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Topic: Sanity check before I purchase 8k€ hardware - page 2. (Read 1805 times)

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Where did you find the gpus?

That's my question. Where are you getting these cards?
legendary
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Where did you find the gpus?

Would love to know this to if you don't mind sharing OP.  I have been looking on/off for RX 570's and have had 0 luck.  To secure 24 you must have a good source.  I would make sure that your deal is "secured" before buying all other gear.  As I would hate to buy all other gear then have it sitting trying to get GPU's.  (You could switch GPU's but that is kinda another topic)
legendary
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'The right to privacy matters'

I think you are wrong to go this way.

do ½ your way do ½ this way if you can get prices

wait for quote take a minute.  build two of mine and two of yours

@ op how much did you spend for the six card setup?


sorry that I missed this.


This is an easy 3 card monster rig.

two 1080 ti's -------------------------1300 on sale
one 1070------------------------------  369
one 128 gb ssd -----------------------   40
one 8gb stick of ram -----------------   50
one i5 7400t cpu----------------------  130 eBay sale
one gigabyte z270 mobo ------------   108
one 850 watt  pat psu  --------------   112

total ---------------------------------- 2109

does 2300 for skein
does  1750 for zcash   at 550 watts.

riser free   and you can add 1 more card with a riser if you want to expand  to me no one should build a six card rig as the first rig.


legendary
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The electricity cost will kill you.
hero member
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I can confirm the board you selected works just fine with 6. If you go with 9 you will most likely run into a bunch of problems that create more downtime and increase ROI time.
hero member
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Where did you find the gpus?
hero member
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The ASUS Z270 PRIME A / AR is verified to do 9 cards, 264 MH/s per rig if you add M.2 to PCI-E expansion adapters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ-EAunoAqY

That would lower your costs to 3 sets of motherboards, CPU's, RAM and SSD's.

I recently did a build of the BBT mining case below out of two 8ft pieces of 1/8" x 3/4" angled aluminum, one 8ft 1" x 2" piece of pine and #8 1/2" self-tapping screws. The case will fit up to 7 RX 4XX/5XX if you put them about 1 inch apart. For 9 GPU's I would increase the length of the longest frame section by 7 inches from 19.2 to 26 inches and I would also increase the frame height by 2 inches from 9.25 to 11.25 inches, which means you will need to use three 8ft pieces of 1/8" x 3/4" angled aluminum instead of two.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5xNrlxsCVs

BBT on YouTube said he will have a mining rig case build video next week with updates from his original video.







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With 2 friends we are going to invest some € in mining, I want before clicking the order button to be good. Can you guys tell me if I forgot anything? Also, do you know any blueprints/plans to build rigs in aluminium/wood ? I can't find any in stock in France so I'm going to build them.
Here is the setup (4 in total) - Managed to secure 24 MSI RX570 GAMING X 4Gb :

MSI Radeon RX 570 GAMING X, 4 Gb   24x224 €
COOLER MASTER V1200 Mod. 80+Plat.   4x274 €
ASUS PRIME Z270-P iZ270 USB3.1 LGA1151   4x140 €
INTEL Pentium Dual Core SKYLAKE G4400   4x60 €
KINGSTON DDR4 2400 8Go   4x72 €
SSD KINGSTON UV400 120Go   4x75 €
PCI E Riser   24x10 €
Power Button   4x2 €
Price per unit      2027 €
Total order      8108 €

Adding the cost of the aluminium frame etc let say 8500 € of investment. Breakeven expected in 4-5 months?

Is there any difficulties to mine with Z270 motherboards?

Thanks  for the advices
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