GTX 1060 discussion thread

[0xcosmos]

mining zcoin at the moment
getting 900 khs with 100 core and 300 mem and 105 power limit
cards consuming 55 to 60w
what an algo
more coins should adopt this algo

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[bigjee]

Umm, Walmart says $499, not $250

Yup and its out of stock.

[zitanix]

Hi
i have 8*MSI p106-100 6GB (The P106-100 is based on the Nvidia GP106 GPUGeForce GTX 1060)  which using Hynix RAM    [...] how i can increase our hash rate ?

You can't - Hynix ram is limited to about what you're getting. Any higher and it crashes. The faster speeds you're seeing are from cards with Samsung RAM.

You might be better off mining equihash coins, unless you want to mine and hold ETH

http://miningcharts.com/crypto-gpu-mining/gtx-1060-6gb/equihash-hashrate/

Hi
thanks
could you please tell me how much Maximum value  of memory  i can increase  on this card with hynix ram ?

[Sledge0001]

Hi
i have 8*MSI p106-100 6GB (The P106-100 is based on the Nvidia GP106 GPUGeForce GTX 1060)  which using Hynix RAM    [...] how i can increase our hash rate ?

You can't - Hynix ram is limited to about what you're getting. Any higher and it crashes. The faster speeds you're seeing are from cards with Samsung RAM.

You might be better off mining equihash coins, unless you want to mine and hold ETH

http://miningcharts.com/crypto-gpu-mining/gtx-1060-6gb/equihash-hashrate/

Hi
thanks
could you please tell me how much Maximum value  of memory  i can increase  on this card with hynix ram ?

I am seeing overclocks of 300 on the 03G-P4-6160-KR with Hynix memory. Still good enough to make money $19 -$25 bucks a day running 8 on nicehash.!

[heavyarms1912]

My 1060 3gb versions can't do more than 18,6 Mh/s on Ethash algorithm... Bad RAM.. :/
I am using them on equihash with cca 280 sols/s, which is fine for 210$ card

What card brand/model, and also settings please! Do you know what power usage is?

pretty much even the Hynix crappy ones can do 280 sols @ 66% PL.  I got a 3gb Hynix gtx 1060 Gigabyte WF2OC that does the same.  The samsung 6gb ones can do 310+ on same clocks but increased memory speed.  Equihash isn't as taxing on memory as Ethash it's better of mining Equihash on gtx 1060 with Hynix imo.

[jasonf12018]

Hi

I've just joined the forums as I have just got a Gigabyte 1060 windforce to add to my MSI gtx 970 and I'm not exactly impressed.  I'm using my PC as I've just started mining in the last few weeks.  I'm just testing at the moment, hashrates seem ok but it's the temps and more worryingly I think the voltages that I'm not happy with.  If i'm mining anything on equihash it goes up to about 70 degrees and the fan noise is pretty loud, I have a custom fan curve in afterburner 70% at that temp.  I've just tried mining electroneum as a test which my gtx 970 doesn't go above 40.  The 1060 is at 56 but worringly it's at it's performance limit for power, thermal and reliability voltage according to hwinfo64.   GPU-Z seems to be saying the same thing, it says under perfcap reason m vRel Vop.  The 970 just says PWR so obviously it's having no issues.  The power consumption on the 1060 while this is happening is about 68%.  Sorry I was trying to add a screenshot but it's not workng.  And this is with -100 on the core and no overclock on the memory, power limit 85 and the voltage not touched!

Maybe it just needs a lot of configuring but hoping you guys can help.  Is this normal for a 1060 to do this?  I have got one with Hynix memory unfortunately  By the way I'm using Awesome Miner.

Thanks

[Rasanders22]

Hi

I've just joined the forums as I have just got a Gigabyte 1060 windforce to add to my MSI gtx 970 and I'm not exactly impressed.  I'm using my PC as I've just started mining in the last few weeks.  I'm just testing at the moment, hashrates seem ok but it's the temps and more worryingly I think the voltages that I'm not happy with.  If i'm mining anything on equihash it goes up to about 70 degrees and the fan noise is pretty loud, I have a custom fan curve in afterburner 70% at that temp.  I've just tried mining electroneum as a test which my gtx 970 doesn't go above 40.  The 1060 is at 56 but worringly it's at it's performance limit for power, thermal and reliability voltage according to hwinfo64.   GPU-Z seems to be saying the same thing, it says under perfcap reason m vRel Vop.  The 970 just says PWR so obviously it's having no issues.  The power consumption on the 1060 while this is happening is about 68%.  Sorry I was trying to add a screenshot but it's not workng.  And this is with -100 on the core and no overclock on the memory, power limit 85 and the voltage not touched!

Maybe it just needs a lot of configuring but hoping you guys can help.  Is this normal for a 1060 to do this?  I have got one with Hynix memory unfortunately  By the way I'm using Awesome Miner.

Thanks

I've had the same issues on mine 1060's. Equihash just runs hotter. Try placing some fans directly infront of the GPUs.

[klintistwood]

Hi

I've just joined the forums as I have just got a Gigabyte 1060 windforce to add to my MSI gtx 970 and I'm not exactly impressed.  I'm using my PC as I've just started mining in the last few weeks.  I'm just testing at the moment, hashrates seem ok but it's the temps and more worryingly I think the voltages that I'm not happy with.  If i'm mining anything on equihash it goes up to about 70 degrees and the fan noise is pretty loud, I have a custom fan curve in afterburner 70% at that temp.  I've just tried mining electroneum as a test which my gtx 970 doesn't go above 40.  The 1060 is at 56 but worringly it's at it's performance limit for power, thermal and reliability voltage according to hwinfo64.   GPU-Z seems to be saying the same thing, it says under perfcap reason m vRel Vop.  The 970 just says PWR so obviously it's having no issues.  The power consumption on the 1060 while this is happening is about 68%.  Sorry I was trying to add a screenshot but it's not workng.  And this is with -100 on the core and no overclock on the memory, power limit 85 and the voltage not touched!

Maybe it just needs a lot of configuring but hoping you guys can help.  Is this normal for a 1060 to do this?  I have got one with Hynix memory unfortunately  By the way I'm using Awesome Miner.

Thanks

Have you tried limit the power ? More power = more heat so if you don't limit power, your gpu will get to hot. I keep all my GPU around 50°C no matter the coin I mine, I have reduced the power to 65, 70 or 75W depending on the card and set fan speed to 50%.

[jasonf12018]

That was with a power limit of 85

[jimmykl]

Hi

I've just joined the forums as I have just got a Gigabyte 1060 windforce to add to my MSI gtx 970 and I'm not exactly impressed.  I'm using my PC as I've just started mining in the last few weeks.  I'm just testing at the moment, hashrates seem ok but it's the temps and more worryingly I think the voltages that I'm not happy with.  If i'm mining anything on equihash it goes up to about 70 degrees and the fan noise is pretty loud, I have a custom fan curve in afterburner 70% at that temp.  I've just tried mining electroneum as a test which my gtx 970 doesn't go above 40.  The 1060 is at 56 but worringly it's at it's performance limit for power, thermal and reliability voltage according to hwinfo64.   GPU-Z seems to be saying the same thing, it says under perfcap reason m vRel Vop.  The 970 just says PWR so obviously it's having no issues.  The power consumption on the 1060 while this is happening is about 68%.  Sorry I was trying to add a screenshot but it's not workng.  And this is with -100 on the core and no overclock on the memory, power limit 85 and the voltage not touched!

Maybe it just needs a lot of configuring but hoping you guys can help.  Is this normal for a 1060 to do this?  I have got one with Hynix memory unfortunately  By the way I'm using Awesome Miner.

Thanks

Hynix is a performance constraint from the outset.

If you are using a case you'll always run into cooling issues. Ideally you want them in the open air with a constant fan speed. That said 70˚ shouldn't hurt them.

Are you running equihash with -100 core? It's a core dependent algo (a little ram boost helps too) so you want to boost that. I don't know exactly about vRel Vop but I'd guess it's because that underclock is starving the GPU of voltage it wants!

My 1060s run best at 65% PL, +110 core, +250 mem. They're in the open air and sit around 60˚ (20˚ ambient) with 60% fan.

[Juggar]

Just wanted to mention that the HP OEM GTX 1060 3GB cards in these may possibly come with Samsung RAM.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/HP-Pavilion-Power-580-023w-Gaming-Tower-Intel-Core-i5-7400-NVIDIA-GTX-1060-3GB-Graphics-8-GB-Memory-1TB-Hard-Drive-Windows-10/803136621

These are on clearance for $250, if you can find some it would be very worth your time to pick one up. Ive been selling the Desktops without the 1060 for a solid $300+ on eBay.

All of mine came with Samsung ram and my god.... for some crappy OEM card these things are crypto monsters! Everyone one of them is maxed out in MSI afterburner at +1000 mem!

Hashrates:

Dual mine Eth + sia = 24.7 Mh/s Eth and 247 MH/s SIA.

Eth only = 25.2 Mh/s or higher.

Lets be real, any 1060 3GB that hashes over 25 mh/s is the holy grail of 1060 3GB cards.

Umm, Walmart says $499, not $250

You dont buy it online god damn.....

Its an in store clearance price.... and many stores had/have them for $250. It wont show up on the basic product page, you'll need your own inventory script or pay for a premium inventory searching service.

Many like myself bought 6 (3 per discover card) and price matched to $150/$250, kept the GTX 1060 (which were cream of the crop) and sold the desktop for $300+ on eBay.

My forte is deal seeking, crypto is only a smaller venture for me. That being said, I made money AND got 6 free samsung ram gtx 1060's that can max out at +1000 in afterburner.

I honestly tried to lead other crypto miners to the water, but they would not drink. They said "that's too much work". Yeah, well guess what, fuck you. This is why I get free things and you dont.

[lezanch]

Hi Guys

I the last days I've found some problem using Nicehash 2.0.1.6 on my pc where are mount one GTX 1060 6GB and one GTX 1070, both with Samsung Memory.
In a not clear period (4 to 6 hours of mining) the PC reboot itself.. so when I come back to the pc and turn on the screen, the Windows log in appear.

Setting, for both GPU, are as follow
PL: 65%
Temp: 65°
Core: -100
Mem: + 850

In this way temps are: 1070 68°; 1060 62°

Same problems are found with Claymore 10.2:
where after some hours of mining, a red line highlight some throuble in the process and claymore restasts.
The hashrate of the above config is: GTX 1070 31.5 MH/s; GTX 1060 24.8 MH/s

It is difficult to understand what happen... Some of you found the same problems?

[Adralokk]

Hi to all
I decided to expose my prob here after so many searches and unsuccessful attempts...

To start here my config :
-Win 7 pro X64
-i7 3930k with asus P9X79
-32 Go DDR3
-128 GB SSD
-2x Titan X (pascal) 12Go DDR5x

I tried to mine eth with Claymore and ethminer genoil and i had always the same result ; only 6.5 mhs for each cards... I know i can have really better hashrate but it seems impossible !
I tried so many things found on every forum but without results...

I tried other coins:
- Zcash (with zec miner) -> 400 sol/s for each
- SiaCoin (with marlin) -> 1500 mh/s for each

I don't know if those hashrate are normal or not, if my problem concerns only eth or all coins

Please help me !!!

(sry for my english, not my native language..)

[jimmykl]

Hi to all
I decided to expose my prob here after so many searches and unsuccessful attempts...

To start here my config :
-Win 7 pro X64
-i7 3930k with asus P9X79
-32 Go DDR3
-128 GB SSD
-2x Titan X (pascal) 12Go DDR5x

I tried to mine eth with Claymore and ethminer genoil and i had always the same result ; only 6.5 mhs for each cards... I know i can have really better hashrate but it seems impossible !
I tried so many things found on every forum but without results...

I tried other coins:
- Zcash (with zec miner) -> 400 sol/s for each
- SiaCoin (with marlin) -> 1500 mh/s for each

I don't know if those hashrate are normal or not, if my problem concerns only eth or all coins

Please help me !!!

(sry for my english, not my native language..)

Try Win 10 with the latest nvidia drivers

[Rickirs]

Hi to all
I decided to expose my prob here after so many searches and unsuccessful attempts...

To start here my config :
-Win 7 pro X64
-i7 3930k with asus P9X79
-32 Go DDR3
-128 GB SSD
-2x Titan X (pascal) 12Go DDR5x

I tried to mine eth with Claymore and ethminer genoil and i had always the same result ; only 6.5 mhs for each cards... I know i can have really better hashrate but it seems impossible !
I tried so many things found on every forum but without results...

I tried other coins:
- Zcash (with zec miner) -> 400 sol/s for each
- SiaCoin (with marlin) -> 1500 mh/s for each

I don't know if those hashrate are normal or not, if my problem concerns only eth or all coins

Please help me !!!

(sry for my english, not my native language..)

But this is GTX 1060 discussion thread, most in this thread  have experience about GTX 1060 only...

[JohnDoe3490]

Finally got my evga gtx1060 to 20.4 mh. +200 core and +500 memory clock for me.

[Deimos030]

Why i mine with my 1060 Monero with 500 h/s and vertcoin with 25 mh/s per second ? And which value i need on coinwars ?

[shavill]

Thanks for sharing, I'm curious about ETH hashrate too if you can test it.

Didn't manage to run it, but I think it will be around 18.5 MH/s without manual OC.

Forgot to mention, my GPU is MSI ARMOR, core clock is 1900-1940 during mining (out of box speed), while tdp is 70-75%, temperature is 65-69 degress, ambient temperature is around 23.

Overall is seems to be 66% of GTX 1070 while being also 66% of it's price. So I would recommend to pick 1070 in most cases.

I run a couple rigs, one with 1060 3g and one with 1060 OC 6g and a couple 1070.  The 1070's do run about 30% better rates, however, they also suck more juice at the wall, which translates into more heat and cost. I'd rather not pay for a PC heater thanks.

Right now the most efficient and cost-effective rig (people are gonna be hatin' I'm sure) are EVGA 1060 OC 6g single fan.  A 6x rig will churn out 140mh/s+ while running at 68c and drawing only 500w at the wall.  THAT is not bad for a cheap (never thought I'd call a $270 card cheap) card.

Mining Eth (power between 60-65%, core 0, memory clock +400-600 depending on GPU)
ALL EVGA
1060 3g 18mh/s
1060 OC 6g 22.5-24 mh/s
PNY 1070 OC Gaming 32.5 mh/s

Biostar BTC 250 MoBo, 8g, SSD, Celeron, EVGA 850 G2 Gold... cheap cheap cheap, room for 8 gpu's on that PSU BTW

Hint: Cheap out on everything but the PSU. Cheap PSU can blow the entire rig or worse... burn your house down.

cheers  

Hi guys,

Anyone with 1060 Gigabyte windforce OC 6G here?

I got 6 of them in my rig. Hynix memory  

I'm pulling 1700-1750 sols on Zcash out of the box. do you have settings to get better hashrate?

Tried eth but i can't OC the cards more than mem + 500 or miner crashes.
I was getting 15,5Mh out of the box, 18,8Mh with core-200 mem+500 but even then it's not stable. i get hashrate drops and crashes. anyone had the same issue? got a solution?

Don't change your core clock, and especially not -200.  The best stable I got underclocking the core was about -75.  I've abandoned that entirely. Try keeping the core at 0, power at 65, and start at +500 on the memory clock as you have it now.  Then run for a bit, and try adding +20 until you start becoming unstable.

You'll save on juice and should be able to get them above 22mh.  All rigs are different, but 18 on a 6g of any flavor is really low.

Is there any difference between EVGA GTX 1060 6GB single fan and the same "Superclocked" version? in terms of mining performance I mean...

After I responded last month with "I doubt there would be much of a difference as the cores are the same" I realized the cores (SC 1544/1759 - Gaming 1506/1708 are indeed different... oops) So, to prove it to myself, I ordered 3 of them and ran them alongside 3 SCs... and viola they indeed hash at exactly the same rates and they play nicely with each other; MSI AB sees them as the same cards.
My MSI settings:
Power - lowered to 67%
Core Clock +20 (seems to help keep them a bit more stable - might be imaginary)
Memory Clock +490 - over 500 they start hashing like a roller coaster - At +490 they consistently hash a little more than they report, proving that sometimes less it more.
Fans on a steep manual setting which keeps the cards all well below 60c yet never running the fans above 50%, except the main card (16x slot) which runs at about 64c at 65% fan.

Total for the 6x rig is right at 134-135, 6 hour is 139.7, and the rig calculates to earn almost $700mo according to nanopool with ETH price of 1380.

The final answer is that they mine exactly the same as an SC. I'm kicking myself because I could have saved over $300 getting the base gaming model, however the SC will probably hold resell value better.


Note: I also tested 3x dual fan EVGA 1060 SSC 6g cards (1607/1835) and... they sucked oh so badly!  I spent 4 days trying to figure out why, making tweaks, running them by themselves with ZERO luck getting them above 17.5mh! I paid a $50 premium thinking they would hash better (on paper) and ended up sending them right back. A waste of time and a lot of money.


HNY EVERYONE!

[shavill]

Hi to all
I decided to expose my prob here after so many searches and unsuccessful attempts...

To start here my config :
-Win 7 pro X64
-i7 3930k with asus P9X79
-32 Go DDR3
-128 GB SSD
-2x Titan X (pascal) 12Go DDR5x

I tried to mine eth with Claymore and ethminer genoil and i had always the same result ; only 6.5 mhs for each cards... I know i can have really better hashrate but it seems impossible !
I tried so many things found on every forum but without results...

I tried other coins:
- Zcash (with zec miner) -> 400 sol/s for each
- SiaCoin (with marlin) -> 1500 mh/s for each

I don't know if those hashrate are normal or not, if my problem concerns only eth or all coins

Please help me !!!

(sry for my english, not my native language..)

Hi there, the Titan series is great for video editing, rendering, and so on.  Not so good for mining.

Check the thread if you haven't: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1968067.0

That was with a power limit of 85

85 is too high.  Drop that to 65-68 and you'll see the temps drop.  BTW, the 1060s are rated to work fine up to about 80c but prefer to be under 70c.  You are well within the specs.

[JohnDoe3490]

I'm going to see if I can drop the power to under 60%.