This latest batch had some that had electric shorts that prevented the PC from starting! Most of the time the GPU card will stop working due to a bad risers after a few hours or a day. I’ve tried 3 different brands, and usually half of the risers will be bad and won’t work. And it costs less.īuy twice as many PCI-E risers as you think you will need. I like the Biostar better because it does not require any messing around with BIOS. I used an MSI board in the video, and the Biostar on a different build. ATX power switch – PC Case Red Green LED Lamp ATX Power Supply Reset HDD Switch Lead 20″ – $10.GPU’s – SAPPHIRE NITRO Radeon R9 Fury 100379NTOC+SR 4GB 4096-Bit HBM TRI-X OC+ (UEFI) Video Card – qty 6 at $260 – $1550.PCI-E Risers – ELEGIANT PCI-E USB 3.0 Cable Express 1X to 16X Extension Cable – Mining Dedicated Graphics Card Extension Cable Adapter with SATA Cable for PC Desktop Laptop – qty 6 at $11 – $66.You probably have an old one laying around – $10 AC Power Cord – IEC13 to whatever format your power comes in, like NEMA5-15.ParallelMiner 24 INCH 16AWG 6 PIN MALE TO 8 PIN (6+2) MALE PCIE POWER CABLE – qty 6 at $3.25 – $20.ParellelMiner X5 BREAKOUT BOARD ADAPTER COMPATIBLE WITH HP 1200 WATT DPS-1200FB – $16.Power Supply 2 – Build this out of these 3 parts:.Power Supply 1 – Antec High Current Pro 1300W ATX12V/EPS12V Power Supply HCP-1300 Platinum – $260.Case – ParallelMiner BAREBONE – ALL ALUMINIUM 6.1 GPU OPEN AIR MINING CASE – $120.SSD – KingDian 2.5″ 7mm SATA III 6Gb/s Internal Solid State Drive SSD for Desktop PCs Laptop ( 60GB ) – $30.Memory – Kingston HyperX FURY 8GB Kit (2x4GB) 1600MHz DDR3 CL10 DIMM – Black (HX316C10FBK2/8) – $49.Motherboard – BIOSTAR TB Intel B85 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Motherboards – Intel – $71.Bill of MaterialsĮquipment list – Links are to Newegg or Amazon or Parallel Mining product page Plug that into the Equihash numbers at Coinwarz, and you’ll see Zcash comes out pretty good. First year mining pays for itself, then it’s making you money. In January of 2016, this box generates $250/month of Zcash, and uses about $50/month of electricity, for a net of $200/month, or $2400 per year. This box uses 7 amps at 240 VAC – 1600 Watts of power. This same basic setup can be used to mine for Ethereum and Monero also.Ĭheck out the Stats – 2515 Hash/second. It’s set up to run headless on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with the latest AMD drivers. I built a new 6 GPU mining rig and got things going. So when Claymore came out with a Linux version of the Zcash miner, I was very happy. Windows was rebooting at inconvenient times for updates, and I hated having to VPN in and get a GUI going with NoMachine just to make a change. When I need to check on the miner, or reboot it, I want to be able to SSH to it directly, make the change, and be done. Fabulous performance, no problems.Įxcept I don’t like Windows 10. It was good, but Claymore’s Windows version was 3 times as fast! I moved the machines to Windows 10 and ran the Claymore miner. The first miners I built for Zcash used the SilentArmy miner for Ubuntu. I wanted to mine Zcash also, and found that the AMD R9 Fury cards were better than the AMD RX480’s. I really like the AMD RX480 cards, and recently moved my Ethereum miners to using Claymore’s mining code. I’ve been building mining rigs using Ubuntu linux for a while now. These will usually pay for themselves in one year, including the cost of electricity. They are multipurpose, and can be used to mine many different crypto-currencies. GPU mining rigs are just as profitable as Bitcoin mining, the products are easy to purchase, and the GPU cards have a 2 year warranty in case you burn them out. If you want to get started in crypto-currency, and have a little bit of technical knowhow, I recommend you build a GPU mining rig first. But the equipment is noisy, expensive, and hard to get. Latest version of my guide to building and operating a mining rig is here, How to Build a 6 Rig GPU Miner for Zcash and Ethereum with Nvidia GTX 1070 and EthosDistro posted on Steemit.īitcoin is getting all the press, and Bitcoin mining can be profitable.
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