Is this mining rig okay?

[rifter390]

I agree, I love my AMD's and will never return to intel. You get more bang for your buck and not that you need to for mining coins but say it was a gaming system you can very easy over clock the hell out of AMD chips giving you an even better deal for your $$.

I did post an intel mother board and a celeron processor.

http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-EATX-Extended-DDR3-Intel/dp/B005G2U6HY/ref=sr_1_6?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1375994105&sr=1-6&keywords=4+way+sli

http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Celeron-2-60GHz-Processor-BX80637G1610/dp/B00B4BJYVU/ref=sr_1_6?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1375994554&sr=1-6&keywords=lga+1155

[microzee]

Thanks that looks pretty good. By the way how do you find these boards?

Also I'm seriously considering amd now, but that evga mobo looks pretty sick

[rifter390]

I have done alot of shopping myself. Amazon is a pain in the butt to figure out what you are looking for because they dont have many options to enter in. To be honest, I load up pages and pages of motherboards and by looking at the picture I can quickly count how many pcie slots it has. The more the better.

I would not use intel for anything unless it was given to me for free. Even then I would have to worry about is dying on me. I use and abuse my AMD chips and they just keep on going...

I would not worry about what it looks like, but I agree with you it is a well laid out board. EVGA makes tons of other things. I use EVGA Supernova power supplies and absolutely love them.

http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-SuperNOVA-NEX750B-Certified-120-PB-0750-KR/dp/B009YC3DBS/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1375995790&sr=8-3&keywords=evga+supernova+nex750g

2 of those per system: Plenty of power. Those I linked happen to be bronze they have gold certified ones if you prefer for a bit more money.

[microzee]

Okay, I'm going with amd. And two of those psu's for 66 each? You can't beat that. So you recommend that amd mobo you already showed me?

[rifter390]

I have not used that exact one but I have used MSI products and they are just as good as any. There are many options at first I thought you wanted to plug the GPUS right into the board so i found that one with 16x slots. I could probably find others that have more 1x slots for maybe a bit cheaper. It don't matter as long as you are mining.

Edit: Take a closer look, only one will be 66 dollars because you are only able to send in one rebate per address per product. I had to find that out the hard way but even at 80 dollars they are still a great buy. Let me find the link to the other brand that also has a rebate
Rebates take about 2 months to get back to you just so you know.

[microzee]

It would be nice to have a couple more mobos to compare, and thanks for the rebate info.

[rifter390]

I also own 2 of these and they work just as good as the EVGA. Just so you know the power supply is the most important piece as far as not being cheap in my opinion. Other things like ram and the processor you can go ahead and get the cheapest one you can find. Do not try to save money on the power supply. If you buy some piece of crap it will either die instantly when you power up all the video cards or worse yet ruin your other equipment.

http://www.amazon.com/OCZ-Fatal1ty-Modular-Gaming-compatible/dp/B003JZCF2O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375996662&sr=8-1&keywords=fatality+ocz

It comes with a nice case to carry the extra cables too.

I can try to find another board or two. The board I have is out of order last time I checked.

[rifter390]

Alright well I hope all this info helps you with your decision.

I sent you a pm.

[Lethos]

Just one recommendation, if your going to be stressing the PSU (or multiple), paying out for a gold (or better) rated one will be worth it.
Not only will it be more efficient (technically save you money), but lets face it you want to ensure thing is reliable, so don't skimp on it's power source.