this leaves you 80$ for the hard drive and the memory, which you could easily do. Note - you're going to want to go linux for this build... just because.
I'd build you this at cost, btw, if you don't wanna futz with the hardware. Granted, its all "put it where it fits", but I guess that still freaks some people out.
Hmmm, it is a generous and tempting offer; could I pay you in Monero though? Maybe cost, +shipping, +10% for your time?
Judging by your contributions, you are likely in a financial situation where you don't need to worry about money anymore, but if you ever wanted to
start a company selling MoneroDo mining computers (just plug it in and mine!), I'd totally endorse you. As a bonus you could point them all to your own pool by default. Any idea how much XMR such a box would mine per week (at current difficulty)? I think I'd want to do it even if I wouldn't get ROI, just to help the network out.
Like I said, those 390x cards don't have any reported hashrates. If they similar to the 290x, they get ~750 h/s each, so that box would get you 1.5 kh/s, which is about 9 xmr per week at the going network rate. Presumably the 390x should do more due to their memory and slightly better clock speed, but its unknown.
you could *totally* pay me in monero!
Of course I forgot some of the other costs, like a case, and the pci-risers, and all the ridiculous to source screws and bolts (m3 and whatever the hell the other one was called. very annoying).
this would be the case I would use:
https://www.circuitspecialists.com/rackmount-enclosure-et535b.htmlso if you ever got tired of the thing humming in your garage it would fit in some hosting center. Granted, it won't look that pretty when I'm done with it. Its gonna need holes. Lots of em. As jwinterm said, speed holes. Makes it go faster. We could also do a conventional case, but then you would be limited to expansion slots designed in those things.
The other nuance you will want to be aware of is my turnaround. I'm guessing this could be built, tested, and shipped in 2 months. I could probably do it in 1, but that depends on how many in-laws come to visit over the weekends. Unfortunately, I still have a day job, but computer hardware is my passion apparently... well I've known this for some time.
Bold italics - HELL NO! They would all be solo miners. Down with pools. (sorry osensei. you run a great pool)
Finally, if this were me, I would max out the pci slots with 750 ti cards (nvidia), not the AMD monsters. A maxed out 750 ti case would only get 1.6 kh/s (compared to a maxed out AMD case, which -at a minimum - would get 4.5 kh/s), but would pull less than 300 watts total, whereas the AMD maxed out beast is going to be near ... i dunno... 1500 kw or something ridiculous. The 2 card one described above is only 500 watts or so.
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