Looking for a build.
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@haitch bows and worships the awesomeness of SocalGuys new rig .......
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@socalguy That is a um pretty nice rig there (chuckle)
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talk about an OP pc. idk if i can live up to those standards haha but nah i guess what im looking for is a specific parts build for a mining rig. i can put em together im just not great at knowing what to look for in the parts.
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@elesdii Cooler Master HAF X - High Air Flow Full Tower Computer Case with Windowed Side Panel and USB 3.0 Ports used case through NEW EGG is 119.00 new 189.00 I personally like this case for expansion purposes plus you can get very good air flow. NEW!! Haswell-Extreme Bundle: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz Six Core, GeIL Evo POTENZA 16GB(2X 8GB) RAM DDR4 2400, ASRock X99 Extreme4 Motherboard this is for 655.00. for graphics card you could go with this Sapphire Radeon NITRO RX 460 4GB GDDR5 HDMI/DVI-D/DP OC (UEFI) PCI-E Graphics Card (11257-02-20G) for 140.00 or ASUS Dual-fan Radeon RX 460 2GB OC Edition AMD Gaming Graphics Card with DP 1.4 HDMI 2.0 (DUAL-RX460-O2G) for 105.00 and then power supply for play safe 75.00. so for a total of 1140.00 USD and I added 150.00 for fans or any little stuff. All these parts I looked up on New Egg.
Croydan
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Intel Nuc is interesting:
https://forums.burst-team.us/topic/1705/mining-experience-on-intel-nuc
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@socalguy well it says right on it, "Never Obsolete"
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@elesdii What you can do is post a shortlist of the items you are thinking of purchasing, have multiple options for each different part and then community can then comment on them. Also you can look at the photos of the rigs other community members have posted to get ideas for yours. https://forums.burst-team.us/topic/2411/everybody-post-their-mining-rigs-show-photos/171
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@croydan1 would a gtx 660 work with that? i have one lying around here somewhere
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@elesdii yes it sure would.
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@croydan1 Take a look at the specs here http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-660/specifications it will be plenty for what your doing and if you have one that will save you a few bucks.
Croydan
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@croydan1 okay cool, and last thing, i plan on running a BUNCH of hdd's and externals so would a 550w power supply be okay or should i go higher? the case you mentioned is part of a bundle sale with power supplys which im looking to order today
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550W is plenty for just about any rig unless you're running multiple graphics cards. This tool will also give you a pretty good idea on how much wattage you'll need: http://www.coolermaster.com/power-supply-calculator/
We all gotta start somewhere, ya know? Even if all you got is a potato...
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@elesdii @sevencardz is correct plus you are not going to pull a lot of energy for a while.
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@sevencardz @croydan1 ok cool thank you guys for the input :) i shall post some photos in the coming weeks after i get her all ordered and put together!
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@sevencardz i7 3770K is the way to go for Reading Plots. I actually have a 6 Core i7 2011 that reads back slower than my 3770K. I would stay away from the i3 and i5 if you are planning on expanding drives. My chips are older so the newer versions would most likely be faster and better.
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@CryptoNick Are you using the CPU or the GPU miner? In my example, I was assuming GPU miner would be used because you can save $100 or more going with an unlocked i5 and overclocking it and then put the $100 toward a decent GPU. For example, I use an old AMD FX-8350 with a GTX 950 and it scans 50TB of optimized plots in 20 seconds.
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@sevencardz Sorry got busy... If you get a good enough card sure. I tested a Celeron 2 cores, that I used to have running my Graphics Miners for X11. You can get away with it on that kind of hashing with risers, but I don't know about Plotting, it is still memory intensive since you write from Memory to the drive. Direct plotting may be the only difference. But never tested it. The celeron just bogged out in JMiner trying to mine the drives with a very powerful Video card. I think it was an R290X like $350. I didn't try to plot with it though.
i5 would be minimum in my opinion...
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Don't know if anybody has mentioned this, but you can get a PCI-E card to add SATA ports. I have a PCI-E X1 card that adds 4 SATA ports, it seems to be decently fast, even when talking to multiple drives, at the same time. I think I get about 250MB/s to 300MB/s when talking to 2 drives. I think I got mine for about $20 to $25.
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@Tate-A SAS Array controllers are also a good option. 8 - 16 ports for $50 or less off eBay. SAS Controllers can run both SAS and SATA drives, so they're a cost effective way of adding a lot of drives - and they tend to be FAST.


