Topic: Data Center Mining Garage and Man Mining Cave ( PART 2 !!!!!!!!) - page 27. (Read 106695 times)

Best to look for Good things at cheap prices.  Problem solved.  Got 5 more EVGA from a local miner used for $100 in prestine conditions.   Had such great conversations, he threw in a 6th one free for all the good advice I gave him.  He was a big Bitcoin miner that is going to be heading toward GPU mining.  

The GPU buying frenzy have begun.  H81 was sold out fast Biostar TB85 limited to 1 per customer and as I was slow to finish the order, someone took it from me and it is now out of stock on Newegg.com.  This high price is good, but it's going to create a very fast frenzy............so be careful as difficult will rise super fast.  The only protection we'll have is if price stay high.   The high price is masking the 200TH and quickly rising Diff.



****************ABSOLUTELY CANNOT FOCUS on DAY JOB RIGHT NOW with this FRENZY.  What a great time to be a Miner.  ************************************

Cheap things not good, Good things not Cheap

yes  ltc had its run  which I grabbed a bit late  and got killed  due to gridseed blades and Josh of gaw-zen mining.

btc had the first  big run up    90 to 1100 in under 3 months.  ltc got close to 55 bucks    and was flooded with asics and off the blockchain mining from gaw-zen miners (huge ponzi).   

But this run  of alts  may be very solid.

time and time again 

Intel
AMD
Nividia
Corsair
SeaSonic
EVGA
ANTEC
FSP
Asus
MSI
XFX
DiamondMultiMedia
VisionTek
Asrock
Biostar
Gigabyte
Thermaltake
Rosewill
Newegg
MircoCenter

all stand to benfit  from strong  alt coins.

Zec has a small market cap  under 45 million

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/zcash/


So to keep it at its current price of 47 dollars is not too hard to do. As all of those companies above can buy some coins to do just that.

ETH  HOLDS THE POS over the heads of asic builders to protect them from asics.

I see good things ahead.  But  China, Russia, USA  can fuck it all up  by outlawing  coins.  So as always  send some coins to the cash of your choice.

be careful, not all will work well, there's some who tried getting those el-cheapo ones & got into trouble, it blew up & mobo was dead too.

I am so glad.... that the SRR kept every rig alive solid these past weeks.

For those Baikals... its a miracle.... I dont know what to say.

Phil, was the euphoria like this during the Litecoins days?

A strong rally maybe it goes to 50 usd for eth.

Btc went from 90 sept 2013 to 1100 dec 2013.

If eth goes from 9 to 110. By May 1 it would be really sweet.

LOL.... it's has been an amazing few days.... I am speechless.... ROI has gotten a brand new meaning.

they are available now, check ebay and amazon lol,i just ordered one myself just yesterday along with a server psu and breakout board either from amazon or ebay, the pico I got for like 20 dollars, does min 160w, def more than I need but just In cause since im running a dual core Pentium cpu on the rig its going on, if it was running the Celeron cpu I would have gotten a lower wattage pico psu. gotta keep up with stuff man! you are lagging behind a bit lol

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SORRY NO UPDATES.  I will just look at my screen on ETH and ZEC income prices for a few hours until my eyes get tired.

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Hello Guys,

I've been lurking on the forum for some time and just bumped into this.... this thread is a gem in itself!

Rather a newbie miner, I just finished my 2nd rig, but I can tell you - the passion got me - the setup, the trials, the errors, the discoveries and tweaking really got under my skin.

@Yun9999, your little "cottage style" farm and your journey really made me think to dare going big, and get some proper investments in mining. I'm still hesitating to start, as there are so many preparations and things to take into account.

But with such awesome inspiration here, I feel good vibes for the future! 

Smooth mining and good luck with your clean&sexxy new projects!

I shared to show everyone on a new project I was working on, very very early stages at the moment anything could change. I am asking for feedback at this stage to see what people think, cheers

4gpus on the mobo is no problem as long as long as the GPUS dont have backplates or else they wont fit

stability wise they work wonders, just ask phill

I keep hearing picos are here and all but i don't see any full pico setups just test setups , if the guy wants to start mining now , I'd advise him to get started and upgrade to picos or whatever when the are actually out there and easily purchasable

gotta work with what is available to you NOW.

For simplemining OS you can buy cheap ssd from aliexpress, its much faster than usb and price is around the same, 16gb ssd price is 12$, for 8gb around 8$.

@ mojoxc - Yeah, this means our RX470/480 will still have long shelf life / value.

@ m1n1ngP4d4w4n - Yes, I love mining.  It's the love and passion for it that allows me to work the insane hours and constantly tinkering.   I'm out of expansion space so I must find somewhere else to grow next.  =(

@ Tasty Potato - I'm not sure.  Even when mining solo, I'm mining it on a Pool which is Ethpool.  With the current difficulties so high on most coins that matter, I'm not sure if it's worth it for solo mining.  At current high coin prices, it's also just better to be on a good pool and not have to worry.

@ emdje - Thanks I like it.  My daughter paint it GOLD as well but that turned out weird.  I like the Silver.

@ bittawm - Cool design  as this is similar to 2 of the design prototype I have in mind but I can't find decent shelving.  I don't want to use WOOD for this design because it would be more enclosed like Server case.  

My prototype Instead of pulling the drawer the side that you have, I went for the longer length side in your picture as that's where I can put fans in front of it for pulling or rear for pushing.   I only put SSD in my drawing as regular BIG HDD no longer make sense for mining and it's a big waste of space / block air.  Since the GPU already take x amount of height, I have the PSU sitting sideways to leave more room on the shelf.  That is my direct 4MB design for the Racking 7.  

For the 7 GPU design one, it's similar idea but I plan to make the GPU stand to let the GPU risers sit on ton the shelf rather than directly plug into the Motherboard like the 4 GPU design.   Just imagine the layout similar to the Rosewill but you can move the MB closer in.  Both sides will be raised similar to a cabinet drawer to create a vacuum space so I can push heat out in only direction.  This design allow for faster and easier serviceability then the Rosewill.  Try drawing that out and you will get what I'm saying.

@ CryptoWatcher420 - There is never a one size fit all solution.  ATX still have it's place in many of the designs including bittawm as many people have 750 or 850W PSU that can support 4 GPUs.  I have 8 extra Platinum Corsair 850i, so a 4 GPU design with no risers would be good to leverage those surplus. You won't be able to use PICOs for a 4 GPU direct plug into the board as it won't have sufficient power to power the PCIE, otherwise it would be a killer solution to go with the 4KW.    Also PCI risers with PICO and server PSU are not 100% perfect, they have their pro and cons vs baby PSU with server PSUs and against ATX only, etc.  I will highlight these Pros and cons as I roll out the different designs but I wouldn't get rid of the ATX anytime soon.  As a matter of fact I just ordered 10 more EVGAs along with more 4KW PSUs.

@ vapourminer - You are spot on.  Originally I was planning on using Racing 7 as direct 4 GPU configs all Pico/Server PSU powered until I realized that it won't have enough power to handle 4 GPU even RX470s for the PCIE part.  Even the 300W picos won't be sufficient as their efficiency are usually very poor so it's best to assume 75% efficiency.    This is why my 4 GPU design similar to bittawn is ATX only but still very compact.

@ deadsix - Yes - No emulator requires.  It will boot just like the MSI Gaming 5.  I hated the H81 for that reason but everything else about it is Awesome including RMA that usually takes less than 2 weeks from the time I send it out to getting replacements.  I'm not sure how good Biostar RMA is but their support suck very bad.  Most of the tech I work with have poor skill set and instead of trying to help you fix the issue, they just recommend RMA.  The TB85 is a fantastic Plug and play board.

@ Mister305 - Celeron is all you need and 4GB RAM (16GB set via virtual, SSD is very fast, no latency like spinning drives).  Don't listen to others who recommend more.  You won't get the bang out of the buck for anything more.  Invest that $$ into HASH via more GPUs instead.  You can always slap more sticks in the future when it's required.  Check out simplemining.net.  You can use a 8GB USB flash drive for the OS and save yourself $40-50 on SSD on top.

Would the least expensive CPU you can find work well enough to run these rigs?

Hey guys, wanted to ask you both, have you tried running the TB85 board headless with RX470/480 cards? Is it free of the issues that the Asrock H81 ProBTC V2 have like not booting with onboard vga turned off, or unability to change clocks/fanspeed etc with onboard vga turned on?

yeah, mobos with server psu/pico adapter and 4+ cards would almost certainly to use need powered risers, and not be able to be plugged straight into the mobo.

when no risers are used the card would draw power from the mobo pcie socket which is powered by the pico. worse case is 75 w per pcie slot. with 4 cards thats 300 watts. plus say 75 for mobo/cpu/drive/ram that is 375 watts worse case for the pico to supply. biggest pico ive seen is 250 watts, and i dont know if thats continuous.

maybe they have more powerful ones? dunno

very interesting design, but to be honest for 20 gpu's by the looks of it their is no risers so that's what 4 gpu's at best per mobo, that's a horrible waste of power using atx psu as you show in the design, now if you were using say one of those ibm 4kw server psu setup's that would be legit, but that's not economical with as many psu's, your better off with one high wattage and high efficiency psu like the setup nhan has with those ibm psu setup they power 4 to 5 rigs easy and better efficiency, love the design though especially the pull out part that's pretty neat, just change those atx psu's with one or 2 high wattage/efficiency server psu's and that would be a badass setup right there. one thing ive learned by keeping up with nhan's thread here on bitcointalk is that server psu's are the way to go now that pico's are here and cheap enough along with being able to pick up a server grade psu and breakout board vs an atx psu especially with those that are using risers. though I have ask why did you post that here if only to advertise your frame? and not actually contribute to the thread

take a look at these: http://imgur.com/a/P1TOJ

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/20-gpu-opan-air-case-no-risers-5-motherboards-1827211