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

lezanch:
Do you use an open rig? Those temps seems really high. I'm between 45 and 55°C with an open air rig. Try to lower your clock, I'm using -200, it's more stable.

I run a couple rigs, one with 1060 3g and one with 1060 OC 6g and a couple 1070.  The 1070's do run about 30% better rates, however, they also suck more juice at the wall, which translates into more heat and cost. I'd rather not pay for a PC heater thanks.

Right now the most efficient and cost-effective rig (people are gonna be hatin' I'm sure) are EVGA 1060 OC 6g single fan.  A 6x rig will churn out 140mh/s+ while running at 68c and drawing only 500w at the wall.  THAT is not bad for a cheap (never thought I'd call a $270 card cheap) card.

Mining Eth (power between 60-65%, core 0, memory clock +400-600 depending on GPU)
ALL EVGA
1060 3g 18mh/s
1060 OC 6g 22.5-24 mh/s
PNY 1070 OC Gaming 32.5 mh/s

Biostar BTC 250 MoBo, 8g, SSD, Celeron, EVGA 850 G2 Gold... cheap cheap cheap, room for 8 gpu's on that PSU BTW

Hint: Cheap out on everything but the PSU. Cheap PSU can blow the entire rig or worse... burn your house down.

cheers  

Don't change your core clock, and especially not -200.  The best stable I got underclocking the core was about -75.  I've abandoned that entirely. Try keeping the core at 0, power at 65, and start at +500 on the memory clock as you have it now.  Then run for a bit, and try adding +20 until you start becoming unstable.

You'll save on juice and should be able to get them above 22mh.  All rigs are different, but 18 on a 6g of any flavor is really low.

There are.

Performance are similar between the 3 and 6 gig memory, but 6 gig one has a better resale future vulue and won't be affected into next Ethereum dag stuff that will block every gpu under 3, or 4 go of memory.

There is as well the memory manufacturer that you may find while downloading GPU-Z. You want samsung ( Best hashrate and best overclocking abilities )

You don't want the single fan versions of the 1060s, you would lost more than 10% hashrate.

If the 1060 has a 8 pin connectors instead of a 6 pins, it's a must.

Always compare overall Mhz in specs, take the one that has more of those.

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I'm still testing my 4 EVGA 6 go with 9 go of memory clock instead of 6, I found another problem with the power supply I received, too high 12v voltage so it destroye one motherboard, and one of my gpu ( glad EVGA has great customer services, they will send me another after I sent it back )

So far, they are all Samsung memories.

I also recommend the ASUS GeForce GTX 1060 STRIX-GTX1060-6G, best hashrate so far : https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814126114&cm_re=1060-_-14-126-114-_-Product

I've ordered 5 of those since they are new since only a few weeks ago. I'll have to test the dual mining to see if the 9 go make a nice difference. If it does, then I would recommend them instead of the ASUS. ( Future Resale value, best hashrate, samsung memory, all what you want heh )

Noticed that a lot of people has MSI as well, can't say much about them though : https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814137018&cm_re=1060-_-14-137-018-_-Product

https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487378&cm_re=1060-_-14-487-378-_-Product

my gtx1060 6gb on eth giving 24.3 Mh/s - 90% pow ,on +823Mhz stable though running continously

Coreclock N Memory clock * Sry, typo *

Claymore is a good mining prog.

There are a lot of strategies out there... You can go to whattomine.com and adapt your mining habit to get the most out of your daily word... You can mine a coin that you think into longterm can worth the shot...

Some coins algorithm need your core clock, some other need your memory clock, thats why most of the 480-580 gpu miners aim for dual mining that enable either core clock ( eth ) and memory clock ( sia-dcr-pasc-etc ).

The 1060 is mostly used cause of their great low electricity consomption vs mining profits, but less toward dual mining.

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Drunk talk, need you to continue the conv

Yes.... And no.


Coreclock of memory clock depend only of which cryptocurrencies you want to mine.

Usually, 1060 are the best to run power underclock, memory fully underclock, and core clock nicely overclocked.

What is the algorithm you are mining to ?

Thanks for sharing this. I'd been told ETH was memory bound so don't use a core OC.

I'd tried my Gigabyte 1060 ITX 3g (samsung) cards at 65% power with memory +800 but that gave ~16-18MH/s so I had the power up at 75% to get ~23MH/s.

Seeing your results I dropped to 65% power and added in+100 core oc and boom 24.7Mh/s across the board – thanks!