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March 29, 2016, 12:06:09 AM |
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Nice! Good info.
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mickiya
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March 30, 2016, 08:35:03 PM |
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Of those motherboards, the H61 and H81 pro BTC are the most popular. I have good experience with H61.
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samanas
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April 04, 2016, 10:32:17 AM |
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I have used the H81 pro BTC. It is also pretty good. If I need to expand my mining farm, I will use it again.
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Koamder
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April 05, 2016, 01:36:27 PM |
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The Asrock H81 is good. Does anybody have experience with the latest H97 boards for mining?
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Tmdz
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April 05, 2016, 02:34:49 PM |
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Everyone wants to use current gen mobos but that will increase roi time too much.
Ive been researching mobos and im really only interested in lga 775 generation mobo, you can get them much cheaper. You have to build smaller rigs as they usually only come at most with 1 pcie x16 and 2 pcie x1. Its challenging to find a proper mobo at the lowest price but I came across the hp compaq 5800 and its a ssf board but this is what ive found. Plenty of supply online, seems to have normal 775 cpu cooler mount holes, 3 pci-e slots, there is only case fan connection and cpu fan connection is there but connector not soldered to the board. I have found them for around 12 bucks, core 2 duos cost 2-4 bucks, ram 12 bucks + hdd ~ 20 bucks or so. So for 50 bucks you could have a 3 gpu rig up and running + psu. That is IF the cpu cooler will mount on this board but im fairly confident it will, other ssf and desktops use propriety cpu mounting and power connection, hp compaq and dell have done this. For example my dell ssf gx520 board uses this propriety cpu cooler, basically it has 2 holes drilled on the board and the cooler is attached to the case and then snaps over the chip. If that fails get a normal oem 775 board that you know wont dick you around with propriety bs, that will be like 50 bucks or so which is still cheaper than current gen.
Anyway something to kick around
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Zionatin
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April 05, 2016, 02:59:28 PM |
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For the old motherboards, there are too few PCIE slots. So you need more CPU, hard disks and memory.
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antantti
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April 05, 2016, 03:33:14 PM |
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Best mobo is the one you already have. Ugliest ghettorig I have does 150MH ETH with 3 PCIe slots and old amd phenom X2 cpu, 2 x 295x2 + 290. I also have two S775 rigs doing 60MH each, 2x390 and 3x7970.
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Bazelak
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April 08, 2016, 11:05:15 AM |
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The old motherboards worked well. But I mainly use the Asrock boards with 6 PCIE slots as I want to use as many cards as possible in my system.
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Abiky (OP)
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April 08, 2016, 06:43:46 PM |
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Everyone wants to use current gen mobos but that will increase roi time too much.
Ive been researching mobos and im really only interested in lga 775 generation mobo, you can get them much cheaper. You have to build smaller rigs as they usually only come at most with 1 pcie x16 and 2 pcie x1. Its challenging to find a proper mobo at the lowest price but I came across the hp compaq 5800 and its a ssf board but this is what ive found. Plenty of supply online, seems to have normal 775 cpu cooler mount holes, 3 pci-e slots, there is only case fan connection and cpu fan connection is there but connector not soldered to the board. I have found them for around 12 bucks, core 2 duos cost 2-4 bucks, ram 12 bucks + hdd ~ 20 bucks or so. So for 50 bucks you could have a 3 gpu rig up and running + psu. That is IF the cpu cooler will mount on this board but im fairly confident it will, other ssf and desktops use propriety cpu mounting and power connection, hp compaq and dell have done this. For example my dell ssf gx520 board uses this propriety cpu cooler, basically it has 2 holes drilled on the board and the cooler is attached to the case and then snaps over the chip. If that fails get a normal oem 775 board that you know wont dick you around with propriety bs, that will be like 50 bucks or so which is still cheaper than current gen.
Anyway something to kick around
Interesting information. Thanks for sharing this mate. I thought that only new gen motherboards could be used for this task, but now I know that old ones can be used for the same thing as long as it has the required PCI-E slots. Setting up a really cheap GPU mining rig can be really cheap these days.
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April 08, 2016, 10:17:32 PM |
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Everyone wants to use current gen mobos but that will increase roi time too much.
Ive been researching mobos and im really only interested in lga 775 generation mobo, you can get them much cheaper. You have to build smaller rigs as they usually only come at most with 1 pcie x16 and 2 pcie x1. Its challenging to find a proper mobo at the lowest price but I came across the hp compaq 5800 and its a ssf board but this is what ive found. Plenty of supply online, seems to have normal 775 cpu cooler mount holes, 3 pci-e slots, there is only case fan connection and cpu fan connection is there but connector not soldered to the board. I have found them for around 12 bucks, core 2 duos cost 2-4 bucks, ram 12 bucks + hdd ~ 20 bucks or so. So for 50 bucks you could have a 3 gpu rig up and running + psu. That is IF the cpu cooler will mount on this board but im fairly confident it will, other ssf and desktops use propriety cpu mounting and power connection, hp compaq and dell have done this. For example my dell ssf gx520 board uses this propriety cpu cooler, basically it has 2 holes drilled on the board and the cooler is attached to the case and then snaps over the chip. If that fails get a normal oem 775 board that you know wont dick you around with propriety bs, that will be like 50 bucks or so which is still cheaper than current gen.
Anyway something to kick around
Interesting information. Thanks for sharing this mate. I thought that only new gen motherboards could be used for this task, but now I know that old ones can be used for the same thing as long as it has the required PCI-E slots. Setting up a really cheap GPU mining rig can be really cheap these days. here is a free rig why is that . it was left over from ltc mining before the gridseed asics got hot. It uses an asrock h77 mobo an openrig frame an old seasonic bronze psu 2 4gb sticks of ram an intel 2500t cpu > very low power an old sapphire hd7970 3gb ram an big ass really good quiet air cooler http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835242030Rso I fired it up and I am making coin with it. of course the siren of more power has called and I added an r7 370 to it. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1429151.0
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wll1rah
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April 11, 2016, 01:16:24 AM |
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I'm looking to build a small 3 GPU rig using the following hardware?
1 x Sempron 2650 or 3850 1 x 4GB PC-1333Mhz 1 x Gigabyte GA-AM1M-S2H 1 x 32-60 SSD 3 x EVGA GTX 950 02G-P4-2957-RX 3 x PCIe x1 to x16 risers 1 x 100-B1-0600-KR
This is a side project for my dad so long ROI 6 - 9 months isn't an issue.
anyone know if you can run this many GPU's on an AM1 board and have it see all of them?
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Abiky (OP)
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April 11, 2016, 02:01:36 AM |
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That looks pretty sweet. You turned this into a very useful mining rig. The setup looks great and speaking of the affordability of the parts, looks like a great way to build a cheap and effective mining rig. By sharing this, I'm now inspired and ready to build another cool mining rig. Once set up, I will use it to mine ETH and DASH.
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April 11, 2016, 02:03:34 AM |
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I'm looking to build a small 3 GPU rig using the following hardware?
1 x Sempron 2650 or 3850 1 x 4GB PC-1333Mhz 1 x Gigabyte GA-AM1M-S2H 1 x 32-60 SSD 3 x EVGA GTX 950 02G-P4-2957-RX 3 x PCIe x1 to x16 risers 1 x 100-B1-0600-KR
This is a side project for my dad so long ROI 6 - 9 months isn't an issue.
anyone know if you can run this many GPU's on an AM1 board and have it see all of them?
Shouldn't be a problem but I'd recommend more RAM. I usually budget the same amount of extra RAM as the total of all the GPUs. So if those are 4 GB GPUs you should get 16 GB RAM. Regarding the thread title I couldn't resist... http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X10DRX.cfm
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April 11, 2016, 06:43:24 AM Last edit: April 12, 2016, 03:56:03 PM by Ayers |
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I'm looking to build a small 3 GPU rig using the following hardware?
1 x Sempron 2650 or 3850 1 x 4GB PC-1333Mhz 1 x Gigabyte GA-AM1M-S2H 1 x 32-60 SSD 3 x EVGA GTX 950 02G-P4-2957-RX 3 x PCIe x1 to x16 risers 1 x 100-B1-0600-KR
This is a side project for my dad so long ROI 6 - 9 months isn't an issue.
anyone know if you can run this many GPU's on an AM1 board and have it see all of them?
Shouldn't be a problem but I'd recommend more RAM. I usually budget the same amount of extra RAM as the total of all the GPUs. So if those are 4 GB GPUs you should get 16 GB RAM. Regarding the thread title I couldn't resist... http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X10DRX.cfmwhy the overkill with ram? i'm usually fine with 8 giga of ram i can't see the reason to go nuts with it, they also start to be expensive at 16 gb
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April 11, 2016, 07:34:19 AM |
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Interesting information. Thanks for sharing this mate. I thought that only new gen motherboards could be used for this task, but now I know that old ones can be used for the same thing as long as it has the required PCI-E slots. Setting up a really cheap GPU mining rig can be really cheap these days. Unfortunately, most of my "old" motherboards are microATX with one PCI-E slot, otherwise they'd probably work well.
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mickiya
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April 11, 2016, 08:39:58 AM |
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I'm looking to build a small 3 GPU rig using the following hardware?
1 x Sempron 2650 or 3850 1 x 4GB PC-1333Mhz 1 x Gigabyte GA-AM1M-S2H 1 x 32-60 SSD 3 x EVGA GTX 950 02G-P4-2957-RX 3 x PCIe x1 to x16 risers 1 x 100-B1-0600-KR
This is a side project for my dad so long ROI 6 - 9 months isn't an issue.
anyone know if you can run this many GPU's on an AM1 board and have it see all of them?
Shouldn't be a problem but I'd recommend more RAM. I usually budget the same amount of extra RAM as the total of all the GPUs. So if those are 4 GB GPUs you should get 16 GB RAM. Regarding the thread title I couldn't resist... http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X10DRX.cfmwhy the overkill with ram? i'm usually fine with 8 giga of ram i can't see the reason to go nutt with it, they also start to be expensive at 16 gb The memory size of 4GB is fine. I will use the 1066 memory. If they are not avalilable, I will under clock the 1600MHz to 800MHz.
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April 11, 2016, 07:15:01 PM |
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I'm looking to build a small 3 GPU rig using the following hardware?
1 x Sempron 2650 or 3850 1 x 4GB PC-1333Mhz 1 x Gigabyte GA-AM1M-S2H 1 x 32-60 SSD 3 x EVGA GTX 950 02G-P4-2957-RX 3 x PCIe x1 to x16 risers 1 x 100-B1-0600-KR
This is a side project for my dad so long ROI 6 - 9 months isn't an issue.
anyone know if you can run this many GPU's on an AM1 board and have it see all of them?
Shouldn't be a problem but I'd recommend more RAM. I usually budget the same amount of extra RAM as the total of all the GPUs. So if those are 4 GB GPUs you should get 16 GB RAM. Regarding the thread title I couldn't resist... http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X10DRX.cfmwhy the overkill with ram? i'm usually fine with 8 giga of ram i can't see the reason to go nutt with it, they also start to be expensive at 16 gb It mostly depends on the algo you want to mine. You can probably get by with increasing the virtual memory but for the incremental cost of 4 GB RAM per GPU I think it's worh it. And it's not a step function, shit won't happen when you cross the line. But if I'm thinking of adding a 3rd GPU to a rig with 8GB RAM I'd also be thinking about more RAM. It's just a guildeline I follow, not trying to force anyone to agree. I have a couple more: The CPU should have as many cores as there are GPUs so each GPU has a dedicated CPU core serving it. A dual core Celeron would be sufficient with 2 GPUs. And I always use powered risers on PCIE-x1 slots unless it's a board specifically designed for mining with extra power inputs on the bus. I find these guidelines simple to undertsand for non-techies. Geeks, of course, would do their own engineering and wouldn't be asking the question in the first place. YMMV.
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April 12, 2016, 06:51:08 AM |
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16 Gig total ram is pretty cheap any more, can find it under $70 on Newegg even pushing faster ram speeds.
It's probably overkill for current mining, but can be nice to have it for later repurposing of the machine(s).
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Flodemaga
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April 12, 2016, 03:26:50 PM |
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16 Gig total ram is pretty cheap any more, can find it under $70 on Newegg even pushing faster ram speeds.
It's probably overkill for current mining, but can be nice to have it for later repurposing of the machine(s).
What is the benefit using 16 GB memory? I thought 4 GB is enough for all the coin mining so far.
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April 12, 2016, 03:58:10 PM |
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16 Gig total ram is pretty cheap any more, can find it under $70 on Newegg even pushing faster ram speeds.
It's probably overkill for current mining, but can be nice to have it for later repurposing of the machine(s).
What is the benefit using 16 GB memory? I thought 4 GB is enough for all the coin mining so far. there was a coin that was based on ram, not in the sense that you need ram to mine, but it was posible to mine only with big ass memory, like at least 16gb, or even 32 i forgot the name, but it does not matter anymore i think it's dead now...
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