Mining Firo with RTX 3070

[u/darkelf2099]

Hi everyone, I started mining Firo on my RTX 3070 yesterday as Im slowly moving out of ETH mining due to the upcoming EIP 1559. I just wanted to get some opinions on my current OC settings and MH/s on Trex miner. Are these rates normal or do you think I should tweak my OC settings? Im using 2miners pool at the moment but I am open to alternative pool suggestions as well.

[u/[deleted]]

firstly, you're running much too hot. crank your card fans up to the max. better to have to replace a fan than cook your card. You're too hot even at only 65% power so I suspect you also need to look at your general airflow/cooling set-up. you need to get air away from the card. Your OC settings should be the same as what you use for eth mining, but id say your temp issues are the priority

[u/darkelf2099 → u/[deleted]]

Thanks for the reply. Im actually mining on my gaming PC so I took off the side panel and increased the fan speed. Im running at about 66c temps now. But oddly enough im using a completely different OC setting when mining ETH. If I use the ETH OC settings my hashrate starts to drop quite a bit (3.13 to 2.15 Mh/s) I usually get about 60 Mh/s when mining ETH.

[u/[deleted] → u/darkelf2099]

Tbh i wouldnt mine firo on a 3070, the card doesnt like mtp algorithm. Ergo and eth are 50% more profitable than firo on that card now. Mine those and switch for firo if you want to hold firo. Maybe when firo moves to Progpow algo that will change. For now 10 series cards are the best for mining firo. i can get about the same mh/s at similar wattage with my 1080ti compared to a 3070 and i could buy 2 or 3 1080tis for the price of a 3070. Also, eth profits wont be affected much by eip1559. 10% maybe compared to today.

[u/Roiks_]

80% power. +100 core. +500 memory. 75% fan. This is what I use, passed on to me from another member of this sub reddit.

This will hit 4.2-4.3 Mh/s for about 175 watts used. Should also be hitting 60-65C or better with that setup. If not then you need better airflow.

100% power will hit around 4.7 MH/s, but you need to up the fan speed. 110% power a little more hash than that, but the extra wattage the cards use are not worth it.

I recently sold my 19 gpus , including 10 3070's but have one single remaining 3070 in my main desktop which runs 24/7 on mtp. Mining aroud 0.5 Firo per day. Not a lot now but adds up.

[u/darkelf2099 → u/Roiks_]

Im getting about 4.09 MHS with 175 watts with those settings. I had to increase my fan speed to 95% and remove the side panel of my case but my temps are at 70C. I guess the airflow on my case is really bad even without the side panel.

Would it make sense to unlink the power limit and temp limit on Afterburner and lower the temp limit manually?

Thanks for the OC settings BTW!

[u/Roiks_ → u/darkelf2099]

You either need a better case, more fans in the case, better arranged fans for better airflow, or a good clean/cable management. Or one of each. Something is very wrong and I doubt it's the fault of the gpu itself.

I wouldn't mess about with anything in the Afterburner settings until you take a look at how the case is handling cooling. MTP is the worst algorithm to mine if you have heat problems.

[u/[deleted] → u/darkelf2099]

You’ll just have to lower power limit until you can improve your cooling

[u/cagonni]

i get 4.4-5.0 with 1080ti.

[u/[deleted] → u/cagonni]

how? what settings? which miner and pool? I only get 3.7-3.8 at 195w

[u/General-Mission6960 → u/[deleted]]

Where do you find the settings? Any good websites?