Switch to Ether mining

[PolishedKarma13]

So I have a gaming rig that I built this summer (parts shown and pcpartpicker link) and I’ve decided to start doing some light ether mining while I am not using it for gaming. I plan on mining Ethereum and running the program from about 10 PM to about 3 PM the next day when I get home from school. To try and minimize cost of running and maximizing performance I am going to over lock my 1060 and underclock my 7600k. The reason for underclocking the cpu is to reduce power draw (obviously) because the cpu does not effect mining out comes. So my question is how would I go about underclocking cpu, like safe settings wile also being decently lower than what I have it at right now for gaming (4.9 ghz).

[TheGlenlivet]

Instead of underclocking it, just leave it stock.  You won't hurt it at stock clocks.

Or, don't mine with it at all.  It won't earn much eth anyway.

[RollinLower]

36 minutes ago, PolishedKarma13 said:

So I have a gaming rig that I built this summer (parts shown and pcpartpicker link) and I’ve decided to start doing some light ether mining while I am not using it for gaming. I plan on mining Ethereum and running the program from about 10 PM to about 3 PM the next day when I get home from school. To try and minimize cost of running and maximizing performance I am going to over lock my 1060 and underclock my 7600k. The reason for underclocking the cpu is to reduce power draw (obviously) because the cpu does not effect mining out comes. So my question is how would I go about underclocking cpu, like safe settings wile also being decently lower than what I have it at right now for gaming (4.9 ghz).

if the CPU will not be utilized in the mining process, it will not run at it's full potential. (on the stock settings, anyway)

so if the CPU doesn;t get any load it auto-underclocks anyway.

 

also, you might want to check out other alt-coins then ETH. it has become quite unprofitable since ASICS became available for it.

[PolishedKarma13]

2 hours ago, TheGlenlivet said:

Instead of underclocking it, just leave it stock.  You won't hurt it at stock clocks.

Or, don't mine with it at all.  It won't earn much eth anyway.

I’m doing GPU mining and I have turbo boost turned off. So I want to turn down the cpu manually like create a bios profile for mining specifically. 

[PolishedKarma13]

2 hours ago, RollinLower said:

if the CPU will not be utilized in the mining process, it will not run at it's full potential. (on the stock settings, anyway)

so if the CPU doesn;t get any load it auto-underclocks anyway.

 

also, you might want to check out other alt-coins then ETH. it has become quite unprofitable since ASICS became available for it.

I don’t have turbo boost on because normally when oc I like it to be full tilt at all times so I’m wondering how low I could manually get it. 

Also thanks for the advice on what coins to mine. I think I might end up going with litecoin