Everybody Post Their MINING RIGS! Show Photos
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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.
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@luxe said in Everybody Post Their MINING RIGS! Show Photos:
@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.
Hi luxe, what do you mean by that the disks are read parallel? Is this something to do with the organization of your plot files throughout your drives?
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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.
For mining, if using CPU, try and use a CPU with at least as many threads as you have drives.
That's kind of hard to sustain long term right? If you want to have more than 8 or 16 drives..
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@nox The miners are multi-threaded - there are separate threads reading each drive at the same time.
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@nox said in Everybody Post Their MINING RIGS! Show Photos:
@luxe said in Everybody Post Their MINING RIGS! Show Photos:
@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.
Hi luxe, what do you mean by that the disks are read parallel? Is this something to do with the organization of your plot files throughout your drives?
No, by using more than one USB controller
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@nox my miners have between 8 and 16 drives - I can pair a CPU to match the capacity.
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@RiskyFire Not sure if i understood your question right ... external drives use the power supply they had included. They are plugged in usb3 from Mainboard and additional USB3 controllers with dedicated controllers for each usb3 slot.
@nox No it just means that your speed increases with every additional drive, as read speed adds up ... so you will never reach read speed of 100 drives with just 10 drives. Or in other words ... The more drives you attach the higher the overall read speed ...
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