Please check this out
I'm hitting 400 Sol/s 99W power usage 40°C PEC about 4 Sols per W on the MSI 1070 Gaming X
I found out a weird trick, please check out my stupid video and if you have the same GPU, try to do the same as I did on the video to see if that's pure randomness or if that's consistent
https://youtu.be/6IZRgdVr0aIIt's not that weird, It's just changing the core voltage from 1050mv to 744mv resulting in much lower wattage. I did the same thing with Afterburner to my 2 1080ti's.
How do you do to reduce core voltage on afterburner ? On my panel I have only the possibility to increase it :-/
Thanks for your feedback
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now, testing with 73% power limit, +610 mem and -151 core, an average of 425 sol/s (palit gamerock)
asus strix 74% power limit + 600 mem 30 megahash/s
but I dont know why asus shows 840 mv average and palit 925 mv fixed.... temps
also temps are quite different, 65º asus and 81º palit. I think reason is that the heat produced by asus on slot pci-e nº1 is affecting palit which is on slot pci-e 2
now another test: palit without underclocking core clock and 73% power limit, +610 mem, reduced temperature by 5º degrees..... I don't understand nothing right now and 425 sol/s average
edit again: I have seen that underclocking core clock like I did, in some way affect voltage because now the 2 graphic cards shows 831 mv stable...... incomprehensible
If you're using your cards in a standard case, the upper card will get hotter because heat goes up... but the Palit will naturely be hotter than the strix, it's a much cheaper card with a much less efficient cooler
I would use a gpu riser and use this card on open air
I must say that the msi gaming version has pretty nice cooler, I use to have gigabyte g1 gaming cards, strix cards, and the msi gaming x is by far one of the best card I've had... really quiet and efficient cooler ... at 80 % you can barely hear it and it gives pretty good temps... (i think it's really worth the extra investment specially if you run your mining rig at home)