With my far-too-large Federal Tax Return, I've decided to make a Bitcoin mining rig:
What I had laying around:
Mobo: ASRock 970 Extreme 4 (Had it laying around)
RAM: 1x4GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600MHz 9-9-9-24 (Have 4 of these sticks actually)
CPU: AMD Phenom II 4-core @ 3.4Ghz (will probably underclock once I get the machine put together)
What I bought:
Case: Rosewill BLACKHAWK-ULTRA
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147157PSU: Coolmaster 1200W
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171055GPUs: 2x Gigabytes Radeon 7970 Ghz Edition
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125439"HDD": Generic 8GB USB 2.0 drive
Software:
OS: Headless Gentoo (I'm not very experienced with Gentoo, but I think I can do it)
Miner: CGminer 2.11.3
SDK: 2.7
Since I haven't received any of the things I've purchased in the mail, I don't physically have this put together, nor do I have anything on the USB drive as of yet. Anyway, I've got a few questions:
Will it (theoretically) work?
What did I do wrong?
Since Bitcoin mining uses GPU, could I host an Apache server on the same machine with no significant loss in Mh/s?