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Quote from: Redrose on April 25, 2017, 04:32:23 AM

For 2000$ I suggest you this configuration :

-Intel Celeron 40$
-ASRock H81 Pro BTC 80$
-SSD 120 Go 40$
-Any gold PSU equal or over 850W ~90-120$
-6x the cheapest RX 570 available (currently MSI Armor) 6x ~170-200$
-6 1x to 16x USB risers 60$
TOTAL : 1410$

For the rest of your money, just start another rig, but with less than 6 GPUs.

Wow great post! I will follow this!

About what I quoted: I think I will follow this advice too, but unfortunately my money don't reflect my wish to start this "adventure"... so my question is: do you think is ok to start with just one gpu and then, when profit starts to come, add more cards? Or is better to wait to have more money and buy all 6 cards?

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Quote from: Jamievs on May 13, 2017, 12:49:53 AM

Quote from: merlinsbeard on May 12, 2017, 11:08:54 PM

Looks good! Where did you buy the ASrock H81 motherboard? I am considering building a dedicated rig.

https://www.ethereumminer.eu/product/Motherboards/ETHEU-MOBO-H81-PRO/Asrock-H81-Pro-BTC.html

Not the cheapest but one of the few with stock

Thanks very much!

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Quote from: Vaccinus on May 13, 2017, 01:42:48 AM

Quote from: Jamievs on May 13, 2017, 12:49:53 AM

Quote from: merlinsbeard on May 12, 2017, 11:08:54 PM

Looks good! Where did you buy the ASrock H81 motherboard? I am considering building a dedicated rig.

https://www.ethereumminer.eu/product/Motherboards/ETHEU-MOBO-H81-PRO/Asrock-H81-Pro-BTC.html

Not the cheapest but one of the few with stock

better wait 1-2 months amazon say that will have it instock, but your price is better than ebay which is at crazy $189 or higher, i think these are private that know about the huge demand and want to make profit from they sold rig

Why wait? if you can mine 2 months earlier you will earn back the price difference anyway..

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Quote from: Jamievs on May 13, 2017, 12:49:53 AM

Quote from: merlinsbeard on May 12, 2017, 11:08:54 PM

Looks good! Where did you buy the ASrock H81 motherboard? I am considering building a dedicated rig.

https://www.ethereumminer.eu/product/Motherboards/ETHEU-MOBO-H81-PRO/Asrock-H81-Pro-BTC.html

Not the cheapest but one of the few with stock

better wait 1-2 months amazon say that will have it instock, but your price is better than ebay which is at crazy $189 or higher, i think these are private that know about the huge demand and want to make profit from they sold rig

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Quote from: criptobear on May 13, 2017, 12:52:13 AM

The Zec hash rate of 522 is referring to how many gpus?

Just one 1080 (8 gb, none ti)

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The Zec hash rate of 522 is referring to how many gpus?

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Quote from: merlinsbeard on May 12, 2017, 11:08:54 PM

Looks good! Where did you buy the ASrock H81 motherboard? I am considering building a dedicated rig.

https://www.ethereumminer.eu/product/Motherboards/ETHEU-MOBO-H81-PRO/Asrock-H81-Pro-BTC.html

Not the cheapest but one of the few with stock

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Looks good! Where did you buy the ASrock H81 motherboard? I am considering building a dedicated rig.

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you are probably very happy person with all this cards)
Wish u good profit!

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So.. lots has happened since my last post. My frames came in and I rearranged all my gpu's.

This is how it is looking now, if you can remember it, a total different sight compared to the cluster of cables I showed in my opening post.

I am still waiting for my order of thumbscrews to get in so I can stack them into one tower.

Also bought a bios from a member on this forum and got my RX 580's tweaked;

The tweaking is not done yet. Sometimes the hashrates drop briefly and the rig is still pulling about 1170 watt, so roughly about 125 watt per card. Which is not too bad because before I started tweaking the rig was on 1550 watt.

I am not sure yet what to do with my 3x XFX RX 480 rig. One out of the 3 has a most likely a different voltage controller and does not like the bios changes / clock changes. I am considering selling them off and place 580's in there. Also my NVIDIA rig still only has just one 1080 in there happily mining at 510-520 sol. Too bad they are fairly expensive to buy.

Also past weeks I have been talking about work about my side project and he might turn into an investor Shocked

EDIT: Also.. if someone knows a reliable supplier of server PSU's / breakout boards in the EU I'd love to hear about it!

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Quote from: h311m4n on April 27, 2017, 04:28:52 AM

I know the struggle mate, all cards are out of stock everywhere or they just have one or two available. This is another thing I have learned, always buy your cards in batches (like 6 GPUS). This way, you're more or less certain to get the same memory brands on all 6 cards and it's much less of a hassle. I have a rig with 4GB cards where 2 have hynix, 2 have elpida and 2 have Samsung memory. I left it on XMR, too much of a hassle to tweak for ETH.

Lucky me, I was able to get my hands on 6x 470 Nitro+ 4GB with 2Ghz memory 2 days ago. They were a bit on the pricey side (~230$) but at current ETH prices, I'm not too concerned about how much cards cost.

Yeah, when you're not sure about stock, it's better to ring them up or send them an e-mail to request how many they have in inventory. This way you avoid having your funds stuck especially if you can't afford to make a same payment of +1000€ while waiting for your refund (I suppose you're in Germany if you order at Casekings).

I agree on buying in batches. I have sort of the same problem with my 480's. Also I am not in Germany, on the world-map I am one country to the left Cheesy

I did order another 6 at a different party (Mindfactory) a little bit after the news came in so fortunately not much additional waiting time. Turned out the cards where €20,- cheaper each at Mindfactory! So I ended up with an even better deal. I was pleasently surprised casekings refunded the purchase to my paypal within hours of emailing them I wished to cancel the order.

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Quote from: Jamievs on April 26, 2017, 02:15:19 PM

Thanks h311m4n. I made the USB install just now and I appreciate the remarks. Incase I only get 5 to work I do have slots open (for now) on other mobo's.

Waiting for parts is annoying. Even worse.. I made my first order ever today Caseking for 6 cards that were in stock according to there website. 6 hours after ordering I got a message they are now out of stock and they don't know when new ones will arrive. So not only do I have to search for a supplier that has them in stock but the funds for 6 GPU's are stuck on their bank account know and lord knows how long companies can take to get you your refund....... Undecided

I know the struggle mate, all cards are out of stock everywhere or they just have one or two available. This is another thing I have learned, always buy your cards in batches (like 6 GPUS). This way, you're more or less certain to get the same memory brands on all 6 cards and it's much less of a hassle. I have a rig with 4GB cards where 2 have hynix, 2 have elpida and 2 have Samsung memory. I left it on XMR, too much of a hassle to tweak for ETH.

Lucky me, I was able to get my hands on 6x 470 Nitro+ 4GB with 2Ghz memory 2 days ago. They were a bit on the pricey side (~230$) but at current ETH prices, I'm not too concerned about how much cards cost.

Yeah, when you're not sure about stock, it's better to ring them up or send them an e-mail to request how many they have in inventory. This way you avoid having your funds stuck especially if you can't afford to make a same payment of +1000€ while waiting for your refund (I suppose you're in Germany if you order at Casekings).

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Thanks h311m4n. I made the USB install just now and I appreciate the remarks. Incase I only get 5 to work I do have slots open (for now) on other mobo's.

Waiting for parts is annoying. Even worse.. I made my first order ever today Caseking for 6 cards that were in stock according to there website. 6 hours after ordering I got a message they are now out of stock and they don't know when new ones will arrive. So not only do I have to search for a supplier that has them in stock but the funds for 6 GPU's are stuck on their bank account know and lord knows how long companies can take to get you your refund....... Undecided

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Quote from: Jamievs on April 26, 2017, 04:15:57 AM

Quote from: Redrose on April 25, 2017, 04:32:23 AM

Quote from: no1blue on April 25, 2017, 02:12:15 AM

Hi all

I am new here. I am planing to invest in mining.

Could you give me some advise on where to start.
I got about 2000USD to start. My price of electricity is about 0.1USD/kWh.

Thank you.

For 2000$ I suggest you this configuration :

-Intel Celeron 40$
-ASRock H81 Pro BTC 80$
-SSD 120 Go 40$
-Any gold PSU equal or over 850W ~90-120$
-6x the cheapest RX 570 available (currently MSI Armor) 6x ~170-200$
-6 1x to 16x USB risers 60$
TOTAL : 1410$

For the rest of your money, just start another rig, but with less than 6 GPUs.

Dont forget about some ram though Wink

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So.. I ordered everything. While people at different companies are now busy with picking my orders and putting them on transport it is time to prepare for installation.

I ordered the ASRock H81 Pro BTC (and also 6x RX 580 Grin

) and I have some questions about it

1) If I use powered risers, do I use the molex connectors on the board. Common sense tells me not to since I user powered risers but I get mixed results when searching about this on google.
2) How do I install windows? On other boards I read about installing windows (10) in UEFI mode. Do I have to do that for this board too? Seems easy to make an USB flash drive installation for either mode.
3) Do you guys just plug in all 6 GPU's when you fire it up for the first time or do you add one and install it over time?

1. Some people say you don't need to. My experience is you do have to, even with powered risers (at least on my BTC pro boards, I get a warning on boot if I don't)
2. Install from a USB stick like you would any other windows
3. I would suggest plugging in one GPU until Windows is installed. Once it is, tweak your Windows properly (deactivate all 3d effects, useless services, windows defender etc.). By then Windows will have installed a driver for your card. Remove it using DDU, shutdown, plug in your cards, fire the rig up and install the driver through the device manager by pointing to the display driver folder. Your cards will install one by one.

Note: you will have to use a recent driver for your RX5xx, which means you'll have to patch the driver to tweak your cards with bios mods, otherwise, you'll get "code 43" errors. Also, it seems people are having a difficult time getting more than 5 of these RX5xx series working (because of driver or patched, I don't know, it's just what I've read). This is also the reason I got some more 470s and not 570s, I'm going to let others deal with the hassle of new-sort-of-untested hardware until things work in a plug and play fashion

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Quote from: Redrose on April 25, 2017, 04:32:23 AM

Quote from: no1blue on April 25, 2017, 02:12:15 AM

Hi all

I am new here. I am planing to invest in mining.

Could you give me some advise on where to start.
I got about 2000USD to start. My price of electricity is about 0.1USD/kWh.

Thank you.

For 2000$ I suggest you this configuration :

-Intel Celeron 40$
-ASRock H81 Pro BTC 80$
-SSD 120 Go 40$
-Any gold PSU equal or over 850W ~90-120$
-6x the cheapest RX 570 available (currently MSI Armor) 6x ~170-200$
-6 1x to 16x USB risers 60$
TOTAL : 1410$

For the rest of your money, just start another rig, but with less than 6 GPUs.

Dont forget about some ram though Wink

.

So.. I ordered everything. While people at different companies are now busy with picking my orders and putting them on transport it is time to prepare for installation.

I ordered the ASRock H81 Pro BTC (and also 6x RX 580 Grin

) and I have some questions about it

1) If I use powered risers, do I use the molex connectors on the board. Common sense tells me not to since I user powered risers but I get mixed results when searching about this on google.
2) How do I install windows? On other boards I read about installing windows (10) in UEFI mode. Do I have to do that for this board too? Seems easy to make an USB flash drive installation for either mode.
3) Do you guys just plug in all 6 GPU's when you fire it up for the first time or do you add one and install it over time?

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Quote from: Redrose on April 25, 2017, 04:32:23 AM

Quote from: no1blue on April 25, 2017, 02:12:15 AM

Hi all

I am new here. I am planing to invest in mining.

Could you give me some advise on where to start.
I got about 2000USD to start. My price of electricity is about 0.1USD/kWh.

Thank you.

For 2000$ I suggest you this configuration :

-Intel Celeron 40$
-ASRock H81 Pro BTC 80$
-SSD 120 Go 40$
-Any gold PSU equal or over 850W ~90-120$
-6x the cheapest RX 570 available (currently MSI Armor) 6x ~170-200$
-6 1x to 16x USB risers 60$
TOTAL : 1410$

For the rest of your money, just start another rig, but with less than 6 GPUs.

Thank you for your advise.

I am really waver between buying an ASIC or start 6xGPU rig Huh

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Quote from: Jamievs on April 25, 2017, 01:08:48 AM

Above has been working fine for days along with 3x RX 480 running at stock settings. Since I no longer game the CPU is massive overkill so I traded it for a EVGA 1600w PSU. Yesterday my Intel Celeron G3900 came in and as usual I had it swapped in minutes. But the rig is very unstable now. With all 4 GPU's connected it would hard reset within a minute of starting with dual mining. With 3 GPU's connected all lasts longer but it still crashes way too often. The idea was to swap to a celeron because it uses less power and I would make profit getting the PSU out of it, but what is happening now makes no sense to me. Anyone has any clue how that is remotely possible?

I managed to fix the problem my re-flashing the mobo (with same version) with the new CPU in it. I guess during the flashing everything calibrated again and now it is running stable again for the past 12 hours.

Based on reactions on this forum about 570's/580;s I am about to order https://www.newegg.com/global/nl/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131714&ignorebbr=1 x 5 (5 is the order limit Sad

). Reason I am leaning towards this card is that it has limited OC functions (for now) but it runs with 27.8mhs / 800 mhs stable for dual mining based on stock settings. Sounds great for a new rig. That way it seems like I have decent stock results so I focus on learning other stuff first.

Fairly exciting. Never ordered anything from USA before.

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Quote from: no1blue on April 25, 2017, 02:12:15 AM

Hi all

I am new here. I am planing to invest in mining.

Could you give me some advise on where to start.
I got about 2000USD to start. My price of electricity is about 0.1USD/kWh.

Thank you.

For 2000$ I suggest you this configuration :

-Intel Celeron 40$
-ASRock H81 Pro BTC 80$
-SSD 120 Go 40$
-Any gold PSU equal or over 850W ~90-120$
-6x the cheapest RX 570 available (currently MSI Armor) 6x ~170-200$
-6 1x to 16x USB risers 60$
TOTAL : 1410$

For the rest of your money, just start another rig, but with less than 6 GPUs.

no1blue

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Hi all

I am new here. I am planing to invest in mining.

Could you give me some advise on where to start.
I got about 2000USD to start. My price of electricity is about 0.1USD/kWh.

Thank you.

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Happy day wish you my minning experience.

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