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Topic: cheap 1080 Ti mining rig (Read 158 times)
So I have been using my own personal computer (8700k with Asus 1080 TI strix OC) to mine coins the past 3 months using just NiceHash legacy and wanting to know up the ante with a proper 24/7 dedicated mining rig.
I’ve built 100s of computers in the past but never a mining rig but I do know that I have to keep power usage down but still enough to keep it stable. My goal is so start with a solid foundation and expand with more cards and PSU as required over time. These are the specs I’ve been thinking about
Asus B250 Mining Expert motherboard
Either an Intel Celeron G3930T, Intel Pentium G4600T or Intel Core i3 7100T (all 35w TDP)
1x8GB DDR4 memory stick (the cheapest one I can find basically)
256GB Samsung evo SATA SSD (Already have this)
SilverStone Strider Titanium 600 watt PSU (Already have this & will upgrade this as needed)
Cooler Master, Master case pro (already have this, temp case until I build open air case)
Asus 1080 Ti Strix OC edition (already have this, would take this out of my main rig)
Galax GeForce GTX 1080 Ti EXOC (because they are cheap)
I think in this current configuration this is the max the 600w PSU can handle so happy to run this for awhile and add more GPUs and PSUs later on.
So my questions are. Does the CPU bottleneck mining performance? I can get the Celeron G3930T for $50AUD but to go to the Core i3 7100T its $200AUD. Will I see any performance loss going with the cheap CPU? And my second question, I know I’m currently using NiceHash but it be more cost effective or efficient for this rig of 1080 Ti’s to mine just one coin in general? I’m mainly doing this so that the rig can generate me more coins to play with on the exchanges so I don’t have to put my own money into it.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated
I’ve built 100s of computers in the past but never a mining rig but I do know that I have to keep power usage down but still enough to keep it stable. My goal is so start with a solid foundation and expand with more cards and PSU as required over time. These are the specs I’ve been thinking about
Asus B250 Mining Expert motherboard
Either an Intel Celeron G3930T, Intel Pentium G4600T or Intel Core i3 7100T (all 35w TDP)
1x8GB DDR4 memory stick (the cheapest one I can find basically)
256GB Samsung evo SATA SSD (Already have this)
SilverStone Strider Titanium 600 watt PSU (Already have this & will upgrade this as needed)
Cooler Master, Master case pro (already have this, temp case until I build open air case)
Asus 1080 Ti Strix OC edition (already have this, would take this out of my main rig)
Galax GeForce GTX 1080 Ti EXOC (because they are cheap)
I think in this current configuration this is the max the 600w PSU can handle so happy to run this for awhile and add more GPUs and PSUs later on.
So my questions are. Does the CPU bottleneck mining performance? I can get the Celeron G3930T for $50AUD but to go to the Core i3 7100T its $200AUD. Will I see any performance loss going with the cheap CPU? And my second question, I know I’m currently using NiceHash but it be more cost effective or efficient for this rig of 1080 Ti’s to mine just one coin in general? I’m mainly doing this so that the rig can generate me more coins to play with on the exchanges so I don’t have to put my own money into it.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated
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