Sundownz, my wallet would like to thank you for the more than $5k I've spent in the last 24 hours to start my own setup. In many ways I feel like a big dummy. Being an IT hardware guy all my life this is right up my alley and really, mining feels no different than running prime95 and submitting results... lol I should have started this years ago when I was in my 5k sq ft automotive shop and had plenty of power. I'd be a millionaire by now if I had. I'm not a trader. I'm too emotional so I do stupid things with the little bit I've tried. However, mining is something tangible and I can definitely wrap my head around getting paid for work.
I dipped my toes in the mining pool finally this week and once I realized that with the hardware I already had (1080, 780 and a 7950) I was going to average $300/m... Well I went a little crazy buying things. I've got 9 1060s and 3 1080s on the way! lol
I bought a DL580 G7 w/ 4 cpus to setup as my first rack. I'm comfortable in Linux so I figured I'd try to get the one machine up and off the ground to start. It coming with 4x1200w PSU's made me feel it was good value for the $. I want to CPU mine and also run 11 GPUs through it.
I've got lots of space and currently 400A of service. If all goes well I'm thinking of burying containers in the ground and using geothermal cooling loops to keep the hardware cool as I'm in TX and it gets rather hot down here.
For the remote access stuff, Google's Chrome Remote Desktop is basically Windows RDP with a FAR nicer interface. It lists all the PCs and tells you which ones are up or down and even last online time if a box goes down. I was a hardcore Windows RDP user and I switched to the Chrome version. All you have to do is run the Chrome RDP installer while you are logged into Chrome and then from anywhere in the world that PC would be accessible when you are logged into Chrome.
Thanks for all of your posts. A lot of people don't want to share their secrets or how they are doing things so what you are doing really is helping out the average Joe!
I dipped my toes in the mining pool finally this week and once I realized that with the hardware I already had (1080, 780 and a 7950) I was going to average $300/m... Well I went a little crazy buying things. I've got 9 1060s and 3 1080s on the way! lol
I bought a DL580 G7 w/ 4 cpus to setup as my first rack. I'm comfortable in Linux so I figured I'd try to get the one machine up and off the ground to start. It coming with 4x1200w PSU's made me feel it was good value for the $. I want to CPU mine and also run 11 GPUs through it.
I've got lots of space and currently 400A of service. If all goes well I'm thinking of burying containers in the ground and using geothermal cooling loops to keep the hardware cool as I'm in TX and it gets rather hot down here.
For the remote access stuff, Google's Chrome Remote Desktop is basically Windows RDP with a FAR nicer interface. It lists all the PCs and tells you which ones are up or down and even last online time if a box goes down. I was a hardcore Windows RDP user and I switched to the Chrome version. All you have to do is run the Chrome RDP installer while you are logged into Chrome and then from anywhere in the world that PC would be accessible when you are logged into Chrome.
Thanks for all of your posts. A lot of people don't want to share their secrets or how they are doing things so what you are doing really is helping out the average Joe!
I am glad my post was able to help you -- and thanks for sharing more info =)
my cost for each unit was $1178 excluding x5660 with 4 1060 gpu running. Once up and running I plan on adding after the learning curve. 
8870s can address 4.1TB while the lowly 4870 can only address 2.05TB I don't think that will give us the kind of performance boost we are looking for. I guess next time I'll make sure to check the specs instead of just going... Ooooh bigger numbers, has to be faster right? 