibility when changing memory clock settings. All units are different regardless of memory brand, but it is quite common for cards with Samsung memory to have better overclocking potential.


I'm sure you know that GPU mining is never a sure investment, and there's no guarantee that you'll see ROI or that you'll see better results than if you just took your USD and exchanged it for some kind(s) of crypto in hopes of them having a greater value in the future.

With about $300, I'd consider going for a used RX 470/480/570/580 and mining Ethereum. You might also consider a new or used gtx 1060 (6gb or 3gb), which could be cheaper. There seems to be a significant price gap between the 1060s (around 200-300 for most models) and 1070s (mostly over $400). With a 1060, I'd recommend mining either Ethereum or Zcash. (The 3GB version may be more suitable for Zcash than ETH.)

To make the best use of the slots you have on that one board, 1080ti cards would probably be your best bet, but that's way over your budget. (And you'd probably want another PSU.)

RX470 can give u 31 M/H :), In ETH/ETC and good for XMR also.

I think the best GPU now is GTX1080Ti due to the following:
All Pascal GPUs has approximatelly the same power/hashrate/USD_cost efficiency BUT rig with GTX1080Ti GPUs is more compact than other

If you have many cards in a rig, the 1080 ti is best.

I agree with you with the prospect for the future of mining 1080ti will be best. The best choice in the long term

What if someone have to start with one card per rig: do you suggest to start with a 1080ti or a 1070 ( or other cards, not ati)? The idea is to add cards whenever I earn coins.

Then it's better to put 1070, they will pay off a bit faster than 1080ti, but as long as you add to the whole rig they may become obsolete

It depends on the altcoin you want to mine: RX470/480/570/580 8GB have lover cost per hash when mining ETH, 1080 ti are the best for mining ZEC.

Time change, i think is amd vega time now, but they sell vega 64 @ 800 usd in my town  :'(

I can't see the Vega being a miners choice card. Draws far too much power.

Comparing to 1080ti it's not so high, but if they do not drive the price tag at least down to that of 1080ti and do not improve software in order to lift hashrate on ZEC to at least 750 H/s, I do not see Vega becoming a bestseller, since the cost of mining ETH is far lower on RX470/480/570/580 8GB. Unless its demand from gamers skyrockets.

The Vega is very much so inferior to any 1080 TI. The 1080 TI, depending upon your needs, is probably your go to choice for mining right now. If you can get your hands on cheap 4xx, 5xx, and 1070's then maybe they can be good choices as well.

Vega just came out so it will be very bug infested with driver problems  and the power consumption i s WOW! Amd what the heck are you doing i need to set up a small power plant for your gpu?
1080ti is the right way

It's just why AMD is always second place in life. The whole world is buying GPU's for mining like we've never seen before? Let's offer slightly more juice for a lot more power, sounds good! Nvidia doesn't even have to release a new product. They're winning by not being as bad as AMD.

So far, the Vega is not faster than the 1080 in mining.

But how is it on payback? Better or worse than 1080ti?

Most of miners forget about GTX1080 (NOT Ti). Its price about 470-500 euro and it gives about 580-600 Sol/s on equihash. Also GTX1080 is good for skunkhash (about 40 Mh/s) and many other algos

AMD CEO in her earning call:
"Relative to cryptocurrency, we have seen some elevated demand," Su said. "But it's important to say we didn't have cryptocurrency in our forecast, and we're not looking at it as a long-term growth driver. But we'll certainly continue to watch the developments around the blockchain technologies as they go forward"

SO forget Vega, they don't care

So which is better performance then? GTX1080 or GTX1080Ti?

Or what can better handle the x13 algo?

1080Ti off course is better. More efficient in terms of assembling the rig and will be more relevant

The 1080 tends to be relatively unpopular. For the price and power consumption, the 1070 or 1080ti are more common.

On the flip side, depending on where you look, you might be able to get 1080 cards for a less inflated price since demand for them doesn't seem to be the same as other ones.

Yes, stay away from the 1080 if you plan to mine, this is good advice.

I just bought 1 pny 1070 and msi gaming 1070 haven't had the chance to hookup the msi plan on doing later I'm trying to upgrade my r9 cards and the rest of my rigs are rx470/570 but these are my first nvidia cards what is the best performing miner to use just looking for some advice thanks

I would try the EWBF miner for Zcash. I'm not sure about Ethereum mining.

The best way might just be for you to look up some common miners for whichever coin(s) you're looking at, then testing out all of them.

Thats because most people can't count properly.  ;D Of course 1080 is very very good performer. While being 20% more expensive than 1070 (for now) it usually give 25-35% more hashpower on many algos.

I had similar thoughts on AMD to many of you...

Vega is developed for much thinks, but for mining no.
They want to have in stock GPUs for gamers.

So Vega is not for mining?

If you have free electricity, a big budget, and some nice PSU's , Vega is great for mining.

I think Vega is still worse than 1080Ti.

Don’t forget to buy a brand which gives you the most warranty time. Some will offer 5 years, others 2years. This could be a night and day difference on profitability if you plan to mine long term.

Which one of those two will give me the most hashpower for the money?

I like the 1080ti better.

I know this GPU are not very new on the market, but what are your toughts about a RIG with 5x Sapphire RX 580 8GB SPECIAL EDITION?

Ty

It is very good for mining ETH.

Thought about mining a long time ago and put it to the back of my mind. Obviously with the recent hack it's made me look into it again.

Rig already has a pair of W/C 1080Ti's and adding another pair (including W/C) is no issue.

ZED has caught my eye and after calculating power draw/cost/hashrate it seems to be a smart choice.

Total noob so need to setup a wallet and find a platform to use to mine.

Wallet - Coinpayments looks good on the face of it. Small tax for changing coin/currency as as nvidia seems to be small coin mining i'll need to trade.

Mining platform - nicehash sounded ideal but obviously a spanner in the works now. If possible i'd like to dedicate a pair of gpu to ZED and the other pair to whatever is the most profitable at the time.

Probably been asked a million times before but after having tolled through various threads a lot goes over my head and am only asking for a point in the right direction for software to use.

Currently running 8700k/32GB, cpu mining doesn't really interest me unless profit is higher to cover depreciation in chip, i.e 7980xe. Intel chips plummet like a lead balloon. Setting up a threadripper rig also no problem, or even a low spec intel chip/mobo to slightly reduce running cost.

I'm all ears, show me the way... :)

Guys what do you think about zotac gtx1080 mini (https://tutorials.technology/reviews/02-Review-Zotac-1080-mini-8gb-good-graphics-card-for-mining-and-cheap.html)

I can't find any gpu at good price, but I found that model at 680usd.
I think is ok for mining.

ANy one has that gpu?

Best gpu for mining is GTX 1070 ti for low elekctricity.

This is true but I'd rank them as follows without concerning consumption.


GTX 1080TI
GTX 1080
GTX 1070
GTX 1070TI
RX 480
RX 580
RX470
RX 570





 but lately the best GPU is the one that you can find!

how to  will install a new gpu mining rig, witch card is perfekt for gpu mining ?
I will use NiceHash Miner!

you just plug in your GPU, plug n play. open devices manager (if using windows), check display adaptor sections if there's show your card usually show as Microsoft basic display adapter. it means your card has been detected by the system then install the driver correlated with your cards.
Don't forget to patch pixel clock and refresh rate using atikmdag patcher, also will disable driver signature enforcement.

for NVIDIA 1070,1070ti GPU, for AMD RX480, RX580, VEGA.

GTX 1050 Ti woud also be a good choice. Low price, low energy and 15-16 Mh/s for ETH.

Nvidia 1070 and 1080 are the best candidate right now. I don't feel regret buying those monster rigs

Also it is possible to still find them (unlike any other card right now, haha) -- I picked up 36 pcs on Amazon two days ago!

Last time i see how peoples mod bios of 2gb RX550 cards, after timing patch this gpu's give 500h/s on cryptonight.
Great result for rx550 price

hi! do you have a link to this please?

GPU is really not easy to buy at the moment :O

Search on you tube, i find it there, i see video in my local lang, think you can find in your native also

I have around $2400 USD I can spend on Amazon, any recommendations on the best allocation for it? Would I be better off buying multiple cheaper GPUs? Or spending more on a single more expensive one?

Hi.. I've now a couple of MSI GTX 1070 with Samsung memory onboard. Two months ago was with 2 GTX 1060. I confirm you point of view... With the 2 1060, using Claymore, the total hashrate was +/- 50MH/s, power consumption was 260W to the wall. Now the 2 1070 give me 66.5 with Claymore, power 320W... 

Just a question for some of you.. Using Nicehash you keep the same setup of Claymore miner to optimize Ether or do you have a different setup? For setup I mean TDP xx%, Core clock, etc...

hey guys, im new to this forum so please don't judge me if im in the wrong forum section.
im into crypto since about 6 months now and thinking of getting into mining Ethereum or bitcoin. I would be ready to put about 3000$ into equipment.
Could anyone please tell me,
1. would it be profitable? after what time period would I see my first "real" gains? (so without the 3k + electricity (I live in Austria))
2. what would you recommend me to mine?

thanks for your help! :)

It all will come to you and what you prefer . Go to whattomine and make the calculations you need . But getting 2 cheaper cards in most cases will give you  a little more hash than 1 card . The numbers will be different from model to another , Always remember getting one card will always safe you space for another .

If you look from the green it's 1080ti
And from the reds then 580 ..

Honestly it's a crap shoot, but AMD cards are so much easier to MOD, since the BIOS are locked for all GTX 10 series cards.  If you have the time and wisdom to play with nVidia GPUs, I tend to get better results on my 1060 6GB than on either my RX 580 4GB or 8GB cards.  They all ride about the same, but since I have more control over the machine with the 1080 & RX 580's, it produces about 10-15% more hashes average.

I am not even trying to distinguish between brands, much less models here.  Just speaking in generalizations.  If we all could get Titan V cards for the price we USED to pay for RX 480's, we would be golden!

It's recommended to buy single more expensive because it will save more resources like POWER SUPPLY, RAM MEMORY and CPU.
Example x12 GTX 1060 you would need 2 rigs - 6 cards each rig but you would need to buy 2 power supply, 2 RAM memory, 2 CPU and 2 montherboards
VS
6 GTX 1080TI you will make 1 rig - 2 power supply, 1 RAM memory, 1 CPU and less cables in your home. You also need to consider the temperature 12 cards vs 6 cards + space in your room.

Agree with your logic in terms of resources. However 6 card rigs are a waste. With the windows limitations now gone it’s very easy to run 9-12 cards per rig.

Minimum of 9 cards imho.

The amd Radeon series seems to be the most effective miners for Xmr and ethereum mining.

I think the PSU is about 1250W max for reasonable price. So 8 GPU is the max if you want to play safe.

An other option is to donating your GPU computing power (and get MEDIC coins rewards) to support protein folding at home project of Stanford University through MEDIC Coin's folding at home initiative.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2753447.0

The 1080Ti is most efficient for large rigs. However, it is expensive.

I would say it depends on how cheap you can get the GPU.

From a price/performance ratio the market value of cards is pretty flat. You can get a 1080Ti for about 2.5x the cost of a 1060 6GB. You can get a 1070 for 1.5x the 1060, and a 1070Ti for a little more. The power draw on the cards with GDDR5X is higher for the performance than are those on GDDR5 and the number of algorithms they run seem to be more restricted for GDDR5X as well.

I don't have any 1080ti's, but I do have a bunch of Titan X Pascal cards. They will not mine ETH and consume more power than the 1070s or 1060s on shared algorithms.

1070 price is pretty elevated for the samples that are out there. eVGA 1060s are decent if you get them direct from eVGA. The $309 6GB model works quite well for me. Just have to be ready with your card for purchase as soon as the stock notice comes in.

For a dual purpose card might as well get the 1070ti. A bit more expensive, has enough power for most usage scenarios. If you want to run more intense graphics then get a 1080ti.

For just mining and no other use the 1060 is the easiest to get and build up in numbers. A motherboard that can support 12 is easy to find. A single 1600W power supply will run all of them or get 2 800W PSUs which is how mine are setup. I grabbed motherboards with two 24 pin connectors so it is really easy to run two PSUs. Two 800W PSUs are quite a bit cheaper than a single 1600W.

If you are more interested in ETHash type coins then 8GB 570s or 580s are good. Maybe after the cryptonote7 protocol goes live we will see profits from Vega come back.

I’m planning to get more rx 580’s when people panic sell. My favorites for mining eth when ot comes too cash vs performance.

Will the 7990 good for the new PoW XMR algorithm?

You will not get more RX 580 now. The price of altcoin has risen.  ;D

XMR rigs my friend, my speciality these days since i sold all my nvidia rigs and built monero rigs  ;D ryzen 1800x as processor (they hash better then GPUs if you count electricy usage) and then rx580 8gb for GPUs, cheap and good. Vegas are more powerful but alot more expensive.