hey everyone welcome back to another gpu overview video in this video we are going to go over the
gtx 1660 ti we're going to cover it in details regarding to where you can buy them from how
much do they cost and as well as the expected profitability from this gpu we're also going to
give you overclocks for mining the most profitable coin on this gpu and then after that i will give
you my conclusion whether you should buy this card or not i hope you guys enjoy this video
before i jump into the video i asked you guys in the last gpu overview video which was the
3060 ti whether you guys rather two articles on miningchamber.com or one article that will
contain all the information and everyone voted for the new system so i went ahead and changed
all the articles on miningchamber.com regarding to the gpus to have only a single article where you
can visit it and find additional information and up-to-date profitability as well as the
overclocked settings over there so if you're watching this video one year from now please
feel free to visit this article you'll find more information there and it's probably going to be
more up to date than this video now let's go ahead and jump into the overview so as you
guys can see we have the 1660 ti evga single fan model this gpu takes three slots if you're
plugging it into a regular pc because of how thick it is and it also takes a single eight pin
which makes it easier for us to later on put more of them in one rig and as of the coin that
we will be mining on this gpu it will be ethereum since as of the date of this video it is the most
profitable coin to mine on all of the gpus and now before we get too deep into that part let's
first talk about where you can buy this gpu and how much does it cost when the 1660 ti first came
out it came out at a price of around 300 msrp which gave it a really good edge comparing to
the other gpus at the performance that it can give but now as the date of this video being published
the prices are different and as you guys can see here it says that you can find it on amazon for
around six hundred dollars which is a really crazy price for this card so let's go ahead and visit
amazon and see what we find there as you guys can see you can hardly find any of the 1660 ti's here
the only option we find is the msi gaming one for 550 dollars so i do not recommend buying it from
amazon if you can't find it for a decent price and then also as well in newegg it's all really high
in prices and i wouldn't recommend buying them off of here but if we go ahead and go to ebay we can
see here that there are multiple that have sold for a fairly decent price so you can see that this
one sold for 330 dollars recently on january 22nd and then there's another one 365 dollars and 300
so there are one that are still selling for a good price and what i would recommend doing
is i would recommend checking ebay if you're looking to buy this gpu after watching this
video now when it comes to the different models like evga and all the other ones honestly they're
all pretty good options so you don't need to be really picky on this but if you do find the msi
gigabyte or evga over the other ones for the same price then i would go with them instead
now other than that there are also the 1660 supers and the 1660 regulars they are all pretty close in
performance but i will eventually make a video comparing them all together so now let's go
ahead and move on to the profitability of the 1660 ti so now to check the profitability we
are going to go to what to mine.com and then now we're going to select one 1660 ti and as for the
overclocks we know that we can push it more than 28 mega hash so it would be around 31 mega hash
and then for the wattage we can leave it at 80 so it's somewhere around there as well and as of
the electricity price we're going to leave that at 10 cents per kilowatt hour and now we can go
ahead and hit calculate and then they will give us the profitability of this gpu so now as we can see
here in the profitability the most profitable coin to mine with the 1660 ti is ethereum and
it will make you around 2.78 cents a day and then after electricity it will make you around
2 dollars and 60 cents so you guys can change the electricity cost based on your region and how much
it costs you but so far it looks pretty good so for this gpu to break even you're making around
almost three dollars a day so if we go ahead and open up a calculator and we can multiply
2.78 cents by 30. so a month you'll be making 83 dollars with this gpu that is without electricity
costs and then let's say this gpu would cost you 400 max if you're looking to buy it at the
state of this market right now although i wouldn't recommend buying it over 350 dollars i feel like
that's already too much for it so now we can go ahead and divide 400 by 83 and then from there we
can see how much it will break even so with the profitability of the market that we're in right
now this gpu will break even in around five months which is really good so if you buy a rig full of
them then you can expect breaking even in around five to six months and that is without electricity
costs like i mentioned so if you want to check it with electricity costs then i would come here and
then put on your electricity cost and then use the second number instead of the first number and that
will give you a good estimate on how much you'll be making your money back but guys remember all
these profits don't stay the same so maybe one month from this video being posted the profits
could have dropped around 20 percent or they could have increased so please come double check here or
you can visit our website miningchamber.com and it will give you a real-time update on how much money
this gpu will make you and this part of the video is being recorded on january 22nd and it won't be
posted until later on so please double check and you'll get a more accurate information so now that
we covered the profitability we can go ahead and set it up into the test bench and then we
can run the miner and test the overclocks as well as see how much power this gpu takes off the wall
so i've placed the gpu on our test bench but as you guys can see the veda frame was built for
a full length gpu rather than a mini gpu so it didn't really support it that well but it's okay
as long as these screws hold up and then after that we're going to run the initial tests in
windows 10 so we will be using the gtx 1660 ti on ethereum because ethereum is the most profitable
coin to mine on this gpu as of this date and then also this system pulls around 30 watts off of the
wall without any gpu so with the gpu it pulls around 35 to 40 watts which means that anything
above 30 will be just the gpu itself and now let's go ahead and run phoenix miner just to test it out
with the stock settings without any changes so with the stock settings we can see here that we
are getting around 25 mega hash on phoenix miner and if you guys need a tutorial on phoenix miner
i've recently just posted one so i recommend you to check it out and as for the wattage
we're drawing around 135 to 136 watts off of the wall so that means 106 watts are for the gpu only
and then 30 watts are for the system which puts the gpu in a decent place it's more efficient
than an rx 580 without any tuning so now after we tune up the gpu we will be able to get a lot
better efficiency so let's go ahead and find the perfect overclocks for it and then after that we
can run the miner again and then compare the results so for the overclocks like i mentioned
guys you will be able to find these overclocks on miningchamber.com so for the values that i
ended up settling on it was 60 for power limits negative 200 for core clock and then plus 1100
for memory clock and as for your fan speed you guys can put whatever fan speed you want for me i
kept it pretty quiet because this gpu does not get that hot at all so with these settings i'm getting
around 30.8 mega hash which is really good so it's almost 31 mega hash and we're only drawing off of
the wall 85 watts for the gpu so the entire system is pulling around 115 watts to 116 watts and we
can take off 30 of those watts and then we will be left off with the 85 watts for the gpu itself and
as for your overclocks in hive os it is a little bit different because in hive os it doesn't take
an offset rather takes a fixed number so you need to put the double of the memory clock that you put
in windows 10 so in windows 10 we did a thousand and 100 and then in java west we would be putting
2200 for your memory clock and i'm sure it will be like that for other linux based operating systems
as well so please double check and then try to use the values there and both of these values
will also be mentioned on miningchamber.com so you'll see the first value which is the offset
with the plus sign and then the secondary value is the fixed number where you can use it for linux
based operating systems now let me give you my conclusion on this gpu the 1660 ti is honestly
a really great card when it first came out it was probably one of the best options you can go with
for mining it's very diverse it can mine multiple different algorithms really well rather than just
ethash which is for ethereum and it doesn't run hot and it's a very quiet gpu but if you do put
the fan speed above 70 percent to 80 percent it can get loud although one thing that caught my
eyes is the oil that comes out of this car maybe it's just evga specific but it did leak some oil
so this doesn't harm your gpu in any way this is just some oil that leaks out of the card when it
gets a little bit hot and it's not that common so not all of the models have it but you don't
need to worry about it either now what i like the most about this gpu is how efficient it is you can
run like eight of them with just a 1200 watt power supply they're really efficient cards and the best
thing about them is that they're super stable i rarely have to check their settings i can run
them for two months three months in a row without worrying about them at all so in a nutshell if
you do find these gpus for a decent prices like we talked in the first part of the video then
i honestly recommend trying to get them but when you compare them to a 3060 ti then of course it's
better to go with a 3060 ti if you find that one more available or most of the 3000 series cards in
general but for older generation cards the 1660 ti and the super are definitely one of the good
options out there now that wraps up the video guys if you have any questions or concerns please leave
them in the comments below the upcoming videos will be the bios modding for the rx 580 as well
as a comparison between the rx 580 and the 1660 ti so these videos will be coming out very soon
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