I would generally advice to first mine well established coins like XMR, ETH and Zec. Collect some of these and maybe after that it is good to go for newer but already eastablished projects like Zen or ETC.
Only after this one should mine newly release coins.
Basically it is like a portfolio; you don’t want to bet all your money on one horse and you also don’t want to bet all your money on the new comers.

Just my view and with a GTX 1060 you can mine all of the above. XMR maybe during the hot summer days

I would rather choose AMD RX470 4GB.
You already have a nVidia GTX 1060 rig and some diversification would be welcome.
Performance-wise, there is barely any difference between 4GB and 8GB versions of RX470/RX570. Of all current algos, Dagger-Hashimoto uses the most VRAM - ~2.2 GB for ETH and ETC. I don't expect the DAG size of either to reach 4GB until Q1 2019.

Is it possible to mine both ethereum and vertcoin?

Using dstm-zcash miner OCing two 1060's one with 3gb and one with 6gb


1060 6gb does 342 sol Aug with dstm-zcash miner
1060 3gb does 307 to 310 sols dstm-zcash miner

ETH mining both do OC 24 MH i can't seem to get that any high for long and run stable. 24 MH seems like the sweet spot for 1060's no mater how much on board memory they have..
 and if i dual mine I'm impressed it doesn't lower the eth hash like it does on my on my AMD cards on the 1060 or any of my NV cards i own .



if it is you would need a miner like Clay-more's etH miner to do it . and that miner what ever it is would need support added to do it .

it does 24.5 mh with calymore or ethminer

you can mine many coins with nvidia just use whattomine for know which is the most profitable for you

I'm using 3Gb version from Evga and MSI, I get around 24MH/s (Samsung memory) for a power consumption between 75 and 85W (see signature)

Seems to be a appropriate difference in the hashrate when considering the different memory clocks.
I find that your cards are running really hot for ETH mining. I dont even reach such temperatures when mining an Equihash coin. How did you setup the rig? Maybe cards are too close.

Indeed I have a problem with a temperatures.

http://ss.kikimon.net/tsCvr6H.png


This is how I got them.... With the nicehash back in the time I had even bigger temps 3-4 degrees extra.

Great thread, I have 7 of the 1060 FTW2 with 9GBPS memory coming -- If anyone out there has recommended settings for that specific card it would be appreciated. I'm going to try and read through all these pages tomorrow to see if someone already posted that specific info.

which miner??