RX 560 4GB Ethereum

[Riddle]

How about rx550

[br2459]

Hey all, Anyone sucessfully modify a Sapphire Non-Nitro 4GB RX460 yet? I was going to take a page out of @Priviets book and just copy timings but when I opened up the Polaris BIOS editor I found something WAY different than I had seen when I modified my 480s. Instead of showing the usual times like 1750, 2000.. etc. it was a lot higher numbers like 167972 and 168172 etc. So not knowing that meant I have gave up on modifying until I can get someone who has experience with modding these cards.

[Marvell1]

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.

typical fake news doomsday post , eth will never drop below $180 again In the near future too many
ppl waiting to scoop up cheap eth if thst happens just shut up man
just be honest and say u dont want anyone to join the goldrush you sir are pathetic

ethe to $40? come on bro.  I do agree that rx 560 are worthles for mining eth, look on ebay for 390s and nanos if you can find them , or wait for cards to be restocked

[chohav]

Mining rig with 12x560s would mine with the same speed as 6x570s, but you will use more space and double of motherboard/CPU/RAM/HDD/rigs/etc.
Maybe going with Nvidia is a decent option these days when no AMDs can be found.

[Aquazi]

I too believe RX560 is quite a good card for mining and a good buy right now.

15 MH/s for 110$ish is pretty good imo.

[reletobg]

Mining rig with 12x560s would mine with the same speed as 6x570s, but you will use more space and double of motherboard/CPU/RAM/HDD/rigs/etc.
Maybe going with Nvidia is a decent option these days when no AMDs can be found.

RX 560 is just half the rx 570. Half the price, half mining performance, half power consumption. I believe 2 of this cards are equal to rx 570.
Yes you need to take 12 cards to make hashrate like 6x570/580, but when you can't fiend cards this is much better alternative then nvidia. Besides when the new asrock mobo with 13 slots arive you can save from cpu,ram and ssd.

[ltcsprite]

I'm setting up a 7 rig of 560's today, build it all for $1200

Yeah they are not the most efficient MH/s to watt but right now times are tough trying to find good cards..  and I had an extra 600w of power on a circuit that needs to be used.
 

And you can actually buy them in stock.

Also building a 7 rig of 1060's next week.

[Palvelinvirhe]

I'm setting up a 7 rig of 560's today, build it all for $1200

Yeah they are not the most efficient MH/s to watt but right now times are tough trying to find good cards..  and I had an extra 600w of power on a circuit that needs to be used.
 

And you can actually buy them in stock.

Also building a 7 rig of 1060's next week.

Did you build your 560's rig? How did it turn out?

[Gornidah]

I'm setting up a 7 rig of 560's today, build it all for $1200

Yeah they are not the most efficient MH/s to watt but right now times are tough trying to find good cards..  and I had an extra 600w of power on a circuit that needs to be used.
 

And you can actually buy them in stock.

Also building a 7 rig of 1060's next week.

Which brand for the 560's?

[stepsecr]

i did some test with POWERCOLOR RED DRAGON RX560 4G by stock it managed to produce averagely 12MH/s. Topped at 13.1MH/s, with the draw of 43watts.

not really bad isn't it?

http://www.techarmory.my/image/rx560.jpg

[senseless]

i did some test with POWERCOLOR RED DRAGON RX560 4G by stock it managed to produce averagely 12MH/s. Topped at 13.1MH/s, with the draw of 43watts.

not really bad isn't it?

What happens when you crank the mem clock up to 2ghz+ and update the bios timings?

[Zaggy111]

My Sapphire Pulse 4G OC. I lowered the gpu clock 1300 to 1200 and set the fan speed from automatic (73 C) to fixed 40% (70 C) Didnt touch the memory clock and power limit. https://i.imgur.com/5ledH80.png

[adcens]

Hi,

i'm new to mining.
i just got my Sapphire Pulse RX560 4G. but i only can install for 4 card. when i install for 5 and 6 cards it will show only 3 card able to run.
can anyone share how to install 6 cards driver and run?

[sundownz]

I built a rig with 4x RX560... if you get them cheap it's just fine, IMHO. Performs almost identical to 2x RX580 cards.

But seems like 4GB RX560 are getting scarce too... so I ordered 37 more nVidia cards.

[informatuss]

Guys what PSU are you using for these? I was wondering if 650W could handle 8 480s? With low 40W technically it should... What do you think?

[Breesus]

I built a rig with 4x RX560... if you get them cheap it's just fine, IMHO. Performs almost identical to 2x RX580 cards.

But seems like 4GB RX560 are getting scarce too... so I ordered 37 more nVidia cards.

Can you share with us the hashrate you got with these cards ? And what model are you using ? Thanks !

[BeyondDeception]

I too believe RX560 is quite a good card for mining and a good buy right now.

15 MH/s for 110$ish is pretty good imo.

My question is - can you actually get 15 mh/s? Or is it more like 10-11 mh/s? Has anyone tried to mod the bios? I would say that at 15 - yes, it's probably not a bad buy given the situation. At 9-11, not sure how I feel.

[sundownz]

I built a rig with 4x RX560... if you get them cheap it's just fine, IMHO. Performs almost identical to 2x RX580 cards.

But seems like 4GB RX560 are getting scarce too... so I ordered 37 more nVidia cards.

Can you share with us the hashrate you got with these cards ? And what model are you using ? Thanks !

Sure thing! No BIOS mods at all & the following on the command line :

-dual=Decred -dcri 33 -tt 74 -fanmin 50 -fanmax 90 -mclock 2000 -mvddc 925 -cclock 1000 -cvddc 900

I am getting ~12.2 per card on Ether and ~200 per card on Decred dual mining.

When I was on one card I put DCRI up to 35 and got the same on Eth and 220 on Decred -- I may try that again with all four but haven't had a chance on that machine.

I am using Gigabyte 4 GB "Gaming OC" cards.

[adaseb]

These cards are not worth it. They will have very bad resell value since they suck at gaming. I think the 1060 is a much better buy.

[Aquazi]

If they pull 15 MH/s they are a good buy tbh.

Under 14...? Not so much.

Sell value drops MUCH MORE for mid and high end than low end.

You can hardly find used 750tis under 60 euro in Italy, e.g. Meanwhile 280s run for 90.