Nvidia Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 G1 Gaming Mining Rig Tutorial
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Hey 🙂 So.. here is my first step by step mining rig tutorial with Nvidia GPUs. As my previous tutorial with the RX 580 8GB LE, this one also is a very powerful mining rig, stable with good power consumption. The GPUs used for this one are the Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1 Gaming 8GB, i decided to go with this cards because of the 3 fans, the temps for those are great!
Since the crypto mining rush i wasn’t able to find two EVGA 750w PSU, instead of that i used the Corsair CS750M ones. The rig was tested with two dedicated to mining motherboards: Gigabyte H110-D3A (click here for full review) and Biostar H81A BTC.
As usual, i tested the hashrate with different altcoins, algorythms and miners like: Ethereum (DaggerHashimoto) solo and dual mining, ZCash (Equihash), Decred (Blake (14r)), Siacoin (Blake (2b)), Pascal, X11Gost, Lyra2REv2 etc.. Claymore Dual Etheruem Miner, Nvidia Optimised Ethminer, EWBF’s CUDA Zcash and Nicehash.
Let’s get started!
Hardware used
- GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 G1 Gaming
- Motherboard: Gigabyte H110-D3A & Biostar H81A BTC
- CPU: Intel Celeron G3900 for Gigabyte H110-D3A & Intel Celeron G1840 for Biostar H81A BTC
- RAM: Kingston Technology HyperX FURY 2400MHz DDR4 for Gigabyte H110-D3A & Kingston HyperX FURY 4GB 1333MHz DDR3 for Biostar H81A BTC
- SSD: ADATA SU700 120GB
- PSU: 2x Corsair CS Series, CS750M, 750 Watt (750W), Semi Modular Power Supply, 80+ Gold Certified
- Dual PSU Adapter: Add2PSU Multiple Power Supply Adapter
- USB Risers: MintCell 6-Pack PCIe VER 006C 16x to 1x Powered Riser Adapter Card w/ 60cm USB 3.0 Extension Cable & 6-Pin PCI-E to SATA Power 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
- Fan Splitter: 3-Pin x 3 Fan Cable Splitter
- Frame: https://1stminingrig.com/product/aluminum-mining-rig-open-air-frame/
A) Motherboard
- CPU and Fan
- RAM Memory
- SSD/HDD
- Power Button
B) PSUs – connect cables and dual psu adapter
- PSU 1: 2x PCI-e Cables, 2x SATA Cables, 1x Motherboard 24 Pin Cable, 1x CPU Cable, 1x Molex Cable
- PSU 1: Connect 1x Motherboard 24 Pin and 1x CPU Cables to motherboard
- PSU2: 2x PCI-e Cables, 2x SATA Cables, 1x Motherboard 24 Pin Cable
- Dual PSU Adapter: Connect Molex cable to ADD2PSU adapter from PSU 1 and then attach the Motherboard 24 Pin Cable to ADD2PSU from PSU 2
PSU 1
PSU 2
C) Installation
So.. we have
- 6x GPU
- 6x USB Risers
- 1x Motherboard
- 2x PSU
- 2x cable fan adapters
- 1x Frame
- 1. Place the motherboard on frame
- 2. Place the two PSUs
- 3. Attach USB Risers on each GPU
- 4. Attach 1x GPU on frame, power the riser with molex/sata, plug in usb riser cable to PCI-e 16x slot
- 5. Connect fans 3 pin cables with the extender, power it with molex
- Plug in USB stick with windows, power up the rig and install windows
- Follow this guide: Best Windows Setup, Configuration, Tweaks For Mining
- For Nvidia GPUs use latest drivers from their website
Before installing all the GPUs i highly recommend to run some tests with only one GPU, i always use Claymore Dual miner when it comes about benchmark.
- Download and extract on desktop Claymore Dual Ethereum miner here: https://mega.nz/#F!O4YA2JgD!n2b4iSHQDruEsYUvTQP5_w
- Download and install MSI Afterburner: http://download.msi.com/uti_exe/vga/MSIAfterburnerSetup.zip
- Go to Claymore’s extracted folder and run start.bat (note that the .bat file is ready pre-configured for dual mining. Test with dual and then delete -dpool settings to benchmark on ethereum only.
- While testing try increasing core clock to +100 and memory clock to +700 or higher
- Place the GPUs on frame and connect them with USB risers. 3x GPUs connected with PSU 1 and 3x GPUs connected with PSU 2
- Plug in Molex from PSU 1 to ADD2PSU Dual PSU adapter from PSU 2
- Plug in USB Riser connectors to PCI-e slots
Now that we have all GPUs connected and windows ready configured:
- Power up the rig
- Once booted in windows don’t do anything, wait for windows to discover all GPUs
- Go to device manager to see the progress
- When all 6 video cards are visible in Display Adapters, restart the rig
All set, all you have to do now is to start the miner, set the clocks, undervolt and start mining 🙂
Here are my tests with this rig
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Mining Rig Hashrate
system power draw is 90w
Gigabyte GTX 1070 Ethereum Mining Hashrate Performance
Claymore Ethereum Miner
- Mining Hashrate 191.5 Mh/s
- Clocks +100/+700
- Power Limit 80%
- Power draw from wall 1000w
Nvidia Optimised Ethminer Miner
- Mining Hashrate 193.2 Mh/s
- Clocks +100/+700
- Power Limit 80%
- Power draw from wall 990w
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
Gigabyte GTX 1070 8GB Mining Rig – Ethereum Dual Mining Decred & Siacoin Overclocked
Claymore Ethereum Dual Miner
Ethereum + Decred
- Mining Hashrate: Ethereum 186 Mh/s – Decred 1,860 Mh/s
- Clocks +100/+700
- Power Limit 80%
- Power draw from wall 1000w
Ethereum + Siacoin
- Mining Hashrate: Ethereum 189.5 Mh/s – Siacoin 2,400 Mh/s
- Clocks +100/+700
- Power Limit 80%
- Power draw from wall 1000w
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
Gigabyte GTX 1070 8GB Mining Rig ZCash Mining Performance
EWBF’s CUDA Zcash miner
Stock clocks
- Hashrate 445 Sol/s
- Clocks +0/+0
- Power Limit 100%
- Power draw from wall 1150w
Overclocked Clocks
- Hashrate 480 Sol/s
- Clocks +100/+700
- Power Limit 80%
- Power draw from wall 1000w
start.bat file for zcash: miner –server eu1-zcash.flypool.org –port 3333 –user WALLET_ADDRESS.WORKER_NAME –pass x
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Nicehash Mining Hashrate Performance & Bitcoin Profitability
- Lyra2REv2 (ccminer) 219 Mh/s = 0.0039888 BTC/Month
- DaggerHashimoto (ethminer) 171 Mh/s = 0.0537372 BTC/Month
- Decred (ccminer) 16.5 GH/s = 0.0035343 BTC/Month
- Lbry (ccminer) 1,749 MH/s = 0.00454368 BTC/Month
- Equihash (excavator) 2,676 H/s = 0.00462828 BTC/Month
- Pascal (excavator) 6 GH/s = 0.00199998 BTC/Month
- X11Ghost (ccminer) 36 Mh/s = 0.00179256 BTC/Month
- X11Ghost (ccminer_alexis) 73.8 Mh/s = 0.0368406 BTC/Month
- Sia (excavator_server) 10.2 GH/s = 0.00236064 BTC/Month
- Blake2s (excavator_server) 24 GH/s = 0.00427074 BTC/Month
That’s it guys.. hope it helps 🙂
Here are some more images wit this rig:
