hey everyone welcome back to another mining chamber video in today's video we are going
to be reviewing the rtx 3060 ti we finally were able to get one so now we can go ahead
and run it and see what this card is capable of and just like we do
with all of our gpu overviews we're going to run through the profitability the cost
availability as well as the overclocks of this card and which coin you should be mining with
it when you have it so let's go ahead and roll the intro and then get into the video
now before we start the video we first want to go over a couple of things so some of you guys
know already we do post two different articles on miningchamber.com for the gpu overview but we
are deciding on remodeling it a little bit so the way that we have our website currently we have two
different articles per gpu one article is for the gpu overview where we talk about the profitability
costs as well as our conclusion about the gpu and it also includes some of the mining rig builds
that we make with that gpu and then the other article will include the mining overclocks that we
use including some pictures and usually it seems to be more focused towards one operating system
so now the new strategy is to combine them both together in one article
so that one article will have all the information you need for example for this video the rtx 360 ti
you'll be able to go in on there and then you'll find the overview a little summary of it
and then additional notes as well as different overclock settings for different algorithms and
then eventually we will add a way to submit your own overclocks so you can add your overclocks here
if we do approve of them and then like that we can involve the community in a way so it's pretty fun
and if you scroll more down you'll be able to find the builds playlist so it'll be the same thing
just now we don't have any builds with this gpu but eventually we will be adding some there
and then you'll find the related content as well so this way it's more compact more neat and then
there's less information but more to the point so if you guys like this method or the one before
let me know please in the comments below i would keep two articles if you guys want them like that
but if you guys rather shortening them out and keeping them in one article also let me know down
below and then we can make that happen and the second thing is if you guys have watched any of
our other gpu overview videos we used to use our main editing pc for test benching the new cards so
we would just take out our current gpu and then we will put in the new hardware and then test it out
on there but then that could lead to inaccuracy due to the wattage draws because the system itself
can draw more watts than the regular just mining motherboard and cpu so now we decided to finally
build the test bench specifically for testing different gpus and like that we will be able to
get more accurate numbers and it will be better for the viewer as well so for this test bench
we're just using a regular vetta frame and then we put in the power supply that we got with this gpu
since we bought it as a combo which we will cover shortly and then for calculating the wattage we
will just be using a regular watt meter so now let's go ahead and talk about the rtx 360 ti
so the thing we should first cover is the pricing of this gpu so as you guys know these cards are
very hard to get and they're basically run out everywhere due to bots and scalpers i want to
buy them and sell them for a higher price so the original price of the rtx 360 ti is at 400
usd but now if you go to newegg or ebay you will barely find any and if you do find them it might
be at a jacked up price or it might be paired with a combo so you'd have to buy something else
with it for example some ram psu or something like that just like what we had to do so as for
the pricing at what point you should buy it at i recommend staying away from buying it on ebay
at such high prices getting it at 150 plus dollar markup is not worth it
so it's better to wait for a good deal or until the stock is more available what we did in our
scenario we used a discord server that was recommended to us through a member in our
discord which we are really grateful for and that server basically gives you a notification whenever
a retailer restocks on their gpus so as soon as we got that notification we ended up going to newegg
and the notification was for a new egg combo and we got this combo right here which was for 515 usd
and it comes with a psu as well as the gpu so it's not so bad you can sell the psu and then you can
have just the gpu or you can just keep both of them like we did here and we ended up using it
for the test bench so as for the models for the 360 ti and which model performs better than the
other ones i would recommend evga as the first option and then i feel like the rest is the same
the gigabyte ones can get a little bit oily and leak some oil but as of the other ones i
still don't have enough information about them as which one is the best if you've got a 360ti please
let us know in the comments below how was your experience with it and how is the cooling with
it since as for the cooling i had no issues at all because the gpu uses very low amount of power
so therefore the heat won't be as much and then also the fan noise is very low even if you put
it at seventy percent eighty percent it's a very quiet and i feel like it's a really well-rounded
card for cooling performance as well as the power draw now after unboxing the 360 ti that we've got
we realize that it only takes one eight pin which is awesome always the less amount of pins that it
takes the easier it is to wire a lot together in one psu and of course the looks of the card are
phenomenal i love how the gigabyte one looks it's really nice and clean and as well as the rgb on
it now let's talk about the profitability of this gpu and see how much money you can make using the
rtx 3060 ti gpus so for the profitability of the 3060 ti we are going to be using cryptex mining
calculator which we will leave the link for in the descriptions below and since no calculator
has 360 ti as an option yet as far as i've seen we are going to be manually putting in the hash
rate which we did in here so we put in a couple of algorithms hash rates that we've got from
serpentx special forces he did a full video covering the 360 ti and he tested almost every
algorithm on it as well which is really awesome of him so this forum was very useful and we are
going to be leaving the link for this in the descriptions below as well so make sure to check
it out so now if we go back to the calculator we can see here we are going to be putting 10 cents
kilowatt hour as the electricity price so once we hit calculate we will see the results down there
and now that the results are loaded we can see here that ethereum is the most profitable coin
to mine with this gpu and since it is the most profitable coin in the overclocked section of this
video we are going to cover overclocks that work with ethereum and then for the rest of the coins
you guys will be able to find them eventually on our website you will find them in this tab right
here so for now we have kapow and then eventually we'll have more different algorithms in here as
well so now let's go ahead and calculate how much money will you be making a month with this gpu
so if you're making every day 2.38 cents without electricity costs and then after electricity costs
you're making two dollars and six cents so per month you'll be making almost around sixty dollars
in profits after electricity costs and since the cost of this gpu was five hundred dollars plus tax
which would be probably around five hundred fifty dollars with the bundle of the psu your break even
is estimated to be at around 10 months which is pretty awesome for this gpu but of course that is
with the prices being at the point that they are now and the profits remain as high as they are now
so now that we covered the profitability let's go ahead and jump into setting up this gpu for mining
and as well as provide you with a couple of notes that will be helpful for you mining with this gpu
so for setting up this gpu for mining in windows 10 all you'll have to do is just go to the nvidia
website and then install the latest drivers so after you install the latest drivers for your gpu
you just want to install whatever overclocking tool that you like to use in our case we use
msi afterburner and then once you have your overclock tool installed just go to
our website miningchamber.com and then open up the 360ti mining overclocks article and
then just put in the values that we have in here so for your power limit you will be doing a 60
power limit and then you can try to go further down but for us 60 was a really good spot and it
was pretty stable on it too and then for the cork clock you just want to drag it all the way down
and reduce it as much as you can for us capped at negative 502 which should be the same for you
and then lastly the memory clock you can set that up at plus 1250 if you try to go a bit more you
can you can get a little bit more hashrate out of it but the idea of these settings here is not to
give you the best settings since some cards can run at these and some cards can't but this is
just like a middle ground where you can place them in and then hopefully it's going to be stable on
them without any issues so for the fan speed like i mentioned these gpus run really quiet so you can
pump this up if you want unfortunately you won't be able to see your memory temperatures since
they don't have memory temp sensors but you can see your core clock temperature which is usually
pretty low for these cards and they don't get that hot either way so just set the fan speed based
on your own environment if it's cold out there you can just set it a little bit lower if it's
hot just have it pumped up to 80 or 90 and then you should be set now with these overclocks we
used phoenix miner and was stable for a while and then we also use cryptex software which we plan to
cover in the future and we had it running on that for a couple of days and it was pretty stable and
it didn't crash at all which was really nice and as for hiveos as you guys can see we tried
to use the same overclocks but we did get invalid chairs so we tuned down the memory a little bit
and then the number does seem different here than windows that is because in hiveos when you want to
overclock your nvidia cards if you point at this tooltip you'll see here they'll say that the value
is usually doubled than the one that is in windows so in windows we do around 1250 and in hive os
that means you would put 2500 but at 2500 we kept getting more rejected shares so we ended up tuning
it down a little bit and now we are at 2380 which is more stable and then for the power limits we
here use wattage instead of percentage we just capped it at 130 watts which is the average of
how much this gpu uses in windows and after that it's been running pretty well we had less rejected
shares and it's been pretty stable so far although one more information about mining on hive os
you need to make sure that you install the latest nvidia drivers so you'll need to ssh into your rig
and then from there just use the nvidia update command that they have and type in 455 to get
the latest version and then after that you'll be able to mine with this gpu without any issues
all this additional information will also be found here so if your overclocks are not being stable or
you're getting more ejected shares so just start incrementing down the memory clock until your gpu
is stable and then as well as the information for the memory clocks is 2x the value of windows 10
in hive os so you would be putting instead of 1250 you'd be putting 2500 and hive os
so the more information we find along the way we will be adding it here and then you guys can use
this information to your own needs and for the power draw we were using our power meter on the
wall to calculate it and as you guys can see we are getting around 170 to 175 watts off the wall
with surprisingly it is accurate with the software so on the software we get around 125 to 130 watts
for the gpu and then off the wall we get about 175 so if we take out the system watts which
is around 50 watts for the system we are left with watts which is very accurate with the software and
apparently with nvidia cards software is fairly accurate but with amd cards it's not so accurate
now since we covered the overclocking let me give you my conclusion on this card i do think this gpu
is a phenomenal gpu for mining it's really good for performance price as well as efficiency the
only one negative about it is probably how hard it is to get your hands on one of them for a decent
price so if you want to buy these now you'll have to buy them through the ebay price unless you get
lucky or you get some bots to buy you some of them but in general if you do find this for a retail
price then i would recommend getting it right away it's a really good gpu for mining probably one
of the best gpus to start off 2021 with and then if ethereum goes away you still have other coins
that you can mine on it which is good for the diversity so now that wraps up the video if you
guys enjoyed this video please leave a thumbs up and if you have any questions let us know in the
comments below as well as your thoughts on this different way of doing it before we used to do
it only covering on windows 10 so let me know if you want us to keep doing it like the way before
or if you want us to incorporate something else or add a little bit more information on a certain
topic of the gpu we don't get too technical in it we just go through it and give you the most
stable overclocks that you can use and then you can optimize them based on your needs if your gpu
is crashing then you would reduce a little bit if your gpu is not crashing and you feel like you can
push it a little bit more you can just increase a little bit more on the overclocks now that
being said guys thank you so much for watching this video and we hope you have a wonderful day
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