Red Forest

This is an open air motherboard with an EVGA 750W platinum to benchmark and stress test GPUs. Red Forest has been vital in learning how GPUs overclock individually for later implementation as tweaking through remote terminals like teamviewer create significant problems (for example Teamviewer stopping jobs in claymore's dual miner).

AB350 - Gaming 3

Ryzen 5 1400; 5x PCIe; 4GB DDR4 3000

Mixed mining - testbed

GPUs Tested:

• RX 580 8GB Saphire Nitro + (ETH only Claymore miner - 29.3MH/s overclocked)
  • Truly a fantastic card. Runs cool, quiet, and unbelievably fast. If it can be procured for ~$300, an incredible Ethereum miner until casper transition.
• GTX 1060 3GB EVGA (ETH only Claymore miner - 20.1 MH/s overclocked)
  • Not bad at all if it can be found around MSRP of ~$200. Best bang for buck and may be useful post point of stake transition in major currencies if Golem or other distributed CUDA applications arise.
• GTX 1060 6GB EVGA (ETH only Claymore miner - 25.0 MH/s overclocked)
  • Honestly a decent value at ~$250 and slightly more future proof than the 3GB version. The fan noise on this card, though, is extreme in a closed case. I will not be purchasing any single fan 4GB or greater cards. I have my sanity to worry about. **Update** On open air rigs, the cards are fine!
• GTX 970 4GB MSI Dual Fan (ETH only Claymore miner ~2.5MH/s overclocked or 1.5 MH/s + $1.1/day NiceHash or $1.75/day NiceHash)
  • Not a bad NiceHash card earning ~$1.75/day on average to highs of $2.10/day with overclocking headroom.
• GTX 1060 6GB PNY (ETH only Claymore miner ~25 MH/s overclocked)
  • Wonderful, quiet, cool card. Overclocks without fault at 50 MHz intervals. Would gladly build a six-card rig with these cards around $280.