hey everyone welcome back to another mining chamber video in today's video we are going
to review the rtx 3070 for mining so we're going to talk about the pricing where to buy it from
and how much you should be paying for it as well as how much money it makes you and what overclock
settings you should be using for it so now let's go ahead and get into this right after the intro
rtx 3070 is a great gpu for mining it comes very close to the rtx 3060 ti which we previously
reviewed on our channel so they have a very similar hash rate just the rtx 3070 does do better
in other algorithms as well so in this video we are going to be using the gaming x trio model
i didn't buy this myself but my roommate bought it and he's getting into mining as well
so i ended up using his gpu for this review now the first thing i want to say about this card
is it looks phenomenal it's a beautiful card and msi in general never fails in making their stuff
ready so it does run off of two eight pins and it only takes around 130 watts power when it's mining
so it's not bad at all it's a very efficient card it would have been great if it had only a
single 8 pin but unfortunately it's running with two so when it comes to building a full mining
rig with this card it does take some cables and some splitters now with the gaming x trio model
the back plate is not metal it's plastic which is not good but since this card barely consumes any
power it won't be a problem but if you're looking for 3080s or 3090s then it can be an issue so now
before we put our overclocks on this card and start testing it let's first talk about the costs
and how much you should be paying for it and which brands are good to use so where can you buy the
rtx 3070 on amazon you can barely find any and if you do there won't be shipping anytime soon plus
they will be on a really expensive price so amazon is not one of the best options for it now but i
will leave links for amazon below so maybe when they do release new ones on amazon you can catch
that one right away so whatever you're seeing now it probably won't be reflecting all the time so
if you're watching this video one year from now we won't know where the market will be heading so you
might find gpus or you might not find gpus and on newegg it will be the same thing so you will
hardly be able to find anything here now i do use the stock radar bot still where it tells you when
it fills out in stock again but it does go away super fast so if you want to join this talk radar
discord the link will be in the descriptions below so you can feel free to try your luck in catching
one of these sales so now the one place i am able to find these gpus is at aaawave.com so you guys
can see here they have the 3070s as well as the 3080s and 2 different brands of the 3080s as well
as a couple of other cards so this is the place that you can try to buy them from although yes
the prices are very expensive but it is hard to find these cards anywhere now if you do decide to
buy from aaawave.com you can go ahead and use our coupon code right here so you will be able to get
up to 20 off of your order by using this coupon you will find these coupons on miningchamber.com
stores so feel free to visit the site whenever you want to find any coupons for one of the
stores that we have here so that's basically it for the availability it's very hard to find these
cards but hopefully it will change when nvidia decides to release some more cards now as for
the brands honestly all of them are good the 30 70s don't use too much power so you don't need
to worry about models that have bad cooling since it doesn't use that much power now you can feel
free to grab any model you like or any model that you find for cheap so now for the profitability
you guys will be able to find rtx 3070 mining settings and profitability on miningchamber.com
this link will be in the descriptions below as well here you're going to be able to find a lot
of information that will be more up to date so feel free to visit this article as well as
watching this video and if you scroll down here you will find the profitability so with the rtx
3070 we are able to get around 60 mega hash and our daily estimated earnings will be around 7.66
now just remember these numbers always change so now it's making really good money but maybe in the
future it will make less or more so for making 7.66 a day you will be able to make around 230
dollars a month which is really good so depending on what price you bought this gpu for so if it's
around a thousand dollars or more your break even will be around five months to six months
that is depending on the numbers if they change from now or not now when we go to whattomind.com
you will find the rtx 3070 is most profitable with ethereum as of the date of this video and
once ethereum also goes away to proof of stake you still have raven coin and coin flux and it's doing
really good on those two so it's almost the same profitability as ethereum when you're mining
coneflux and ravencoin is also catching up there pretty well that's why nvidia cards are pretty
safe because they are pretty diverse in what they can mine and that gives you a backup plan
once ethereum goes away so now that wraps it up for the profitability let's go ahead and put this
gpu in our test bench and give you guys a couple of notes on plugging this gpu with power so since
this gpu takes two eight pins and you're trying to build the rig out of it i would definitely
recommend using splitters and since it only takes around 130 watts you guys can plug in one strand
from your psu to your gpu so you can plug into it as a splitter and then you can power that gpu and
the riser by one cable so you don't have to use too many cables on one gpu now since i have here
on the test bench i have two cables and i'm only powering one gpu i won't be using any splitters
but you guys can do the method that i just told you about now we're going to be testing this gpu
first on windows and then we're going to take it to hive os which will be the equivalent of
a linux based mining operating system so like that you guys will know what overclock settings
you should be using in windows or hive os the settings are the same it's just the numbers
are different because of the way that they are implemented so before we start overclocking the
card let's first mine with the stock settings so you guys can see what it can do in stock settings
so i'm going to go ahead and run my phoenix miner so this is my current script i don't have anything
extra here just my address and the pool which is flexible and then a couple of commands here that
are not required for your nvidia card so you don't need to worry about it so now let's go
ahead and run phoenix miner as an administrator and see how much hash rate and power we're using
so for hash rate we're getting around 52 mega hash and for power we're drawing around 250 watts which
is crazy amount it's a lot of power that is why you should always overclock your cards for mining
so you don't use that much power now as for the temperatures you guys can see here it's climbing
steadily it's almost at 50 degrees celsius and the fan speed are not kicking in at all because
it's set at auto so if i go ahead and remove auto and then i put the fan speed at a certain
number for example 71 and then i can run this you'll see the temperatures will start dropping
a lot more so always try to avoid auto because it basically never moves and it's only going to kick
in when the core temp is getting pretty high and usually when you're mining ethereum your
memory temperatures are getting hot not your core temperatures so now that we've tested the
stock settings let's go ahead and get started with overclocking the card so for overclocking
you guys will be able to find that on the website as well so if you scroll down you will find the
overclocked section and as of now we just have it for ethereum which is on the eth algorithm
so what you can do is you can use these overclocks and then you can fine tune them based on your gpu
so these are just a base for you to go off of and then if you know how to fine tune your gpus
you can go ahead and fine tune them but if you don't know you can use this video right
here for overclocking and then it will teach you the basics of overclocking and what values you
can mess around with to be able to get the maximum performance now this doesn't mean these overclocks
are bad it's just that if you want to push it to the limits then you can't feel free to do so
so we're going to be using msi afterburner to overclock in windows 10 and once we go ahead
and put in all the settings that we need we will be able to see here that we are getting around 60
mega hash which is pretty good and then we're drawing off of the wall around 160 to 170 watts
and 30 of those watts are for the system so then the rest would be just for the gpu which
would leave us around 130 watts for the gpu so it's a really efficient card and not a bad card
for mining at all and since at the time of this video the most profitable coin to mine is ethereum
that's the only one i'll give you guys an example for but then eventually when a new coin comes out
that's more profitable than ethereum i will be making a video on that as well so now let's
go ahead and move on to testing it on hive os so to be able to run your rtx 3070 or any rtx
3000 series cars in general you need to upgrade your drivers to the 455 version so just go ahead
and run a hiveos shell and then from the hive os shell when you sign into it you can use the nvidia
driver updater command and then do the version 455. so after that update finishes you'll be able
to see here your nvidia drivers are version 455 now if you already have these drivers you don't
need to worry about it but if you have lower than 455 then please go ahead and update your drivers
so now to apply the overclocks that we used in windows here all we need to do is go ahead and
hit on the overclock settings and then we can go ahead and add our overclocks so for
the core clock we'll do negative 500 and then for the memory clock we will do 2200
because it doesn't take it as an offset here so you guys can see here from the tooltip it says
if in windows it's plus 800 then here it should be 1600 so therefore in windows we had plus 1100 and
now here we will be putting 2200 now as for the fan speed i'll just go ahead and put this as 60
and for the power limit i'll do 130 watts you can leave the rest of it blank and now
you can go ahead and do apply so now that our overclocks are in place we can go ahead and run
the flight sheet so i'm just going to run this one which is on phoenix miner and flex pool
and then here we can see that we're getting around 60 mega hash and we're pulling around 130 watts
so it's pretty good where it stands right now and that is the overclock settings for hype os
now we went ahead and tested the overclocks on windows as well as on hive os which applies for
any linux based mining operating system we can go ahead and talk about the conclusion so what are
my opinions on this card as of performance wise and how about the price at the time of this video
coming out so for performance this gpu is great it does give you a good amount of hashrate for a low
amount of power which is great for efficiency and it does do pretty well on other algorithms as well
so now from a pricing standpoint at the date of this video being recorded which is february 21st
2021 we can see it at very expensive prices but we don't know when the prices will go back to normal
so if you are eager to get into mining and you don't mind the cost then you can go for it but
i would recommend being patient with it and trying to scour out for good deals and nvidia
said that they will be restricting the firmware so that they can't get the maximum hashrate of
the gpu although we don't really know where this is heading but eventually i will be making a full
video on that topic so in a nutshell this gpu is a great card if you can find it for a decent price i
would say around 800 usd would be acceptable even though that's almost double the msrp
now that will be it for the video guys if you have any questions please let me know in the comments
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