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Title: Rig for a friend .. opinions Post by: Jama on April 13, 2013, 11:13:33 AM Hello.
my friend has asked me to build him a rig capable of BTC and LTC mining. His budget is £1200 Below is what I have put together coming in at £1119 Any opinions on where to spend or save a little more. It has to have a case, open air is not an option. Motherboard Gigabyte 970A-DS3 AMD 970A CPU AMD Sempron 145 2.80GHz RAM 12GB generic dd3 SSD 60gb ocz Agility 3 GPU 1 Sapphire HD 7950 Boost 3072MB GPU 2 Sapphire HD 7950 Boost 3072MB GPU 3 Sapphire HD 7950 Boost 3072MB PSU 1000w Cougar Modular ATX CASE Cooler Master HAF XB 2 cards would run straight in the x16 slots, with the 3rd on an x1 riser. Title: Re: Rig for a friend .. opinions Post by: shibaji on April 13, 2013, 11:15:04 AM Looks good - however, gpu btc days are nearly over. Better bet is to wait for asic for btc and fpga for ltc.
Title: Re: Rig for a friend .. opinions Post by: Jama on April 13, 2013, 11:19:13 AM Looks good - however, gpu btc days are nearly over. Better bet is to wait for asic for btc and fpga for ltc. Thanks. I forgot to mention electricity cost is 0 for the next 2 years. Title: Re: Rig for a friend .. opinions Post by: middlemarkal on April 13, 2013, 03:37:02 PM if you use a riser why purchase a case ? ;D
look at that : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=163306.0 Title: Re: Rig for a friend .. opinions Post by: Bogart on April 18, 2013, 04:51:42 AM Don't need an SSD. Any old hard drive is fine. I use a 2GB USB Flash drive myself.
12GB RAM is way too much. 2GB is fine. I just built a rig around a 970A-DS3, with 7950s. I can't get the 5th card to work (in the slot nearest the CPU). The other 4 work if I leave that one out. Title: Re: Rig for a friend .. opinions Post by: BeetcoinScummer on April 18, 2013, 05:38:42 AM if you use a riser why purchase a case ? ;D He probably wants to jerryrig the third card in some location within the case away from the other two slotted cards.Title: Re: Rig for a friend .. opinions Post by: Marrs on April 18, 2013, 09:06:53 PM I just built a rig around a 970A-DS3, with 7950s. I can't get the 5th card to work (in the slot nearest the CPU). The other 4 work if I leave that one out. You might need a PCI-E presence short (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=102547.msg1124000#msg1124000). Title: Re: Rig for a friend .. opinions Post by: logicbomb666 on April 19, 2013, 03:02:27 AM Don't need an SSD. Any old hard drive is fine. I use a 2GB USB Flash drive myself. 12GB RAM is way too much. 2GB is fine. this. Title: Re: Rig for a friend .. opinions Post by: computerlamp on April 19, 2013, 03:15:42 AM Pretty sure you need more than 2GB ram if you want to ltc mine, I'm not 100% sure so look it up.
Title: Re: Rig for a friend .. opinions Post by: aqrulesms on April 21, 2013, 04:00:38 AM Pretty sure you need more than 2GB ram if you want to ltc mine, I'm not 100% sure so look it up. Definitely get around 6-8 GB of RAM, it'll come in handy. My reaper applications run in at around 1.5 GB each so it takes quite a huge amount of memory for LITECOIN. Title: Re: Rig for a friend .. opinions Post by: NetcodePool on April 21, 2013, 03:26:05 PM Hmm thats interesting, ive been running 4GB on my rigs and use reaper and able to pull expected rates.
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