Need advice 1070gtx or 1080ti

Mining
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all right folks i m building a new rig and focus of my mining is zcash and sometimes nicehash mineer, electricity is not that cheap at my end, its like 15cent kw/h or 15cents per unit. so i already have one gtx 1070 amp extreme which is at 64tdp (160w) giveing 450 sol/sec,

i m thinking of buying more 1070 amp extreme or go for 1080ti amp extreme

so kindly give me advice should i go for zotac efficiency wise or there r other brands too that use less watt and give best performance in zcash and nicehash miner

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If your electricity is expensive, you can use 1070 in a very efficient way, at almost 4.00 sol/w, at about 70 tdp of FE (or 100 w ) the card produces 400 sol.

So it’s 450 sol/s at 160 W, or 400 sol/s at 100 W.

The 1080ti can realistically give you ~ 780 sol/s at ~ 290 W.

So based on these numbers, you can pick what you see fit for you.

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thanks for rply, kindly check this, its around 64tdp. and should i move power slide in firestorm to 70% ?

zcash 1070

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I suggest to go with 1080TI-s http://mylifegadgets.com/GTX1080TI i have 1070 also, but for more future use go with higher end card.

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You put everything on default, then drag the power slider until you reach 100 W, then you slightly increase coreclock until you get to or close to 400 sol/s.

You can also play a bit with the memory clock if you feel like it.

EDIT: BTW if firestorm is not a skin for Afterburner, get the msi afterburner, it’s the best (imho) app to OC with as far as I know.

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how much sol/s u r getting from that evga 1080ti and watts ?

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zcash 1070 2

at 50% getting this tdp. and firestorm is a skin, i will install after burner

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@dejavu2016 try with afterburner, some AIB cards have special power requirements, for me, most of my 1070 are 70% TDP are at 100W.

For my 1080ti’s I have them FE, watercooled staying at a breezy 52 C , producing 780 sol/s at 280 W.

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i moved slider to 70% and after applying no effect on tdp, its using same power that card uses at 100%, dont know why after burner has no effect

edit: using 50 power limit i m getting this

zcas 1070 3

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@dejavu2016 yep, 50% seems to do it for your type of AIB card. close to 4 sol/w is the most efficient you’ll get with the pascal cards as far as I know.

Also, unlink your power and temp target, move the temp target to something like 80, and don’t put auto on the fan, just put it something like 50-80% (depends on how much it cools/the db you can bear to hear)

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I am using 4xMSI 1060 OC 3G, TDP sets to 70% - > 4x65W cclock +150 , mclock +200 and I get 1100 sols for 260-280W with initiate price of cards 1000$. I think that its not bad if u have free pcie slots …

core temp 55-58 with this settings

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Hi
Bought cheapest gigabyte 3 fan card and running

Power 65% core +100 memory -500
watt 160 sols 630 s/w 3.93
Temp 45-50 deg

Happy with this settings as power price in UK 0.17 usd :confused:

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