Building a Vertcoin Mining rig - need advices

[crypto-grey]

Hello everyone,

I'm planning to build a VERTCOIN mining rig, that I could use for Ethereum or other coin if needed.

For now, it seems that the best value for money is the GTX 1060 6gb (~27mh/s @100-120), is that the case ?

I'm considering building a Rig like this :

• Intel Pentium G4400
  Asus PRIME Z270-P
  DDR4 G.Skill Aegis 8Go
  SSD Corsair 60Go
  Cooler Master V1200, 1200W
  6 Nvidia GTX 1060 6gb

Any advice on the Motherboard/CPU ?
Any recommendation in term of mining program (CCminer seems cool, but is there anything else ?)

Best regards,

[Mattthev]

I mined it with 1060 3GB, I think it was 21MH/s at 60% power limit.
I prefer Celeron G3930. I have same mobo but for AMD cards, works great with 6 cards.
You don't need PSU like this 850W is enough, but for 8 cards you need at least 1000W.
I was using CCminer 2.2, best hashrate with Tpruvot one I think, KlausT was slower.

[shibob]

If you could spend more money on this rig, 1070 or coming 1070 Ti should be the best.
My Galax 1060 6Gb (230$) gets around 23Mh/s for ETH mining, and 19Mh/s for VTC (Lyara2v2 algo.) while my MSI 1070 (495$) reaches about 31Mh/s in ETH and 32.5 Mh/s for VTC. I'm using Tpruvot CCminer 2.2.2 for VTC, and Claymore dual miner for ETH:

https://github.com/tpruvot/ccminer/releases

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1433925.0

For MB/CPU: Prime Z270-A is very good, it could handle 8 GPUs with M2-extension, CPU G3930 is good enough.

So for PSU, if you're going with 6x1060, 850W is enough (each card 1060 may draw 110W at 90% power limit, I usually set power limit at 80-85%). And for 6x1070 rig, 1300W PSU should be good.

[PontusLSE]

So for PSU, if you're going with 6x1060, 850W is enough (each card 1060 may draw 110W at 90% power limit, I usually set power limit at 80-85%). And 6x1070 1300W should be good.

I am currently running 6* GTX1070 on a 1000w corsair PSU, 85% power limit.  I am able to pull out 480 Sols/s  Equihash or 31Ms/s Ethash on each GPU and the system is rock stable.

I´m not saying its recommended, but it works

[crypto-grey]

Hey !

Thanks a lot for all these answers ! Really appreciate it.

I'm not sure I should spend more money (getting 1070Ti, for example) since it's my first rig : do you know if the gap between the 1060 and the 1070 (or even the TI) make a real difference ?

(for example, MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Ti AERO 8G is 469€ where I live, which would make the rig quite expansive (around 2800€ just for the GPUs) and the GTX 1060 is twice cheaper (around 220€/GPU)).

Cheers,

[cryptofriendz]

I'm waiting for the 1070TI too. VTC will be a great coin to HODL.

[shibob]

Hey !

Thanks a lot for all these answers ! Really appreciate it.

I'm not sure I should spend more money (getting 1070Ti, for example) since it's my first rig : do you know if the gap between the 1060 and the 1070 (or even the TI) make a real difference ?

(for example, MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Ti AERO 8G is 469€ where I live, which would make the rig quite expansive (around 2800€ just for the GPUs) and the GTX 1060 is twice cheaper (around 220€/GPU)).

Cheers,

So I make a draft calculations for your references, you should edit to fit your plan (I convert all to usd):

#1: Rig 6x1060

- Total hashrate for VTC: 114 Mh/s
- Total PCs' cost: 250$*6(GPUs) + 140$ (850W PSU) + 110$ (MB) + 125$ (RAM+CPU) + 75$ (risers+frame+peripherals) = 1950$
- Power cost (my cost): (750W*24*30)*0.1$/KWh = 54$
=>  hashrate/cost = 114/(1950+54) = 0.0569

#2: Rig 6x1070

- Total hashrate for VTC: 195 Mh/s
- Total PCs' cost: 495$*6(GPUs) + 240$ (Super Flower 1300W PSU) + 110$ (MB) + 125$ (RAM+CPU) + 75$ (risers+frame+peripherals) = 3520$
- Power cost (my cost): (1010W*24*30)*0.1$/KWh = 73$
=>  hashrate/cost = 195/(3520+73) = 0.0543

So I'm mining with 1070 cards, just because it could get high hashrate on most of algorithms.

[Phantoms001]

Hello everyone,

I'm planning to build a VERTCOIN mining rig, that I could use for Ethereum or other coin if needed.

For now, it seems that the best value for money is the GTX 1060 6gb (~27mh/s @100-120), is that the case ?

Really the best value for the money is the card you can buy the cheapest.  I'd really take a look at the 3gb card, sometimes price/performance wise it is a better investment.

Card prices vary greatly by where you live.