Running EWBF 3 144_5 for BTG and slowly ramping up my 6 MSI 1080 ti Gaming X in values. Currently at +50 CORE +450 @ 68% Power and getting about 50-53 sols per card.

I have never been able to get my MSI's to do much more than +75 CORE +500 MEM at 68% without losing stability and having a card crash. (I have mined BTG, ZEN, and RVN with EWBF, CCMINER, DTSM)

Anyone else have experience with these cards? Is my experience typical or am I doing it wrong?

Thank you all for the responses.

Since posting I have done more research and settled in on a complete new build taking only my EVO SSD and MSI 1060 GTX

https://pcpartpicker.com/user/nazran/saved/2dTm8d

The Corsair 780T appears large enough and it has modular drive cages that can be removed in front of the intake fans. I will mount my SSD on the backside. I am going to water cool the Coffee Lake i5 8400 (None of the games I play... World of Warships, Tanks, Planes, Warthunder, Civ 6 are huge CPU users.) at first with a NZXT Kraken v42. The radiator is 120/140 mm fan size which I will play with mounting as a top exhaust. I figure this might take a few degrees of ambient temp out of the case.

I am going to try sandwiching the MSI GTX 1060 6GB between the 2 MSI GTX 1080 ti miners to start with and just see what the temps do. I did see an interesting fan modding idea that could put a 140mm fan right in front of the cards to force air between the card spaces.

I am also going to try to make it a work of art with the MSI Mystic Lighting RGB system and maybe even getting custom colored GPU cables.

If it doesn't work out I can always take the 1060 GTX out and put it in to my current rig and let that be the kids machine and I can use scheduled tasks and batch files to have it mine in the night.

I am in the IT industry and I guess you would say I am a mining novice. I am currently mining zcash at home on an Asrock z270 Extreme4 3PCI slot 1151 mobo with 1 MSI 1060 6GB Gaming X card at home along with a 2 card 1050 ti setup at another location.

I want to get a little more profit and sol/s from my home PC so I need to upgrade. I have this 3GPU enclosed tower case mining/gaming rig in mind. I have been told that this is simply not feasible due to runaway heat in the case and to just build an open mining rig. This is my home though and I don't want that lying around for the fact I have kids who have friends that come over, 2 cats, and to me no matter how well you manage the cables the open frame miners look terrible sitting on the floor or on a desk.

My thoughts are
* To keep my GTX 1060 6GB for gaming (My kids and I don't need much more for the games we play) and switching over to late night mining.
* Add 2 more cards for dedicated 24 hr mining. These 2 cards could be 2 more 1060's or 1070's or 1080 ti's.
* I'd like to start with air cooling but not opposed to adding water cooling.

Am I asking the impossible? If not, any recommendations on case/cooling equipment?