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Alternate cryptocurrencies => Mining (Altcoins) => Topic started by: bobasaurus on January 24, 2014, 07:06:58 PM



Title: My first rig: the Dogerector 3000, built using an erector set and other junk
Post by: bobasaurus on January 24, 2014, 07:06:58 PM
https://i.imgur.com/mWy2uHH.jpg

My fancy new rig has 1x radeon hd 7970, and 3x radeon r9 290 video cards for a total of about 3000 kh/s. It's been mining dogecoin for a couple weeks now, but I just finished its latest configuration yesterday with all 4 cards running on one motherboard with two power supplies.

Full specs:

vga: 2x PowerColor AXR9 290 4GBD5-MDHG/OC Radeon R9 290 4G

vga: 1x XFX R9-290A-ENBC

vga: 1x XFX 797A-TDKC

mobo: MSI 970A-G46 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX

ram: 8 GB DDR3 1600

cpu: AMD Sempron 145 Sargas 2.8GHz Socket AM3 45W

psu: CORSAIR HX Series HX850 850W ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V

psu: CORSAIR HX Series HX750 750W ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V

risers: two 1x powered, one 16x powered

total cost: about $2100

https://i.imgur.com/0Ir42oN.jpg