ASUS Mining P106 is a GPU for Crypto Currency Mining(cryptomining)

VGA card manufacturers seem to have finally started taking care for the crypto mining market that has been growing significantly lately due to the high profitability for crypto mining. ASUS, one of the top brands not only for VGA, but for other PC components as well has announced their Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060-based mining video card and the product is called ASUS Mining P106. We have already talked about Nvidia’s plans to release a crypto mining oriented GPU for miners based on their GTX 1060 GPU. Originally the plan was to have this product on limited markets and not available in the retail chain, but it seems that this plan can change with ASUS and other VGA brands joining with products that can become available through the usual distribution channels as well.

The ASUS Mining P106 is based on the NVIDIA P106-100 GPU and comes with 6GB GDDR5 that has probably been modified with custom timings in order to increase the hashrate for more memory intensive mining algorithm such as Dagger-Hashimoto (Ethash) used by Ethereum. The GPU Base Clock is 1506 MHz and the Boost Clock is 1708 MHz, the video memory is 8008 MHz GDDR5. The initial information was that the NVIDIA P106-100 GPU should be based on the 9 Gbps version of the GTX 1060, though this might still be true with the memory is apparently at 8 Gbps with more aggressive timings. As expected the ASUS Mining P106 GPU does not feature any kind of video outputs so it is essentially limited to only computing tasks such as mining and will not be an interesting product for gamers that might also want to mine, but still be able to play games.

Other interesting features on the ASUS Mining P106 include the dual ball-bearing fans that are IP5X-certified to be dust resistant and thus offer a longer fan lifespan and this is really important as far as crypto mining goes. ASUS also claims that they have used components that enhance efficiency, reduce power loss, decrease component buzzing under load, and lower thermal temperatures for unsurpassed quality and reliability. There is no mention about warranty period as initially Nvidia had plans to offer their mining GPUs with just 3 months of warranty, though we are hearing that other brands such as ASUS might actually be with 1 year warranty. No word about pricing either, though the mining GPUs should be cheaper than the consumer version of GTX 1060 in order to be more attractive to miners and we are probably going to be seeing them starting to appear on the some markets sometime next month.

ASUS has also announced a second GPU targeted at miners, but that one is really not that interesting like the NVIDIA P106-100 GPU is. The ASUS Mining RX 470 is essentially a standard AMD Radeon RX 470-based video card with 4GB video memory at 7000 MHz, there is no word about improved timings for mining that will result in better performance. The design of the AMD mining GPU is very similar to the Nvidia mining model, though here you have video output connectors and cans till use the card for gaming if you want to. The fans are the same and ASUS claims that the same improved components are being used to offer better reliability for longer term mining usage.

– To get more details about the ASUS Mining P106 GPU on the official website…

RX 470/480 570/580 Alternatives

With the recent ethereum price going sky high ,it is very hard to find the rx470/480 cards.

Today we will give some alternatives,some of them are cheaper like the 460/560 cards ,some of them got a higher price like the geforce gtx 1070,the good

thing for the geforce gtx 1070 series is they also can mine zcash with a very nice speed.

RX460/560

Normal hashrate is around 11-12 mh these are at stock settings ,but if we start overclocking the card:

1750 timings -> 1875, 2000
max memory clock 2000 -> 2200

amd radeon settings:

gpu clock -> 1125 (underclock)
memory clock -> 2000
fan -> 100%

this give us around 14 mh so if you use 2 of them you got 1 rx 470.

 

GEFORCE GTX 1070

Normal hashrate is around 24-27 mh these are at stock settings ,but if we start overclocking the card we get around 31/32 mh.

This card is mouch more expensive then the rx460/560, but the good news is we can also use it to mine zcash because it has a very nice speed there.

 

Ethereum Profit Calculator

If you want to know how much ethereum you will get each month ,and how much you will earn ,this is the perfect solution to find out.

Just enter how much hashrate you got ,how much watt you are using, and what the cost is for kw/h.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

you can check this on daily basis to see how much profit you will make at the end of the month.

Here you can find the link :     Ethereum profit calculator

Happy mining !

Put windows 10 in test mode for mining ethereum

If you’re like me and you run a software that requires ‘unsigned’ windows drivers to function properly, in my case the software I’m running is the patched ATI file for my modified bios that gets me more hashrates.

To enable Test Mode on Windows, open an elevated command prompt (Press Start->Search->cmd then right-click on it and click Run as administrator) and enter the following command:

 bcdedit /set testsigning on

and reboot after running the command above

To disable Test mode, open an elevated command prompt as above and enter the following command:

bcdedit /set testsigning off

and also reboot after running the above command

Once you reboot, there would be a watermark message as shown below that would confirm that Test Mode is on.

Sapphire RX 470 Nitro+ OC 4GB Bios Flash / Mod Tutorial (Hynix, Elpida, Samsung, Micron) by 1stminingrig

In this tutorial i am going to show you how to modify and flash BIOS to your RX 470s, this will increase the GPU hashrate substantially. My RX 470s went from 22.xx Mh/s at stock settings to 24.xx with modded bios and 29.xx with overclock and undervolt. So i got a much higher hashrate and at the same time low watt consumption with better hashing speed, around 70w to 80w per card.

The thing is that not all cards are the same, for example there are 4 different types of memory #1 Hynix (31.xx Mh/s), #1 Elpida (31.xx Mh/s), #2 Samsung (28.xx Mh/s), #3 Micron (22-24.xx Mh/s), read more about the memory types and how to spot them here. I wasn’t that lucky to get a Hynix or Elpida but i got a Samsung instead, which is better than Micron :), after few days of struggling and testing i was able to get a nice and decent hashing speed of 29.xx Mh/s on Ethereum, most of miners are reporting 28.xx Mh/s maximum hashrate but for some reason i was able to push the cards a bit more.

Right now i am going to share with you my BIOS mod for Sapphire Nitro+ RX 470 4GB OC, specially with Samsung memory but i will include in the tutorial how to mod and flash the cards with Hynix, Elpida, Micron also two Reference models. Also ill show you what driver version, software and tools are needed to flash and modify bios.

To make the things even clear this is the exact card i am using in this tutorial:

 

1.Download and install/extract the following

2.Save original Default BIOS

  • Shut down your rig
  • Remove all the GPUs and leave only one plugged, my recommendation is to flash the cards one by one
  • Start the rig and Extract ATIFlash 2.74 to C: in a folder like “atiflash“
  • Run ATIWinflash.exe as administrator, click on “Save” button to save the default BIOS (make sure the RX 470 card is selected), give it a name like Sapphire470defaultBIOS.rom
  • Click “ok” and “continue“
  • Once the BIOS is saved close ATIFlash
atiflash saving sapphire rx 470 default bios

3.Silent BIOS Switch

  • Shutdown your rig again
  • Switch BIOS to silent mode (towards the HDMI cable side)
  • Start the rig
Sapphire_NITRO__RX_470_OC_BIOS_LED_Switch

4.Save original Silent BIOS

  • Open ATIWinflash.exe as administrator
  • Save the BIOS again, this time give it a name like Sapphire470silentBIOS.rom

5.Modifying / Modding the BIOS

  • Start GPU-Z to find out what type of memory does your GPU have, make sure you use the correct ROM to flash the card
  • Start Polaris Bios Editor
  • Open Sapphire470silentBIOS.rom
  • On TIMING (MHz) area copy 1750 timings to 1900 and 2000, or you can try to copy from 1625 to 1750, 1900 and 2000
  • Save the modded BIOS like Sapphire47modded.rom
  • Close Polaris Bios Editor

Download 1625 timings https://mega.nz/#!E84W3YDb!rPxXD-m__3ISunSU6WvgiXw6xNhYgy3hZ1Oj40YCg6s

Download 1750 timings

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polaris bios editor sappphire nitro rx 470 mod
polaris bios editor sappphire nitro rx 470 mod timings 2
polaris bios editor sappphire nitro rx 470 mod timings
polaris bios editor sappphire nitro rx 470 mod saving modded bios
Hynix Memory
  • Start Polaris Bios Editor
  • Open Sapphire470silentBIOS.rom
  • On TIMING (MHz) area copy 1500 to 1625, 1750 and 2000
  • Save the modded BIOS like Sapphire47moddedHynix.rom
  • Close Polaris Bios Editor

Download https://mega.nz/#!c0p1XTba!_dBFUk2vdDTfqFRvKaAR0W-i_qzytQdzulY3vtD-kr0

Elpida Memory
Reference: Hynix Memory
Reference: Micron Memory

6.Flash the BIOS with ATIFlash 2.74

  • Start ATIFlash 2.74
  • Load the image Sapphire470modded.rom
  • Click on “Program” button
  • Wait about 30-60 seconds till you get the message “Your VBIOS was programmed successfully“, click OK
  • Restart the rig and test
atiflash starting as administratoratiflash starting as administrator
atiflash load bios imageatiflash load bios image
atiflash your vbios was programmed succsessfullyatiflash your vbios was programmed succsessfully
atiflash restart for modificationsatiflash restart for modifications

Pretty much this is it, repeat the same steps with each GPU.

Here is the same GPU before and after bios mod

sapphire nitro+ rx 470 4gb oc ethereum hashrate at stock settingssapphire nitro+ rx 470 4gb oc ethereum hashrate at stock settings
sapphire rx 470 4gb modded biossapphire rx 470 4gb modded bios

6 Overclock and Undervolt for low watt usage

  • Start Sapphire Trixx
  • GPU Clock: 1150
  • Memory Clock: 2050 (you can start from 2000 and increase, i can go up to 2050, 2070. The 2100 is not that stable)
  • mV: -100
  • Apply modifications

My results:

sapphire trixx gpu, memory and mVsapphire trixx gpu, memory and mV
sapphire strixx settingssapphire strixx settings
sapphire strixx gpu-z watt consumptionsapphire strixx gpu-z watt consumption
sapphire nitro+ rx 470 4gb oc dual mining 29 mhs ethereumsapphire nitro+ rx 470 4gb oc dual mining 29 mhs ethereum
rx 470 4gb claymore dual miner 29 Mhsrx 470 4gb claymore dual miner 29 Mhs