GTX 1060 discussion thread

[giveen1]

Gigabyte Windforce OC 3Gb

Ethash
Power limit: 80
Core: 1300 (-400)
Memory: 4800 (+1000, Samsung)
Fan: 60% (62C, open case)
Speed: 25.5 Mh/s (ethminer), Claymore Dual miner with current clocks make every share faulty.

Neoscrypt
Power limit: 100
Core: 1900 (+150)
Memory: 4600 (+850, Samsung)
Fan: 65% (69C, open case)
Speed: 820 kh/s (hsrminer), 750 kh/s (ccminer KlausT) - don't know if hsrminer showing real numbers, some ppl says they are not real.

Try reducing to 90 power limit and drop your memory to nothing. Memory clock has no impact on neoscrypt.

[layoutph]

I am planning to buy GTX 1060 or higher this year. I just want to know what coins can I mine using that videocard. I am a total newbie in mining. I just want to invest in miner from the profit I got from trading.

[greyday]

I am planning to buy GTX 1060 or higher this year. I just want to know what coins can I mine using that videocard. I am a total newbie in mining. I just want to invest in miner from the profit I got from trading.

www.whattomine.com

[Martobtc]

I just bought 12x Gigabyte 1060 3GB GPUs at lowest price possible in my country (lately prices are going crazy). I wanted some 1070s at first but couldn't get my hands on any for quite some time, so I wasn't really satisfied with the 1060s especially 3GB. But when I assembled the rigs last night, I found out all of them have got Samsung memory, yeey! Can't wait to set things up, OC and stuff and see results.

edit: Did some sloppy overclocking this morning on one of the rigs. The one at stock is mining at 20.5 - 21 mh/s each. The other one I got the power limit to 80% and memory to +750, didn't touch core and cards are hitting 24 mh/s on eth. I'm pretty sure I can take the memory a bit higher even. Seems like samsung memory really makes huge difference.

[milicic]

Hi, I'm mining zcash with dstminer with 6 gtx 1060 Msi gaming x plus 6gb and getting about 340sols with settings: power limit 70%, core clock +100, mem clock +450. I just bought power meter to measure power consumption from the wall and its showing about 830w which is way too high for that power limit. I then tried to change power limit (higher and lower) with MSI AB, and power consumption barely changes even when I go to 100%. Then I figured no matter what power limit I set, voltage remains about 1050mv, so I guess I'm not changing anything with that power limit slider.
Any suggestion?
Thanks

[Martobtc]

Hi, I'm mining zcash with dstminer with 6 gtx 1060 Msi gaming x plus 6gb and getting about 340sols with settings: power limit 70%, core clock +100, mem clock +450. I just bought power meter to measure power consumption from the wall and its showing about 830w which is way too high for that power limit. I then tried to change power limit (higher and lower) with MSI AB, and power consumption barely changes even when I go to 100%. Then I figured no matter what power limit I set, voltage remains about 1050mv, so I guess I'm not changing anything with that power limit slider.
Any suggestion?
Thanks

Your power slider should be affecting the watts your cards drain. Maybe it's the bios of the cards not being affected by changes you make in the OC software? I had similar issue on a 970 evga with dual bios, with voltage control though. It also depends on your PSU efficiency. Try lowering power limit to 60% or 55% even and see if then power from wall drops below 800w. Just so you know if the slider is really not working. Make sure to apply settings to all cards.

[greyday]

Gigabyte Windforce OC 3Gb

Ethash
Power limit: 80
Core: 1300 (-400)
Memory: 4800 (+1000, Samsung)
Fan: 60% (62C, open case)
Speed: 25.5 Mh/s (ethminer), Claymore Dual miner with current clocks make every share faulty.

Neoscrypt
Power limit: 100
Core: 1900 (+150)
Memory: 4600 (+850, Samsung)
Fan: 65% (69C, open case)
Speed: 820 kh/s (hsrminer), 750 kh/s (ccminer KlausT) - don't know if hsrminer showing real numbers, some ppl says they are not real.

Try reducing to 90 power limit and drop your memory to nothing. Memory clock has no impact on neoscrypt.

You may be able to go lower on ethash as well. I run mine @70.

[thanhnt01322]

Sorry for bothering. I want to ask about the C11 algor. How fast is the GTX 1060 3Gb? Thank you!

[cryptowizze]

are people still buying 3gig cards or are those no longer a safe option?

[Martobtc]

are people still buying 3gig cards or are those no longer a safe option?

They are, few posts back you'll see I just said I bought 12 of them, luckily all with samsung memory and they mine pretty good so far. They'll pay back investment before they become less profitable or unusable... and with the shortage of cards on the market, you shouldn't be that picky

[jillscarbrough]

are people still buying 3gig cards or are those no longer a safe option?

Price 3 gigs cheaper than 6gigs, if 3 gigs mining ETH for 2 years again isn't safe but for mining Equihash not problem.

because of Equihash different from Ethash that needs to load Dag file using VRAM from that's processed.

[milicic]

Hi, I'm mining zcash with dstminer with 6 gtx 1060 Msi gaming x plus 6gb and getting about 340sols with settings: power limit 70%, core clock +100, mem clock +450. I just bought power meter to measure power consumption from the wall and its showing about 830w which is way too high for that power limit. I then tried to change power limit (higher and lower) with MSI AB, and power consumption barely changes even when I go to 100%. Then I figured no matter what power limit I set, voltage remains about 1050mv, so I guess I'm not changing anything with that power limit slider.
Any suggestion?
Thanks

Your power slider should be affecting the watts your cards drain. Maybe it's the bios of the cards not being affected by changes you make in the OC software? I had similar issue on a 970 evga with dual bios, with voltage control though. It also depends on your PSU efficiency. Try lowering power limit to 60% or 55% even and see if then power from wall drops below 800w. Just so you know if the slider is really not working. Make sure to apply settings to all cards.

When I lower power limit to 50% then power consumption drops to 680w and voltage in MSI shows 930-950mv, but almost every other power limit shows the same voltage and power consumption from the wall. Even when i pushed it to 104% from 70%, power consumption remained 830w and again cards at 1050mv. What is the problem?

[jimmykl]

Hi, I'm mining zcash with dstminer with 6 gtx 1060 Msi gaming x plus 6gb and getting about 340sols with settings: power limit 70%, core clock +100, mem clock +450. I just bought power meter to measure power consumption from the wall and its showing about 830w which is way too high for that power limit. I then tried to change power limit (higher and lower) with MSI AB, and power consumption barely changes even when I go to 100%. Then I figured no matter what power limit I set, voltage remains about 1050mv, so I guess I'm not changing anything with that power limit slider.
Any suggestion?
Thanks

Your power slider should be affecting the watts your cards drain. Maybe it's the bios of the cards not being affected by changes you make in the OC software? I had similar issue on a 970 evga with dual bios, with voltage control though. It also depends on your PSU efficiency. Try lowering power limit to 60% or 55% even and see if then power from wall drops below 800w. Just so you know if the slider is really not working. Make sure to apply settings to all cards.

When I lower power limit to 50% then power consumption drops to 680w and voltage in MSI shows 930-950mv, but almost every other power limit shows the same voltage and power consumption from the wall. Even when i pushed it to 104% from 70%, power consumption remained 830w and again cards at 1050mv. What is the problem?

Check you haven't set 'Force constant voltage' in AB settings

[preda]

Gigabyte Windforce OC 3Gb

Ethash
Power limit: 80
Core: 1300 (-400)
Memory: 4800 (+1000, Samsung)
Fan: 60% (62C, open case)
Speed: 25.5 Mh/s (ethminer), Claymore Dual miner with current clocks make every share faulty.

Neoscrypt
Power limit: 100
Core: 1900 (+150)
Memory: 4600 (+850, Samsung)
Fan: 65% (69C, open case)
Speed: 820 kh/s (hsrminer), 750 kh/s (ccminer KlausT) - don't know if hsrminer showing real numbers, some ppl says they are not real.

Try reducing to 90 power limit and drop your memory to nothing. Memory clock has no impact on neoscrypt.

820 kh on neo??? impossible i get max 550kh with 18x 1060 3gb!!!!! how you can???

[milicic]

Hi, I'm mining zcash with dstminer with 6 gtx 1060 Msi gaming x plus 6gb and getting about 340sols with settings: power limit 70%, core clock +100, mem clock +450. I just bought power meter to measure power consumption from the wall and its showing about 830w which is way too high for that power limit. I then tried to change power limit (higher and lower) with MSI AB, and power consumption barely changes even when I go to 100%. Then I figured no matter what power limit I set, voltage remains about 1050mv, so I guess I'm not changing anything with that power limit slider.
Any suggestion?
Thanks

Your power slider should be affecting the watts your cards drain. Maybe it's the bios of the cards not being affected by changes you make in the OC software? I had similar issue on a 970 evga with dual bios, with voltage control though. It also depends on your PSU efficiency. Try lowering power limit to 60% or 55% even and see if then power from wall drops below 800w. Just so you know if the slider is really not working. Make sure to apply settings to all cards.

When I lower power limit to 50% then power consumption drops to 680w and voltage in MSI shows 930-950mv, but almost every other power limit shows the same voltage and power consumption from the wall. Even when i pushed it to 104% from 70%, power consumption remained 830w and again cards at 1050mv. What is the problem?

Check you haven't set 'Force constant voltage' in AB settings

Of course not...

[heavyarms1912]

Gigabyte Windforce OC 3Gb

Ethash
Power limit: 80
Core: 1300 (-400)
Memory: 4800 (+1000, Samsung)
Fan: 60% (62C, open case)
Speed: 25.5 Mh/s (ethminer), Claymore Dual miner with current clocks make every share faulty.

Neoscrypt
Power limit: 100
Core: 1900 (+150)
Memory: 4600 (+850, Samsung)
Fan: 65% (69C, open case)
Speed: 820 kh/s (hsrminer), 750 kh/s (ccminer KlausT) - don't know if hsrminer showing real numbers, some ppl says they are not real.

Try reducing to 90 power limit and drop your memory to nothing. Memory clock has no impact on neoscrypt.

820 kh on neo??? impossible i get max 550kh with 18x 1060 3gb!!!!! how you can???

Well my 1060 3gb Hynix does 635.  So i am not surprised at 750 on samsung
https://imgur.com/a/r9dsl

[gsanjin]

One of my Windforce OC 3GB (Hynix) also gets 815 h/s in hsrminer, other one also Hynix max ~785 h/s. As faster one is with little lower voltage and cooler temps I suppose it's just upto "sillicon lottery" with vga GPU. Having same situation with two identical older 280x's ...

[heavyarms1912]

One of my Windforce OC 3GB (Hynix) also gets 815 h/s in hsrminer, other one also Hynix max ~785 h/s. As faster one is with little lower voltage and cooler temps I suppose it's just upto "sillicon lottery" with vga GPU. Having same situation with two identical older 280x's ...

what settings in bat file for 815 h/s? 
Mine's at 70% PL though.

[Martobtc]

Gigabyte Windforce OC 3GB (Samsung)

Power Limit: 80%
Core: +0
Memory: +850
Fan: Custom automatic control (doesn't go above 60%)
Speed: 24.4 - 24.8 Mh/s across all 12 GPUs on ethminer
 

[Zikkson]

Getting neoscrypt 800h/s with 1060 3gb/6gb easily with ccminer-klaust. Only needed to adjust intensity to 16. +200 core and 100w PL in HiveOS