hey everyone and welcome back to another mining chamber video in today's video i'm
going to be reviewing the rx 6700 xt i'm going to be covering the availability pricing of this gpu
as well as what coins to mine with it and the overclock settings that you need to use for it
and then at the end of the video i will also give you guys my conclusion on it and i also
have a little surprise for you so now let's go ahead and get into it right after the intro
the 6700 xt that i was able to get my hands on for this video is the mac 2x oc edition now this gpu
comes with 12 gigabyte of gddr6 and the looks of it are really clean it has two fans and it takes
in two eight pins for power now even though this gpu consumes very little amount of power
especially when you're mining but it will still take two eight pins so now before we
go ahead and test the overclocks i'm going to put this gpu in my test bench and then we can
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into the video so first thing i want to go over is the availability and the pricing of this gpu
so the rx 6700 xt was supposed to come out for an msrp of 479 now as we know all the retailers
has pushed up the prices and then you have all this calpers as well pushing it for really high
so finding the msrp price is nearly impossible now if you go on amazon you will be able to find these
cards for around a thousand and two hundred dollars to a thousand and one hundred dollars
now that is usd so it is a bit expensive but on newegg.com you will find different combos and they
do frequent drops in here as well which is for a decent price but most of the time they're sold out
super quickly and it's hard to catch up with any of them now as for where i got mine from i got it
from facebook marketplace for a big markup as well but it's not a problem since my goal is to make on
it a video now since these cards are super hard to get i'm planning to sell my card for msrp to you
guys so if you're interested in buying this card for around 450 rather than 480 then stick out to
the end of the video and then i'll let you know how to enter to be selected so now that covers
it for the availability now let's go ahead and talk about profitability and what coin you need
to mine with this gpu now for the profitability as usual if you guys want the updated profits
just check out the link in the descriptions below for the mining chamber article now the numbers
that i will be giving you in this video are based on may 7 2021 and they might change drastically
whether it's after ethereum 2.0 or after the aip 1559 but i will make sure to keep the article on
miningchamber.com updated with the most profitable coin so always come back here if you're in doubt
and then you'll get the most recent updates now for the profitability of the 6700 xt with the
overclocks that i will be giving you later on you will be getting around 47 mega hash and with 47
mega hash you'll be making around 5.28 cents a day which is not bad at all so 5.28 cents a day times
30 that's 150 a month and then after electricity will probably be around 130 to 120 now that does
depend on your electricity cost but this card in general does not take that much power so now
also if you go to whattomind.com we can go ahead and put one 6700 xt here so in whattomine.com
you guys will be able to see here multiple different options that you can mine with this gpu
so currently ethereum is the most profitable coin to mine with it but you also have z coin
which is now known as firo and then you also have ethereum classic and ravencoin right behind them
so profitability wise even after ethereum goes away you still have a fairly profitable amount
of coins that you can mine with this gpu now of course all this depends on the current prices
now if the prices of these coins drop then your profitability will drop and then if it goes up
then your profitability will go up even though i say that we should avoid amd cards for now because
they are not doing that well in other algorithms it doesn't seem so bad as of what we're seeing
now with the prices so profitability-wise this gpu and almost every other gpu out there
it's not bad at all especially with how the market is going up in prices so in this video we're going
to be mining ethereum on this gpu since it is the most profitable coin to mine right now
so which means is let's go ahead and get right into testing so for testing the gpu i'm going to
first run it in stock settings so you guys can see how much power it draws and how much hash
rate it gives us and then after that we're going to go ahead and overclock it properly for mining
and make sure that it uses less power so it can run efficiently but now just one thing before
i run the miner that you guys can keep in mind is that i have an hdmi plugged directly into the gpu
and from testing that seems to drop my hash rate by 2 to 3 mega hash so just keep that in mind if
you have an hdmi plugged into the gpu itself or you have a couple of monitors coming out of it
then it's probably going to give you less hash rate since it has to render the screen as well
so now i'm going to go ahead and run team red miner for testing it you guys can run phoenix
miner or any miner you want generally i like team red miner for amd cards so in team red miner with
stock settings we're getting around 41 mega hash and we're pulling around 220 to 233 watts
and the entire system without the gpu takes around 30 watts so just the gpu is around 190 to
200 watts which is a really high amount of power for just 41 megahertz so definitely make sure you
overclock it don't skip on overclocking this gpu if you're planning to mine with it efficiently so
now for overclocking the gpu for mining first you want to go ahead and go to your gpu tuning section
and you want to put your max frequency at 1050. now what that will do is it will make sure that it
runs at a max frequency of 1050 and it will only use enough power to keep it stable at that level
so you don't have to touch your voltage at all you can just keep this the way it is now you can also
push your voltage a little bit lower using the more power tool which can save you up to 10 to 20
watts and i'll show you how to do that right after so after doing your cork lock you want to go down
to your vrm tuning and you want to put your max frequency at 2150 and then you also want to make
sure you select your memory timing and then select fast timing so after you have the fast timing
selected now you can go ahead and go to your fan tuning now the fan tuning is based on your ambient
temperature if the gpu is getting hot then you can put the fans a bit higher but just one thing
i would recommend turning off is the zero rpm so it stops turning off the fan when it reaches
a certain threshold you can keep it on if you want and the gpu is not getting hot at all but i highly
suggest turning it off and just putting a good fan curve and then you're all set so now after
you change all your settings you want to go ahead and do apply changes and then you can also feel
free to save these settings to your computer so you just click on here and then save the settings
as a profile so whenever you want to game with the card or use it for anything other than mining you
can just reset it back to stock settings and then whenever you want to mine you can just load the
profiles again so now after tuning you guys can see here the gpu is getting around 44 mega hash
and like i mentioned if i turn off the monitor it will be getting around 47 mega hash which
is exactly what we want and then for power draw we're drawing around 170 watts off of the wall
so it's 30 for the system and then 140 for the gpu which leaves the gpu at 47 megahertz for 140 watts
now you can reduce your power draw a little bit more by modifying the bios slightly and if you
want to drop 10 to 20 watts on the gpu then you can go ahead and download tech power up gpu-z
and then after that you want to save the bios of your 6700 xt on your pc so just click on this icon
right here and then you will get the option to save it to a file so just go ahead and save your
bias wherever you'd like for here in this example we're going to use desktop and then after saving
your bios you want to go ahead and open up more power tool and i will leave the link for that one
in the descriptions below as well once you open up more power tool you want to go ahead and select
your gpu from the top bar and then go ahead and load that bios that you just saved so now once you
loaded that bias that you saved you'll see here all these things auto filled you don't want to
touch anything i mean you can't turn off zero rpm here as well but you can just touch all these from
the radiant settings instead now the only thing you want to focus on here is the power and voltage
and then you want to go ahead and reduce your minimum voltage so instead of doing 912 put it
on 700 and then you want to go ahead and hit right sppt so now after you get that successful message
you want to go ahead and reboot your computer and what that will help you do is be able to push your
voltage lower and maintaining the same hash rate so after you restart your computer and run the
miner you'll notice that you're using 10 to 20 less power than you were using before so this is
just a quick thing that you can do to reduce your power draw now you do have to do this per gpu if
you have more than one gpu of the 6700 xt but just make sure that you always save the original bios
so now that is it for testing on windows 10 let's go ahead and move on to testing on hive os and
see how it goes on there just kidding it's not yet supported on hive os but it might be supported on
other mining operating systems but since i usually do my tests in hive os i'm just going to go ahead
and skip that part of the video but whenever it comes on hive os you guys can feel free to visit
mining chamber again and then you will find the overclocks there for hive os as well so when you
see two different digits that means the first one will be for windows the second one will be for a
linux based mining operating system so if you use hive os and you have this gpu then feel free to
use it on windows for now until it's supported on hive os which means now we're at the conclusion
of the video so my thoughts on the rx 6700 xt that it's a decent card it's not one of the best cards
for mining that's for sure it's just a good option if you are able to get it for a decent price
now paying a thousand dollars and above for this card definitely not worth it for the hash rate i
would try to aim for a 360 ti or a 30 70 that will put you in a much better position comparing to the
6700 xt and now for what i mentioned earlier about me selling this card for msrp if any one
of you guys are interested in getting it for msrp price then please feel free to comment below in
the video your country and any feedback that you can give on the video and do make sure to join
the discord server because if you do win then i will be chatting with you from the discord server
and please be careful of scammy comments i will never tell you to message me on whatsapp so please
keep an eye out for that now for the comments that will come through i will put them through a random
comment picker and whoever gets selected i'll give them two to three days until they get back to me
and if they do get back to me then you can go ahead and choose whatever way you want to pay
and then i will be shipping the car to you so now that wraps up the video thank you guys for
watching and make sure to subscribe since this month i'm planning on releasing a bunch of videos
and one of the most exciting ones will be a look in the future when ethereum 2.0 will happen
so i will try to give you a good perspective on what potentially can happen to gpu mining
and whether it will be viable for a long time or not and lastly if you enjoyed the video make
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