Topic: Mining Rig that honestly works - a recommendation - page 2. (Read 2113 times)
I'm confused, why are you wasting your money/time with GPUs?
I am not sure I understand your dilemma and/or what problems you have had?
Personally I use a low power Sempron cpu, cheap ram and a cheap hard disk together with a Gigabyte UD5 mobo that I run 3x 7970's - 2 in mobo one on riser with a 1050W Corsair psu. Windows 7 64. The rig hashes at about 2.1Mh without pushing too hard. I am replacing this with new and better specific hardware soon, but I haven't had any problems with this per se.
It is a waste of money to use expensive processors and that stuff for mining because it has no bearing on performance, but other than that most mobo's and so on should work without any problems as ong as it has the required PCI-E slots and so on?
Also, I recommend that you use GPU's that can be UNDERvolted. This usually allows you to run high clocks without generating excess heat.
Anyway, not sure I understand what you are asking so hope this helps....
J
Personally I use a low power Sempron cpu, cheap ram and a cheap hard disk together with a Gigabyte UD5 mobo that I run 3x 7970's - 2 in mobo one on riser with a 1050W Corsair psu. Windows 7 64. The rig hashes at about 2.1Mh without pushing too hard. I am replacing this with new and better specific hardware soon, but I haven't had any problems with this per se.
It is a waste of money to use expensive processors and that stuff for mining because it has no bearing on performance, but other than that most mobo's and so on should work without any problems as ong as it has the required PCI-E slots and so on?
Also, I recommend that you use GPU's that can be UNDERvolted. This usually allows you to run high clocks without generating excess heat.
Anyway, not sure I understand what you are asking so hope this helps....
J
I wasted 6 hours today with expensive crap that the local (Newark de) Tiger direct sold me trying to build my first mining rig.
Asus Intel z87-Pro MOB
Intel Core i7-4770K processor
8 gb 1866 Mhz DDr3 Ram
it's all getting returned tomorow
my preference is Ubuntu, but in a pinch I'll run Windows 7 since I have a valid license)
and for 6 hours I tried to get my MSI -R9 290X video board working and finally at 11:30 tonight I took it all apart and back it goes tomorrow.
I have a power supply and a great video board to start mining with - nw all I need is a great motherboard that actually works.
Who can make a recommendation and please NO INTEL integrated Network adapters because Ubuntu has no drivers for the new Intel Integrated Network adapters.
I want a machine that will handle four video boards for me to do asic-resistant mining and one that will actually load and recognize the onboard network adapter (preferably western digital) and will recognise my MSI R9 290X video board.
I want a recommedation from something you have that actually works - not pie in the sky speculation - I simply don't have the time to dicking around with shit that does not work.
thanks!
Asus Intel z87-Pro MOB
Intel Core i7-4770K processor
8 gb 1866 Mhz DDr3 Ram
it's all getting returned tomorow
my preference is Ubuntu, but in a pinch I'll run Windows 7 since I have a valid license)
and for 6 hours I tried to get my MSI -R9 290X video board working and finally at 11:30 tonight I took it all apart and back it goes tomorrow.
I have a power supply and a great video board to start mining with - nw all I need is a great motherboard that actually works.
Who can make a recommendation and please NO INTEL integrated Network adapters because Ubuntu has no drivers for the new Intel Integrated Network adapters.
I want a machine that will handle four video boards for me to do asic-resistant mining and one that will actually load and recognize the onboard network adapter (preferably western digital) and will recognise my MSI R9 290X video board.
I want a recommedation from something you have that actually works - not pie in the sky speculation - I simply don't have the time to dicking around with shit that does not work.
thanks!
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