GTX 1060 discussion thread

[shater]

ithink right now is useless and not good anymore for mining (as  i think ) im just waiting for ethreum to go pos then i will enter mining or stay away from it

If ETH is already POS. What coin are you going to mine? is the profit somehow similar when mining ETH?

I can sense that Its too late to enter mining altcoin specially when ETH goes POS. Theres nothing more profitable rather than ETH

And the majority of the miners are on ETH. hmmm

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

All kinda stupid here.

Do you fuckers even read? 

Nope, fuckers don't read.

[AlexanderDumas]

Hi a few days ago I have assembled  a rig with 7 Asus 1060 Dual OC 3gb, Samsung memory.
Got lucky with the memory since I got the cards from 2 different vendors.

I am getting good results with Claymore 10.6 and Phoenix miners, with both at about 25.6 Mhs at 53/60 Celsius (room temp 24 celsius) and 653W at the wall.
Ether + Sia  24.5mhs and 145Mhs for Sia   -dcri 18

I am using MSI After Burner

Power Limits 70
Temp 75
Core Clock +107
Memory Clock 918
Fan 58%

Mother Board AsusRock h110 BTC Pro

I have to say it was a fairly easy set up to make, the cards were all immediately recognized by the system, just installed the drivers and did the tweaks on After Burner after finding them with a quick google search.
Run the miner... done!
That was it.

Compared to all the tweakings and trouble shooting I had to go through setting  up a rig with the Vegas this one was a breeze.

Cheers

Congrats on the silicon lottery results! But please remember it is barely worth dual mining at the moment because the available algos now have ASICS mining them.

Hi, thank you for the tip.
Actually I stopped dual mining right after my initial test. I am just doing ethereum at  Nanopool and sometime Nicehash if it is more profitable.
Just wondering if also SIA coin can be mined with ASICS.

[RebeccaCole]

guys now there are plenty more profitable coins than eth dual mining or zcash or zec

smartcash
btx
xzv
bitcoinz
bitcoingold
electroneum
monacoin!!!!


and many others giving you double than eth+dual

[thoahotrangle]

1080 ?/

[greyday]

1080 ?/

Ummmm, what?

[ManicMiner23]

guys now there are plenty more profitable coins than eth dual mining or zcash or zec

smartcash
btx
xzv
bitcoinz
bitcoingold
electroneum
monacoin!!!!


and many others giving you double than eth+dual

Hello, I've started mining just a few weeks ago, I've checked which coin ismore profitable,and for the 1060 seems eth is a good coin to mine. I have read about other coins that theorically seems more profitable, I've read the feedback from people mining some of these more profitable coins and in most cases miners had problems, so my question is that as you seems to have experience mining other coins with 1060 gpu's, it would be great to know your feedback and toknow if these coins are realiable, and which one of these coins are the most profitable at this moment and which miners are you using to mine these coins.

Thanks in advance.

[greyday]

guys now there are plenty more profitable coins than eth dual mining or zcash or zec

smartcash
btx
xzv
bitcoinz
bitcoingold
electroneum
monacoin!!!!


and many others giving you double than eth+dual

Hello, I've started mining just a few weeks ago, I've checked which coin ismore profitable,and for the 1060 seems eth is a good coin to mine. I have read about other coins that theorically seems more profitable, I've read the feedback from people mining some of these more profitable coins and in most cases miners had problems, so my question is that as you seems to have experience mining other coins with 1060 gpu's, it would be great to know your feedback and toknow if these coins are realiable, and which one of these coins are the most profitable at this moment and which miners are you using to mine these coins.

Thanks in advance.

When I started I mined small amounts of many different coins, but I settled into ETH as my "set it and forget it". I keep an eye on new coins and if something looks interesting I throw a rig at it for a day or two just to have some, but ultimately picking a coin that you think is stable and will stick around (for me, ETH and BTG are favorites, but there are several GPU coins that I don't see disappearing or bottoming out) just makes more sense. Remember that whattomine and sites like that are based on a lot of different factors, and ultimately the most profitable coin is going to be the one that will be worth the most in the long run, unless you are cashing out daily.

So, like, just because Ellaism might be worth more for a few hours or even a couple days doesn't necessarily mean switching your rig to it is the right call, as it may just be because ETH had a drop in value. When it picks back up, you still mined the same number of coins on the day it was worth less, those coins are just worth more now. Basically the only time those value sites are 100% accurate is on the day you sell.

EDIT TO ADD: also I believe that post was about dual mining, i.e., a second coin mined at the same time using a capable miner (like claymore). I rarely dual mine because of the wear and tear on my cards, I'd rather they last longer than generate an extra $1/day or so, but some coins are worth it. I used to dual SIA sometimes, and did for the couple weeks up to the release of the A3, because I thought it would be worth the risk (and it was). Most of the time, though, I just use ethminer and mine Ethereum.

[ETNPro]

2x MSI GTX 1060 3GT OC NVIDIA GeForce 3GB GDDR5
2x ASUS GeForce GTX 1060 3GB Dual-Fan OC Edition Graphics Card (DUAL-GTX1060-O3G)
PSU: 750W
For electroneum tell me what kind of overclocks i need to use in MSI After Burner?

[AlexanderDumas]

2x MSI GTX 1060 3GT OC NVIDIA GeForce 3GB GDDR5
2x ASUS GeForce GTX 1060 3GB Dual-Fan OC Edition Graphics Card (DUAL-GTX1060-O3G)
PSU: 750W
For electroneum tell me what kind of overclocks i need to use in MSI After Burner?

Mining any Cryptonight coin with an nvidia card is a waste of electricity.

If you loooove Electronium so much, you are better off, mining Ethereum directly to an exchange wallet (example Cryptopia) then you trade your ETH for ETN, although you may need to trade ETH to USDT, then USDT to ETN. It takes 5 minutes to do it.
You still come way ahead than mining ETN directly with a GPU that is underperforming on that algo.

The only GPUs which are worth mining ETN are the VEGAs. I have 4 of them that I bought a while ago at 520 USD ( I would never buy them again) and I use them for Cryptonight on NiceHash. I mine ETN a few days a month just for the sake of keeping some and selling some when it pops.

Take care.

[nvprominer]

My 1060's have Samsung memory. I am getting 25 MH/s mining ETH.

Linux settings:
Core: -200
Memory: +1850
Power Limit: 75 watts

Same hash under windows. The only difference is when using Afterburner I set memory +925 (half the Linux setting).

I tried 1060's with Micron memory, was getting around 22 MH/s. Cards with Hynix memory were even worst at 19 MH/s.

[Euphoria-Indeed]

Hi,

I have GeForce® GTX 1060 Mini ITX 6G (rev. 1.0) with Samsung brand memory and have AORUS GRAPHICS ENGINE programme (from Gigabyte) to process overclocking on desktop PC with Windows 10 Pro installed.

I want to hear your suggestions for Ethereum mining on my mini card.

GPU Boost Clock

Memory Clock

GPU Voltage %

Power Target %

[whotheff]

My 1060's have Samsung memory. I am getting 25 MH/s mining ETH.

Linux settings:
Core: -200
Memory: +1850
Power Limit: 75 watts

Same hash under windows. The only difference is when using Afterburner I set memory +925 (half the Linux setting).

I tried 1060's with Micron memory, was getting around 22 MH/s. Cards with Hynix memory were even worst at 19 MH/s.

Hi, please try it this way:

1. write down the Vcore value
2. set:
Core: +150 (yes, I know)
Memory: +1850
Power Limit: 55% (66 watts)

2. write down the Vcore and compare.

3. Share results here if the hashrate is the same as before, but for 9W less/card

[TheHas]

Yeah at this stage ethereum is still the most profitable to mine, even with an nvidia gtx 1060. Equihash still comes in consistently lower for me, particularly with samsung memory.

[JohnDoe3490]

My hynix is pulling some good hashrates.

[shuweee]

Zoltac 1060 6GB

Power 65
MEM +800

24.1mH

[ManicMiner23]

These numbers are good for the 1060, I have a rig with 3x 1060 6Gb, micron memory, cant go beyond +550 on two cards, +600 on the third one, so, my hashrate is 23 - 23.5.

Any help to know if is possible to improve this performance would be apprciated.

Thanks.

[whotheff]

These numbers are good for the 1060, I have a rig with 3x 1060 6Gb, micron memory, cant go beyond +550 on two cards, +600 on the third one, so, my hashrate is 23 - 23.5.

Any help to know if is possible to improve this performance would be apprciated.

Thanks.

23-23.5 is Micron's best. If you push it more, it will be on the edge of stability.

However you can try my settings (5 posts above). See if they will lower the power draw (also heat, bills, fan speed and noise), while keeping almost the same hashrate.

[nitrobg]

Use nvidia inspector's command line to set the voltage down to 650000, increase the core offset by 100-150 and clock the memory as you wish. That's the best way to mine Ethereum with NVIDIA cards.

Bat file for 3 cards:

Code:

SET VOLT=650000
SET MEM=500
SET CORE=100

SET GPU0=-lockVoltagePoint:0,%VOLT% -setBaseClockOffset:0,0,%CORE% -setMemoryClockOffset:0,0,%MEM%
SET GPU1=-lockVoltagePoint:1,%VOLT% -setBaseClockOffset:1,0,%CORE%  -setMemoryClockOffset:1,0,%MEM%
SET GPU2=-lockVoltagePoint:2,%VOLT% -setBaseClockOffset:2,0,%CORE%  -setMemoryClockOffset:2,0,%MEM%

nvidiaInspector.exe %GPU0% %GPU1% %GPU2%

[Piskeante]

i received the other day one gigabyte GTX 1060 6gb with Hynix memory , and ....it's bad.

i'm just getting 18.5mh/s at best (more than this simply crashes)

Claymore 11.2
windows 10 with all updates
lastest nvidia drivers available.
-200mhz on the core
power limit 65%
+440mhz on the memory (8500mhz efective)
no bios mod (since i think it cannot be done)(i have 7 AMD cards most of them doing almost 32mh/s rock solid)
65% fan speed (around 65ºC)

any advice on how to increase hashrate with this GTX 1060 would be much appreciated.

[whotheff]

-200mhz on the core
power limit 65%
+440mhz on the memory (8500mhz efective)
no bios mod (since i think it cannot be done)(i have 7 AMD cards most of them doing almost 32mh/s rock solid)
65% fan speed (around 65ºC)
any advice on how to increase hashrate with this GTX 1060 would be much appreciated.

Option 1. You can lower power usage and keep the same hashrate. (+150/440/55% and customer vcore curve)
Option 2. Make a gamer happy and sell the card. Then buy another batch or brand and hope for Samsung memory or atleast Micron.