New 1070's, Need Mining Advice

[Erelas]

Ok, so been playing around with different miners, without overclocking yet, I've got a little better then 52Mh/s on Ethereum and have it paired with SiaCoin. 

With the massive differences in those results versus what I was getting trying out Minergate, they are either a scam or it's the worst pool on the planet.  I tend to think their software just doesn't report correctly, since it was showing 1.5 Mh/s per 1070.

[QuintLeo]

X13 is a BAD choice for any GPU, as the Baikal ASIC can mine it.

 Minersgate in the short testing I did on it was a very poor performing pool/software combo - I'd ignore them entirely.
 Nicehash generally works fairly well, and is sometimes more profitable than mining coins directly.

 There is NO REASON to "SLI" (or Crossfire for AMD) cards when mining with them - it offers ZERO performance advantage, and can sometimes CAUSE problems.

 I suspect the whole concept is going to die over the next decade anyway, as DirectX 12 makes the whole concept obsolete when a game properly impliments DirectX 12.

[Cereberus]

Nvidia 1070's should be around 450 Sol/s in Zcash without overclocking or messing with memory, you can make it go up to 480-485 Sol/s by increasing a bit the core clock and the memory. I think mining Zcash now is more profitable than Ethereum at the exact moment I am writing this, I personally have switched all my Nvidia cards to Zcash. It should make you about 2.20 USD daily which is a good amount nowadays considering how down is the profitability of the GPU-mining. Even Eth+Sia is a good option to try.

[Ultegra134]

Nvidia 1070's should be around 450 Sol/s in Zcash without overclocking or messing with memory, you can make it go up to 480-485 Sol/s by increasing a bit the core clock and the memory. I think mining Zcash now is more profitable than Ethereum at the exact moment I am writing this, I personally have switched all my Nvidia cards to Zcash. It should make you about 2.20 USD daily which is a good amount nowadays considering how down is the profitability of the GPU-mining. Even Eth+Sia is a good option to try.

Are you sure about that? I really doubt it that Ethereum is less profitable than ZCash, I've been mining Zcash for a while, it was pretty profitable since start, till 1 week ago. Now, I've lost more than 30-40% of my daily earnings and cannot move to Ethereum mining due to my cards being only 2GB.

[BennyT]

Nvidia 1070's should be around 450 Sol/s in Zcash without overclocking or messing with memory, you can make it go up to 480-485 Sol/s by increasing a bit the core clock and the memory. I think mining Zcash now is more profitable than Ethereum at the exact moment I am writing this, I personally have switched all my Nvidia cards to Zcash. It should make you about 2.20 USD daily which is a good amount nowadays considering how down is the profitability of the GPU-mining. Even Eth+Sia is a good option to try.

Are you sure about that? I really doubt it that Ethereum is less profitable than ZCash, I've been mining Zcash for a while, it was pretty profitable since start, till 1 week ago. Now, I've lost more than 30-40% of my daily earnings and cannot move to Ethereum mining due to my cards being only 2GB.

After the increase in ETH difficulty today I would bet ZCash is more profitable. Haven't tested it myself but I will this weekend.

[Erelas]

I did notice that, but only really thought about it being a difficulty increase when you mentioned it.  I tend to agree with you on the eventual obsolescence of SLI / Crossifre in general.  Manufacturers tried that with Voodoo style cards, hooking them up parallel to each other in the late 90's, and we can see how well that worked out.  That was shortly before the 1 GHz processor wall was broken, so, with SLI going out...we may see more effective chipsets, hmm, dunno.