A "set it up and forget it" remote rig?

[Amstellodamois]

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 realistic? Provided I account for the power consuption of the motherboard and CPU.

[klondike_bar]

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

[Amstellodamois]

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.

[klondike_bar]

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

[Amstellodamois]

I'd say you got me 90% convinced

• Not a big fan of Right now the price is 2$ per rig per month
• I'd like to see some hashrate comparison. Does this exist? Say SMOS vs. Nicehash.

[Rasanders22]

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.

[flip4flop]

This should help you find some options for running a rig remotely

https://theminerhub.com/mining/how-to-run-a-mining-rig-remotely/

[klondike_bar]

I'd say you got me 90% convinced

• Not a big fan of Right now the price is 2$ per rig per month
• I'd like to see some hashrate comparison. Does this exist? Say SMOS vs. Nicehash.

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

[Amstellodamois]

$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

https://theminerhub.com/mining/how-to-run-a-mining-rig-remotely/

Thanks. This article isn't all that comprehensive but I'm finding some good reading on theminerhub.com