Quote from: Cereberus on January 27, 2017, 12:32:33 PM

Quote from: cdmkultra on January 09, 2017, 01:19:28 AM

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OS : Win 10 64bit
Miner : EWBF's Zcash cuda miner Zec miner 0.0.9b
Speed : 1540 Sol/s
Pool: flypool
VGA Card(s) GPU/Mem: 4X GTX1070
VGA driver :376.33
OC: PL 70% - Core +200 - Mem +600

(I am a noob but what do the acronyms or abbreviations "PL" and "Core" and "Mem" mean?)

I have several more noob questions:

What kind of Power Supply Unit (PSU) are you using?

What kind of motherboard are you using?

And how much RAM do you have on that motherboard?

Are you using USB PCI extender cables and/or do you think that efficiency would be significantly crippled if your were to do so?

I am looking to setup a very similar rig however on Linux, I am considering putting 6 GTX 1070s on a single motherboard with a 1500W PSU. Do you have any advice or comments on whether this rig with 6 GPU would be an efficient setup?

Thanks for all the help in advance!

If you want to have a mining rig for mining altcoins you have to buy a good motherboard which supports at least 3 graphic cards(up to six I know) (one such being Asrock H81 PRO BTC).

You need to have a really good PSU, 1200-1500 Watt EVGA or any other well known brand.

You can make this rig with 6GTX 1070 with the same motherboard I have suggested (just read a bit more in google) and a 1500 W PSU should do better. A better one would be 6 RX 480 since they are cheaper and consume less energy and hash power for mining zec is almost the same.

I have no clue about the extenders though.

I would like to get into mining so these specs are just what I will follow to get into it and start mining ZEC with.
But one question would be: Would I need more than just 1500 Watt ps if I wanted to put 6x1070 cards on one board? Don't they take more than 250 watts of power each? Just to be on the safe side to not be stingee if I want to overclock them for more hash power. Grin