RX 560 4GB Ethereum

[milospinkfloyd]

First hi to all, I think this is my first post here but I am long time member. I'm looking towards building mining farm, but I'm facing the problem of availibility of 570/580 cards. They are imposible to find in whole Europe. So I thought of 560 which preform about 11 mhs with stock settings. Do you think they can preform about 13-14 mhs with modded bios? If they can they seem like a good shop couse I can buy them for around 100 euros. I think this topic will be very common in future because 570s and 580s are very hard even to order. Thanks in advance

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[chohav]

560s are weak for mining. Wait a week or two and there should be new batch of cards in Europe.

[milospinkfloyd]

if week or two will solve the problem I wouldnt concern at all. But I went from Vienna to Budapest and Belgrade, also watched Bratislava shops online but noone can promise me reservation for cards..

[mirny]

if week or two will solve the problem I wouldnt concern at all. But I went from Vienna to Budapest and Belgrade, also watched Bratislava shops online but noone can promise me reservation for cards..

yeah, we have order for 200cards, and after three weeks, they supplied us with only 16cards,
reminds me same situation, which was with 280X

[fanatic26]

AMD is facing a global shortage of chips right now. With all of the hype surrounding crypto and alt coins in general they simply were not prepared for the demand. There is always nvidia, right now they ROI pretty fast with zcash.

[priviet]

Hi,

I bought 2x rx560 from sapphire to play around and they run stock at 12.5 mh/s each w/o mods or oc.

I'll mod the bios and oc / dc them now and let you know what I archived.

[muratizm]

560 should perform exactly half of 570.
not worth investing unless you can make a cheap combination of 6 pcie slot mainboard + extremely cheap pentium cpu + ram + usb linux os.

[priviet]

I modded the bios successfully and increased the mining speed to ~14.xxx mh/s with the following settings:

bios mod:

1750 timings -> 1875, 2000
max memory clock 2000 -> 2200

amd radeon settings:

gpu clock -> 1125 (underclock)
memory clock -> 2000
fan -> 100%

ASIC is 65% and 75% so they run 60° and 53°. Memory is Micron 4GB.
Could push the memory clock further now but I'm satisfied and let them work for 48h.

I think they could do 15.xxx mh/s but with much more power draw and heat dissipation.

And disable crossfire in amd tool, enabled by default!

[Elder III]

I don't think they hash enough to be worth buying. AMD's 470/80 and 570/80 are sold out or overpriced just about everywhere right now... I'd rather buy NVIDIA and mine different coins then get a wimpy Rx 560, as long as you choose algorithms that NVIDIA is good at they are extremely profitable.

[CFX_003]

I modded the bios successfully and increased the mining speed to ~14.xxx mh/s with the following settings:

bios mod:

1750 timings -> 1875, 2000
max memory clock 2000 -> 2200

amd radeon settings:

gpu clock -> 1125 (underclock)
memory clock -> 2000
fan -> 100%

ASIC is 65% and 75% so they run 60° and 53°. Memory is Micron 4GB.
Could push the memory clock further now but I'm satisfied and let them work for 48h.

I think they could do 15.xxx mh/s but with much more power draw and heat dissipation.

And disable crossfire in amd tool, enabled by default!

can share the bios?, i tried but always failed...

[Djentriser]

I modded the bios successfully and increased the mining speed to ~14.xxx mh/s with the following settings:

bios mod:

1750 timings -> 1875, 2000
max memory clock 2000 -> 2200

amd radeon settings:

gpu clock -> 1125 (underclock)
memory clock -> 2000
fan -> 100%

ASIC is 65% and 75% so they run 60° and 53°. Memory is Micron 4GB.
Could push the memory clock further now but I'm satisfied and let them work for 48h.

I think they could do 15.xxx mh/s but with much more power draw and heat dissipation.

And disable crossfire in amd tool, enabled by default!

I was just about to say to stay away from these cards. One of the local computer suppliers had a crazy deal on those and a couple of my friends bought a few. The best you will be able to achieve will be 14mh. For me these cards are a joke if you want something cheap go with the msi armors or the sapphire pulse.

[Za1n]

With the inflated price of hardware the average 6x GPU rig has went from around $1600 (6 RX480/580's, 1000 W PSU, CPU, Mobo, SDD, Risers, etc.) to nearly $2,000. Considering the network hash-rate and difficulty is also increasing at a rapid rate, any sustained downtrend in the coin prices will be hitting these recent sub-optimal rigs hard, and even be putting the hurt on ROI times for the more optimal rigs as well.

The current "correction" may be temporary, but should Ethereum drop back to the $40-50 range (which was excellent profitability just 2 months ago) , the ROI on the above rig would exceed 365 days, or one year. The problem with such a rapid run-up in price and the concurrent on-boarding of new miners makes it almost mandatory for the price to continue to inflate at the same rate to keep up. Once this stops the effects are compounded and those rosy 60-70 day ROI projections are going to quickly turn into year+ endeavors.

The purpose of this post is not to necessarily discourage getting into mining, but more to caution against just blindly throwing money at anything can can produce a hash-rate and think it is going to pay off. RX560's will be hard pressed soon to even turn a profit. Wait a month or two and I suspect a lot mining hardware will be plentiful and cheap on ebay and elsewhere.

[qismo]

I modded the bios successfully and increased the mining speed to ~14.xxx mh/s with the following settings:

If the speed is at 14 MH / s then what is the power consumption?
I'm interested that, because 560 costs half price 570.

[leowonderful]

The big reason why AMD can't simply just boost production is because if they did that and mining became unprofitable again like with the 200 series boom, they'd be stuck rebranding old cards, and it'd be another 300 series fiasco. I don't like what they're doing right now, but they're doing it for a reason.

[Dowper]

I modded the bios successfully and increased the mining speed to ~14.xxx mh/s with the following settings:

If the speed is at 14 MH / s then what is the power consumption?
I'm interested that, because 560 costs half price 570.

Yeah, I want to know too. If it's half of 570's power draw, that will be good.

[poisson]

With the inflated price of hardware the average 6x GPU rig has went from around $1600 (6 RX480/580's, 1000 W PSU, CPU, Mobo, SDD, Risers, etc.) to nearly $2,000. Considering the network hash-rate and difficulty is also increasing at a rapid rate, any sustained downtrend in the coin prices will be hitting these recent sub-optimal rigs hard, and even be putting the hurt on ROI times for the more optimal rigs as well.

The current "correction" may be temporary, but should Ethereum drop back to the $40-50 range (which was excellent profitability just 2 months ago) , the ROI on the above rig would exceed 365 days, or one year. The problem with such a rapid run-up in price and the concurrent on-boarding of new miners makes it almost mandatory for the price to continue to inflate at the same rate to keep up. Once this stops the effects are compounded and those rosy 60-70 day ROI projections are going to quickly turn into year+ endeavors.

The purpose of this post is not to necessarily discourage getting into mining, but more to caution against just blindly throwing money at anything can can produce a hash-rate and think it is going to pay off. RX560's will be hard pressed soon to even turn a profit. Wait a month or two and I suspect a lot mining hardware will be plentiful and cheap on ebay and elsewhere.

I agree. Difficulty seems to rising exponentially unfortunately.

[Vann]

I modded the bios successfully and increased the mining speed to ~14.xxx mh/s with the following settings:

If the speed is at 14 MH / s then what is the power consumption?
I'm interested that, because 560 costs half price 570.

Yeah, I want to know too. If it's half of 570's power draw, that will be good.

About 40 watts each after undervolt and no 6/8 pin PCI-E power connector required. About 80 MH/s for 6 cards and 550W at the wall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VuPm8N5T0w

^^^^^^^ That's actually for the RX 460's, but the RX 560's should be very similar.

[Harry Callahan]

if week or two will solve the problem I wouldnt concern at all. But I went from Vienna to Budapest and Belgrade, also watched Bratislava shops online but noone can promise me reservation for cards..

yeah, we have order for 200cards, and after three weeks, they supplied us with only 16cards,
reminds me same situation, which was with 280X

Pretty much looks like AMD and Nvidia made the most out of the alt coin market as all of their cards are selling like hot cakes and it is really difficult to find the cards even for players like me who wants to upgrade the GPU to play some games,only hope is that they would increase their production and maximize the profit because alt coin market might not continue forever.

[spyshagg]

the rx560 is not the exact same hardware as the vanilla 460.  It has the full polaris 11 chip (1024 cores). How much it increases the hashrate, I dont know.

[sundownz]

the rx560 is not the exact same hardware as the vanilla 460.  It has the full polaris 11 chip (1024 cores). How much it increases the hashrate, I dont know.

That is interesting... did not notice that.

I may buy some RX560s and build a rig to try them out.