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Title: Building my first rig with Core 2 Duo E6600 LGA775 Post by: kayubabi on May 21, 2017, 11:30:40 AM Hey guys,
Im a newbie with this mining thing. I have core 2 duo e6600 cpu and MSI - G41M-P33 board lying around and thought if i can turn it into a gpu mining rig. im wondering if anybody have ever done it with this cpu and board with at least 4 gpu, will it do the trick or ill be wasting my time with this or any other board and gpu recomended? thanks. Title: Re: Building my first rig with Core 2 Duo E6600 LGA775 Post by: kopija on May 21, 2017, 12:54:54 PM Hey guys, Im a newbie with this mining thing. I have core 2 duo e6600 cpu and MSI - G41M-P33 board lying around and thought if i can turn it into a gpu mining rig. im wondering if anybody have ever done it with this cpu and board with at least 4 gpu, will it do the trick or ill be wasting my time with this or any other board and gpu recomended? thanks. Only one card fits in that motherboard. You could try two cards with risers. Title: Re: Building my first rig with Core 2 Duo E6600 LGA775 Post by: Vann on May 21, 2017, 01:21:21 PM That board has three PCI-e slots so you could try up to 3 cards max using PCI-e 1x to 16x powered USB risers. I have a Dell XPS 720 (four PCI-E slots) with the same CPU and it's running three cards. The only problem is you can't access the bios with a newer video card in the primary 16x slot, so I have an old Nvidia 6600 I use when I need to access the Bios. Otherwise it mines just fine with three cards. If you can't get it to work, any B250 motherboard, a Pentium G4400 Celeron processor, a 4GB DDR4 2400/ 2133 RAM stick, RX 470 / RX 570 VGA cards and a 750W / 850W Gold or better PSU would be a good choice for up to 4 cards with risers.
Title: Re: Building my first rig with Core 2 Duo E6600 LGA775 Post by: kayubabi on May 21, 2017, 02:28:28 PM That board has three PCI-e slots so you could try up to 3 cards max using PCI-e 1x to 16x powered USB risers. I have a Dell XPS 720 (four PCI-E slots) with the same CPU and it's running three cards. The only problem is you can't access the bios with a newer video card in the primary 16x slot, so I have an old Nvidia 6600 I use when I need to access the Bios. Otherwise it mines just fine with three cards. If you can't get it to work, any B250 motherboard, a Pentium G4400 Celeron processor, a 4GB DDR4 2400/ 2133 RAM stick, RX 470 / RX 570 VGA cards and a 750W / 850W Gold or better PSU would be a good choice for up to 4 cards with risers. Thanks for the suggestion. i was thinking of getting Gigabyte EP43-UD3L board, which have more pci-e slot shown in gigabyte website. but it only support ddr2 ram. does ram affect mining performance? Title: Re: Building my first rig with Core 2 Duo E6600 LGA775 Post by: Vann on May 21, 2017, 03:06:29 PM That board has three PCI-e slots so you could try up to 3 cards max using PCI-e 1x to 16x powered USB risers. I have a Dell XPS 720 (four PCI-E slots) with the same CPU and it's running three cards. The only problem is you can't access the bios with a newer video card in the primary 16x slot, so I have an old Nvidia 6600 I use when I need to access the Bios. Otherwise it mines just fine with three cards. If you can't get it to work, any B250 motherboard, a Pentium G4400 Celeron processor, a 4GB DDR4 2400/ 2133 RAM stick, RX 470 / RX 570 VGA cards and a 750W / 850W Gold or better PSU would be a good choice for up to 4 cards with risers. Thanks for the suggestion. i was thinking of getting Gigabyte EP43-UD3L board, which have more pci-e slot shown in gigabyte website. but it only support ddr2 ram. does ram affect mining performance? It has 1 x PCI Express x16 slot and 4 x PCI Express x1 slots. If you want to resuse the hardware you have and can get one cheap enough, that motherboard should easily support 3-4 GPU with powered risers. CPU speed, RAM speed and PCI-E speed are not an issue for GPU mining. The Dell XPS 720 I have uses DDR2 RAM and PCI-E 2.0 slots. Any 4GB of RAM that the motherboard supports is good. The biggest limiting factor in a motherboard for mining is how many PCI-e lanes it has and whether they are shared. How much power can be delivered though the PCI-E slots is also a factor unless you use powered risers. Title: Re: Building my first rig with Core 2 Duo E6600 LGA775 Post by: kopija on May 21, 2017, 04:39:36 PM https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/G41M-P33.html#hero-specification
TWO PCIE SLOTS! Title: Re: Building my first rig with Core 2 Duo E6600 LGA775 Post by: kayubabi on May 22, 2017, 06:36:28 AM https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/G41M-P33.html#hero-specification TWO PCIE SLOTS! Yup. Gonna need a new mb. Title: Re: Building my first rig with Core 2 Duo E6600 LGA775 Post by: kopija on May 22, 2017, 08:47:02 AM You can find s775 motherboards with 4pcie slots but some will need jumpers.
See here https://www.gobitgo.com/articles/1001/How-To-Correctly-Use-and-Install-PCI-E-Riser-Cables/ Look for P35/P45 chipset boards, they are more likely to work without jumpers. Title: Re: Building my first rig with Core 2 Duo E6600 LGA775 Post by: kayubabi on May 26, 2017, 01:40:55 PM Im actually going to get myself very first gpu, founders edition R9 370 4GB DDR5.
I'll have a test run on my pc with i3-2130 3.4Ghz. Im not sure whether this gpu can do any good. tried to do few search on this gpu but cant find any information or people who have use it. if this card is a good card I might going to get to add a few more. I'll let the Core 2 duo to rest for a while for now until Im comfortable with this. Just want to make mining a hobby but at least the money invested will return in a few month ;D Title: Re: Building my first rig with Core 2 Duo E6600 LGA775 Post by: VyprBTC on May 26, 2017, 01:52:38 PM Im actually going to get myself very first gpu, founders edition R9 370 4GB DDR5. I'll have a test run on my pc with i3-2130 3.4Ghz. Im not sure whether this gpu can do any good. tried to do few search on this gpu but cant find any information or people who have use it. if this card is a good card I might going to get to add a few more. I'll let the Core 2 duo to rest for a while for now until Im comfortable with this. Just want to make mining a hobby but at least the money invested will return in a few month ;D be careful, it's a dangerous hobby. at first i only wanted to spend a few dollars. now my wallet is empty :) Title: Re: Building my first rig with Core 2 Duo E6600 LGA775 Post by: kayubabi on June 10, 2017, 04:37:12 PM Im actually going to get myself very first gpu, founders edition R9 370 4GB DDR5. I'll have a test run on my pc with i3-2130 3.4Ghz. Im not sure whether this gpu can do any good. tried to do few search on this gpu but cant find any information or people who have use it. if this card is a good card I might going to get to add a few more. I'll let the Core 2 duo to rest for a while for now until Im comfortable with this. Just want to make mining a hobby but at least the money invested will return in a few month ;D be careful, it's a dangerous hobby. at first i only wanted to spend a few dollars. now my wallet is empty :) lol. hopefully after mining for sometimes you can get a 100% return plus some profit on the money invested :) Title: Re: Building my first rig with Core 2 Duo E6600 LGA775 Post by: kayubabi on June 12, 2017, 12:49:33 PM Just an update on my mining. I turn my everyday Pc into mining when iddle. Installed Thermaltake RGB 850W and with this psu, Im planning on adding more card maybe RX 460 or RX470. Actually Im looking into EVGA but the shop I went do not have that model. Running 1 card R9 370 at the moment mining XMR with Claymore 9.7
Im getting around 400H/S on this card. just curious if there are any way to boost up the hash rate with this card? Title: Re: Building my first rig with Core 2 Duo E6600 LGA775 Post by: Lizzie_Girl on June 12, 2017, 03:21:29 PM The other slots are only 1x on that motherboard they not all pcie 16x keep this in mind. Great pc for a starting miner. Add a fairly decent going to it and enjoy. You can mine some coins as is with could there are still some profitable cpu only coins out there.
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