GTX 1050ti Ethereum Mining Rig

[milosx7]

Thanks for this guide.  I picked up 4 of them in the states and getting 15.5+ M/H ETH on the 2 I have hooked up right now.   Waiting on my risers to get here and should be able too pump them hard @ 60c.   @+1000 clock I'm nearly hitting 16 m/h, but the 2nd card on the board is getting too hot 78c while the other stays sub 60c.    Dualing SC doesn't seem worth it so will probably check out DCR and LBRY.    EVGA OC edition if anyone is wondering.   Samsung memory  

Yeah no matter what memory these cards max OC easily. My 6th card wont OC because of my board, as ASRock support said, because it's not meant to run 6 cards. Modifying the bios i was able to run, but guess my 6th card will have to run at 850. Not a big deal, 0.5MH/s more or less. I can only imagine how further will the miners be optimised for Pascal GPUs, who knows. Claymore is doing an awesome work, 94MH/s eth only mining rn with 6 cards

Cards run much hotter and draw more power when dual mining. Right now, eth only mining with this cards is bang for the buck, my system is drawing 400w and it costs me less than 10$ a month of electricity.
With dual mining you pay a little more for electricity, your cards are much hotter, my system draws around 450w when dual, and you pay extra fees to the pool, 1% to dcr pool and another 1% for Claymore. So eth only is best with these cards rn

[ncBB]

Great job milosx7, it save me money on buying expensive psu and 700w instead, energy saving..
Btw where do u live? u have decent living standard and dirty cheap electricity!

[milosx7]

Great job milosx7, it save me money on buying expensive psu and 700w instead, energy saving..
Btw where do u live? u have decent living standard and dirty cheap electricity!

Im from Serbia. Not as great living standard, but 0.04$ per kW/h

[azza_]

Hi,

thank you for the great job - I built a similar rig. Some info:

1. I have gigabyte 4g oc 1050 ti cards with micron memory. They can reach 15.7-15.8 on ether.
2. Also have evga ssc 1050 ti cards with samsung memory. They are very stable at +1000 memory, but they do a bit less, around 15.5-15.6 mh/s
3. Gigabyte cards are hot, evga cards much cooler - evga has good quality cooler. But cards vary - some of them tend to be hotter then the other from the same brach.
4. Windows is still painful when you want something unusual like mining... (windows 10)
5. You can give high/realtime priority to miner process, doing this will increase the mh/s rate. But, windows may become irresponsive using realtime, so stay at high, or above average. The more priority given to etherminer the higher the mh/s rate is.
6. Install video cards one-by-one, wait for all the flickering each time, then check if card is recognized. Then restart and then shutdown, and put in the next card.
7. You need msi afterburner for tuning - I disabled low level io driver, polling rate to 2000 ms.
8. You might need system explorer if you want to set permanent priority, and have a better overlook of the system.
9. Disable unnecessary windows services, like Search. The main idea is not having anything crunching in the background. Crunching means lower mh/s rate.
10. Try to keep video cards as cool as possible - a cheap box ventilator will do at 15w. I dont suggest to install small pc ventilators - at the price of one good 12cm pc ventillator you can get one big box ventilator.
11. Interestingly - lowering gpu frequency below 0 increases power consumption and increasing gpu frequency can lower power consumption.
12. I think magnetic interference can be an issue with pci-e risers. Watch for separating usb, power and sata cables, check for loose connections . Bad quality risers can give a pain, makes you thinking of faulty video cards.
13. Do not use windows power saving mode, or balanced mode, use high performance power settings. Check if pci express "link state power management" is set to "off".
14. Typical windows 10 gpu overclocking failure: one or more gpu show near 0 mh/s, windows 10 unresponsive, msi afterburner eats up processor.
15. You might want to disable windows defender, or configure to whitelist your miners directory.
16. It is suggested to use 16 Gbyte virtual memory with windows 10. With 8 gpu the VM size of Claymore is 18.5 Gbyte, so you should set an even bigger vm size.
17. There is room for improvement: for example increasing intensity to 16 for nvidia cards adds a bit to your mh/s speed (claymore: -ethi 16)
18. Most of these cards does not have proper ram cooling (or any ram cooling at all), although high ram speed is key to more mh/s.
19. Its important to keep distance between cards, they heat each other up.
20. Dont forget to set minimal fan at least 50% and dinamically rising with temperature. Vram (and VRM) needs cooling even if the gpu is not working hard (and this is the case with eth).
21. "Cu_ki failed kx failed" type failure of Claymore: something is interfering with the program to communicate with gpus. Not enough cpu power due to power management, windows defender, other programs or services and can be a loose connector as well. And way too much overclock for vram. Or maybe wrong driver, try to up (or down)grade the driver.
22. Keep distance between sata power cables, otherwise they might heat each other up. Warm sata power cables can be the cause of sudden freezes of windows.
23. Get the cheapest available old pc with at least pci-e 2 ports and an old cheap gpu (nvidia nvs versions will do) and test all your risers before using them on your rig.
24. After optimizing your cards to the best mh/s speed take a look at claymore statistics and also try to optimize for max. shares/time.
25. Dont put your best card to the first slot. Maintaining video output takes away processing power, bette use motherboard graphics for video output.
26. "Got incorrect share" troubleshooting - first try to change the riser.
27. Try to find the most stable driver for your cards, saves you lot of debugging time. Best to stay with Claymore's preferred driver.


Some measurments:

8 1050 ti: with maximum overclock reaching 126 mh/s (under proper cooling conditions) with Claymore 9.7.1, but using at 123.5 mh/s because of stability issues. 455w power consumption.

[Mike011]

1050ti is best bang for buck atm. For the price of one 1060 you can get  two 1050ti. You don`t, however, get the double hashrate on 1060. Not to mention 1070. What concerns me, though, is when the DAG will become too big for 4gb cards...

[milosx7]

1050ti is best bang for buck atm. For the price of one 1060 you can get  two 1050ti. You don`t, however, get the double hashrate on 1060. Not to mention 1070. What concerns me, though, is when the DAG will become too big for 4gb cards...

That shouldn't concern you. ETH will be PoS before DAG Buffer reaches 4GB, so mine while you can

[Cereberus]

1050ti is best bang for buck atm. For the price of one 1060 you can get  two 1050ti. You don`t, however, get the double hashrate on 1060. Not to mention 1070. What concerns me, though, is when the DAG will become too big for 4gb cards...

That shouldn't concern you. ETH will be PoS before DAG Buffer reaches 4GB, so mine while you can

And there is always Zcash, with the right overclock settings , my Gigabyte GTX 1050 ti reaches easily +1000 memory and +65 core, while lowering temperature limit to 72 degrees and does about 189 Sol/s per second.

So with the milosx data he should be able to pull 6.xx dollars in a day as the picture below shows for the actual moment with the settings I suggested.

[milosx7]

1050ti is best bang for buck atm. For the price of one 1060 you can get  two 1050ti. You don`t, however, get the double hashrate on 1060. Not to mention 1070. What concerns me, though, is when the DAG will become too big for 4gb cards...

That shouldn't concern you. ETH will be PoS before DAG Buffer reaches 4GB, so mine while you can

And there is always Zcash, with the right overclock settings , my Gigabyte GTX 1050 ti reaches easily +1000 memory and +65 core, while lowering temperature limit to 72 degrees and does about 189 Sol/s per second.

So with the milosx data he should be able to pull 6.xx dollars in a day as the picture below shows for the actual moment with the settings I suggested.

Which miner software are you using to mine ZEC?

[Mike011]

ETC will still be mineable after PoS.

[milosx7]

ETC will still be mineable after PoS.

Yeah, but not with graphics hardware. That's what I meant

[milospinkfloyd]

Hi,

thank you for the great job - I built a similar rig. Some info:

1. I have gigabyte 4g oc 1050 ti cards with micron memory. They can do 15.7-15.8 on ether.
2. Also have evga ssc 1050 ti cards with samsung memory. They are very stable at +1000 memory, but they do a bit less, around 15.5-15.6 mh/s
3. Gigabyte cards are hot, evga cards much cooler - evga has good quality cooler. But cards vary - some of them tend to be hotter then the other from the same brach.
4. Windows is still painful when you want something unusual like mining... (windows 10)
5. You can give high/realtime priority to miner process, doing this will increase the mh/s rate. But, windows may become irresponsive, so overall I do not suggest it (or just use above average).
6. Install video cards one-by-one, wait for all the flickering each time, then check if card is recognized. Then restart and then shutdown, and put in the next card.
7. You need msi afterburner for tuning - I disabled low level io driver, polling rate to 2000 ms.
8. You might need system explorer if you want to set permanent priority, and have a better overlook of the system.
9. Disable unnecessary windows services, like Search. The main idea is not having anything crunching in the background. Crunching means lower mh/s rate.
10. Try to keep video cards as cool as possible - a cheap box ventilator will do at 15w. I dont suggest to install small pc ventilators - at the price of one good 12cm pc ventillator you can get one big box ventilator.
11. Interestingly - lowering gpu frequency below 0 increases power consumption and increasing gpu frequency can lower power consumption.
12. I think magnetic interference can be an issue with pci-e risers. Watch for separating usb, power and sata cables, check for loose connections . Bad quality risers can give a pain, makes you thinking of faulty video cards.
13. Do not use windows power saving mode, use balanced or high performance power settings. If using "balanced", set pci express "link state power management" off.
14. Typical windows 10 gpu overclocking failure: one or more gpu show near 0 mh/s, windows 10 unresponsive, msi afterburner eats up processor. Reboot and modify overclock settings.
15. You might want to disable windows defender, or cofigure to whitelist your miners directory.
16. It is suggested to use 16 Gbyte virtual memory with windows 10. With 8 gpu the VM size of Claymore is 18.5 Gbyte, so you should set an even bigger vm size.
17. There is room for improvement: for example increasing intensity to 16 for nvidia cards adds a bit to your mh/s speed (claymore: -ethi 16)
18. Most of these cards does not have proper ram cooling (or any ram cooling at all), although high ram speed is key to more mh/s.
19. Its important to keep distance between cards, they heat each other up.
20. Dont forget to set minimal fan at least 50% and dinamically rising with temperature. Vram (and VRM) needs cooling even if the gpu is not working hard (and this is the case with eth).


Some measurments:

8 1050 ti: with maximum overclock reaching 126 mh/s (under proper cooling conditions) with Claymore 9.7.1, but using at 123.5 mh/s because of stability issues. 455w power consumption.

please tel me what is your mainboard? And also core speed, mem speed, type of memory and what miner and bat settings do you use for reaching 120mhs with 8x1050ti. Thanks

[jpouza]

1050ti is best bang for buck atm. For the price of one 1060 you can get  two 1050ti. You don`t, however, get the double hashrate on 1060. Not to mention 1070. What concerns me, though, is when the DAG will become too big for 4gb cards...

No need to worry about, there will be no time to that happen.

As to the price, it'll depend in which country you live, where I live 2 x 1050Ti is not equal one 1060 GTX.

[SweDutchLish]

Hi,

I must be the dumbest person on the planet, but I have to ask something here as I'm super frustrated after 2 weeks of constant troubleshooting without getting any results...
I've gotten me some cards as well, and set up a rig of my own. I've been fiddling around for days on end to even just get any system to boot (rediculous, I know...) and show me my damn card! Today I finally managed to see one of my cards appear, yeeeey, so I fumbled around some with the rest of the settings I hadn't set up yet and I've run several tests on whether or not my card actually did any good mining. It's hashing away at 15.6/15.7 Mh/s, so I'm pleased, hashing goal has been reached!

Now for the main problem, and this here I really don't understand! When I remove my card from the MB and attach a riser to it, it vanishes from existence. Whenever I add 2 cards on risers, I don't even get any screen. It just stays black whether I plug it into the MB or the GC.
A bad riser, perhaps, but I don't buy not getting any results on any card I use a riser on, so what's the deal?
It's MSI GTX 1050 ti's with Samsung memory, on a AsRock H81 Pro BTC motherboard, using a 650W Platinum PSU (which is severe overkill on just 2 cards, so it's not a lack of general power). It's specifically designed to be used in this manner, I don't understand what it is I'm doing wrong...

I do have to say that I have the risers powered with a molex pinned cable that's usually used to power HDD's. Could that be it? Does it have to be an 8-pin to molex cable in order to work?
I was already shocked to actually see these cards have no power connectors, so I could throw away the extra extension cables I ordered. But how to then power these cards when they're not in the MB? This cable is the only option I have...

[raghua19]

Brothers help me out,
here in my country almost all gpus are sold out or available at 4x price,
so ended up with a decison that i will use 1050ti or rx560

i am going to buy below items please guide me if this will work or not (dont worry about power consumption and gpu prices)

12 x  1050ti or rx560 suggest me which is great after full overclocking and for reselling after a year or two.
asrock H110 pro btc or biostar TB250-BTC-PRO will buy any according to availability.
2 x 650watt psu.
12 x riser .
intel g4400.
8gb ram and 120gb ssd.

please guide me is this build will work or not will it freeze in windows 10? can i use it in ethos?
thanks in advance waiting for reply.......
 

[Anthr0p0l0gy]

Can you tell me more about the powered risers you used?
I am confused as to what I would need. PCIe 2 female on the mobo to the PCIe 3 male on the GPU

[Drumil]

I am having a 12 card rigx2 of inno3d NVidia gtx 1050 ti currently mining etc and sia is very stable at present but per card mhs is 12.5 max(which is btw always) can I increase the mhs per card?

[mikespax]

Great job milosx7, it save me money on buying expensive psu and 700w instead, energy saving..
Btw where do u live? u have decent living standard and dirty cheap electricity!

Im from Serbia. Not as great living standard, but 0.04$ per kW/h

How hard is it to get electronics from Hungary to Serbia? I'm in Budapest, but I love the electricity prices there.

[slackovic]

I am having a 12 card rigx2 of inno3d NVidia gtx 1050 ti currently mining etc and sia is very stable at present but per card mhs is 12.5 max(which is btw always) can I increase the mhs per card?

I don't know if it's because of the manufacturer but I have one Gigabyte GTX 1050ti overclocked to Core +180 and Memory +850 (Samsung) and I'm getting arround 14.9 MH/s in NiceHash (DaggerPascal algorithm).

[maMaciek]

I am having a 12 card rigx2 of inno3d NVidia gtx 1050 ti currently mining etc and sia is very stable at present but per card mhs is 12.5 max(which is btw always) can I increase the mhs per card?

I don't know if it's because of the manufacturer but I have one Gigabyte GTX 1050ti overclocked to Core +180 and Memory +850 (Samsung) and I'm getting arround 14.9 MH/s in NiceHash (DaggerPascal algorithm).

Can you tell me how to set +850 value on ubuntu 16.06 ?

[CryptobiTech]

OP you have some realllllly cheap power at $0.04/kwh to $0.01kwh.  Wow!

QUESTION??   Where are you located that you can get power that cheap?

Thanks in advance....