GTX 1060 3GB - Poor Performance with hynix memory

[CryptoSocial]

Hi,
  After tired of looking for solutions since last 2 1/2 months, I am requesting support from community.

I brought 10 Zotac GTX 1060 3 GB mini's in June 2017.

Out of 10, 3 had Samsung memory and are doing great with 18 MH/s on stock and over 23 at +100/+850 with claymore 9.8.

The remaining 7 cards are Hynix and are performing poorly at around 14 MH/s and would crash upon attempts to overclock.

Could there be a possibility of getting better performance out of Hynix memory cards as well?

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[Heardalis]

just mine ZEC with them. Almost same price.
And if u r a ETH fanatic then just change the zec s to eth .

[koody]

At the moment i think no, maybe if someone can edit the bios we'll get a better hashrate.

[Undefined31415]

just mine ZEC with them. Almost same price.
And if u r a ETH fanatic then just change the zec s to eth .

I second this. If ZEC value remains as high as it is now, you should be better off mining ZEC and then trading for ETH. I have two 3GB 1060s with Hynix memory, and they do fine mining Zcash. (I have one with Samsung memory that definitely gets better performance after overclocking, but otherwise they're all pretty close to 300 H/s on ZEC.)

[coinnoob_za]

I have Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX1060's with 6GB Memory (Samsung and Micron memory mixed) They all do well at around 23-24MH/s
I also bought a Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX1060 3GB with Hynix.
It gets only 18MH/s with memory clock of 450Mhz. Anything higher and it crashes (The 6G cards are running at 650 or 750 mem clocks)
Nothing you can do about the Memory performance though. Silicon Lottery!
Memory clocks are important to Dagger-hashimoto Algo so yeah, agree you might be better off mining ZEC which favours the GPU Core more.
You could also Dual mine Eth and maybe Sia. I see it as last chance to get Sia coin now as June 2018 the Asics miner will be released for Sia Coin.
https://obelisk.tech/
At least Sia Coin will serve a purpose for the future and HP is certainly interested in it. https://minebox.io/

[nars28]

You can try mining Signatum while you can.

[CryptoSocial]

The worst part is that I ended up buying Zotac 3GB mini 1060's, the worst cards to have. I was told upfront that they carry a 5 year warranty, however 3 out of 10 died within 1 1/2 month of buying and upon visiting the service center, I got to know that the warranty is only 2 years unless I register within 28 days of purchase.

It was not mentioned anywhere on the package or inside the box.

I tried mailing Zotac support telling them about the issue and requesting for validating the extended warranty, however got a very rude response.

On the other hand my 480's are working like charm day and night since last 6 months.

I don't know how many times, I would need to replace the cards within 2 years (resulting in downtime) and if I could ever be able to use them after 2 years.

Would never buy any Zotac card in future and am sharing my experience hoping I might end up saving someone's money.

Many people have agreed that hynix memory cards could not be overclocked much, however in Zotac's case, you can't even expect a +100, the miner dies.