Alright so I took a few days off everything steemit related, I had some technical things to take care of....
Two Evga 1070's boards were sent my way to start testing mining on and so I went ahead and did that for a bit, all linux stuff. These are the hybrid cooling cards which cool the ram with a fan and the actual cpu with water. I managed to get a solid stable +180 Mhz clock speed on the gpus and +725 Mhz on the RAM and they're sitting on 49 Celsius. Considering modding the bios and pushing that voltage.. because, well.. they seem to be asking for it..
For now though this stable and we're moving forward with it, getting 4 more cards for this rig and looking forward to getting at least another rig up in the next 3 months.
We're getting a stable 33Mh/s/card with stable overclocks which is not bad at all..
If you're considering going into mining right now just make sure you understand that ethereum's complexity is retarded and will become even more retarded on the next epoch, so you have to aim for another coin.
Also if 1060's look interesting to you, keep in mind that you'll only get about 17-20 Mh/s, overclocked to about maybe 23. They're okay if you plan to mine new coins that are worth nothing now but might end up big in a few months, but that's it.. Your ROI is crap on 1060's if you plan to farm any of the big coins, so keep that in mind.
Oh, and I am a geek that just wants everything on stable linux, it would probably be easier for you if you run windows, however if you're going down the linux route let me give you a friendly warning that it's not going to be an easy.. - if you're not a linux geek and you're not prepared for the most retarded X11 issues that you'll ever face, just don't..
I'll keep you guys posted with the evolution, we're waiting for 4 GPUs to arrive at the moment, I'll probably post an update when that happens.
Cheers!
