Topic: Its alive!! Any tweaks? (Read 367 times)

It reminds me of my first mining rig builds, you may check this out for much easy DIY open rig frames.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04YjRFUc7fY

by the way, Congrats for surviving such incident

Thanks! I’m loving this so far. I’ll probably stick with ZEC for now to avoid the nicehash fees while i figure out the best settings to run to get the best profit margin. I like the hanging idea and may explore that very soon. I may remove the middle card for now if the heat thing didn’t fix itself. I’ll try pointing a fan at it tonight and see how it works

One of my rigs is almost exactly the same as yours except I'm using Gigabyte G1 gaming 1070's. I have another rig which is 5 x 1060 6GB GPUs but I think the 1070 is the sweet spot for hash-rate vs. price.

While the Zencash price was high I was running them a bit higher than 70% power but now it's dropped again so I have switched over to Vertcoin, because Nvidia cards are great at Lyra2v2 algorithm and you can easily run your own Vertcoin P2Pool node, so I also have other people mining via my node and I charge them a very small percentage. If you look at coinmarketcap.com Vertcoin has had a pretty consistent rise in price over the last year, tracking closely with bitcoin - but one of Vertcoins big tenets is that they want their coin to always be proper distributed mining and ASIC resistant - so always minable by average people with GPUs like us -  which I think is something cool so I support it as much as I can. Even when Vertcoin's price is lower than others, it's the only one that I mine where I actually get the reward that is predicted by whattomine.com - because I can have my own pool node so I don't lose hash-rate to latency by sending the work to a pool in another country. I live in Australia so I am usually on servers in Asia if I'm not mining Vertcoin.

If you are happy with equihash at the moment you may as well just point it all to Nicehash because they are paying OK and all the equihash coin prices are fluctuating all over the place.

I agree with @makomako that your cards are very close together - if you don't want to change anything it would help to run a couple of 80mm fans or one 140mm fan blowing air between the cards. I also agree that running fans at 100% isn't sustainable - GPU fans are (I think) chosen on the basis of being able to run at an average of about 60% all the time and you will probably find that the temperature difference between 70% and 100% isn't huge.

I like that idea from @joshuajones02 - I don't think I've seen a rig with hanging cards before.

eBay is your best friend

or just goggle : wire shelving

Thanks for the frame suggestion. Where did you buy that frame?  Hanging then seems like. A good way to take pressure of the risers as well. Going to point an extra fan at them and crack a window to try and help vent. It’s just one card that’s running higher than I would like around 65-69

Congrats! if heat becomes an issue, I did this, you can get individual aluminum racks for like 20 dollars each (the small ones)... the cards dropped 5-8 C without any changes (they were in an open air case close together)

https://imgur.com/a/zaETe

if you can add more space between the GPU that would be great and don't run your fans at 100% it'll die pretty fast

Well after putting this together after two day I got to turn it on tonight.  Although in a freak accident my daughter knocked a closet door loose that fell into my cards and knocked them over and out of their risers.  Terrifying moment but everything survived.  Checked everything and benchmarked all cards to ensure they were properly working.  2 hours into mining and going strong.  I think I ave everything covered

4x 1070 MSI Gaming getting between 1835-1859 sol/S

All cards running at 60 C or less except one I cant get to go below 65 stays below 69 thought

Settings
70% Power
+100 core
+300 memory
 Fans between 85 for 3 cards and 100 on my hottest card.


Rig set up modified old computer case

https://imgur.com/a/GwLmn

Anything else I should adjust right now?