Best GPU's to mine ZCASH with?

[VoskCoin]

What are your preferred settings for getting max performance out of your cards? You probably tune them down a bit like me due to heat issues?

Also does anyone know what the ideal ambient temp is for operating GPUs?

 Depends on the rig and the card - most of them I have to turn the TDP down a little to keep them in the 70-75C range when it's cool (like this past week) and under 80 when it's hot (this summer) without going past 85% fan.
 Some I've got down as low as 70% or so, but those are mostly in rigs I've upgraded to "4 card part-riser" and need to keep power consumption down to my target 6 amp max draw for infrastructure limit reasons.

 The Aorus 1080 ti models though are beasts - can run them at full TDP with 70-80% fan even when it's HOT and they stay plenty cool, as long as there is plenty of airspace in front of the fans.


 Profitability has been sliding up a bit this week - seems like something is pulling a fairly large amount of network hashrate out of ZCash this week, more than making up for the minor price drop.
 Not a HUGE jump, but noticeable....



 The ideal AMBIENT temp for operating GPUs is probably around freezing, but I'm not real interested in moving to northern Greenland or Siberia or that recent split-off northern Canadian province to achieve that year-round....

A ton of mining power has been pouring over to zen, Mona, and vert

What’s your max efficient sols / settings for that on the AORUS TI

I hate even revealing this but Voskcoin you seem like a cool dude...the Aorus 1080 ti are the gods of 1080 ti’s. There is no better card in the nvidia lineup. I have only managed to buy 12 and they are not cheap but they easily achieve 725 sols with barely any tweaking. The downside is they are almost always on backorder or price gouging is over 800 usd. If you can catch some at 740 you got a good deal. I wish I had 200 of these in my farm I can’t say enough good about them and I’m not even a gigabyte fan until I discovered that card.

haha thanks xD - Which model as there's two?
As you said they were the cheapest card at the time I bought the pair around 740 iirc, since that time theyve been out of stock or 800 dollars zz

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[VoskCoin]

I hate even revealing this but Voskcoin you seem like a cool dude...the Aorus 1080 ti are the gods of 1080 ti’s. There is no better card in the nvidia lineup. I have only managed to buy 12 and they are not cheap but they easily achieve 725 sols with barely any tweaking. The downside is they are almost always on backorder or price gouging is over 800 usd. If you can catch some at 740 you got a good deal. I wish I had 200 of these in my farm I can’t say enough good about them and I’m not even a gigabyte fan until I discovered that card.

LOL, your secret is wrong my friend. The best 1080Ti is the Galax HoF Watercooled edition, followed by the Galax HoF Air edition. They reach 820+ Sol/s

well it's not that exciting at the price point / availability O_o

[Makak4R]

I hate even revealing this but Voskcoin you seem like a cool dude...the Aorus 1080 ti are the gods of 1080 ti’s. There is no better card in the nvidia lineup. I have only managed to buy 12 and they are not cheap but they easily achieve 725 sols with barely any tweaking. The downside is they are almost always on backorder or price gouging is over 800 usd. If you can catch some at 740 you got a good deal. I wish I had 200 of these in my farm I can’t say enough good about them and I’m not even a gigabyte fan until I discovered that card.

mine Palit Gamerocks are pushing 750-760sols and I know that Asus Strix can go beyond that. Strix is running  10-15C cooler then my Gamerock and pushes 770-780 sols..  so that means Aorus is just a good card, but clearly not the very best 
 

[Trade_BTC]

I hate even revealing this but Voskcoin you seem like a cool dude...the Aorus 1080 ti are the gods of 1080 ti’s. There is no better card in the nvidia lineup. I have only managed to buy 12 and they are not cheap but they easily achieve 725 sols with barely any tweaking. The downside is they are almost always on backorder or price gouging is over 800 usd. If you can catch some at 740 you got a good deal. I wish I had 200 of these in my farm I can’t say enough good about them and I’m not even a gigabyte fan until I discovered that card.

mine Palit Gamerocks are pushing 750-760sols and I know that Asus Strix can go beyond that. Strix is running  10-15C cooler then my Gamerock and pushes 770-780 sols..  so that means Aorus is just a good card, but clearly not the very best 
 

The cards I mentioned go higher I said minimal tweaking. Remember stability is important I could get the Aorus over 800 but I'm talking farm applications not "I have 2 gpu look what I can overclock to" application.

[QuintLeo]

I hate even revealing this but Voskcoin you seem like a cool dude...the Aorus 1080 ti are the gods of 1080 ti’s. There is no better card in the nvidia lineup. I have only managed to buy 12 and they are not cheap but they easily achieve 725 sols with barely any tweaking. The downside is they are almost always on backorder or price gouging is over 800 usd. If you can catch some at 740 you got a good deal. I wish I had 200 of these in my farm I can’t say enough good about them and I’m not even a gigabyte fan until I discovered that card.

mine Palit Gamerocks are pushing 750-760sols and I know that Asus Strix can go beyond that. Strix is running  10-15C cooler then my Gamerock and pushes 770-780 sols..  so that means Aorus is just a good card, but clearly not the very best 
 

 Base Aorus can match that 780 sol/s with minimal tweeking and runs cool and LONG term reliable doing so (the one in the machine I'm typing this on is at 60C right now, but it's the only GPU in a gaming machine in an air-conditioned environment and a case with good cooling).
 Not sure if the higher-end model does any better, it's got a higher factory overclock but I suspect it might be limited by having the same cooling system.

 I suspect ALL of the "3 slot wide" GTX 1080ti models from the various makers will end up in the same temp/performance range.

[fusion0389]

are you guys getting these numbers on ethOS?

[QuintLeo]

My Aorus testing is mostly done on my Win7 gaming rig (where one Aorus lives and I can use Afterburner for easy manipulation) on the "base" model Aorus 1080 ti.

The rest come from my XUbuntu mining rigs - though EthOS should be able to match those numbers since it's also Ubuntu based.

[VoskCoin]

Just a heads up guys

As cheap as it currently gets 1080 TI are about to be back in stock
https://goo.gl/ZKpijj


Also the 1070 TI are shaping up to be a contender for best bang for buck also . . I've got 2 coming in today
https://goo.gl/Wz6VuX

[lunobird]

Just a heads up guys

As cheap as it currently gets 1080 TI are about to be back in stock
https://goo.gl/ZKpijj


Also the 1070 TI are shaping up to be a contender for best bang for buck also . . I've got 2 coming in today
https://goo.gl/Wz6VuX

Hi VoskCoin.

I'm a fan of yours, You actually convinced me to get the 1070 ti after i cancelled my pre orders,  I ordered 4 of these MSI 1070ti titanium edition just now.  Some guy reporting very good mining results with these,  Ball bearing fan, big heat sinks and pretty cheap price with rebate.
https://www.amazon.com/MSI-GTX-1070-TI-TITANIUM/dp/B076Q62TDF/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1510455084&sr=8-2&keywords=1070+ti+msi&dpID=517QRohqBYL&preST=_SX300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

here was his comments "Been running this card in my mining rig for almost a week now. Got it at $489 like others and it is a decent mining card. I like the GDDR5 RAM which handles RAM focused Algos well. I am running a stable overclock at +225 Core, +690 Mem. I must have gotten the Samsung memory with that good of a RAM overclock. I like the way it looks, goes well with my 5 GTX 1070 Armor's from MSI."

[Alwaysstayfocus]

Hey guys,  long time lurker and new to mining.


I want to say thank you for your input because i'm learning. Anyway, are these numbers look good to you guys?

Mining on equihash algo. with gtx 1080 and gtx 970. Am trying to as efficient as possible.

https://puu.sh/yreCe/f570ea21be.png

[QuintLeo]

I have one of those ASUS "Turbo" blower 1080 ti models. Runs a bit on the hot side, removing the "mounting bracket" near the air exhaust area helps some but it STILL runs a little hotter than my EVGA SC 1080ti model and a LOT hotter than the Aorus.
 Good choice for a "in a case" build, but I'm not sure it's worth the low price for a riser build.


 Did some testing on my Zotac GTX 1080 cards today - anything over +100 on core OR memory cost hashrate , and it was most efficient down around 106 watts, pretty much matching the EVGA SC 1070 ti cards I have (but keep in mind I'm running EBWF on both).
 Testing done on the XUbuntu machine I currently have my pair of 1070 ti cards in, so EVERYTHING was the same except the GPU itself.

 If the PRICE was a match, this would be a good choice - but 10%+ or so HIGHER cost for the same hashrate and tossup efficiency is a LOSS in my book.

 I should probably get around to testing out DSTM soon - have seen conflicting results on "better than" or "worse than" EBWF but they seem to be "model dependent" in part.

[VoskCoin]

Never updated this thread but the 1070 TI is arguably the best GPU for mining ZEC / equihash atm imo

https://youtu.be/jtp4plChU9Y


Some cards we've tested
EVGA
http://amzn.to/2BjZAQb
Zotac (proven to be ~just as fast and cheaper)
http://amzn.to/2Bi1lNO
ASUS STRIX more cooling
http://amzn.to/2AHRVrX

[Hype88]

Does the Aorus 1080ti come with a power splitter cable for the two 8-pins or do you need your own adapter to run it from one PSU cable? Is it a bad idea to run from 1 cable with potential wire limitations or common practice? My current 1080tis are 6-pin + 8-pin.

[QuintLeo]

Does the Aorus 1080ti come with a power splitter cable for the two 8-pins or do you need your own adapter to run it from one PSU cable? Is it a bad idea to run from 1 cable with potential wire limitations or common practice? My current 1080tis are 6-pin + 8-pin.

 It comes with an adapter for 2 x 6-pin to 1 x 8-pin.
 The non-extreme Aorus has the same "base" TDP as my EVGA SC cards - 250 watts - which is safe enough to run from a single EVGA 8+6 dual cable if you're not pushing the card past rated TDP.

[Spiffy_1]

My goal is to get 6 13 card rigs up by the end of 2018.  1 1060 which is up and running, and working on the 4 1070's and 1 1080ti.  Gotta keep the options open lol

[QuintLeo]

What gpu is the best now? is it stikl the 1070 8gb? I want to build a 13gpu rig only for zcash to build an forgott, because I really like the coin.

 "Best" is subjective, and depends on algorithm and how you intend to mine.

 1070 ti is the current "best" for EFFICIENT mining on equihash, but there are other options that might be better if you are more worried about rig density, or high hashrate and don't CARE about efficiency, or most hashrate per dollar spent, or are mining other algorithms like ethash or cryptoknight.

 Right now though, "best" seems to be "what I can get of AT ALL" given the current extreme shortage on ALL mid-to-upper range GPUs.

[ghostwalker.ph]

currently the evga is still efficient when it comes to mining equihash as stated in the video. 4.7sols/watt is the best settings overall.

i think there are 1070ti cards out there that can top this 4.7 sols. it's just that no one is experimenting / tinkering their 1070tis. how sad.

i hope there would be another alternative to evga. they're overpriced as of the moment.

[crairezx20]

currently the evga is still efficient when it comes to mining equihash as stated in the video. 4.7sols/watt is the best settings overall.

i think there are 1070ti cards out there that can top this 4.7 sols. it's just that no one is experimenting / tinkering their 1070tis. how sad.

i hope there would be another alternative to evga. they're overpriced as of the moment.

There are other people could pull out until sol/w 3.8 but i don't know if what his settings .. i was planning to buy 1070ti this following week and hope Voskcoin is right.. i'll start buying 2 pieces this coming week I ask already some supplier near to me that they had stock but limited only for 2 pieces per person..
I'll update soon if i get settings and lowered the 4.7 sol/w

[Dimedroll]

If you want to mine Zcash exclusively, the Nvidia 10 series GPU's will give you the best performance per watt. Between 450 - 700 H/s each depending on the model, but they also cost more than AMD's.

Is there a breakdown of the 10 series cards with their price, their hash rate, and power usage?

Which one of the 10 series would you rec?

1060  300-330 h        I have 1
1070  400 -440 h       I have 2
1080   470 - 515 h     I have 1
1080 ti   630 - 715 h  I have 7 soon to be 8


all rough numbers of the cards I own.

most efficient   one or 2 of the 1080 ti's clock well and may be most efficient

What to buy?

price is key

   a good deal on 1060  if you have space and lots of empty mobos is fine.

  a good deal on the 1080 ti if you don't have space is fine.

same on the other two.

what is a good deal.

A Zotac 1060 6gb mini   was at 219 on amazon  it will do 310-330h  for zec that is pretty good deal 

it is now 239 on newegg
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500402&cm_re=zotac_mini-_-14-500-402-_-Product

I never owned a zotac 1070 mini but it is a really good price on newegg  339   and it will do over 400h

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500408&ignorebbr=1&cm_re=1070-_-14-500-408-_-Product

MSI Armor 1070 470-500 Sol/s
ASUS 1070 (white) 440-470 Sol/s
Colorful 1070 470-490
Colorful 1080 Ti 730-750 Sol/s

[QuintLeo]

currently the evga is still efficient when it comes to mining equihash as stated in the video. 4.7sols/watt is the best settings overall.

i think there are 1070ti cards out there that can top this 4.7 sols. it's just that no one is experimenting / tinkering their 1070tis. how sad.

i hope there would be another alternative to evga. they're overpriced as of the moment.

 Haven't found a more efficient option yet, though all but 1 of the 1070 ti models I have to date can MATCH my EVGA SC 1070 ti cards on efficiency, and that one (ASUS blower model) was very close.

 It's the SAME GPU in the card, with a low power setting that makes cooling differences mostly a non-issue.