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Niann

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I would have to agree with shotgun on that....
If you can work something that will last longer and is way more organized for a couple hundred bucks more...

Anyways, I already worked my way on that thread, all sorts of nice stuff there.
But I suppose I will stick to the idea of a rack.
Unless someone else has a better idea Grin

Cheers.

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Quote from: Detritus on July 23, 2011, 12:43:17 AM

I didn't build a fancy case because I thought it was cool,

I built because I needed a way mount a lot of equipment in a small space and vent it outside...

I'm saving a significant amount of money on AC by doing so, and my living room is more than 15F cooler.

This is the difference - I do not have my 16 GPUs in my living room, so my circumstances are different and thus require a server rack. If I were keeping my gear in my living room I would also go open-air.

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I didn't build a fancy case because I thought it was cool,

I built because I needed a way mount a lot of equipment in a small space and vent it outside...

I'm saving a significant amount of money on AC by doing so, and my living room is more than 15F cooler.

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Quote from: BkkCoins on July 22, 2011, 10:56:17 PM

Take a look through the "Pictures of your Rig" thread. As far as I'm concerned any money spent on fancy boxes and desks is money not spent on GPU cards - and hence, wasted.

That assumes everyone has the same values and purpose. The guys running 42 cards from one rig in their mom's basement with 6 different fans from homedepot because they're 17 years old and don't know dick about distributed computing or clusters, well those are one type of miner. There are others that approach it professionally and have experience in datacenters and HPC/clustering - those are the guys that don't consider infrastructure a waste of money.

Cost is relative. Personally I don't mind dropping several hundred on a managed switch for my rack because I can watch port statistics and have multiple VLANs, but then there are other miners that cobble together a switch and router form a yard sale. It all depends on what you want out of your infrastructure and how much you are willing to invest in quality.

Putting all your money into GPUs is one thing but spending it all at the expense of having a stable and reliable infrastructure is stupid.

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Take a look through the "Pictures of your Rig" thread. As far as I'm concerned any money spent on fancy boxes and desks is money not spent on GPU cards - and hence, wasted.

Niann

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Yeah, about a thousand dollars or so, maybe more..
It's not worth it.

If anyone living closer can ship one to me I would appreciate it xD

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It's all about the game, and how you play it

i suppose one of us in the us could always ship you things but you're right it would cost a ton! Tongue

Niann

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Brazil atm, don't expect anything good here.

deslok

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It's all about the game, and how you play it

what country are you in(i just realised i linked you to a us only store myself)

Niann

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They don't ship worldwide, and even if they did... Taxes would eat me alive =/

I have to buy locally, but sure, shoot Cheesy

Always good to have some insight into good hardware.

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Quote from: Niann on July 22, 2011, 05:24:40 PM

I'm already looking into it, my local retailer is looking into some servers...
He found a few, soon enough I'm gonna have the prices and relay to you guys
so you can toss your ideas at it.

In regard to servers - you can build the same ones I have in my rack. If you want the newegg parts list let me know.

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I'm already looking into it, my local retailer is looking into some servers...
He found a few, soon enough I'm gonna have the prices and relay to you guys
so you can toss your ideas at it.

deslok

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It's all about the game, and how you play it

get that rack and just put one monitor keyboard and mouse on a pedistal a few feet away so it dosen't obstruct airflow kvm's are os agnostic so you can have windows and linux share the same equipment.

Niann

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I was actually looking into something like this.

But custom designed to have slots for seven pcs and three monitors...

But I admit the rack is a way, WAY better idea.

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It's all about the game, and how you play it

Quote from: Niann on July 22, 2011, 04:38:14 PM

It's gonna be a pain to ship one of those...
I'm gonna have to buy locally -.-'

even if you can't find a rack he is correct about the ability to use something like tight VNC to avoid needing the KVM. alternativly to the rack it is possible to build your own, some metal or plastic collapsable shelving would do fine caseless or not(although remember to insulate things electrically with something if your caseless on a metal rack)
one of these with some boxfans attached to one side would do nicely
http://www.harborfreight.com/five-tier-bolt-free-shelving-unit-97476.html

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It's gonna be a pain to ship one of those...
I'm gonna have to buy locally -.-'

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Quote from: Niann on July 22, 2011, 02:10:45 PM

How much does that thing weight?

The rack without any equipment is about 100lbs or maybe 125lb. It has wheels on it that can be removed. I can move it around with it fully loaded up.

Niann

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How much does that thing weight?

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Quote from: Niann on July 22, 2011, 01:19:58 PM

Where did you buy the rack?
And have you had any sort of overheating problems with it?

Thanks.

I bought the rack from Ray at http://www.rhfive.com - he's about an hour drive from me so I just drove on down and picked up the rack and drove it home. I bought the rack and the Sun servers from him before I started mining. The rack was $200, and he has a bunch of them. I've seen other racks on craigslist for $100 and $150 if you're not into the super awesome Sun Microsystems version. Overheating has not been an issue as all of the miners have multiple 120mm case fans running full blast. My cards are all running 62-68C at the moment.

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Where did you buy the rack?
And have you had any sort of overheating problems with it?

Thanks.

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