Hey guys. Im confused for a long time. Been mining only eth on my 1st rig with 6*rx 470s doing 168 Mhs. Rig is on 1kw psu and consuming 860 watt at the wall. I think its about max power limit of psu but id like to do dual mining another coin as well. Could you plz answer, if i run dual mining, can i stay below 1kw power hugry situation and do more prof. then eth only? And what coin is to be ?
I can't speak for Sia or Libr but for sure you will have a problem dual mining DCR with that rig as is. As an example, I have been running 2 6x470 rigs (on 1200w PSUs) and with ETH only, it pulls about 820-830W. But with ETH+DCR, it runs around 970-1000w on v9 with DCR set to 27-30. I just built a 3rd rig and am in tweaking mode currently trying to get it to run dual effeciently. Even with DCR set to only 20, it still pulls about 940W. Most people here recomend not exceding 85% load on your PSU. That's why i have set my personal limit to 1kw on my 1200w PSUs (about 83%) or maybe a bit lower. Given you already at that ~85% thresshold, I would not recommend trying to dual mine with that rig... unless you are willing to turn down intensity on ETH & lower your overclocks. Even then, would probably be challenging but good luck!
Thanks for the answer. Like i thought, even with low second coin intensity , i will catch critical psu operation state. Pitty. But its life.
Thank you very much again.
