If you can get 7950s now, I wouldn't bet on getting them much longer. AMD is phasing out the card and they're totally sold out around here and they're not restocking. If you want one buy it now or bet on buying Radeon 280xs later. I'm getting about 700Mh/s out of my 280xs.
Just as a note, CPUs don't generally consume anything close to their max draw when idle so that's not an important metric.
Topic: What is the best equipment for $1K US? (Read 937 times)
For $1K forget about SHA256, just focus on Scrypt. The hardest part right now is getting the good mining card affordably.
For SHA256 you're looking at much higher pricepoints to mine anything meaningful, at least a few grand.
For SHA256 you're looking at much higher pricepoints to mine anything meaningful, at least a few grand.
Hi i have 1k to invest on a new computer that i want to mine coins with.
what equipment would be versatile enough to mine both SHA256 and scrypt coins in an efficient way…for around 1k?
I found this info before....would this list/info for this price still be the best for you??
You can try 3 x ATI 7850, they cost less and spent less power…
MB GB H61M-DS2V – 51$
CPU Intel G1610 – 45$
HDD no matter – 55$
RAM 2GB DDR3 – 18$
PSU SS 620W bronze – 85$
3x ATI 7850 1GB DDR5 – 3×175$
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Prices are in Bulgaria!
This system will spent less than 450 wats under hard overclock…and will give you 1200 kh/s
VGA: core 1100/ memory 1400
Miner: tread concurrency 8-9000, worksize 256, agression 19
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390-400 kh/s single card
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My rigs:
MB Asrock B75 Pro 3
CPU Intel G1610
HDD 500 GB Seagate SATA3
RAM 4GB DDR3
PSU SS 750W Bronze
3x ATI 7950 Powercolor
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750 wats, 600-610 kh/s single card
Yes they are better but can you get 2 x 7950’s for $375?
For GPU mining a quad 7970 setup gives you 2.6 GH/s.
Right now im running dual 6990’s and getting 1.2gh/s.
both of these GPU setups will cost about $1600 just for the GPU’s
the 6990’s you can run on lower grade MB’s and CPU but they cant touch the Quad 7970’s
the quad 7970 so far what i have found require a $260cpu and $260+ MB but the MB would be running a x16,x8,x8,x8 on the four PCIe 3.0
If you want to water cool the quad 7970’s the whole rig will cost about $3200 the dual 6990’s just stock cooling cost about $2300-2500 and you could water cool that rig and get up to 1.7GH/s but that would cost about $2900-3000 all depending on the parts you want.
My 6990 setup is:
AMD FX-8120
Asus M5A97 r2.0
Gigabyte ATI 6990 (x2)
Wifi card
128GB SSD
Coolermaster 1200w 80gold
Diskdrive (for driver CD’s)
Corsair 600T
I also added 4 high pressure fins on the side panel
get some 7790s, it has currently the best price/hashrate ratio and best power consumption/hashrate ratio:
https://suryarpraveen.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/amd-destroys-nvidia-at-bitcoin-mining-can-the-gap-ever-be-bridged/
If you have more money then go for 7950s.
The CPU I would use is an AMD Trinity or Richland APU. They are cheap and they can be used as an extra GPU. The A10-5800K gives about 114 MHash/s for Bitcoin mining, and about 70 kHash/s for Litecoin Mining with a TDP of 120 Watt. The new A10-6700 should be at same level or a bit above, but consumes less power. The A10-6800K should be even better but power consumption should be close to the A10-5800K.
7750s. Seem to be the most efficient.
what equipment would be versatile enough to mine both SHA256 and scrypt coins in an efficient way…for around 1k?
I found this info before....would this list/info for this price still be the best for you??
You can try 3 x ATI 7850, they cost less and spent less power…
MB GB H61M-DS2V – 51$
CPU Intel G1610 – 45$
HDD no matter – 55$
RAM 2GB DDR3 – 18$
PSU SS 620W bronze – 85$
3x ATI 7850 1GB DDR5 – 3×175$
_____________________
Prices are in Bulgaria!
This system will spent less than 450 wats under hard overclock…and will give you 1200 kh/s
VGA: core 1100/ memory 1400
Miner: tread concurrency 8-9000, worksize 256, agression 19
_______________________________
390-400 kh/s single card
______________________________________________
My rigs:
MB Asrock B75 Pro 3
CPU Intel G1610
HDD 500 GB Seagate SATA3
RAM 4GB DDR3
PSU SS 750W Bronze
3x ATI 7950 Powercolor
———————————————————————-
750 wats, 600-610 kh/s single card
Yes they are better but can you get 2 x 7950’s for $375?
For GPU mining a quad 7970 setup gives you 2.6 GH/s.
Right now im running dual 6990’s and getting 1.2gh/s.
both of these GPU setups will cost about $1600 just for the GPU’s
the 6990’s you can run on lower grade MB’s and CPU but they cant touch the Quad 7970’s
the quad 7970 so far what i have found require a $260cpu and $260+ MB but the MB would be running a x16,x8,x8,x8 on the four PCIe 3.0
If you want to water cool the quad 7970’s the whole rig will cost about $3200 the dual 6990’s just stock cooling cost about $2300-2500 and you could water cool that rig and get up to 1.7GH/s but that would cost about $2900-3000 all depending on the parts you want.
My 6990 setup is:
AMD FX-8120
Asus M5A97 r2.0
Gigabyte ATI 6990 (x2)
Wifi card
128GB SSD
Coolermaster 1200w 80gold
Diskdrive (for driver CD’s)
Corsair 600T
I also added 4 high pressure fins on the side panel
get some 7790s, it has currently the best price/hashrate ratio and best power consumption/hashrate ratio:
https://suryarpraveen.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/amd-destroys-nvidia-at-bitcoin-mining-can-the-gap-ever-be-bridged/
If you have more money then go for 7950s.
The CPU I would use is an AMD Trinity or Richland APU. They are cheap and they can be used as an extra GPU. The A10-5800K gives about 114 MHash/s for Bitcoin mining, and about 70 kHash/s for Litecoin Mining with a TDP of 120 Watt. The new A10-6700 should be at same level or a bit above, but consumes less power. The A10-6800K should be even better but power consumption should be close to the A10-5800K.
7750s. Seem to be the most efficient.
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