Topic: Data Center Mining Garage and Man Mining Cave - page 6. (Read 49418 times)

Uncle stopped by and said "YES NHAN!  Support our community and their business!"  Threw me a small bone.



He said, take this money and go to Amazon to Support Hawkfish007 new adventure on Amazon.  

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06WRX86YN/ref=cm_sw_r_oth_api_s7qRybC027P01

PM me if you did so I see our strength in numbers.  I will sweeten the deal by Paypal you $5 if your order is before Feb 23rd, since the Cashback coupon for Amazon appears to be failing.  This is also my contribution.  I get Zero kickbacks and you're not going to make Hawkfish rich anytime soon, he's doing it to help our Community get risers FASTER and when we need it.  Show our BOY some love as a VERIFIED purchaser and hook him up with a 5 Star review!!!  

Now back to our normal station and less commercials.  Just love when our forum members are doing things that are making positive impact to our community.

ah yeah i can see how narrow it is now, well good luck with optimization then

Yeah those button look pretty nice i like it i was gonna build something similar, but then my modded RPI with relay came to birth and i never looked back

@ m1n1ngP4d4w4n - That would be too easy and wouldn't be as creative.  =)  I bought fans for that exact purpose but again I dont want too many box fans.  If I add 2 or 3 more exhaust fan, the pulling force will be the same or greater than 2 of these.  Notice the base also block some of my valuable intake vent CFM?  These fans also eat up my wiggle room and I need lots of that as I do slide out the rack to service them.  I don't anticipate on needing either fan solutions but I just thought it would be fun to share on options.  



The Black box thing is the power buttons from my server rigs.  I ran out my Signature power buttons and Amazon was out of them so it was a make shift.  Just found it fit perfectly in between the wood so I now standardized with them for Shed.  Save me $8 / rig.  =)  I love being able to repurposed stuff.

Lol i actually had one in mind a few weeks ago, didn't got around to make the design, a shirt with

SERIAL MINER in the middle, with a logo of a bitcoin being stabbed by a mining pick

Spring is coming soon and so will the hot weather.  I currently have 60+ Rigs in production.  If I stop now, my current infrastructure can handle the heat with a breeze.  However we do have plans on adding 10-20 more rigs.  So it's better to over Engineer to leave some cushions for worst case scenarios.  We all go into this phase.  When it's problematic, we say NO MORE RIGS!! That's enough!  When things are stable and we get bore, we say "Oh look at what's on sale, maybe a few more rigs won't hurt?".  Those last few GPU or rigs is usually the straw that breaks the Camel's back.  =)

My shed is very narrow.  If I put another rack to hold my Box fans, not only will that cover all the sexiness, but it will make it a nightmare to service my gears.  It would probably not be very safe working in that tight of a space.  The positive side to it being so narrow, is that I only have to push the heat a short distance to get it to the Exhaust side.  A lightbulb came into my head and say why not use some of those strong new 120MM Fans I just got?  However getting even 6 of quality Gooseneck holders is like over $100 easily which I can use for Fans instead.  

Luckily, I found this piece of metal that would do the job perfectly and only cost $1.29 at Lowes.  It have predrill holes and is very flexible so I can bend it at any angle I want.  IF I want wider flow, I just extend it more.  I can push it aside if I don't want it in my way.  2 of these at an angle especially Finksy version will sufficient for a 4 ft wide rack to keep the hot stale air from heating the gears above them.   I most likely won't be needing them but it's good to know, there's room for more efficiency and it could possibly help others.  You can power it simply with the spare Molex from your PSU for the side rigs.  All wood and Metal rack frames can be drilled to mount these.  

well man i will pm you my pools for you just incase you feel like being generious again and i really did appreciate that back in the day man

bare usb 2 sockets and plugs? they have 4 wires and are easy to connect/disconnect.

@ cavaliersrus - Yes that was fun back then pointing Megahash to give you a little  boo$t.  I enjoy supporting the community members whenever possible.

@ All others - I'm looking for good Quick disconnect type of connectors for the SRR wires.  I would assume I need some 20 or 22AWG wires as well?  Any recommendations for the quick disconnect adapters?  I found these but they may be a bit bulky since I need 2 cables for the MB On/Off switch and 2 wires for the reset.  So 2 of these but if anyone have a better idea, let me know.  The Idea is run the wire from the SRR base to this quick disconnect which will be plug close to the rear of the server case.  So in time of maintenance, it will be just a quick pull.

https://www.amazon.com/VIPMOON-Connectors-Electrical-Connector-Connecting/dp/B01JRDHVKM/ref=pd_sim_328_5?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=NGCZ173HR895ZHAA2BMK

hey hey hows it going man ive stopped mining at kano cause i had to turn off my s1's and s2
well right now i use the s2 on and off for heating of kiddos room

still willing to point some hash to me lol i have
scrypt / x11 / zec / sha256 pools that you could point 2 ... what i would do with the ammount of zec that setup could send me lol j/k man

i do love your project sofar though

Always great to see my old Kano pool comrades!   In case you're not familiar with this Nick, you would remember me by my old NhanDo nick.

I found this outside today.  One man's trash, is another man's treasure.  This is exactly what I need to do something cool and cheap.   More to follows...



Thread is getting very big now with 18 pages and over 16.5K hits so I will also be adding to the Main Page links to certain Key Topics / Reviews / Discussions for quick access.

really liking this project your working on here so leaving a comment to watch more progress

He's speaking about HDMI screen emulator, little hdmi dongle that allow you to emulate a screen so that you can have a full HD resolution when you remote control your rigs, also some motherboard/gpus are known to refuse to boot up when no display are connected. So those help when rebooting rigs.

It has nothing to do with remote hard reboot rigs that SRR allow you to do, i personnally use a modded RPI with relay card to do that, but it's basically what's SRR is just made to do that exclusivly

Yun, could you elaborate about these emulators you use to reboot rigs ? What are they and how they compare to the SimpleRigResetter ?

i would be careful of dell boxes. one vostro 410 I had could only take one video card, period. plug any other vc card in to another pcie slot and that video card and the mobos on boards nic would be be disabled. tried all the pcie slots for that second cards and either no boot at all, or just the primary vc would come up but no network or 2nd card. weird.

otoh a vostro 420 was fine with 2 cards.

both were c2ds. go figure..

obviously you will also need to upgrade the psu too.

nice to have these really cheap, old, heavy duty, and reliable systems running even the latest GPUs.

i do not like dual cores, there are times in the past that they affected the hashrate of my GPUs, s775 quad cores are really cheap now...i just can't get enough of these boards..i don't have to install drivers in windows 7 64bit - it is just plug and play LOL..and these 80gb HDDs are all cloned, any HDD failures are simply unplug-replace and turn on the rig.

with 1000w and 1250w PSU's i don't need to use separate PSU's for 3 card or 4 card rig...i always have enough PSU power allowance for swiching algos/coin that requires more power....there are still instances that i'm using two PSU per rig

You should also look into these used HP & DELL core 2 duos PCs, they are sold at a very cheap price and have 3-4 PCIe slots. As electricity is not a big concern where I m located, i am planning to expand using these. So the CPU will run as independent system and the 3-4 GPU can run over extenders and a separate PSU.

Well crap, it fixed one of the cards, but the other is still giving the same error message.  Not sure what to do.

i bought 5 pcs socket 775 motherboard with 4x pcie for 80$
7 pcs 80gb HDD for 35$

still looking at processors at 16-20$ each (quad cores)

i still have some extra ddr2 rams here, will buy more at 7-10$ each

that's 20 GPU potential expansion for only ~300$  (GPU and PSU not included)

the motherboards are like the one i've been using since 2013 and all are still fine today...the other thing i like about that board is they have 4 LED that if it all turns green-i know it will boot to windows except if there is a HDD failure, it also has LED for PCIe connection.

@ Citronick - With Windows 10 and Linux, no hack is required unlike with Windows 7. I have over 40 rigs running on MSI Gaming 5 in a 7 GPU config.  No issues.  If there's stability issues, it's usually a problematic riser or GPU.  Just need to isolate and remove the issue and it will work fine.   The same if you're using ROM and 1 out of the 7 cards ASIC can't handle the OC settings.  Hence the more GPU we add into a rig, the higher the chance something will fail and cause issues.  RX470 and 480, Furies are stable enough to handle 7.

@ rjg -  @ 72 GPUs in a 2 car garage should be manageable.  Put all 4 of the Windees where you want the cooler air to come in.  72 GPU is roughly 12 Rigs.  Make a U shape type wall so that the intake will blow in 1 direction and the hot air will go toward that u type shape wall.  You can buy very inexpensive heat wall foam material at Home Depot.  They're also very good fire resistant material and very light / easy to cut.  

Your rigs will enjoy nice cool air and all the hot air will be extracted to the Attic.  Since you're blowing into a smaller area within the heat wall.  You have less CFM to cover then the entire garage.  This will allow you to use cheaper lower CFM fans.  My friend have the QC fans.  They're very good.  I would go with the 3K CFM version as they're very inexpensive.  12 Rigs in a garage is very manageable if they're RX 470/480.  Watts is also a measurement of heat so it really depends on total wattage.  So it's not about how many GPUs or rigs but how many total watts you're pumping out.   I also have friends that use 3 windees to push out the heat and 3 for intake.  All depends on what is the best config for you but should be no issues for 12 rigs.  Each rig above that = extra challenges.   When I first started out, it's just with 4 windees and 1 exhaust fan.

@Debitme - Yes.  very common issue, DAMN U AMD for tricking us modders with RELIVE drivers.