Best mining settings with a low power supply?

[shiroocrypto]

So my brother's pc has a NVidia 1060 6Gb but he only has a 550W power supply, gold certified if that's important.

So far I've only been able to mine Cyptonite and Skunk algorithm successfully. The rest of the algo's seems to cause his pc to restart after a few seconds of mining for some reason. I think it's probably his power supply.

I am using MSI Afterburner on his setup, but this doesn't seem to help him. Are there any optimal miner settings for low power supplies?

[TheMrJ]

post a pic of yours MSI settings.

[leonix007]

So my brother's pc has a NVidia 1060 6Gb but he only has a 550W power supply, gold certified if that's important.

So far I've only been able to mine Cyptonite and Skunk algorithm successfully. The rest of the algo's seems to cause his pc to restart after a few seconds of mining for some reason. I think it's probably his power supply.

I am using MSI Afterburner on his setup, but this doesn't seem to help him. Are there any optimal miner settings for low power supplies?

If its a single GPU card 550w is sufficient enough to power up 1060 even the heavy algo, it might be your clock or miner settings that made your rig to crash on mining.

give us other information to help you out more

what other algos you are mining

what miner and settings

your clock settings

[m.vina]

For a 1060 6GB GPU you can easily find the best overclocking settings online. AFAIK a 550w PSU should be enough as long as you set power limit to 65% and as long as you don't use the CPU more than its idle state. The only thing primarily using power should be your GPU. What brand of PSU are you using? If its corsair you're probably good to go.

[NiklasFalk]

I run my 1060 at 80w max and mining etherium or monero dos not use all of that at (140 core and 1400 mem), measured trough a 93% PSU (5 cards, less than 400W from walll).
My testrig have happily been running 2x1050 at 50W each and a 80W 1060 using a 450w ancient PSU (290W from wall, since the Mobo is a QC5000M with 15W APU).

[shibob]

550W Power supply is enough for 2 x Gtx 1060 for sure. I'm even mining a 2x1060 6Gb GPUs rig with only 450W PSU, power limit at 80%, mining Equihash, core clock: +100, memory clock: +50, each GPU draws about 93W. I think your rig keep restart because overclocking is too high, or you set the intensity is high as well. I ever used ccminer to mine NeoScrypt, whenever I set intensity over 21, the miner will crash and the rig restart. 

[shiroocrypto]

post a pic of yours MSI settings.

Here is how it's set for cryptonite so far

[Eternu]

post a pic of yours MSI settings.

Here is how it's set for cryptonite so far

That PSU should be enough for GTX 1060 GPU, after all its gold certified PSU. But you can try limiting power usage on 80% or maybe even 60%, and see what happens than. If PC continue to restart than probably its not PSU. Also, if it was mining software, than I guess your PC would not restart, only a mining software would stop working. Try updating your drivers to newest ones. I see you are using 388.19 and maybe there are newer ones, because with 1070 I have 391.35. Also try other version of mining software. Hope something of this helps.