GPU Rig PORN

[dadach]

so can i use my old pcie risers with rx480 gpus? i used them on 280x without any problem...

[Watsuji]

Great thread, cool pictures, and great answers to the questions! Gives a great insight into all aspects of running a personal GPU farm, something which I've considered, keep it up

[GabryRox]

Very Nice!  Exactly what I was looking for for my next build!  Did you buy that frame somewhere or build it yourself?

[Spotswood]

This is a classic pic of a GPU bitcoin mining farm that used my mining trays (before asics).

[Cashcash]

Nice rig.

[bounor111]

your installation are very nice, tomorrow i will receive my 6 mining rig that i bought this week, i will post picture of my installation when its done!

[mettalmag]

Here some of my rigs, total rigs 85 cards 292.
In a week or so we are starting the preparation process for hot summer, more photos to come ..

looks great, but why would you not use an ATX mobo that can handle 6-7 cards?

your mine would be using ~40 fewer motherboards, 40 fewer CPUs, ~320GB less ram, and 40 fewer SSDs. Thats like $5000-6000 savings, and less time spent tuning 1 rig at a time

I'm aware of that and unfortunately that was not my decision, when this order is finished we will switch to 6 mobo rigs..

[Charloz24]

Here some of my rigs, total rigs 85 cards 292.
In a week or so we are starting the preparation process for hot summer, more photos to come ..

looks great, but why would you not use an ATX mobo that can handle 6-7 cards?

your mine would be using ~40 fewer motherboards, 40 fewer CPUs, ~320GB less ram, and 40 fewer SSDs. Thats like $5000-6000 savings, and less time spent tuning 1 rig at a time

I'm aware of that and unfortunately that was not my decision, when this order is finished we will switch to 6 mobo rigs..

OMG seems like a full time job just to supervise that everything work.

[mettalmag]

Here some of my rigs, total rigs 85 cards 292.
In a week or so we are starting the preparation process for hot summer, more photos to come ..

looks great, but why would you not use an ATX mobo that can handle 6-7 cards?

your mine would be using ~40 fewer motherboards, 40 fewer CPUs, ~320GB less ram, and 40 fewer SSDs. Thats like $5000-6000 savings, and less time spent tuning 1 rig at a time

I'm aware of that and unfortunately that was not my decision, when this order is finished we will switch to 6 mobo rigs..

OMG seems like a full time job just to supervise that everything work.

In fact I did quit my full time shitty job for projects like this and I haven't made better decision in my life yet

[thedue]

Here some of my rigs, total rigs 85 cards 292.
In a week or so we are starting the preparation process for hot summer, more photos to come ..

looks great, but why would you not use an ATX mobo that can handle 6-7 cards?

your mine would be using ~40 fewer motherboards, 40 fewer CPUs, ~320GB less ram, and 40 fewer SSDs. Thats like $5000-6000 savings, and less time spent tuning 1 rig at a time

I'm aware of that and unfortunately that was not my decision, when this order is finished we will switch to 6 mobo rigs..

OMG seems like a full time job just to supervise that everything work.

In fact I did quit my full time shitty job for projects like this and I haven't made better decision in my life yet

Amazing

So whats your location / electricity price?!

[mettalmag]

Amazing

So whats your location / electricity price?!

Location is Tbilisi and the electricity price is classified 0.05$

[deadsix]

Amazing

So whats your location / electricity price?!

Location is Tbilisi and the electricity price is classified 0.05$

I didn't even know Georgia was a country untill I googled Tbilisi. Cool setup bro.

[mettalmag]

Amazing

So whats your location / electricity price?!

Location is Tbilisi and the electricity price is classified 0.05$

I didn't even know Georgia was a country untill I googled Tbilisi. Cool setup bro.

Thanks, you should also try googling "bitfury Georgia", there are some cool projects bitfury made here

[megacrypto]

In fact I did quit my full time shitty job for projects like this and I haven't made better decision in my life yet

seriously thinking of doing the same ... still looking for investors )))

[Amph]

In fact I did quit my full time shitty job for projects like this and I haven't made better decision in my life yet

seriously thinking of doing the same ... still looking for investors )))

you do hosting with cheap electricity?

[mettalmag]

In fact I did quit my full time shitty job for projects like this and I haven't made better decision in my life yet

seriously thinking of doing the same ... still looking for investors )))

you do hosting with cheap electricity?

not on this site at the moment, but it depends on offer

[arielbit]

@ mettalmag

i think you should start looking at diskless solutions....mining rigs booting from LAN.

there is a lot of advantages, specially for people with many mining rigs..

[mettalmag]

@ mettalmag

i think you should start looking at diskless solutions....mining rigs booting from LAN.

there is a lot of advantages, specially for people with many mining rigs..

Can you tell me more about that?

[arielbit]

@ mettalmag

i think you should start looking at diskless solutions....mining rigs booting from LAN.

there is a lot of advantages, specially for people with many mining rigs..

Can you tell me more about that?

you manage all mining rigs' hard drives in a diskless server..

- you can snapshot a clean, freshly installed, freshly tweaked windows OS...and can return to that state in an instant (more like a backup)

- switching from windows to linux vice versa is just a reboot away

- you install a miner software and driver in a mining rig, every mining rig will have that mining software and driver.

- you can set the images (mining rig OS inside diskless server) to read only mode....virus proof, no need for antivirus software. if infected or messed up, you just have to reboot the rig.

- if your farm have so many hard drives, maybe the hard drive power consumption is equal or greater than the diskless server.

- you can turn on and turn off remotely

you just have to be sure that your diskless server is VERY stable...btw there are realtime failover diskless server option too.

maybe i missed some things but..that's just what i remembered right now.


EDIT:
instead of using RAID in diskless servers for speed, you should use SSD because its faster than hdds in RAID.

[mettalmag]

@ mettalmag

i think you should start looking at diskless solutions....mining rigs booting from LAN.

there is a lot of advantages, specially for people with many mining rigs..

Can you tell me more about that?

you manage all mining rigs' hard drives in a diskless server..

- you can snapshot a clean, freshly installed, freshly tweaked windows OS...and can return to that state in an instant (more like a backup)

- switching from windows to linux vice versa is just a reboot away

- you install a miner software and driver in a mining rig, every mining rig will have that mining software and driver.

- you can set the images (mining rig OS inside diskless server) to read only mode....virus proof, no need for antivirus software. if infected or messed up, you just have to reboot the rig.

- if your farm have so many hard drives, maybe the hard drive power consumption is equal or greater than the diskless server.

- you can turn on and turn off remotely

you just have to be sure that your diskless server is VERY stable...btw there are realtime failover diskless server too.

maybe i missed some things but..that's just what i remembered right now.

at the moment I'm researching the PXE and thinking about it, but first thought is the cost of server and re building network hardware, technically building and implementing this technology would't be a big issue (it's a matter of time, testing and etc), but so far the only problem we have in farm is power blackouts and random PC hangs. To solve this problem I was thinking buy a smart PDUs but the cost in this way is huge too, so the last thing I came up was SimpleRigResseter.