Well thanks for trying my advice out.

Most likely the gear was over clocked and tossing errors.

So you now help the card run at a more relaxed and error free speed.

Mining is so profitable right now that the only way to fuck up mining is to burn out the card.

My fear was you were going to do that with the 116% power setting.

 I have a rig with 3x 3080 cards.


Eth speed: 273.408 MH/s, shares: 904/1/0, time: 1:30

GPUs: 1: 91.497 MH/s (289) 2: 90.427 MH/s (295) 3: 91.483 MH/s (321)

GPU1: 64C 79% 222W, GPU2: 61C 77% 222W, GPU3: 53C 77% 222W

GPUs power: 665.3 W

note the 904/1/0 only 1 lost share as I make clocks gentler.

the cards do 91-93 each .  and just run

if your card can do a relaxed  25.5 and makes 1 of 500 errors

it is better than a stressed 26.5 and making 60 of 500 errors

more money  is made as 499/500 x 25.5 = 25.449 net on lower power

vs  440/500 x 26.5 = 23.32 net on higher power.


Plus killing the card is more likely at 116% power vs 100% power.

Same for ram.

 maybe 980 ram vs 1000
 maybe 900 ram vs 1000
 maybe 850 ram vs 1000
 maybe 800 ram vs 1000

great setting may be 95% power 950 ram or 90% power 900 ram

play with power

100% at ram of 1000,950,900,850,800.   so you  tested this at 1000 ram try the other rams

 then play with this one

 95% at ram of   "       "     "     "     "



 
then play with this one
 90% at ram of  "       "     "     "      "


then this one
 85% at ram of   "     "      "    "      " 


That is a lot of tests about 20 of them but even if you just do

100%. 1000 ram 950 ram 900 ram
 95%.  1000 ram 950 ram 900 ram


you will know you did some good testing. with 6 different settings

so do everything the same but try 90% power.  see your hash rate then

I could give two fucks about watts per hash.

What matters is not killing  off gear.

no mining gpu should ever run at max power. it simply kills off the gear.

First off let me give you credit for asking about your settings.


And oh my god wtf are you doing look at your power number 116%

give me a minute to fix this for you
power limit needs to be 70 not 116 this was a really bad setting




core clock  can be +0 like it is
core volts can be +0 like it is

power limit needs to be 70 not 116 this was a really bad setting
ram can be +600 to + 850 not + 1000
temp limit of 75c vs 92c

fan in the 60-80 range

microvolt is 1049 if you lower power setting to 70 I think that will self lower

the key is drop the  power limit down to 70
and drop the ram down to say 800

Back in 2014 I was cheap and instead of buying quality PSUs I would use these no name type of low quality PSUs which were like 450Watts max. I had tons of these because they generally were always included in a computer case and I never used them.

They only had 1 PCIe connector but you would easily make another PCIe connector if you rewired some of the other unused plugs. Keep in mind I used this to run an Antminer not power a GPU rig.

The issue was that the efficiency was crazy bad. It was like 65% or something. So if you are pulling 100 Watts from the wall, 35 Watts  is basically lost as heat and only 65 Watts went to power my Antminers.

They also usually only lasted 2 weeks and then would just die. I didn't even run them at 100% load, maybe 70% load and they just died shortly after. I think they are mostly for housewives who use their computer to browse facebook and pull less than 40 watts total from the PSU. But for mining... forget about it.

Yes you can, even running 3gpus still doable but not good for long term health of your psu, best advice is using only 50% of psu capacity and thats the peak efficiency for psu

is this the psu

https://aerocool.io/product/aero-bronze-650w/


adding this adapter would let you do a second 1060

https://www.amazon.com/CableCreation-GeForce-Gigabyte-Sapphire-Graphics/dp/B078W7W8L2/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?

clock the gpu to 80 watts or so. you should be fine.

1% stale is no issue.  You are better in this case to have fewer rejected shares.  In the case of the 134/1/81...that 81 is almost 40% of your shares...so 2mhs doesnt help if you are losing 4 out of 10 shares.  I would need to know gpu and oc settings to advise what to lower.  But definetly too high one or both... core/memory.

134 accepted shares / 1 stale / 81 invalid-rejected


Here is one off a rig of 1070/1080's

Eth speed: 165.945 MH/s, shares: 1015/0/0, time: 6:58

Something is up with your last number...either internet is spotty (wifi is sometimes an issue i prefer ethernet cable) or OC is too high.  

How about if OP can upgrade the motherboard BIOS first before concluding that it's not working? there are some motherboards like that, after you upgrade the BIOS it will start working or the on-and-off button of PCIe and igpu will be visible, don't give up yet OP

I don't know what is going on here but I can see that it's your motherboard issue because I have a motherboard here and the BIOS has no settings to activate or deactivate igpu or even graphics card but still whenever I connect my HDMI cable direct to the motherboard I always get a display even when my graphics card is connected

The option to activate or deactivate dedicated GPU in BIOS may not be available if your CPU doesn't have any integrated GPU on board my question is what type of CPU are you using are you sure it has integrated GPU cos not all CPU has integrated GPU you have to figure that out first

To give you a correct answer I will like to know the name of the GPU you are using to mine, also pools are of different types, I've noticed that if you are solving shares on pool your hashrate report may grow higher, it still doesn't mean anything, if your calculator said you will earn 5$ per day the end result after 24hours will bring you 5$ per day

To give you a correct answer I will like to know the name of the GPU you are using to mine, also pools are of different types, I've noticed that if you are solving shares on pool your hashrate report may grow higher, it still doesn't mean anything, if your calculator said you will earn 5$ per day the end result after 24hours will bring you 5$ per day