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Title: A "set it up and forget it" remote rig? Post by: Amstellodamois on January 06, 2018, 08:24:10 PM Hi,
I'm considering building a small rig with RX 570. I expect to be able to buy some before mid-january for about 250 € each. That seems much more reasonable than what I saw for nvidia cards. I'd like to install the rig with two to four GPUs in my parent's garage. I'll live hundreds of kilometers away. I can spend time setting it up but once it's running, I'll have to be able to monitor and configure it remotely. Anyone has experience with this? What would you advise? P.S. Is this calculation (https://www.nicehash.com/profitability-calculator/amd-rx-570-4gb?e=0.15¤cy=EUR) realistic? Provided I account for the power consuption of the motherboard and CPU. Title: Re: A "set it up and forget it" remote rig? Post by: klondike_bar on January 06, 2018, 08:46:51 PM the calculation is about right (but altcoins are very profitable right now - that could change in the coming weeks/months)
Id also reccommend the SMOS mining OS off of a USB drive. WAAAAYYYYYYY faster than making any win10 build functional Title: Re: A "set it up and forget it" remote rig? Post by: Amstellodamois on January 06, 2018, 08:57:38 PM Faster as in "short time from being delivered to having a system running", right?
What about hashing power ??? I've read there are more dedicated drivers for Windows and it seems there are more software as well. Finally, it seems easier to me to maintain it remotely. Title: Re: A "set it up and forget it" remote rig? Post by: klondike_bar on January 06, 2018, 10:11:55 PM Faster as in "short time from being delivered to having a system running", right? What about hashing power ??? I've read there are more dedicated drivers for Windows and it seems there are more software as well. Finally, it seems easier to me to maintain it remotely. windows might allow you to tinker a little bit more out of the cards, using newest drivers and tuning software, but a good usb linux distro can allow remote control functions (restart miner or reboot system) and requires no real setup (my account is configured, so if i plug a freshly flashed USB into any mining system (with proper hardware configuration) itll download updates and start mining within 10minutes. I can them apply an overclock remotely and monitor it online. whereas the same rig has given me nothing but headache with win10 updates and finnicky bootups despite an SSD and ive sunk hours into updates and tweaking over teamviewer. SMOS and USB distros are easy and a $10 flash drive is cheaper than a $60 ssd/m.2 Title: Re: A "set it up and forget it" remote rig? Post by: Amstellodamois on January 06, 2018, 10:26:18 PM I'd say you got me 90% convinced ;)
Title: Re: A "set it up and forget it" remote rig? Post by: Rasanders22 on January 07, 2018, 01:06:12 AM the calculation is about right (but altcoins are very profitable right now - that could change in the coming weeks/months) Id also reccommend the SMOS mining OS off of a USB drive. WAAAAYYYYYYY faster than making any win10 build functional New user registrations are disabled for SMOS, atleast 24-48 hours according to their website. Title: Re: A "set it up and forget it" remote rig? Post by: flip4flop on January 07, 2018, 01:09:39 AM This should help you find some options for running a rig remotely
https://theminerhub.com/mining/how-to-run-a-mining-rig-remotely/ (https://theminerhub.com/mining/how-to-run-a-mining-rig-remotely/) Title: Re: A "set it up and forget it" remote rig? Post by: klondike_bar on January 07, 2018, 03:44:33 AM I'd say you got me 90% convinced ;)
im getting about the same hashrate for equihash on nvidia cards between SMOS and win10/NHM and its $2/account i think. thats peanuts if youve got lots of GPUs Title: Re: A "set it up and forget it" remote rig? Post by: Amstellodamois on January 07, 2018, 09:55:05 AM $2 per rig.
Agreed, it's peanuts. But it's "for the moment". And I'd like WiFi to work seamlessly. This should help you find some options for running a rig remotely Thanks. This article isn't all that comprehensive but I'm finding some good reading on theminerhub.com :)https://theminerhub.com/mining/how-to-run-a-mining-rig-remotely/ (https://theminerhub.com/mining/how-to-run-a-mining-rig-remotely/) |