hey guys welcome back to caveman mining
hope everyone is well and having a great day on today's video we are going
to be testing out the hash rates for the new amd 6600 and this card was released
last week and we picked it up last week uh able to scoop this up from micro center the
second day it was out and we have our little test bench here just a small rig one psu intel i5 eight
gigs of ram uh and we have the card here hooked up and cranking away so when we first tried to
test this out we actually had to swap the motherboards out because i can show you on
the ground i have a little bit of a mess here that i have this old dell motherboard it
is a core duo i believe the chipset is a 700 series chipset pretty old probably about
2008 or 2007 that chipset and we could not get the card to work on it we were getting an error
of code 43 and pretty much i did everything in my power to get it to work driver updates chipset
updates bios updates you name it threw the book at it and couldn't get it to work so for the sake of
time i did have another motherboard laying around a little bit newer chipset and uh yeah connected
right up fired up drivers worked card ran and started hashing right away so first things first
i want to get into the hash rate uh review of this card and you can see we are mining ethereum
out the gate so uh we're running nb minor 39.5 and uh we're pulling a hash rate of 29.12 okay
and we've got a couple i just fired this up so we get a couple of shares uh here nothing rejected
three shares and i want to show you my overclocks for ethereum so we've got a memory clock here
of 1900 so you got to crank the memory way up the core clock is at 13.05 we leave the power
limit at zero and i've got the fans at 81 so i've seen pretty much people with
varying results uh getting into the 28s uh high 27s and mid you know mid to low 29s
actually haven't seen anyone break the 30 mark on these cards yet i'm still kind of trying
to figure that out and play with it but uh yeah these were the best settings i could find for
ethereum uh and pretty power efficient in the software so you can see we've got 57 watts here if
we take a walk over to the space goats power meter and we'll do that right now we will get the live
at the wall reading and if you guys can see here we're pulling about 122 watts at the wall so
that could be because we've got the fan going could be two because i have my other rigs um not
powered on but i still have the power connected so let me let me go ahead and see if i can unplug the
psus from those other uh rigs to see maybe that's interfacing with this a little bit so give me just
one second on that we'll take a walk over here we're gonna switch off the power
supply on the back of this guy we are going to unplug and bear with me here
just uh i'm gonna take a little care that power supply for the server power supply
we're gonna go around back of the rigs and we're gonna stretch out over here flip off
this switch flip off this switch because we've got the two combined there let's see if that makes
any difference at all because that's all running into the same pdu even though we didn't have
those rigs on it could still make a little bit of a difference and yeah you can see now we dropped
well yeah we dropped to about 114 115 watts at the wall so uh that made a little bit of a difference
all right guys so we are now running raven and we're getting around mid-13s to low 13s and
hash rate 1320 ranging to 1307 to 13 11 to 13 13. on there and we look at our overclocks
we are at the core clock of 26.05 and the memory all the way down to
1750 and our fan at 61 percent and a normal power level uh there so clearly puts
a little bit more strain uh on the card we go way up in terms of um you know pushing the
core uh clock but uh not too bad i've seen some better results in hive os so hopefully uh when
we do some tests in hive on this card we'll get into the 14 mega hash range but let's take a look
at the power in the software we're sitting at 99 watts so that's fine but let's take a walk over
again to the wall and see what we have at the wall it's going to be clearly higher than before
and we have around 164 165 watts at the wall running raven coin so let's uh do one last quick
test we're going to test out the hash rate on ergo and i will conclude with some thoughts
all right so we are now running ergo and actually doing pretty darn good in terms of hash
rate probably one of the higher hash rates i've seen thus far uh on ergo so we've got 55.98 we'll
see if we can get a little bit higher there 55.86 uh power level uh running at 90 watts in the
software getting a couple accepted shares already so that's looking pretty good just to take
a look at the overclocks for ergo so we have 2614 for the core clock so pretty high on the
core memory maxed out at 1900 okay and then again running the fan at 61 percent so that looks pretty
good you hear the card it's pretty quiet not too uh toasty in terms of the heat coming off of the
card so that looks pretty good you have 55.87 55.86 so sitting almost at that 56 mark in terms
of hash rate let's again take a walk over to the wall and see what we have for the ergo power limit
here at the wall and we're doing better than raven coin uh we are sitting at a hundred well bouncing
between 149 watts to i saw a spike up to like 162 163 but able to achieve underneath 150 watts
which is pretty cool at the wall so yeah let's take one last quick look at the hash rate uh see
if we got anything higher or any other variance and uh nope still sitting at the 55 87 mark
seems to be the steady mark but pretty cool uh impressive on the ergo house rate so yeah
guys uh this has been a cool quick little test so far not bad numbers the efficiency is pretty
decent in terms of the power on this little guy we are going to be interested to see what we get
for results on the hanging rack we're going to be hanging this thing up and we'll have five cards
up there we'll run a hash rate test on the card in hive os on the hanging rig to see what we get for
hash rates and power efficiencies and we will do all three of those algorithms so we'll start
with ethereum and we'll go with um uh raven and then ergo to finish so yeah my conclusion on this
card so far is i really like the power efficiency the price of the card itself was pretty decent
not too bad so return on investment based off of the market hopefully be around the five or six
month uh mark uh on this card and yeah just uh pretty much easy easy to go good on the power and
decent on the mega hash so we'll see if there's anyone out there that can kind of refine
or come up with better clocks or as these mining softwares improved to see if things get a
little bit better i feel these cards have a little bit of unlocked or hidden potential but we'll see
where things ride so yeah guys let me know in the comments below have you been mining on the 6600s
what type of algorithms what type of overclocks and efficiencies you've run and most of all if
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