Everybody Post Their MINING RIGS! Show Photos
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@haitch said in Everybody Post Their MINING RIGS! Show Photos:
@goodplanets One thing I've found that helps with plotting is a high speed drive for the pagefile - I'm replotting my 60TB drive and threw a PCIe NVMe drive in the rig, and created a 64GB page file on it, removing the pagefile on the physical drive - it's been running great.
And you lost me there. :( is there a simple explanation for us english speakers?
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@Njcfamily31907 Any of those on the NewEgg list will be fine - but make sure you get Xeons, you can't run non-xeons in a dual processor config.
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@haitch ok thx
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@jervis when memory is running low on a system, it writes stuff it doesn't need right now out to the pagefile, and when it needs that data, brings it back. If the pagefile is on a regular HDD, that can be slow. Instead I put in a PCIe NVMe drive - it's an extremely high performance SSD drive (they leave regular SSD's in the dust) - eg http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820249081&cm_re=nvme--20-249-081--Product - you then configure Windows to use that drive for the Pagefile instead of your harddisk - makes everything a LOT faster
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@haitch oh there. That's easy now. Thanks. So that's what to do in this case. :)
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@goodplanets I would go with the 6700K because it uses the LGA 1151 socket (Same as the upcoming Kaby Lake processors). So if you have the right socket for it get this one. On the other hand if you want the extra cores than the 2011 v3 socket is something that comes with a premium.
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woohooo new home for my miner came in the mail today finishing setup now and will load some pic's im no longer just a pile of parts siting ontop of a case thats to small for the Mobo lol.
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my mining rig after i upgraded Mobo and CPU to MSI 970a SLI Krait ed , AMD 8320e CPU found out later that my case was to small so i cut the bottom off mounted the Mobo and turned the case on its side
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new case seting up full size much much bigger than the old one ... even makes my 32" monitor look small. ton's more room got slots for 10 internal Hdd's all with individual rubber isolators on every tray. got a quick Sata Hdd slot on top if i feel like using it with two USB 3.0 in the back and two usb 3.0 on top to go along with the 4 normal usb's on top . last pic is setup and mining
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@haitch H good idea on the NVMe Drive for the page file. I have noted a lot of C: drive activity when plotting. When you set it up did you also leave a page file on the C Drive as this article recommends
or did you just put it on the NVMe drive? Also what did you set the size to?
Rich
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@RichBC Nothing on the C: drive - NVMe only, and 64G - (this is a 28 GB system)
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I'm going to power my laptop setup with solar power soon I can post pictures if anyones interested.
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@weaveR Any solar panels here would be covered in snow soon .... but given the Shaky Isles, solar is probably a good idea for you - if you can maintain an internet connection ... ;-)
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@haitch It's summer nearly in NZ as you probably know and we don't get much snow around residential areas so that shouldn't be an issue but since power in NZ is so expensive (about 23 cents per kWh for me) it should pay for itself over time - well as long as it's sunny.
I'm hooked up to a fiber internet connection too with a wired connection and its been working solid since I had it installed.
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Core i5-2400 @ 3.1GHz
4GB RAM
Win 7 64 Bit
3 x 5TB External HDD USB 3.0
4 x 32 GB Flash Drive USB 3.0
2x 1TB External HDD USB 3.0
1 x 512GB External HDD USB 2.0
1 x 32GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive
BB-8 and Go Pro just charging :)Mining Power @ 15.1TB. Scans through all the drives in about 62 Seconds. Mining with CPU - AVX.
I have a Sapphire HD 7970 ready to go. Waiting to upgrade the stock PSU.
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Very nice
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@cryptojam said in Everybody Post Their MINING RIGS! Show Photos:
Mining Power @ 15.1TB. Scans through all the drives in about 62 Seconds. Mining with CPU - AVX.
Dude maybe you should optimize your plots or run the GPU miner in order to readd those plots faster ;D
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@Luxe How did you get your read speeds so fast. The best I've managed is 550 MB/s with a RX 470. My 7950 Does it about 400 MB/s
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@RiskyFire Well guess there are multiple factors ... number of disks, as they are read parallel (as far as possible with limited threads), also i tried not to add to much hdds to a single controller ... and i have a workstation motherboad with 40 pcie lanes and quite fast 4 channel memory.
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@luxe Okay, thanks I'm trying a few things here.
Also with your external drives do you have them plugged into the mains? or running them off a small psu. I'm thinking like those ones gridseed was using to power 10x usb miners.








