Safe to heat house with ALT coin mining rigs.??

[Hilux74]

Never buy ASROCK boards. All of mine have issues whilst the msi boards have not had one problem at all.

Agree.  Both the ASROCK boards I have used (Extreme4 or something) almost instantly fried when used for mining even with external powered risers.  No issues with MSI or Gigabyte, some of them are over 3 years of mining on them.

[QuintLeo]

I have been heating my home most of the time for the last 5 years with a group of computers (did litecoin mining on them for a year or so, 'till ASIC took over, then turned them back to my RC5/GIMPS efforts).

 This past winter, I've had to keep 2 windows (with thermostatically-controlled fans in them) OPEN all winter, due to the addition of some A2 Terminators and my several-month-long S5/SP20 mining farm (sold the last of THOSE units off today).


 You just need something reliable, miners work fine as "electric space heaters" if you buy reliable ones (and power supplies) or design and set up mining computers for reliablility (overclocking is a BAD IDEA anyway for mining, it's very inefficient).


 Also, on motherboards, if you're going to mine on them get versions that put heat sinks on the power circuitry. It's a MAJOR plus for reliability on any motherboard that's going to be running 24/7

[Kalder]

Never buy ASROCK boards. All of mine have issues whilst the msi boards have not had one problem at all.

Agree.  Both the ASROCK boards I have used (Extreme4 or something) almost instantly fried when used for mining even with external powered risers.  No issues with MSI or Gigabyte, some of them are over 3 years of mining on them.

I use the Asrock H61 ProBTC motherboard. These boards are designed for bitcoin mining. It is very reliable.

[apriyoni]

Never buy ASROCK boards. All of mine have issues whilst the msi boards have not had one problem at all.

Agree.  Both the ASROCK boards I have used (Extreme4 or something) almost instantly fried when used for mining even with external powered risers.  No issues with MSI or Gigabyte, some of them are over 3 years of mining on them.

Those are the ordinary motherboards. I think the MSI G55d is the best of the mother boards. It is relative cheap but powerful.

[Auponef]

I run 8 GPUs on the Asrock H61 ProBTC motherboard, without any problem. They are 2X7990+4X7970.

[cryptohunter2]

mine were the asrock extreme4 and extreme6 both totally junk.

msi boards all running perfect years later.

[Fademigo]

mine were the asrock extreme4 and extreme6 both totally junk.

msi boards all running perfect years later.

I do not have experience with the Asrock motherboards other than the H61 ProBTC. It is very good motherboard.