Its not the same card im afraid mine is not TI so this comparison is not 1 to 1.
I have already said that going above +135 on cclock is an instant MHS descrease by like 15% or crash.
I cannot use the inbuilt miner funcions instead of ethpill as I also said since when I try them card crashes the PC. Only options is to start mining for like 2-3 minutes and then run ethpill this is the only way I have made it work.

In general I prefer to keep mining ETH which 2minters exchanges for free into BTC since its just cheaper with smallish payouts like mine.

Thanks for the advice

I am trying to learn the mining in general so wanted to avoid the easy ways our but I will most likely end u trying NiceHash. I wanted to avoid using BTC or ETH payouts as the transfer price is there and kinda doesnt make sense for a small miner like me if I can just get it in nano for absolutely free.
Right now im using 2miners eth to nano. But I will look into Nicehash since its windows base I can do it no problem.

I was referring to this topic with posted stats: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5312518.0. I understand its old and situation changed but somebody made it work so I was thinking maybe im missing something you guys with experience might just know.
I understand that hiveOS is a operating system so I cannot use it since this is my main PC (I game a little) and that would mean i need to do dual boot or someting. Now I just use the PC normally with trex on the site and just turn mining off if I want to play something.

Thanks for a response.

ad 1. I will test ETC in a few days but I dont know if it can be paid out in NANO on 2miners where I am currently set up at. I do admit that finding a video or topic with 1080 where it is less then 6 months with concrete data is hard.
ad 2. I cannot, anything over +135 on core drops the MHs buy more then 10%. After crossing 140 its a crash.
ad 3. Here I am confused really since the game is about efficiency I thought. I can either stay at PL 52 doing 30.30MHs at 125W or go to PL 100 and do 33.20MHs at 165W or more. So thats a sub 10% MHs increase (2.9Mhs) for ~32% power increase. Absolutely not worth it in my opinion.

Also I have been able to fix the stability issue. Swtiched to using afterburner GPU +135, MEM +580, PL 52, FAN 65% then starting TREX and finally starting ETHPILL.

Hi. I am a beginner at best as this is my first attempt on OC or mining in general. I started going straight into pure ETH mining.
My PC is a usual (I think PC gamers PC from few years ago) which can be checked here: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/TnbTMb.
Exact card model MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING X 8GB GDDR5X, GPU BIOS 86.4.17.0.50, nvidia driver: 512.53 (30.0.15.1259) on Windows 10

Before jumping in I watched a tonne of stuff from multiple yt channels and read some topics on forums including here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5312518.0 (just fg.).

I follow the steps of most guides but already fail at step one which is using OhGodAnETHlargementPill or --mt 6 in Trex or -straps 5 in Phoenix. My PC (while GPU is on full stock settings but FAN 90%) just crushes every single time. I have tried all 6 --mt settings and all straps settings to no avail. Even if I try starting the miners on stock settings and then starting OhGodAnETHlargementPill it still cruses.
The only way I can make use of those memory tweakers is to overclock the GPU and then start them. For me it doesnt really make sense but at least I am not in complete hole when it comes to efficiency like when I just go stock settings.
So I went down and up the GPU and MEM speed without the PILL and found the best settings with no crush in miners is GPU +135 and MEM +580. Going minus is dropping the hashrates hard.


So I use MSI afterburner and my numbers while mining are:
Full STOCK no ETHPILL:
GPU #0: MSI GTX 1080 - 22.53 MH/s, [T:66C, P:131W, F:70%, E:171kH/W]
GPU 1898
MEM 5005

BEST high OC settings I can find without ETHPILL:
GPU #0: MSI GTX 1080 - 26.50 MH/s, [T:57C, P:150W, F:70%, E:176kH/W]
GPU +135 (but in afterburner it shows 2050)
MEM +580 (afterburner it shows 5583)

BEST low OC settings I can find without ETHPILL:
GPU #0: MSI GTX 1080 - 25.57 MH/s,
GPU -270 (but in afterburner it shows 1645)
MEM +580 (afterburner it shows 5583)

After a while of playing with this I discovered that when I am running this high OC settings above I can start the ETHPILL and it works to some degree. Numers are better but also power usage is insane:
BEST high OC settings I can find without ETHPILL:
GPU #0: MSI GTX 1080 - 33.14 MH/s, [T:58C, P:168W, F:70%, E:198kH/W]
GPU +135 (but in afterburner it shows 2050)
MEM +580 (afterburner it shows 5583)

So I just cant image this card pulling 170W almost doing 33MHs so I started playing with Power Limit and The best I can come up with is PL 52 which is very low but honestly the first -40 levels do not change shit all. Only after going -41 starts to dip the wattage and MHs with it. Here are the numbers:
GPU #0: MSI GTX 1080 - 29.60 MH/s, [T:51C, P:126W, F:70%, E:239kH/W] (overnight does go to 30.2MHs)
GPU +135 (clock drops in range 1820 - 1860 due to power limitations)
MEM +580

I am running everything with Admin rights 100%.
I basically willing to try anything (maybe except bios flash) since I have run out of ideas here and on this very forum I saw ppl posting the same cards with 30MHs while taking 100W or the cards doing 38-40MHs with more the same Power Usage I currently have. I am sort of stuck in the middle of this with worse of both worlds low MHs and high Power consuption.

Thanks a million.