Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 Mining Performance Review
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The GTX 1060 is one of the newer GPUs released by Nvidia as an upgrade to their oldest mid-high tier GPUs. It is interesting that the cheaper and smaller GTX 1050/ti are manufactured using the top-notch 14nm technology, while the GTX 1060 use the 16nm one which is usually considered slightly worse.
However, this does not prevent the GTX 1060 from having huge overclocking potential and be overall great GPUs for mining.
GTX 1060 Series Specs:
- GPU Architecture: Pascal
- Memory Speed: 8 Gbps
- Boost Clock – Relative: 1.4x
- Boost Clock – Actual: 1708 MHz
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
- NVIDIA CUDA® Cores: 1280
- Frame Buffer: 6 GB GDDR5
- Boost Clock – Relative: 1.4x
- Boost Clock – Actual: 1708 MHz
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
- NVIDIA CUDA® Cores: 1024
- Frame Buffer: 3 GB GDDR5
Hashrate and Performance
It’s time to get to the meat of the review – the hashrates. Sadly, the GTX 1060 3GB version does not work with Ethereum. As you probably know, 3GB GPUs cannot longer store the DAG file, which keeps growing in size with every new DAG epoch. There is no way around that, so in this article I will be reviewing the GTX 1060 3GB merely in the context of zCash mining. It works with Ethereum 🙂
GTX 1060 6GB Stock and Overclocked
The GTX 1060 6GB features okay stock frequencies, but the real fun starts with overclocking. Compared to the GTX 1050Ti I reviewed before, the GTX 1060 has amazing overclocking potential. In this setup we are using Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 6GB on Claymore’s Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v9.6, EWBF’s CUDA Zcash miner, Nvidia Optimised Ethminer and Nicehash.
Ethereum hashrate on stock settings is 19 Mh/s with a power consumption of 100W. Card’s working temperature is 68C (154.4 F).
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Mining Performance Stock Clocks
system power draw is 35w
The card memory can be overclocked up to 4,700 MHz* (+925), which makes Ethereum hashrate reach the 23.7 – 25 Mh/s mark. While this will drive power consumption to 120 W, this will still make the card more profitable to mine, considering today’s Ethereum price and mining difficulty, and electricity cost of $ 0.1 per KW/h.
At this point, it is worth mentioning that the GTX 1060 fan does a great job by keeping the card at 56C with 65%.
The card can be further overclocked up to 10 GHz which will result in better hashrate, but this proved to be unstable.
(*) This can be achieved only by using the MSI Afterburner utility or similar.
GTX 1060 6GB – Underpowered
For those of you who live in Connecticut, New Jersey or other places where electricity is rather expensive, you might prefer to lower the power target of the card in addition to overclocking it.
By lowering the power target you will see how the hashrate goes down too; however, hashrate drop is really low compared to power savings. By cutting power usage by -30% (70%) you lose only 0.3 MH/s, which means that now your card will output 23.5 – 24.7 Mh/s while drawing 80 Watts from the wall. Make sure you leave the memory clock at 4,700 MHz* (+925).
Even with electricity cost of $ 0.1 per KW/h this setup is more profitable than leaving the power target at 100%. Besides, lowering the power target drops the GPU temperature to 58C (136 F), which means that you can turn off the fan safely so the card becomes 100% silent.
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Mining Performance Overclocked
Recommended Hardware for 6x GTX 1060 Mining Rig
- Motherboard: ASRock H81 PRO BTC, GIGABYTE GA-H110-D3A, Biostar TB250-BTC PRO
- CPU: Intel Celeron G1840 for ASRock H81 PRO BTC, Intel Celeron G3900 for Gigabyte H110-D3A & Biostar TB250-BTC PRO
- RAM: Kingston HyperX FURY 4GB 1333MHz DDR3 for ASRock H81 PRO BTC, Kingston Technology HyperX FURY 2400MHz DDR4 for Gigabyte H110-D3A & Biostar TB250-BTC PRO
- SSD: ADATA SU700 120GB
- PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA G3 80 Plus Gold 1000W
- USB Risers: USB Riser VER 008 PCI-E 16x to 1x 60cm USB 3.0 Extension Cable
- Power Button: 2 Pin SW PC Power Cable on/off Push Button ATX Computer Switch Wire 45cm
- Energy Meter: TP-Link HS110 Smart Plug w/ Energy Monitoring
- Frame: https://1stminingrig.com/product/aluminum-mining-rig-open-air-frame/
Mining Ethereum Only
Claymore Ethereum Miner
- Mining Hashrate 23.5 Mh/s
- Clocks +107/+918
- Power Limit 65%
- Power draw from wall 75w
Nvidia Optimised Ethminer Miner
- Mining Hashrate 25 Mh/s
- Clocks +100/+935
- Power Limit 65%
- Power draw from wall 80w
start.bat file for claymore: EthDcrMiner64.exe -epool eu1.ethermine.org:4444 -ewal ETHEREUM_WALLET.WORKER_NAME -epsw x -tstop 80
start.bat file for ethminer: ethminer -U -S eu1.ethermine.org:4444 -O ETHEREUM_WALLET.WORKER_NAME –cuda-parallel-hash 4
Dual Mining Ethereum Decred / Siacoin with Overclock (Claymore Ethereum Miner)
Ethereum + Decred
- Mining Hashrate: Ethereum 22.7 Mh/s – Decred 227.5 Mh/s
- Clocks +107/+918
- Power Limit 80%
- Power draw from wall 95w
Profits (1 ETH $243.07 – 1 DCR $35.5)
Ethereum + Siacoin
- Mining Hashrate: Ethereum 22.7 Mh/s – Siacoin 227.5 Mh/s
- Clocks +107/+918
- Power Limit 80%
- Power draw from wall 95w
Profits (1 ETH $243.07 – 1 SC $0.01079458)
start.bat file for ethereum + decred: EthDcrMiner64.exe -epool eu1.ethermine.org:4444 -ewal ETHEREUM_WALLET.WORKER_NAME -epsw x -dpool dcr.suprnova.cc:3252 -dwal USERNAME.WORKER-dpsw WORKER_PASS -tstop 80
start.bat file for ethereum + siacoin: EthDcrMiner64.exe -epool eu1.ethermine.org:4444 -ewal ETHEREUM_WALLET.WORKER_NAME -epsw x -dpool stratum+tcp://sia-eu1.nanopool.org:7777 -dwal SIACOIN_WALLET.WORKER_NAME -dcoin sia -tstop 80
Mining ZCash (EWBF’s CUDA Zcash miner)
Stock clocks
- Hashrate 295 Sol/s
- Clocks +0/+0
- Power Limit 100%
- Power draw from wall 130w
Overclocked Clocks
- Hashrate 320 Sol/s
- Clocks +107/+926
- Power Limit 85%
- Power draw from wall 100w
start.bat file for zcash: miner –server eu1-zcash.flypool.org –port 3333 –user WALLET_ADDRESS.WORKER_NAME –pass x
Profits (1 ZEC $254.9)
Nicehash Mining Hashrate and Profits
- NeoScrypt (experimental) 0.413 Mh/s = 0.00036166 BTC/Day
- Lyra2REv2 (ccminer) 21.320 Mh/s = 0.00052435 BTC/Day
- DaggerHashimoto (ethminer) 21.454 = 0.00076054 BTC/Day
- Decred (ccminer) 1.655 GH/s = 0.00052670 BTC/Day
- Lbry (ccminer) 0.180 GH/s = 0.00060205 BTC/Day
- Equihash (excavator) 280.127 H/s = 0.00061640 BTC/Day
- Pascal (excavator) 0.618 GH/s = 0.00023532 BTC/Day
- X11Ghost (ccminer) 4.895 Mh/s = 0.00035185 BTC/Day
- X11Ghost (ccminer_alexis) 8.193 Mh/s = 0.00058889 BTC/Day
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB in stock
6x GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Mining Rig Monthly Earnings
Ethereum Dual Mining Decred
- Ethereum hashrate: 136 Mh/s = $392.43/Month ; ETH 1.81 mined/month (1 ETH $ 243.07)
- Decred Hashrate: 1,365 Mh/s = $38.43 (1 DCR $35.50670234)
- 6x GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Power consumption: around 650w (recommended 850w – 1000w PSU)
- Power Cost per Month: $46
- Current profit: $430.86 (sunday, july 9, 2017)
Ethereum Dual Mining Siacoin
- Ethereum hashrate: 136 Mh/s = $392.43/Month ; ETH 1.81 mined/month (1 ETH = $ 243.07)
- Siacoin Hashrate: 1,365 Mh/s = $35.12 (1 SC $0.01079458)
- 6x GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Power consumption: around 650w (recommended 850w – 1000w PSU)
- Power Cost per Month: $46
- Current profit: $427.55 (sunday, july 9, 2017)
Zcash Mining Rig Monthly Earnings with 6x GTX 1060 6GB
- ZCash hashrate: 1,920 Mh/s = $308.92 ; ZEC 1.41 mined/month (1 ZEC = $ 254.9)
- 6x GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Power consumption: around 700w (recommended 850w – 1000w PSU)
- Power Cost per Month: $46.80
- Current profit: $308.92 (sunday, july 9, 2017)
GTX 1060 3GB and zCash
It is worth mentioning that the GTX 1060 works surprisingly well with zCash too. In stock settings, the 6GB version outputs about 300 Sol’s. The 3GB one outputs about 275 Sol’s with the same clocks and TDP. As usual, the EWBF ZEC miner is the best choice for zCash, since it usually allows the card to hash better.
As per today, the ROI of a GTX 1060 6GB for ETH mining is about 7 months, considering that electricity cost is $ 0.1 per KW/h. It is surprisingly how card prices are booming. Only a week ago there were several vendors offering 3GB GTX 1060 for $ 200. Now, the cheapest prices I could find are:
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in stock
Additional Info
As you know, there are several different releases of each Nvidia card depending on the manufacturer. It is confirmed that:
- GTX 1060s that come with Samsung memory have more hashrate than those with Hynix one.
- GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060s have temperature issues and will need constant cooling no matter what.
In conclusion
Thanks to Nathan Kirsch for taking the time to test different frequency combinations and coming up with the ones that work the best.
While GTX 1060s might not be as desirable as the GTX 1070 series, they are still pretty much functional and have decent ROI with ETH. If you want to know more about the 1070 and the 1080/ti, I will be reviewing them soon too, so stay tuned!
PS: Additional thanks to Ed Stewart for giving me insight on DAG size and on when to expect it to hit the 3GB mark. I do read your comments and I really appreciate any constructive critics and suggestions 🙂
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Nice, it’s same like p106 right? will testing your oc on my p106.
Yeah.. similar to that..
FYI the 3GB version still works perfectly fine for ETH. I use it quite successfully. In fact the 3GB version will be good until Oct/Nov 2018 if POW is still operational with ethereum. I mentioned this in an earlier note to you with a link to my table showing the growth of the DAG over time that shows approximately when the 3GB cards will no longer function with ethereum. Here is the link again for your information https://goo.gl/YHM7HY
Hey Ed, yeah.. i missed that.. ill check again your details and update my details.. 🙂 thanks!!
Hi Ed, your sheet is really good, but that calculation is real? All I see is that the 4GB cards can’t continue mining eth in October.
Juan, this data comes from the Ethereum project and you can see this table by following the GitHub link on row 3. These are estimates based upon Claymore indicating that his Ethereum miner takes about 2% more storage in the DAG than the actual DAG size. Also these are estimates because the 15 second block solution time is an estimate and will vary slightly each time, adjusting difficulty level based upon actual solution duration. See row 55 Epoch 230 shows the DAG size will grown to 3GB in Nov 2018 and 4GB size is exceeded in Epoch 345 in July of 2020.
I read a recent post that claimed that 3GB GPUs no longer support mining ETH.
EDIT/ I HAVE READ THIS AND NOT TRIED FOR MYSELF. so please dont bomb me with messages that im wrong if iam 🙂
Unfortunately what you read is not true. I am mining with 9 3GB 1060s and they are running just fine. As I said earlier the 3GB card will be good until Oct/Nov 2018 if eth is still POW which is highly unlikely.
thanks for telling me! that is good to know!
Would you go for a GTX 1060 or a 1070?
i would get 1060 due to the price difference. but if i really would believe in a garantueed ROI with the 1070 I would go for those, as the hardware is yours to keep after the ROI has been reached.
My card is
http://www.galax.com/pt/graphics-card/galax-geforce-gtx-1060-oc-6gb.html
Hash 22,5MH/s
Im use Simplemining
Core +150
Memory +1500
Not all miners have the latest optimizations for 1060 gpu. Check mh/s in ethminer and claymore.
Hello I just built a 6 GPUs rig (GTX 1060 FTW) + MB TB250-BTC + 2x PSU EVGA 850 GQ + 4Gb + Intel Pentium LGA1151.
The problem is that during the first startup of the rig it immediately turned off and off by itself.
I haven mined anything yet – again – fist startup…
i then removed 5 GPUs and started it with only 1 card and it kept on (no problems).
Any ideas?
this is a short list of what i did:
1) built the rig
2) connected all the components
3) Purchased ethOS and downloaded it to my SSD –> then connected the SSD to the rig
4) turned on the rig and then i got the failure.
PLEASE HELP
EthOs is only for radeon.
If you plug 6 gpus into a motherborad with risers etc. – it will not work for the first time (most of the time).
0. turn off the psu-s.
1. unpug all risers and cards and ssd.
2. start the motherboard and update bios to the latest from an usb stick
3. configure the settings of your motherboard
4. plug in the gpu-s one by one, check if pc starts
5. learn usage of ethos
6. plug in your ssd
7. Ethos now have nvidia support.
you are the man!!
What is the profitability difference between 1060 vs 1070?
24 Mh/s and 32 Mh/s 🙂
Thats the stock on DaggerHasimoto nicehash ?
Hi there, I have come across 2types of 1060s 6GB , a EVGA single fan and a gigabyte OC gaming g1. Which one would you recommned for Eth mining? Im getting with each around 22, 23 mhs. how do you achieve 25??? also win10 or win7 ???THANK YOU!!! greatpost
hmm not sure which one is better but i guess both should be good 🙂 try increasing mem clock as much as you can 🙂
with nvida, we do not need to mod the bios?
No.
and also if u do mod ur vbios and lets say for example here u run into a dead gpu. it will be quite hard to speak to the person considering giving you a claim with ur warranty or not. i bet you saying you where gaming is out of the question! we all should know that modifying the bios voids your warranty
Hey dude,
Thanks for such a great post. I’m using your settings with MSI gtx 1060 6gb.
I’m running 6 cards, for some reason the OS is verrry laggy. I’ve ran optimize bat, page file, gen1, all that stuff but for some reason after a few minutes my 1 card drops to 1mh, and another stays 19mh. The rest @ 25mh. All the same MSI cards.
Any tips in the right direction as to what to look at or try to fix it? Will be MUCH appreciated!!!
This means that one or two of your card is way too much overclocked. In this case nvidia driver drops the card and MS becames laggy and MSI afterburner starts to eat up processors. Patiently shut down the machine and after check the cards one by one for maximum overclocking settings. Read MS event log as well, may contain useful information, and exclude your mining directory in windows defender.
Sometimes more fan simply solves the problem. Always give at least 50% or 75% fan – most of the vram chips on these cards cooled only by airflow.
thank you for the explanation @disqus_OZYSKZdgTf:disqus , i also recommend 75% fan speed as standard.
yea all is good now thanks! But I cannot get my cards over 800/850 + mem clock like this post does no matter what I try. Just crashes. How do you do this???? I have the best GPU RAM Samsung and MSI cards.
pls let us know if you managed to tweak ur cards and keep the stability.
Hello,
We can now find (by MSI) two models : 1060 gaming x and gaming x+ which has improved memory…
Have you tested the two ?
Which is better to take ?
Thank You.
The Gaming X, i guess the + one is overclocked and it should draw a bit more hashrate.. not sure 🙂
I found these 2 websites that are the best of comparing this graphic card your asking about and many other makers of this 1060 card! thank me later after reading it! :0
https://gpunerd.com/guides/best-gtx-1060-brand
http://thepcenthusiast.com/geforce-gtx-1060-compared-asus-evga-msi-gigabtye-zotac/
How can you expect anyone to take your advice seriously when in the 2nd paragraph you state something so blatantly wrong? You can mine Ethereum with a 3 GB card. As I type this I have a 3 GB in my computer mining away. This is an extremely basic fact.
Hey @nsummy:disqus, yeah i know :/ @disqus_RMrL2unN8r:disqus pointed that before, i just didn’t had the time to update and make a new research 🙁 i added a quick update just now. Thanks!
Hey, thank you very much for this thorough review – super helpful!
Hi. What tool or website did you use to get stats about mining cost, profit, … like on this picture : https://i1.wp.com/1stminingrig.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/GeForce-GTX-1060-6GB-Mining-Rig-ZCash-Mining-Monthly-Earnings-D.png
Thanks
it is the calculator from cryptocompare
hey, is there anyway to watch the 1060 msi 6gb watts consumpiton by software?
i cant see my watts consumption on gpuz and on claymore it dosnt show temps for nvidia.. i can see temps only on after burner, but i want to know how much watts im pulling, thanks
hello guys, i have 5 of gtx 1060 6gb on asrock b250 pro 4. when i dual mine using the latest claymore, i have problems, errors, etc that goes from error 999 on fan speed, to errors related to kernel and opencl. lowering the oc removes the error for a time (it restarts like once or twice a day) if i put +750 MHz on mem errors are guaranted.
any info or help? i use creators update win 10 + 384.76 driver 🙁 thanks
All you can do is to find the best memory spot for each GPU 🙂 at least this is what i did..
thank you very much for your help 🙂 i have at this momento only +680 MHz and it restarts :c no errors, no crash (as of having +750) but i think it restarts like 2 times a day 🙁 any good starting point or strategy? (hwinfo doesnt shot memory errors on my nvidia cards) i am using evga and msi (and 1 gigabyte) thanks 😀
just in case, this is one of the errors it gives to me:
cu_k02 failed 73.
also oen that says it couldnt read the fan speed or temperature 🙁 thanks
hi buddy! did you solve your error yet? i would love to know what was the problem if you did! thanks! 🙂
Hi there ! Thanks a lot for this awesome post!
Got a 7 GPU rig with 6 1060 MSI Armor 6Gb and one 1060 Asus dual series 6Gb. Running on Claymore 9.7 with Nvidia driver 384.76 and Win 10 Pro @23Mh/s each
I would like to get 24 to 25 Mh/s but I got issues when OC with Afterburner to more than 700 Mhz memory clock (with power limit 65% / temp limit 75°C / core clock to 0) and got GPU error and have to restart Claymore or reboot the rig. But when I disable the Asus GPU I can OC to more than 700 Mhz. I tried to increase the power limit and core clock but still got GPU error on the Asus card that make Claymore to crash :/
Anybody facing issues to OC this card to more than 700 Mhz ? Anybody succeed to get more than 23 Mh/s from this card ? If yes what is your Afterburner config ?
Should I try older Nvidia drivers ( when launching Claymore 9.7 in the first lines they recommended the 368.81 driver) ? What driver are you using ?
Thanks!
Hi, usually that is the best you can get from that cards 🙂
Allright thanks ! But are you talking about the MSI one or the Asus one or the 1060 in general ?
I also have this Asus Dual OC GTX 1060 6GB. did you manage to get more out of it yet? 🙂
No. did not succeed to push it more than 23 mh/s without crashing
hey if u dont mind we can connect on FB to help eachother out with mining and general computer stuff. are you up for a new miner friend? haha! 🙂
Sure, what’s your name on FB ?
https://www.facebook.com/david.is.my.name
https://www.facebook.com/david.is.my.name
my gigabyte WF2OC gtx 1060 and zotac mini both do 23.8 MH/s @ 65% pwr/ -200 on core and +750 on memory on Claymore 9.8 and Win 10 Pro.
same, i get 24,h/s , can we get more than24mh/s? may i know your name in FB?
it will be very tough to get more than 23.8-24.0 mh/s stable.
Hi my friend . I have
2 xmsi gtx1060 power limit is at – 65 memory clock is at 935 and inhit 25.130 mhs
1 x asus strix 1060 6gb memory clock 935 and hits 25.230 but i must set power limit on -95 to have stable coreclocks and avoid errors ..
1x asus strix rog 1050 ti 4gb hits 14.560 it will hit more ih i overclixk it more than 670+ memory clock
So total i hit 89.500 mhs..
Make sure to obercloxk your cards slowly til you find maximum power of your card .
why not just adjust the MSIs one way and the ASUS another using Afterburner? they can be done individually.
Hello everyone, i am facing some little technical issues with mining, i have 6 1060 3gb and i am trying to mine LBRY but no progress on suprnova dashboard. Can anyone help, i will pay for it.
my 4x gigabyte windforce oc gtx 1060 6 gb rig crashes at mem clock +500. which brand do you use? has anybody found a solution for this problem?
do you have micron/hynix memory on it? If so only Samsung memory goes above 700-800. Microns hit a wall around 8400-8800 whilst Samsung do 8800-9600. I don’t think the new gtx 1060 come with Samsung memory chip anymore.
Looking at the results the samsung memory chip gtx 1060 used to do 19 MH/s while the ones with Hynix does only 15 MH/s ? This kind of makes me wonder if the same translates for gaming; new batch should definitely have lower performance than the last year batches? If that’s the case Nvidia is screwing with people. At least the stock performance should be similar regardless of the OC headroom.
Hi there. I have problem overclocking Zotact P106-100. I plugged in 2 x P106-100, I installed nvidia graphics drivers, then when I run MSI Afterburner, it doesn’t show any numbers or graphs for my 2 cards. Can you help? Thanks.
Hey Ciprian !
Thanks for this review.
I bought some GTX 1060 3GB but got only 15 hashrate on stock, and 19 max with OC, any idea ? I have an other 1060 but I can reach like 24,5 hr/s
Thanks a lot!
is the OC on memory same for both the 1060?
What brand ?
It’s Inno3D, thanks for your reply
There nothing you can do.. those are just bad 🙁 a friend of mine got a bunch of these with 6GB memory and have 18.3 – 19 mh/s max
I believe it’s because they only build with Hynix, sadly :/
Thank you Ciprian and keep up your nice work on this community !
Not sure what’s the problem… they just bad :/ i will! thanks
Hello,
I got 6x 1060 MSI Gaming x+ 6gb gddr5 samsung with Nvidia driver 382.76 windows 10 home v1703 and claymore 9.8
Max i can push to 21Mh/s -.-
At ethermine pool
Msi afterburner
-150/+850 so 1809/2527Mhz 70%power
I see you guys push 23-24Mh/s..
so what could enhance performance?
Creaters update?
Ubuntu?
Ethminer?
Pool?
Probably a dumb question but the next setting in config are only for amd cards right?
GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
____
Intel celeron g3900
MSI Z270 mobo
Cheers
Hey folks! Will EVGA g2 1000w be enough with 8 gtx 1060 Asus dual OC 6gb?
i have a 1200w psu running with 3x asus gtx 1060 dual oc gives me about 260 to 270w total power. that is with afterburner power limit set to 70 %. another same card takes 75w more per card. so just do the math from there 🙂
Hey man!
I am planning on building a rig with 100x 1060’s 6GB. Do you think it will survive for 3 years ? Since DAG is increasing can a 6GB card survive that long ?
Plus can we predict that from now the speed of one stock clock will be
1st year: 21MH/s
2nd year: 19.5MH/s
3rd year: 18MH/s
What do you think ?
Just take the money you’re going to use to buy 100 gpu’s and invest that $ in crypto currency. Less problems
if you have money to buy 100x 1060 why u not go to Antminer instead?
what a lies …. card cant get oc memory to 90x
hey ciprian! thanks for a wonder review really! i have a question regarding the nvidia eth miner program. i went to their official githubwebsite and only found downloads with ethminer.exe file in it, only 1 file. i created the start.bat using your provided code: ethminer -U -S eu1.ethermine.org:4444 -O ETHEREUM_WALLET.WORKER_NAME –cuda-parallel-hash 4 .and put my own info in it ofc. the program wont start. am i missing something over here? i have been dual mining eth and dcr with claymore for a while now and thought i wanted to try if this program gaved me a bost in the eth mining. thank you for any help ciprian.
What are the optimal clocks when underclocking?
I have 6 rigs, all fitted with 1060 3gb all mining ether. the dag file is only 2.07, it will not pass 3gb before november 2018.
Note, some are running at 22.5mh on ether (samsung mem) others are running at 19.5mh on eth (hynix mem) so if you do buy these cards you have no why to know thich mem chip it has until its plugged in, All cards are from evga direct.
the numbers now much lower.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/10d2aa2ee914ca7dc9e70fba4c3cd704a228c46aecd8c29fef1f6d404847cdf6.png
Hey guys,
I have just built my rig with 6x gigabyte 1060 6Gb, but the top i can oc is 18.300Mh/s
Do you have any idea why? I have tried afterburner with all sort of tweaks, but whenever i try to get more clock afterburner gets into not responding mode after i increase to more then +450-470 memory clock.
My hardware is:
Gigabyte GTX1060 6 Gb
H81 pro btc 2.0
4 Gb DDR3
850W PSU
120 Gb SSD
Windows 10
Happen to me as well.. the thing is that i had tested inno3d cards which i guess are bad.. but the gigabyte ones should do much better than that.. around 24 mh/s
I have started mining Eth few days back with one GTX 1060 6GB card. Now I am planning to buy another card.
I have two options available:
MSI RX 580 8GB and GTX 1070 8GB. The MSI is cheaper than GTX. Can I use MSI RX580 along with GTX 1060 for mining?
If yes, how can I overclock both NVIDIA and AMD Card using same Overclocker like After burner. Will there be any issue using two different cards on the same system? Can I use both cards for dual mining?
I really appreciate help in this.
Yes you can use AMD card with NVIDIA at the same time, you can OC them via msi afterburner 🙂 dual mining also yes
Am nimerit 4 gpu 1060 cu memorii hynix… peste 18mh/s cu +300mem nu pot trece. Alta cu micron scoate 24mh/s la +780mem… loterie, mai bine scrii asta in articol.
Si eu am patit la fel :/
Hi @nathankirsch:disqus ,
Thanks a ton for the info, I have a rig with H110-D3a Board, six GTX 1060 6GB OC edition cards, 4gb RAM, kingston HDD two PSU one 500W (connects HDD, Board, 2 cards)other 700 W (COnnects 4 cards), initially it was workng fine, then the system got formatted so now I am not able to make it stable, forget Overclocking, one of the card crashes even in 10 mins of normal operations,
the BIOS version is F22, on gigabyte site, the instructions to enable mining mode are given (https://www.gigabyte.com/microsite/462/mining.html) but in mining mode it dosnt detect SSD,
Please help.
Is there a difference between the mining edition or vanilla version of the card?
say GTX1060 or GTX1070 or RX470 or RX570 ? i am not sure … i dont see clear enough images or discussion
Hi! I have a mining rig with 6 evga 1060s – running simplemining os – but can’t get the cards in any way to go over 19 mh/s… any advice on how i could achieve a higher hashrate?? i am pretty new to this – thus still gathering information. i am currently dual mining… so six cards giving me 115.16 MH/s 1151.64 MH/s. help would really be appreciated!
Have you tried -dcri ?
no. not till now – so extending my miner call (claymore) with the -dcri paramter? any other value or will it use default
(thanks so far)
Within simplemining os i have overclocked core:107, mem: 1280, watt-limit: 150, target-temp:66, fans-min:34
EthDcrMiner64.exe -epool eu1.ethermine.org:4444 -ewal MYWALLET.rigName -epsw x -dpool dcr.suprnova.cc:3252 -dwal MYUSER.rigName -p x -dpsw x -allpools 1 -dcri 30 -tstop 80
-dcri should be lower, try 23
that brings up total hashrate for eth .1 and lowers dcr hashrate approx 500… 114.97 MH/s 881.44 MH/s 🙁
how much would you ask for checking & tuning my system (wrote you an email)?
We can discuss via email !
great. you received my mail?
Salut Ciprian.
Eu am 2 placi video Gigabyte de curand cu memorii Samsung.
Setraile mele sunt : Power Limit 60% /Core Clock +110/ Memory clock +750. Aparent Jucandu-ma cu power limit nu imi afecteaza deloc consumul.In momentul de fata cele 2 placi GTX 1060 de 6gb pe un sistem LGA775 (E5400) consuma in jur de 210-215w cu un hash rate care variaza intre 22.5-23.5 mh/s pe fiecare placa (total 45-47 mh/s). Ce ma sfatuiesti ca azi mi-am asmablat si eu primul meu rig.Multumesc.igor.
Salut @disqus_0JGDbyf3kR:disqus , vrei sa spui ca ai scazut PL la 60% si nu s-a modificat consumul de energie deloc ?
Da…oscileaza foarte putin.O sa ma mai joc un pic sa iti confirm.
Doresc sa te intreb niste chestii.Apreciez daca ma poti ajuta.Cand imi castig ceva etherum iti voi transfera pentru suportul care il dai tuturor.
Eu am pornit cu un GTX 1060 de 6b doar de curiozitate sa vad care este partea practica.Acest GTX 1060 l-am montat pe un calculator Dell cu o placa de baza mATX LGA775.Placa de baza are doar 2 sloturi (pci-x1 si pci-x16).Apoi a venit al doilea GTX 1060, iar acum il am pe al treilea :)).Problema este ca nu stiu cum sa caut termenii pe google care sa ma ajute sa inteleg procesul.Am realizat ca sistemul LGA 775 nu poate fi fezabil pe moment (nu pot monta a 3 placa video).Deoarece am un buget restrans am hotarat ca sa folosesc placa de baza pe AM4 (3 sloturi pci-x16 si 2 sloturi pci-x1) cu A8 9600.Problema care imi este frica e urmatoarea.Cum migrez totul pe noul sistem?
1) Eu mi-am deschis cont pe myetherwallet.com.Accesul la portofelul meu il fac prin keystore/json file.Trebuie sa salvez regulat acel keystore cand se baga etherum la mine in cont?
2) Doresc sa migrez totul de pe LGA775 pe AM4, asta inseamna si HDD. Acum cand minez pe LGA775 este folderul de Claymore Dual Ethereum-Decred Siacoin v10.2 in care mi-am creat go.bat file.Ca sa trec pe AM4, HDD trebuie sa il formatez si sa reinstalez Win10.Ce face cu acest folder Claymore? Il copii pe un stick si dupa ce am gata tot pe AM4 il pune inapoi pe HDD pentru AM4 sau nu conteaza si pot sa re-downloadez fresh de pe bitcointalk?
Te intreb ca imi este frica: eu nu am inteles care e treaba cu sync (se plang multi ca nu le synconizeaza ceva niciodata).
Ce ma sfatuiesti?
Multumesc.
Salut Ciprian.
Imi poti raspunde la cele 2 intrebari?
Am ajuns tarziu in mining dar am 12 bucati de GTX 1060 :))
Salut, care intrebari? “Alta intrebare” :)))
Da…oscileaza foarte putin.O sa ma mai joc un pic sa iti confirm.
Doresc sa te intreb niste chestii.Apreciez daca ma poti ajuta.Cand imi castig ceva etherum iti voi transfera pentru suportul care il dai tuturor.
Eu am pornit cu un GTX 1060 de 6b doar de curiozitate sa vad care este partea practica.Acest GTX 1060 l-am montat pe un calculator Dell cu o placa de baza mATX LGA775.Placa de baza are doar 2 sloturi (pci-x1 si pci-x16).Apoi a venit al doilea GTX 1060, iar acum il am pe al treilea :)).Problema este ca nu stiu cum sa caut termenii pe google care sa ma ajute sa inteleg procesul.Am realizat ca sistemul LGA 775 nu poate fi fezabil pe moment (nu pot monta a 3 placa video).Deoarece am un buget restrans am hotarat ca sa folosesc placa de baza pe AM4 (3 sloturi pci-x16 si 2 sloturi pci-x1) cu A8 9600.Problema care imi este frica e urmatoarea.Cum migrez totul pe noul sistem?
1) Eu mi-am deschis cont pe myetherwallet.com.Accesul la portofelul meu il fac prin keystore/json file.Trebuie sa salvez regulat acel keystore cand se baga etherum la mine in cont?
2) Doresc sa migrez totul de pe LGA775 pe AM4, asta inseamna si HDD. Acum cand minez pe LGA775 este folderul de Claymore Dual Ethereum-Decred Siacoin v10.2 in care mi-am creat go.bat file.Ca sa trec pe AM4, HDD trebuie sa il formatez si sa reinstalez Win10.Ce face cu acest folder Claymore? Il copii pe un stick si dupa ce am gata tot pe AM4 il pune inapoi pe HDD pentru AM4 sau nu conteaza si pot sa re-downloadez fresh de pe bitcointalk?
Te intreb ca imi este frica: eu nu am inteles care e treaba cu sync (se plang multi ca nu le synconizeaza ceva niciodata).
Ce ma sfatuiesti?
Multumesc.
Putem discuta prin mail? O sa fie prea lunga conversatia pentru partea de commentarii 🙂
Salut ce e-mail ai?
https://1stminingrig.com/hire-me/
Hello there
can you help me
I’m new to mining
I have a gaming pc
details:
gtx 1060 6gb oc
amd fx 8300 black edition
cosair vengeance 16gb
all of them are overclocked
psu corsair 550w
water cooling carsair H110
and for sure hdds and ssds.
I’m mining ETH using my gpu and claymore dual app
I got 22.75 Mh/s
I wanted to mine some coin which use just cpu
I started to mine XMR using xmr-stak app and I got 570 h/s
but when I use both mining apps the claymore ETH hash rate became 4.34 Mh/s
so I figured out that xmr-stak app is influencing claymore app mining operation.
so please what is your tips for me to do?
and what is the best investment to my pc?
hello. I wanna start mining Zcash i have gtx 1050ti .. and im planing to buy another one Or 2.. or is better to go with 1060 3gb?
Salutare Ciprian,
Sunt incepator in minerit si daca nu dadeam peste site-ul tau, cred ca nu ma apucam de asa ceva :)), dar toate tutorialele si testele m-au stimulat.
Nu prea am curaj sa investesc multi bani in primul sistem, pana nu ma conving ca merge si merita… Am optat pentru cea mai ieftina varianta, pt Zcah si BTG, GTX-uri 1060 cu 3GB OC. Diferenta de pret de 500 lei pt 6GB si castigul destul de mic in hashrate nu prea are rost. Am testat, pe calculatorul personal de gaming, placa mea, Gigabyte GTX 1060 3GB OC miniITX (un ventilator), folosind EWBF miner pt BTG si Zcash, si utilitarul proprietar de OC, Aorus Graphic Engine. (windows 10 pro x64, m.2 ssd, etc). Am observat intre 270 si 280 sol/s, cu o medie de 269 sol/s raportata de pool. Nu am umblat la frecventa memoriei. Am cateva nelamuriri, daca tu sau cititorii ma pot ajuta… Multumesc anticipat!
1.Aorus graphic engine raporteaza frecventa memorie la 8008 MHz, excat ca in specificatii, dar tot vad prin tutoriale ca trebuie ridicata la 4700 MHz?!? De unde aceste numere? De ce e diferta intre ce vede MSI Afterburner si Aorus? La cat o pun pana la urma?
2.Cam ce temperatura ar fi optima pt GPU? I-am pus ventilatorul pe o panta destul de abrupta, adica la 30C in 20% si la 70C in 100%, si o mentine la 63C, cu frecventa boost la core si stock la memorie; tine cont ca are doar 1 ventilator. Pe sistemul de minerit o sa pun placi cu 2 ventilatoare.
3.Cum putem afla inainte de cumparare, cine produce memoria placii grafice?
4. Dupa vreo 3 zile de teste, am constatat ca Accepted share la Zcash (nanopool, flypool) sunt mult mai rare decat la BTG pe pool.gold, la acelasi hashrate de 270sol/s. Pot face ceva sa cresc numarul de accepted share? Am inteles ca de acolo vin banii… Depinde de numarul de utilizatori din pool? sau de ce?
5.Cum pot alege un pool mai favorabil dupa statisticile lui? La ce sa ma uit ca sa le compar?
Am incercat setarile cu +107/+926, pe 90% power limit si s-a blocat tot. Dupa cateva teste am gasit ca pt placa mea, precizata mai sus, acestea sunt setari stabile:
Gigabyte GTX 1060 3GB OC miniITX
-first OC with Aorus, selecting the OC profile, than quit Aorus
-use Afterburner with Start with Windows afterthat
-settings in Afterburner:
–core voltage +0
–power limit 90%
–temp limit 83C
–core clock +105
–mem clock +750
–fan speed 85%
Temp is stable at 60C (with room temperature 21C) and hashrate in EWBF BTG miner 280-295 sol/s. Before OC, it was 270 sol/s.
poti te rog sa imi trimiti email prin https://1stminingrig.com/hire-me/ ? este prea mult de discutat pentru zona de comentarii 🙂
Hi. I’m using galax 1060 6gb OC editioc cards. When I’m trying to overclock the cards it’s lagging like crazy. Can you help me?
Hi,
What are your clocks ?
This card can DEFINITELY not be overclocked to 10 GHz. That would be a world record several times over…
Can I turn the HS110 on or off from anywhere (using mobile internet, for example)? Is it safe to turn it off while the rig is mining?
Not sure if i understand your question..
Can I turn on or off the HS110 from anywhere?
For example: when I’m using Wi-Fi in another place, like i’m in my college and the HS110 is connected in my home’s Wi-Fi
Yes you can
You might want to try your 1060 3gb again with a bigger page file, I have a Gigabyte Windforce OC 3gb hitting 22-23 in daggerpascal @ 84% power +1000 mclock +200 core clock
Really sad to see so misguided review. I have a bunch of 1006 3Gb from MSI and ASUS, delivering 25,6 Mh/s today and you write they don’t work with Etherium at all.
hi, you have stock settings? or OC ?
Stock gives 20 Mhs for both 3Gb and 6Gb. I overclock core 1400 and memory 4900, power 80 watt. My point was that the article says 3Gb cannot be used to mine Etherium but this is just wrong.
Good afternoon,
First of all I must specified at the beginning that I am a beginner in mining.
Second, I have an rig made using ASUS Z270-P as motherboard, 16 GB RAM memory, as operating system I use ethOS, and as GPU I use 4 NVidia from Gigabyte (model 1060 – 6Gb). I use wallet made/create on MyEtherWallet and I mine Ethereum Classic (ETC). As pool I use nanopool.org.
The actual performance related to my GPU’s (GeForce GTX 1060 6Gb) are resume to 68.1 hash for all 4 GPU’s.
For this “performance” I don’t change nothing on my default settings.
But I want to change the GPU’s performance only under-volt and overclock GPU’s without using BIOS modded (in the first instance). So, the settings use for “mine” are:
#—–My NANOPOOL Settings – ETC —–
# globalminer etcminer
maxgputemp 85
stratumproxy enabled
proxywallet
proxypool1 etc-eu1.nanopool.org:19999
proxypool2 etc-eu1.nanopool.org:19999
# poolpass1 x
# poolpass2 x
poolemail
flags –cl-global-work 8192 –farm-recheck 200
# globalcore 1000
# globalmem 1250
globalfan 85
# globalpowertune 20
# autoreboot false
# custompanel publicsecret
# lockscreen enabled
# globaldesktop disabled
# globalname disabled
* all lines commented ” https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c0c450110db5097541fd96b972f33c656512dab86b429b040312df7f048df4ee.png #” are not available also in my local.conf file from ethOS.
How I can change the settings in a way in which to increase the GPU’s performance without change BIOS (1st step of optimization) ? Also what command I must use (in terminal) to see the GPU’s performance when mine ?
You can help me please with some settings which you already have for this type of GPU and I can replace it with my settings ?
If in the 2nd step I want to optimized GPU performance using BIOS, how I can export the BIOS-file of card from ethOS, in a way in which to can optimized BIOS-file of GPU in Windows ?
I waiting your feedback with very higher interest your opinion/suggestions/advice !
Thank you in advance for support.
Hey @predoiuionut:disqus, first of all you will have to change core and mem
globalcore 2175
globalmem 4500
Your hashrate should increase to around 23.5 Mh/s
Hi @ciprianpt:disqus ,
First of all, thank you very much for advice.
After I made the changes in local.conf-file I obtain no more then ~19Mh/s for 3 GPU’s and ~23.43 Mh/s for 1 GPU.
You have also other advice regarding to other changes which I can made to improve performace (like under-volt) ? Also any idea about how to export bios characteristic for my GPU from ethOS to Windows ?
I waiting with very higher interest your feedback.
Keep in touch.
All the BEST !!!