Post your mining rigs!

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Pclausen, what boards are you using for mining?
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I have 2 rigs running MSI Z270-A PRO boards. These work fine with 7 GPUs (7th in the M.2 slot using an adapter)

2 rigs are running Asus PRIME Z270-A. I like these since they have 7 PCIe slots plus 2 M.2 slots, so you can run up to 9 cards. I have had good luck picking these up for under $100 used or open box.

The x4 Sea Hawk rig uses a MSI X99S GAMING 9 ACK board that I picked up used on ebay.

I have found that once you go much past 6 GPUs per rig, you start running into performance issues when using low end G3930/50 CPUs, so G4600s are better.
 
Awesome thanks. I don't really need one of the 12+ gpu boards, but I have a GTX1060 rig that will only detect 4 GPU's.......So would love to replace the board and be able to add a few more cards easily.
 
I got RSV-L4000C ($99) before Rosewill added fantasy build pics and doubled the price.
Several this size at Newegg are less expensive. Norco (NorKo?) equivalent, little as $85.
Yeah, you have to gut some useless obstructions, but Rosewill at least was just screws.
I didn't have to mangle any rivets...

Nothing magical about mounting GPUs inside, just need two or three cheap sticks of wood,
and a drill bit that can handle mild steel. Spotswood is pretty, if you like paying for pretty.
Nobody going to see wood once the cover is closed. Thats IF you can close it sucessfully,
and still breathe.

Having used it now with Qty3 5,500RPM 252CFM Delta fans at full 120W: I say it keeps
only 6 GPUs cool with the lid in place, definately not eight. Unless you got all reference
blowers designed to be packed that closely. Filter and handles are on the wrong end for
reference blower orientation. To keep eight non-reference dualfan GPUs going, you have
to remove the lid from this coffin, and use a box fan. So, unless you want to remove the
filter door, reverese the airflow, manifold no more than six GPUs to a front mounted
exterior or attic duct, why bother with 120mm ventillation restricted closed chassis?

Box fan is fewer Watts, much quieter, fits a big cheap high-flowing filter, and does not
burden the DC supply. Foam filter door on this chassis is not only on the wrong end, its
a huge impediment to air flow. You almost have no choice but remove it.

Only "advantage?" to this flat backed, no-card monstronsity is that you might be able
to gouge a hole for a second supply above the mobo PCIe area. Would be much more
difficult to cut-in a sencond supply hole if this area was not flat (L4000B, L4500, etc...)
OTOH, the non-flat backed versions allow GPUs or PCIe switches to be mounted.
The mobo tray of my flat back'd variant could be slid forward, but thats more drilling.

If you limit your ambitions to six GPUs, you might scrape by with any of these chassis,
a filtered 20" box fan, and single 850W supply. Wire rack simply makes more sense...

Power buttons are on the wrong end, since the back needs to become the new front.

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Now lets poke fun at Rosewill's fantasy build photos at Newegg!!!
Specifically RSV-L4000C, I'm confident you know how to search:

Featuring 7 Riser cables for 8 tightly packed non-reference GPUs.

No NVMe riser adaptor. No NVMe or SATA boot device. USB Boot?

Four sticks of high end memory. Like we need those for mining...

Foam filter door already confirmed to overheat even four GPUs.
Three wimpy 120mm fans, which are neither adequate for closed
lid cooling, nor needed with open lid 20" box-fan cooling.

HERCULES 1600W turned to make sure you can read that logo,
also turned so supply intake faces a solid wall with nary 1/4 inch
gap around two edges to breathe.

What other absurdities might we see in the Newegg fantasy build?
Its like a Where's Waldo of doing it all wrong...
 
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Nothing about the top rail needs to be metal either, if you happen upon a chassis without this hardware.
Mine came with a low rail, but wouldn't hold anything stright, so I just screwed my risers to scrapwood.
Also keeps the foam bottoms of the risers from blowing away. I need to redo for 6GPUs on account of
this spacing is too tight for dualfan cards to cool properly. One GPU here actually just an SSD carrier...
850W is barely getting it done (750W at the wall), but this Thermaltake hasn't quit on me yet...

Everything pictured here oriented on assumtion the Rosewill intake filter might be useful, but it wasn't.
Its all mostly been turned around now to exhaust unfiltered out the front, you aren't seeing that...

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atp1916 said:
Geno750 i have an old core x5 that i have been thinking about using to hold some cards - your card mounting approach is a strat I totally didn't consider. CHEERS :D

pclausen Is that a Spotswood bracket mod for the Rosewill RSV-L4xxx series 4U 25" case? If so, which model Rosewill RSV case in particular are you using?


Also, retrofitted my workstation in pseudo-ghetto fashion:
  • Obsidian 750D airflow ed.
  • x6 Zotac 1070 Mini (4) on pcie breakout card / v7 risers
  • Eneremax MaxRevo 1200w
  • 1700x / Asrock x370 Taichi / 32GB DDR4

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Far from *ghetto* ( i hate that word for some reason.) That's pure engineering! I've got a 750D airflow and that never crossed my mind
 
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Here's my very first dedicated rig. Well more of an experiment.

Specs:
Celeron 3930
Asus B250 Mining
16GB of G.skill
EVGA 850w G2
2x Powercolor RX 570 4GB
1x MSI RX 580 8GB
4x MSI RX 470 8GB
some risers from amazon
Milk crates and wood from Lowe's
EthOS
 
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So......I am ISO help....building my very first rig using windows OS, Super Alloy H81 Pro BTC, and GEFORCE GTX 1070. After many many hours of tinkering I FINALLY got one of my GPUs to register as a display adapter in windows but had to directly connect HDMI cable from tv with HDMI to GPU. The GPU is attached to mob via powered riser in a PCIs 2.0 x 1. (This finally allowed me to download the driver from nvidia). Now I’m struggling to connect my other GPUs and it is forcing me to use the HDMI to TV in order to boot up using specifically the one PCIe slot. (the other slots dont register). Not sure what steps to take now...I am at the point of maximum frustration :(
 
Danielle said:
So......I am ISO help....building my very first rig using windows OS, Super Alloy H81 Pro BTC, and GEFORCE GTX 1070. After many many hours of tinkering I FINALLY got one of my GPUs to register as a display adapter in windows but had to directly connect HDMI cable from tv with HDMI to GPU. The GPU is attached to mob via powered riser in a PCIs 2.0 x 1. (This finally allowed me to download the driver from nvidia). Now I’m struggling to connect my other GPUs and it is forcing me to use the HDMI to TV in order to boot up using specifically the one PCIe slot. (the other slots dont register). Not sure what steps to take now...I am at the point of maximum frustration :(
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Have you updated to the anniversary windows update (1703) ?
 
dirksquarejaw said:
Have you updated to the anniversary windows update (1703) ?
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I am pretty sure windows has the most recent version as of today. A geek squad guy gave a disk with windows on it since my laptop is a mac and was struggling getting a bootable version for the rig.
 
Danielle said:
I am pretty sure windows has the most recent version as of today. A geek squad guy gave a disk with windows on it since my laptop is a mac and was struggling getting a bootable version for the rig.
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I just checked it does have 1703
 
How many cards are you running?
What brand of risers are you running?
Have you disconnected all of the cards from their risers and reseated them?(I had 2 cards not registering because of that)
Have you added each card back in one at a time?
 
dirksquarejaw said:
How many cards are you running?
What brand of risers are you running?
Have you disconnected all of the cards from their risers and reseated them?(I had 2 cards not registering because of that)
Have you added each card back in one at a time?
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I have 3 cards purchased just to get started but can only get the one to work. The brand of the risers says Victony . The USBs they came with are the blue 3.0. I have unassembled and reassembled the risers multiple times and switched out the cards to check its there is a bad card. Maybe I am doing something wrong when trying to add the second card. I have tried doing the second card in a different PCIe slot (than the only slot i can seem to get to work) and it wont boot. Also, can you explain to me why it is working with the direct connection to the gpu with an HDMI but not with a monitor to the mob? Someone suggested that I connect directly to the card but I am not sure how that works when trying to use multiple cards
 
Airbrushkid said:
I thought this thread is for posting pictures.
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Sorry if it is but I am in desperate need of help and I saw people posting recommendations of what they are using...I thought someone here would be kind enough to help me. I would be happy to tip in crypto for the time/help.
 
Danielle said:
Sorry if it is but I am in desperate need of help and I saw people posting recommendations of what they are using...I thought someone here would be kind enough to help me. I would be happy to tip in crypto for the time/help.
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Without knowing what motherboard you're using it'll be hard to help. Its likely a motherboard configuration issue, as the default settings are not right for multiple video cards.
 
Geno750 said:
Without knowing what motherboard you're using it'll be hard to help. Its likely a motherboard configuration issue, as the default settings are not right for multiple video cards.
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Sorry, I thought I mentioned...... It is an ASRock Super Alloy H81 Pro BTC R2.0
 
Danielle said:
Sorry, I thought I mentioned...... It is an ASRock Super Alloy H81 Pro BTC R2.0
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It is currently on default settings as a lot of things I read said that this board should be pretty much ready to go in BIOS.

So to sum up the parts:
Windows Pro OS
Super Alloy H81 Pro BTC
Victony Powered Risers
Nvidia/GEFORCE GTX 1070 (purchased only 3 to start with)
Corsair RM1000x
 
Danielle said:
It is currently on default settings as a lot of things I read said that this board should be pretty much ready to go in BIOS.

So to sum up the parts:
Windows Pro OS
Super Alloy H81 Pro BTC
Victony Powered Risers
Nvidia/GEFORCE GTX 1070 (purchased only 3 to start with)
Corsair RM1000x
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I have that same motherboard and havent had one issue other than the ones I noted above. You don't have the carDeclined survey sli'd by chance?
Have you tried to clear CMOS on the mobo and try it then?
 
I cleared CMOS by taking out the battery and replacing. Not sure what you mean by carDeclined survey sli'd?
 
Danielle said:
I cleared CMOS by taking out the battery and replacing. Not sure what you mean by carDeclined survey sli'd?
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I am able to get one gpu to show up under display adapters after clearing CMOS and a second one only shows when i select view hidden devices (that and the Intel HD graphics shows)
 
Danielle said:
I am able to get one gpu to show up under display adapters after clearing CMOS and a second one only shows when i select view hidden devices (that and the Intel HD graphics shows)
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sorry my auto scripter wrote carddecline. can you take a picture of the device manager screen along with a picture of your current setup to see if we can see anything glaring.
 
the cards are no longer hanging since I have been connecting and disconnecting so much. The one HDMI cable is connected to my TV. And I have an SSD connected which I now realize did not show up in the pic
 
Here is my rig. Still in a case (Corsair 600C) because an open-air rig is a hard sell with the wife.

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(3) Vega 56s and (1) 1700x mining XMR

~6 KH/s
~660 watts at the wall
 
I am using this setup to see what mining was all about. So far the highest quote of $ per day has been around $11.82/day

2 980 Ti's a 950 and a 6850k

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Airbrushkid said:
I've never heard of a 989 ti!
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It's a special edition.... Lols

I also need to tell you that I don't use my own power to mine, and I only tried it out, like a stability teat, but that nicehash quote was surprising and I might continue mining at my house, I already have heaters going so I might as well turn those off and use my computer as a heater
 
Danielle said:
I am pretty sure windows has the most recent version as of today. A geek squad guy gave a disk with windows on it since my laptop is a mac and was struggling getting a bootable version for the rig.
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oh you'll never get this working if you're a mac user :) just give up.
 
Danielle said:
the cards are no longer hanging since I have been connecting and disconnecting so much. The one HDMI cable is connected to my TV. And I have an SSD connected which I now realize did not show up in the pic
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Plug in AUX power on the motherboard
 
Web4Life said:
Is there still some profit to make from casually mining at home?
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It depends on hardware and cost of electricity at this point. If you want to try it go to
www.nicehash.com
That is the easiest way I know how to get started and try it out

Web4Life
What is your system?
I could probably tell you if it will be any good for mining or not
 
my 2 boxes.. 2.6k zcash with a 1080, 1080 ti, 2 1060 and 2 1070
 

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mkrohn said:
unless you have a good amount of cash just stay away. You'll be hooked and running a credit card in no time.
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If I wanted to start from scratch, would a 2 GPU rig be a decent start (anywhere from 1060's to 1080's, whatever I find a decent deal on)? I was thinking starting there and expanding to maybe a 6 GPU setup if I am l liking how my proof of concept with 2 GPU's goes.
 
yowen said:
If I wanted to start from scratch, would a 2 GPU rig be a decent start (anywhere from 1060's to 1080's, whatever I find a decent deal on)? I was thinking starting there and expanding to maybe a 6 GPU setup if I am l liking how my proof of concept with 2 GPU's goes.
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I think these days most people are saying not to invest in a rig as it'll be hard to hit ROI and because of the upcoming change to PoS. However I look at it as a rig that I can mine ETH as long as I can then move on to the next most profitable coin AND the cards / rig will always have some sort of resell value.

That being said a 2 GPU rig is a great place to start, I would highly recommend the 1060 3 or 6GB variants are fine (ETH DAG still wont exceed 3GB til next year sometime). I think the 1060 is the best bang for buck as far as cost/hashrate goes.
 
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