Nebell
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Alright so what I've ended up with is:
Rig 1:
Intel Pentium 4 G4560
MSI Z170A Gaming Pro Carbon
4gb Corsair Vengeance LPX
5x Asus Phoenix 1060 3gb
Corsair RM850x 850W
64gb USB stick for Windows 10
Rig 2:
Intel Pentium 4 G4560
MSI Z270 Gaming Pro Carbon
4gb Corsair Vengeance LPX
5x Asus Phoenix 1060 3gb
Corsair RM850x 850W
64gb USB stick for Windows 10
Rig 3:
Intel Core i7 6700k
Gigabyte Z170x Gaming G1
32gb Corsair Dominator Platinum
1x MSI 1080Ti Gaming X
Seasonic Platinum 1200W
Rig 3 is my gaming machine, it won't be mining constantly, but it will mine about 20 hours per day.
The first problem I encountered was that I bought 2 Kaby Lake CPUs and a Z170 and Z270 mobos.... stupid yeah, but fortunately my main PC is Skylake and I was able to use my old 6700k to flash the BIOS so it can support Kaby Lake. The problem is that my main PC has custom water cooling so I had to disassemble it...
Also I read that USB sticks are fine. Honestly, that was the biggest bullshit I've read in a while. I should have gone for a cheap SSD instead. While my OOOOOLD (6+ years old) Kingston HyperX 64gb is acceptable even though it degraded from old age (used to be 200mb/s and now about 30-40mb/s) it does remind me of early 2000-era HDDs. The NEW Kingston HyperX Savage 64gb is PURE CRAP! It's unusable! Takes 4-5 minutes just to get to Windows from the login screen! There's nothing wrong with it though, diagnostics are showing 200+mb/s transfer rates on it. But whatever Kingston did on this new shit, it's not good for portable Windows installations.
I'm working on setting my system up, but trying to figure out what was wrong with the damn USB stick and having to swap CPUs took too long and now I'm trying to update Windows before I connect everything. And with USB sticks it's bloody slow.... should have bought the damn SSD....
Alright so what I've ended up with is:
Rig 1:
Intel Pentium 4 G4560
MSI Z170A Gaming Pro Carbon
4gb Corsair Vengeance LPX
5x Asus Phoenix 1060 3gb
Corsair RM850x 850W
64gb USB stick for Windows 10
Rig 2:
Intel Pentium 4 G4560
MSI Z270 Gaming Pro Carbon
4gb Corsair Vengeance LPX
5x Asus Phoenix 1060 3gb
Corsair RM850x 850W
64gb USB stick for Windows 10
Rig 3:
Intel Core i7 6700k
Gigabyte Z170x Gaming G1
32gb Corsair Dominator Platinum
1x MSI 1080Ti Gaming X
Seasonic Platinum 1200W
Rig 3 is my gaming machine, it won't be mining constantly, but it will mine about 20 hours per day.
The first problem I encountered was that I bought 2 Kaby Lake CPUs and a Z170 and Z270 mobos.... stupid yeah, but fortunately my main PC is Skylake and I was able to use my old 6700k to flash the BIOS so it can support Kaby Lake. The problem is that my main PC has custom water cooling so I had to disassemble it...
Also I read that USB sticks are fine. Honestly, that was the biggest bullshit I've read in a while. I should have gone for a cheap SSD instead. While my OOOOOLD (6+ years old) Kingston HyperX 64gb is acceptable even though it degraded from old age (used to be 200mb/s and now about 30-40mb/s) it does remind me of early 2000-era HDDs. The NEW Kingston HyperX Savage 64gb is PURE CRAP! It's unusable! Takes 4-5 minutes just to get to Windows from the login screen! There's nothing wrong with it though, diagnostics are showing 200+mb/s transfer rates on it. But whatever Kingston did on this new shit, it's not good for portable Windows installations.
I'm working on setting my system up, but trying to figure out what was wrong with the damn USB stick and having to swap CPUs took too long and now I'm trying to update Windows before I connect everything. And with USB sticks it's bloody slow.... should have bought the damn SSD....
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