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Topic: Whats your setup? Hobbyist Miners - page 4. (Read 9442 times)

newbie
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May 02, 2013, 11:09:34 AM
#11
I have 15 BFL Singles mining away with 15 SC upgrades dancing in my dreams. Every email I get I hope it is BFL asking me to send them in for upgrade.

Damn.... Sounds like you knew someone over at BFL...   Shocked
newbie
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May 02, 2013, 11:08:25 AM
#10
Im mining with 4 X 7850 / 2 x 7770 / 2x 7950

Makes about 3000 KHashs consuming 1,5 KW/h :-D

Im payinf 0,28 $ per Kw/h, so at the moment its really worth the effort.

What types of chassis do you use for those machines (and perhaps in particular, the quad-GPU one)?

I have a well-ventilated SFF case for my single-GPU system, but I guess I'll have to use milk crates or something when it reaches 4..

I 2nd this request... Can you share more details?
full member
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May 02, 2013, 11:06:24 AM
#9
Intel ATOM N2600 (1.6 GHz) CPU
Sad
newbie
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May 02, 2013, 10:49:44 AM
#8
Im mining with 4 X 7850 / 2 x 7770 / 2x 7950

Makes about 3000 KHashs consuming 1,5 KW/h :-D

Im payinf 0,28 $ per Kw/h, so at the moment its really worth the effort.

What types of chassis do you use for those machines (and perhaps in particular, the quad-GPU one)?

I have a well-ventilated SFF case for my single-GPU system, but I guess I'll have to use milk crates or something when it reaches 4..
sr. member
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Merit: 250
May 02, 2013, 04:55:45 AM
#7
Im mining with 4 X 7850 / 2 x 7770 / 2x 7950

Makes about 3000 KHashs consuming 1,5 KW/h :-D

Im payinf 0,28 $ per Kw/h, so at the moment its really worth the effort.
member
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Merit: 10
May 02, 2013, 04:40:19 AM
#6
15 BFL ghezzz how did you get those you must have known someone on the inside

Must have cost a bomb admitantly
newbie
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May 02, 2013, 04:31:14 AM
#5
15 BFL ghezzz how did you get those you must have known someone on the inside
member
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May 02, 2013, 03:59:06 AM
#4
Wow, I really envy you guys who found some free power! In Denmark, the kWh rate is about 0.36 USD, so it's pretty expensive to mine over here, haha.

I turned out to have a Radeon 5850/Core i5-750 SFF PC lying around, so that's been setup for mining. Definitely going to upgrade this though: removing the (albeit well cooled) SFF case, and buying more GPU's. (Too bad those PCI-E riser cables seem so.. rare?)

There seems to be a lot of hype around the Radeon 7950, but man, that card is just insanely expensive. Over here, a used 5850 is around 1/4th the price - and maybe I'm just lucky, but they seem rather easy to get hold of as well.

I've struggled to find any 5 series cards in the UK, there's quite a lot of 6 series cards flying around though on Ebay, considering expanding but I'd rather not if these new ASIC miners do change the game that much, I'd rather save some BTC for a 2nd Gen or a second hand 1st Gen.

I have 15 BFL Singles mining away with 15 SC upgrades dancing in my dreams. Every email I get I hope it is BFL asking me to send them in for upgrade.

Are your FPGA quite stable to run then?
newbie
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May 02, 2013, 03:41:55 AM
#3
Wow, I really envy you guys who found some free power! In Denmark, the kWh rate is about 0.36 USD, so it's pretty expensive to mine over here, haha.

I turned out to have a Radeon 5850/Core i5-750 SFF PC lying around, so that's been setup for mining. Definitely going to upgrade this though: removing the (albeit well cooled) SFF case, and buying more GPU's. (Too bad those PCI-E riser cables seem so.. rare?)

There seems to be a lot of hype around the Radeon 7950, but man, that card is just insanely expensive. Over here, a used 5850 is around 1/4th the price - and maybe I'm just lucky, but they seem rather easy to get hold of as well.
newbie
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May 02, 2013, 03:25:09 AM
#2
I have 15 BFL Singles mining away with 15 SC upgrades dancing in my dreams. Every email I get I hope it is BFL asking me to send them in for upgrade.
member
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May 02, 2013, 03:08:08 AM
#1
As I'm a hobbyist miner and I need to make a few posts I thought I'd make an effort to see what other hobbyists use. Mine:

2 AMD 6950 graphics cards I got off Ebay
and a beast of a computer I built a year or two back running Xubuntu.

Used to generate around 1BTC a week (I've had some issues with OS instability and cards overheating lately), I don't pay power bills as my work was kind enough to let me rig up a machine in their server room.

Hoping to get on the ASIC bandwagon at some point but not overly worried about this gold rush atm, seems a lot of people have faith in the things.
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