NVIDIA - Ethereum+SIACOIN or Zcash?

[rogeriosmorais]

Hey guys,

I got a 6x1070 ASUS DUAL and every experiment I did I came to the conclusion that dual mining Eth is always better than pure Zcash.

I can get 28 Etherum + 530 SIA on claymore 9.4 @ 140w under 70°. At that configuration I can get only 400 Zcash, which is way less lucrative.

Is anyone out there getting different numbers? Care to share you own experiences?

[YIz]

Are you using modded BIOSes? Ethereum is crowded with Polaris chips, zcash might still be worth it for Nvidia cards.

[rogeriosmorais]

Are you using modded BIOSes? Ethereum is crowded with Polaris chips, zcash might still be worth it for Nvidia cards.

I didn't know you could BIOS mod NVIDIA. Can you point me out to where you found that information?

[grchina]

You can't mod nvidia bios all you can do is oc and downvolt in msi ab.I would stay on eth but you can check stats on whattomine

[RamaLo]

I'm on ZEC since 3-4 days, switching from ETH. (3xGTX1060 6GB + 1xGTX1080)

As there's no absolute way to compare the coins I refer both of them to BTC.
I was getting about 0.2 BTC per month from ETH. Right now I'm at 0.24 BTC from ZEC. (83MH/s ETH vs 1.4 KH/s ZEC).
So, for me the difference is about 20% in favor of ZEC.

I did not dual mine ETH-SIA, so I can't give you an answer on how it would compare... maybe the 20% difference can be covered with SIA, not sure.
But, afaik, if you dual mine, the ETH rate will go down a little bit, so the numbers will be different!
However, unless there will be a very big gap between the 2, on the medium and long term, I think nobody can tell you if ETH+SIA is better than ZEC or the other way around.

[Nebell]

Are you guys considering ETH price increase in the future? It could go up real high, or come down crashing and burning. But yeah, I'm willing to risk, atm profit around $500/month could be $1000 a month or more if you decide to keep ETH coins.
I have not followed Zcash to be honest.
I'm just mining ETH+SIA and using SIA to pay for electricity (or half of it as my 3 rigs are drawing 1800W from the wall :/)

How do you undervolt Nvidia cards? On my Afterburner the option is locked.

[Tidsdilatation]

Are you guys considering ETH price increase in the future? It could go up real high, or come down crashing and burning. But yeah, I'm willing to risk, atm profit around $500/month could be $1000 a month or more if you decide to keep ETH coins.
I have not followed Zcash to be honest.
I'm just mining ETH+SIA and using SIA to pay for electricity (or half of it as my 3 rigs are drawing 1800W from the wall :/)

How do you undervolt Nvidia cards? On my Afterburner the option is locked.

In options you should be able to enable Voltage adjusting. Zcash follows ETH price, atleast it has in the past.

Equihash algo is more suitable for Nvidia in my opinion.

[RamaLo]

I'm using Zotac Firestorm for both 1060 and 1080... you have the option to increase or reduce the power for each GPU.
Going with +100-150 for GPU, +500 for memory and power at 75%.
Did not check/use MSI until now.

And I would say "Are you guys considering ETH price increase/decrease in the future?" as I don't see anyone able to tell you if it will go up, down or sideways ...

[tommy5dollar]

By my calculations ETH-SIA is narrowly more profitable for my 1070 rig.

What have you set the -dcri to in Claymore? I've got mine on 50 and I'm getting 28.5 MH/s for ETH and 475 MH/s for SIA. I tried setting it to 60 but found ETH dropped to about 27 MH/s whilst SIA only went up to 540 MH/s which wasn't really worth it. How have you clocked your 570s?

[Ayers]

i think better to mine LBRY lol, currently lbry is betetr than both, and with eth nvidia will consume too much, i prefer lbry or zcash the consumption is lower and the earning is at least the same, ETH + xx coin is for amd, leave that to them