Topic: Happy New Years! Seventh alt coin thread! - page 96. (Read 34194 times)

I used 3 deltas for a 6 x RX580 I built inside a Rosewill case. There is a reason they call them screamers I ended up turning it into an open air rig, my garage was quiet and nice again. Until I received my first S9 

Idk how to describe how loud it is. It's way way way louder back when I started mining eth, cramping 4x reference 480 in my full tower at 100% fan speed. Doesn't even come close. Have you seen genesis mining videos where people need to shout to hear each other? It's getting close to that as I have 25 of them running.

Correct, it's AFB1212SHE. This one https://www.amazon.com/Electronics-AFB1212SHE-120x120x38mm-Cooling-connector/dp/B004Y1HLA8

Temps are slightly better than my old open air setups. Well it's not a fair comparison as my farm was permenantly at 40 degrees C with all the open air rigs. Now with proper sectioning of cold/hot air and tripling my exhaust fan capacity, air intake is basically ambient, 25-30 degrees.

These enclosed builds have very good temps with the Delta fans.  I've built some Rosewill L-4500s and temps are not a problem with good air flow.

Sweet thanks man! Thats exactly what I meant- that's super kick ass temps are that good sealed up like that. I might get one to play around with as well.

I was also toying with the idea of waterblocking everything, but at the end of the day... I'm just too lazy to do all that lol

What about temps compared to open frame with no forced ventilation ?
Did the seller send the case with Delta AFB1212SHE fans ?
Also what is the fan noise compared to the reference or other GPUs  doing 80-100% fan speed .

I'll check on monday when I go back to the office. I just thought it would be funny to try. The orginal PSU is like 250w or something as well. The computer is just so slim and tiny it's funny to see all the gpus hanging off it.

Nice, what model is that Lenovo?

not to disagree, all sounds right, but i've got
Asus Z170-AR mobo (6 slots, not sure if you can run all six, opinions vary) at Microcenter for $79 minus $40 MIR.
It was a few weeks ago, though, before eth went crazy again.
Not the best mobo, but will do for a small built of 1070ies.
I am out of power in everything except dishwasher/dryer.

Maybe I should entice wifie to buy a double decker washer/dryer (LG or something), then I would have both space and power (220V even) to run a couple more rigs

I found this extremely old Lenovo and was curious if all 4 of the old PCIE slots would be able to run 4 GPU's ... surprisingly... it did. And yes, it's a huge mess, but I'll be dismantling everything as soon as the ram for the D8P's get here lol

Yeah. Here's is a pic with the top on.



It comes wrapped in blue plastic wrap. It's aluminium underneath.

EDIT: you mean the temps. Yes the temps I provided are with the top on. Temps were better with the top on.

Those temps are pretty awesome Kayden!

Is that with the top off?

What I did was order the empty cases for $85usd each here: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Latest-support-8-GPU-OEM-4U_60710929543.html?spm=a2700.8443308.0.0.DFJYfB


Then order the mobos here for $120: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/China-New-Top-Sell-Bitcoins-Mining_60707942149.html?spm=a2700.8443308.0.0.DFJYfB

Prices before shipping. It cost me $80 USD to ship each empty rig case, and $130 or so to ship 10 mobo to Malaysia. The first seller also offers the full prebuilt with mobo,ram,ssd,cpu, china psu for $640. But it's cheaper to buy them seperate and build them myself. Also because I have plenty of ssd and cpu to take from my biostar 6 slots


Here's the 1080ti rig.


The first slot is blocked by the mobo cable (not like I have enough power for a 8th card anyway, need those new 2200W evga psu). I use it for cable management space.

any link to those cases ? I might grab one to play with

So I got those prebuilt cases with the 8 slot onda mobo.



The fans are 3400rpm delta fans, plenty of airflow to keep my 1070tis at 60 degrees, and 1080ti blowers at 65 degrees. However my Inno3d 1080tis, some of them positioned between the fans hit 80 degrees while some are 65.

Overall very happy with them. Almost converted my entire farm to these now. These are loud, not something you want in your home.

Cable management space is very tight for my 7x 1080ti rigs.

I got plenty of Biostar TB250 BTC, risers and ram if anyone wants to shoot me an offer.

speaking off , I'm selling 5 of those ONDA 8 slot GPU boards that phill has for $280 each I ordered 50 a few weeks back so I might just sell them all lol

Believe it or not, the miner supply issue is continuing to worsen.  Not only are essentially all good mining cards gone (off retail market anyway), but now it is nearly impossible to find any mining mobo (that supports 6+ GPUs) and it's even carried over into the PSU market, where 1000-1300W PSUs typically used for mining are mostly gone.  This continues to baffle me, but I guess just goes to prove that the majority of the world still either doesn't know about or doesn't believe in the longevity of crypto. To me, this shortage seems worse than the one back in Q2'17.

The really crazy thing is not that 3rd parties are trying to price gouge (not completely against this actually, as everyone deserves a chance to make a legal buck) but it's the fact that there are a lot of people actually paying these 2x, 3x, even 4x retail prices for components.  Here are a few I have observed lately:

- 6-pack of rx 570 8gb sold on ebay for $3,400! That's close to $600/card lol, or 50% more than retail for a Vega-56 lol.
- Several USED Vega 56's selling on ebay for over $900!
- Many mining Mobo's with retail prices at or below $100 are going for over $300!

I actually ordered an Asus Prime Z270-a from Amazon for $150 but it's not in stock and no indication of when it will be in stock. I actually have another ASRock BTC board but was looking to build my next rig with an 1151 chip i got for half price. Plus, I like the the idea of easily being able to accomodate 7 GPUs with a relatively easy path to an 8th via the M2 slot.  So, end-state goal would be 7-8 1070ti/1080 with my 1500W Plat PSU. of course, I only currently have 4 70ti's but more have to come in stock eventually... don't they? ;-)

happy new year Phil and happy new year you other legends

My office PC currently has a trio set-up;

EVGA 1080ti
ASUS Turbo 1080 blower
Zotac 1070ti mini

They mine well and generally stay cool, but they are a little noisy. Has anyone installed a trio of watercooled cards? does it work having slots 2&3 adjacent to each other? most all-in-ones still have a blower fan that would be obstructed on slot 2.

 Mintcell does sell via NewEgg - not sure on how many different items, but definitely their v008 "3 way power" risers in various sized "packs".

or keep a roll of this

https://www.amazon.com/3M-VHB-Tape-RP45-Gray/dp/B012RXB6KU/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?

VHB = very high bond use it to reattach  the  black foam.