Its not just about hotter. The heat comes from the power usage and right now the amount of RVN and ETH i mine equals about the same value, but uses about 25% more power which means, actually, im making less. This really has to come down to value/cost. Now, if you are going to hold the coins and this is the only way to get it, that totally makes sense to spend the 25% in power.
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simple way mine eth or btc and exchange no stress to hardware. i hold rvn,btc,nrg,eth,etc,xrp,xmr and other coins. before i mining witch asic miners on nicehash i have many different coins hold in cold storage and is resson why my asics till today are not damage or overheated as i dont mining coins with one do alot stress to hardware easy way to save your hardware and save some coins is exchange
25% of couple more cents can cost couple hundreds or thousands for repairing or replacing damage hardware likebi say in my opinion is not worst right now to mining rvn. it just my opinion
or like scotyg do buy hashpower from nicehash and hold coins
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Well hereās an update. Been running a while now with the updated T-Rex, itās been running dead on 60c and today I decided to bump fan speeds up 10% to 60% and it dropped almost 10c and with my core clock set where its at, its not having any issues but if I go much over that, I start running into crash issues
In the pic you can see my current settings and its running pretty solid. On my single 1660 ti I pull 100 RVN somewhere around 3-4 days, getting ready to add a second 1660 ti and some 120mm fans on my frame
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Those are some great temps, what kind of air flow do you have? Custom cooling? My GTX 1080 is usually between 70C-75C with 80% fan speed. Also, ambient temp.
I donāt have anything special, Iām just running the card as is but with the fan curve changed slightly on the gpu and ambient temp is 80f. Iām sure temps will go up as I add more gpuās, but thatās also why I ordered some fans, just kinda got it stuffed in a corner
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Ah, itās an open case. That might explain why. Mine is a regular case. Fractal Design Meshify C to be exact.
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Yea, I would have used my Gateway case but it was too small for the gpu, so basically just put everything in the open case and use it as my main pc and mine with it
Iām curious to understand why you went with a 1660Ti mining RVN? It is profitable (with low electricity costs) but there are combos of cards and algorithms out there that will make twice as much on a daily basis (after electricity) and the hardware costs about half the price of a 1660Ti.
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I went off the video that voskcoin made, whatās another good gpu and Algo to run, Iām pretty new to gpu mining
Ahh I understand. Vosk does lots of different hardware reviews mining various coins so I can see where that combo came from.
TBH I donāt think there is anything that even comes close to an AMD GPU mining Ethash if you are looking at value for money GPU mining right now and for the foreseeable future. There are a couple of threads here with info on how to maximise profits but for example I run one rig which is comprised of 6 RX570s mining Ethash (through Nicehash) and the numbers stack up pretty well.
Your 1660Ti is making about 100 RVN every 3-4 days at 100W. Letās call it 100 RVN every 3.5 days or 200 RVN per week. And letās say your power cost is $0.10 per kWh. So your profitability per week is 200 x $0.0205 minus power (100W x 24Hours x 7Days x $0.10) which is $4.10 - $1.68 = $2.42 net profit.
One RX570 set up the way I am using it (settings are shown in this thread Rx580 running too much power) is making me $0.75 per day or $5.25 per week. With power at 86W it is using (86 x 24 x 7 x $0.10) $1.44 per week and so profitability is $3.81 per GPU per week.
Now generally speaking, you can pick up a brand new 8Gb RX 570 for a bit less than half the price of a 6Gb 1660Ti. So if you buy 2 RX570s the comparison looks even worse for the 1660Ti. $350 gets you one 1660Ti making a net profit of $2.42 per week or you can buy 2 RX570s and make a net profit of $7.62 per week.
There are other combos and the AMD RX5700 is also pretty good value for money although demand has driven the price up a bit and made it a bit less value than your basic RX570 or RX580. Thereās a bit more info on settings and results for 570s and 5700s on this thread - AMD RX 5600 and 5500 models
Also it never hurts to look at https://whattomine.com/ which right now is telling me that your 1660Ti is slightly more profitable mining Ethash on Nicehash than mining RVN. Keep in mind that the numbers that come out of this calculation are based on standard settings and power usage for the cards, so with tweaking, you can get much better results.
You also want to be really careful mining anything exotic or fringe - it sometimes costs more to turn it into a real crypto (BTC, ETH etc) than any increased profit it might seem to make. Some of these coins are almost impossible to exchange so if you are going to look at mining something a little different, make sure you have a clear path to exchange it to something you can actually use.
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This is extremely helpful, and definitely taking this to heart. Looks like Iām going to look into those other gpuās for sure.
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0.17usd per kwh 2xr580 nitro make between 6.50-7.20 usd per week 
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so your profit is low if yours 570 make only 0.75usd a day rx580 0.17usd kwh made more
some time it earning even more
^^^^^^
What site is that?
It appears to be NiceHash.
Itās a site called minerstat and you have to pay if you have more than 1 rig.
first photo minerstat second nice hash. yes for minerstat 1 rig is free for other rig you nee to pay like 1.50usd month. if you wanna have stabil runing high mhs profit plug and play run minerstat. mining os are for large amount rig as is plug and play and everything what you need is integrated, windows is not really stable with updates and other stuff, plus lower mhs, some mobos on 16x slot jumping mhs or have trouble with drivers use more when 6xgpu