My Mining Rigs!

Hi guys just thought I would show you my mining rigs!
One grate thing about these machines is that they have a side effect of heating your house for free xD.

All the parts for the 3 machines totals to about £3900 or about $6600.
All of the parts (well nearly everything)!


Rig 1, £950/$1600: 1x AX860 Platinum PSU, 1x Asus M5A97 with AMD 145 Sempron 2.8 GHZ, 4GB Ram, 4x asus R9 270 OC, Over clocked from the already selected OC 975 MHz to 1025 MHz. The R9 270 each stick out 450KH/s for a total of 1.8MH/s, one thing I love about the R9 270 is that even with the fan at max there still very quite.




Rig 2, £1700/$2860: 2x AX760 Platinum PSU, 1x Asus M5A97 with AMD 145 Sempron 2.8 GHZ, 4GB Ram, 4x asus R9 290. If I
Over clock them from 947 MHz to 1025 MHz I can get 922KH/s each. The R9 290 each stick out 850KH/s for a total of 3.4MH/s, the really bad thing about the R9 290 is that they are loud al hell! It honest sounds like a jet engine so what ever you do, don't buy a R9 290 or you pc will sound like a fighter jet runway!




Rig 3, £1250/$2100: 2x AX760 Platinum PSU, 1x ASROCK H61 Pro BTC with Intel Celeron G1620 2.7 GHZ, 4GB Ram, 6x asus R9 270 OC. Over clocked from the already oc 975 MHz to 1025 MHz. The R9 270 each stick out 450KH/s(same as before) for a total of 2.7MH/s. To make 6 gpu's work on windows 7 I had to used modified drivers.



And here is some of my wallets.

Send me some monies for free?!?! Haha I wish I had cash to drop like that on a rig. My good olé 7970 is chugging away though at 650kh/s

Wowza. What's the ROI like on that?

Very nice! I'm just plugging away at 450KH/s with my gaming PC.

With that much cash invested I'm surprised you didn't go with ASICs!

Sigurthr said:

Very nice! I'm just plugging away at 450KH/s with my gaming PC.

With that much cash invested I'm surprised you didn't go with ASICs!

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ARG said:

Wowza. What's the ROI like on that?

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Im interested as to the answer for both of these questions.

ARG said:

Wowza. What's the ROI like on that?

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It is just over %100 ROI/Year, but...because cryptocurency fluctuates so much, you have to wait for the exchange rate if you want to sell out. I'm not going to sell out, I'm going to horde the coins hoping they will rise in price in a few years.

Sigurthr said:

Very nice! I'm just plugging away at 450KH/s with my gaming PC.

With that much cash invested I'm surprised you didn't go with ASICs!

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Well, I was thinking about going with ASIC scrypt miners, because they are allot better then gpus as they use nearly no electricity, but we have no idea what the live span on them is like.
Another reason is that cryptocurency is meant to be decentralized and not controllable by anyone like government's, rich people, facebook and ofc google, so people hate asic miners because, it brings they way for people like that to mine all the coins and horde them, which mean they can control the currency. And because of this they are making cryptocurrency resistant to asic miners, by using Scrypt-N, which means that asic miners will be usless in the further but gpus will always be good, and there's probably a high possibility that when asic miners become even cheaper, and rich people buy loads, that all people with gpus will switch to coins like vertcoin and they will rise in price, that's also why I'm going to switch to vertcoin and rotocoin.

Ahh, ok that makes sense if you're going to do Vertcoin and such. I was wondering about that since you can get a much faster ROI with scrypt asics by doing regular scrypt coins. I only mine Doge really, but have considered doing Vert if the deluge of asics hits too hard. I like doge though as it has the highest adoption rate for actual usage next to Bitcoin, and thus isn't just an intermediary for fiat like most coins are. I had high hopes for Auroracoin but it seems to have gone belly up. I do plan on moving to Iceland one day, so it would have been nice to invest in that now.

Just remember about the additional load on your cooling during the summer!

By the way, I've always wondered for these gpu rigs, how the hell do you set it up, I never see any using any monitor array, I mean you've got to run it on some kind of OS and have a screen for set up. What happens when you have to switch pools or reboot and such? Automatic updates requiring reboots, and all the other unplanned program stops and such seem like a nightmare.

Sigurthr said:

By the way, I've always wondered for these gpu rigs, how the hell do you set it up, I never see any using any monitor array, I mean you've got to run it on some kind of OS and have a screen for set up. What happens when you have to switch pools or reboot and such? Automatic updates requiring reboots, and all the other unplanned program stops and such seem like a nightmare.

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I know a lot of miners use ubuntu or windows 7. To configure it all you would need a monitor of course, but when you are done you can easily unplug it. For updates and such you can always turn those off.

Sigurthr said:

Ahh, ok that makes sense if you're going to do Vertcoin and such. I was wondering about that since you can get a much faster ROI with scrypt asics by doing regular scrypt coins. I only mine Doge really, but have considered doing Vert if the deluge of asics hits too hard. I like doge though as it has the highest adoption rate for actual usage next to Bitcoin, and thus isn't just an intermediary for fiat like most coins are. I had high hopes for Auroracoin but it seems to have gone belly up. I do plan on moving to Iceland one day, so it would have been nice to invest in that now.

Just remember about the additional load on your cooling during the summer!

By the way, I've always wondered for these gpu rigs, how the hell do you set it up, I never see any using any monitor array, I mean you've got to run it on some kind of OS and have a screen for set up. What happens when you have to switch pools or reboot and such? Automatic updates requiring reboots, and all the other unplanned program stops and such seem like a nightmare.

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To the moon!

If your considering doing vertcoin And don't ask me why, but with vertcoin the amount of ram you have effects your mining hashrate, with my rigs atm I can mine normal scrypt but if I want to mine Scrypt-N(vertcoin) I need to get at least 8gb of ram for each machine.

Sigurthr said:

Just remember about the additional load on your cooling during the summer!

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Haha yer the summer :/ all the doors and windows will be open!

Sigurthr said:

By the way, I've always wondered for these gpu rigs, how the hell do you set it up, I never see any using any monitor array, I mean you've got to run it on some kind of OS and have a screen for set up. What happens when you have to switch pools or reboot and such? Automatic updates requiring reboots, and all the other unplanned program stops and such seem like a nightmare.

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When I set them up I did use a monitor, I used windows 7(ty tpb) and I disabled all updates, but even if you leave updates on when you reboot cgwatcher will automaticly start mining again, and I just use teamviewer for switching pools and remote control that's why there's no monitors.

I always get legit windows keys off old laptops. Free W7 PRO Always been interested in mining, but hate amd and therefore my gaming rig cannot be a good miner Good luck, i'd really like to see a profit update every once in a while

Very impressive machine you built there!

In the future will anyone boot up DOS on a quantum computer just for fun?

Can't imagine what the ROI would be on a typical entry level quantum machine.

NKO29 said:

I always get legit windows keys off old laptops. Free W7 PRO Always been interested in mining, but hate amd and therefore my gaming rig cannot be a good miner Good luck, i'd really like to see a profit update every once in a while

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amd is the best, well... not for gaming but there not bad, plus they can be used for hacking and mining! And I would show a profit update but the exchange rate of cryptocurrency changes so much, at the current rate im losing every year but in a few months I will probably be gaining again.
ahh wait i will give you a profit update that will be good for a long time lol.

millirad said:

Very impressive machine you built there!

In the future will anyone boot up DOS on a quantum computer just for fun?

Can't imagine what the ROI would be on a typical entry level quantum machine.

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Haha i was thinking the exact same thing when i saw goggles quantum computer.

Just out of curiosity, why spend so much on a GPU mining system when you can buy ASIC miners that are much more powerful for a fraction of the cost?

(I'm new to the world of BitCoin mining, so forgive me if its a stupid question)

If your talking about asic miners for Bitcoin and Sha-256 its just not worth, it it would take years to get 1 bitcoin because most of the coins have been mined up, and the difficulty is very high.
If your talking about Dual asic and scrypt miners, they are better then gpus sort of, they cost more but because they use nearly no electricity you would make more money with them. The only problem is we have no idea how long they last for, unlike gpus which laser for 3-4 years, and newer coins that use Scrypt-n like vertcoin are resistant to asic miners, which means they will be useless in less then a year or so, unlike gpus which you can always mine with and they last for years.

Also because the difficulty of bitcoin is so high 1000Kh/s of asic is equal to 100kh/s of scrypt.