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 i hope you guys will enjoy them now that being
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