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Jama
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Rig for a friend .. opinions
April 13, 2013, 11:13:33 AM
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Hello.
my friend has asked me to build him a rig capable of BTC and LTC mining.
His budget is £1200
Below is what I have put together coming in at £1119
Any opinions on where to spend or save a little more.
It has to have a case, open air is not an option.
Motherboard Gigabyte 970A-DS3 AMD 970A
CPU AMD Sempron 145 2.80GHz
RAM 12GB generic dd3
SSD 60gb ocz Agility 3
GPU 1 Sapphire HD 7950 Boost 3072MB
GPU 2 Sapphire HD 7950 Boost 3072MB
GPU 3 Sapphire HD 7950 Boost 3072MB
PSU 1000w Cougar Modular ATX
CASE Cooler Master HAF XB
2 cards would run straight in the x16 slots, with the 3rd on an x1 riser.
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Re: Rig for a friend .. opinions
April 13, 2013, 11:15:04 AM
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Looks good - however, gpu btc days are nearly over. Better bet is to wait for asic for btc and fpga for ltc.
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Re: Rig for a friend .. opinions
April 13, 2013, 11:19:13 AM
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Quote from: shibaji on April 13, 2013, 11:15:04 AM
Looks good - however, gpu btc days are nearly over. Better bet is to wait for asic for btc and fpga for ltc.
Thanks.
I forgot to mention electricity cost is 0 for the next 2 years.
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Re: Rig for a friend .. opinions
April 13, 2013, 03:37:02 PM
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if you use a riser why purchase a case ?
look at that :
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Re: Rig for a friend .. opinions
April 18, 2013, 04:51:42 AM
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Don't need an SSD. Any old hard drive is fine. I use a 2GB USB Flash drive myself.
12GB RAM is way too much. 2GB is fine.
I just built a rig around a 970A-DS3, with 7950s. I can't get the 5th card to work (in the slot nearest the CPU). The other 4 work if I leave that one out.
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Re: Rig for a friend .. opinions
April 18, 2013, 05:38:42 AM
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Quote from: middlemarkal on April 13, 2013, 03:37:02 PM
if you use a riser why purchase a case ?
He probably wants to jerryrig the third card in some location within the case away from the other two slotted cards.
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Re: Rig for a friend .. opinions
April 18, 2013, 09:06:53 PM
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Quote from: Bogart on April 18, 2013, 04:51:42 AM
I just built a rig around a 970A-DS3, with 7950s. I can't get the 5th card to work (in the slot nearest the CPU). The other 4 work if I leave that one out.
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Re: Rig for a friend .. opinions
April 19, 2013, 03:02:27 AM
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Quote from: Bogart on April 18, 2013, 04:51:42 AM
Don't need an SSD. Any old hard drive is fine. I use a 2GB USB Flash drive myself.
12GB RAM is way too much. 2GB is fine.
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Re: Rig for a friend .. opinions
April 19, 2013, 03:15:42 AM
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Pretty sure you need more than 2GB ram if you want to ltc mine, I'm not 100% sure so look it up.
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Re: Rig for a friend .. opinions
April 21, 2013, 04:00:38 AM
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Quote from: computerlamp on April 19, 2013, 03:15:42 AM
Pretty sure you need more than 2GB ram if you want to ltc mine, I'm not 100% sure so look it up.
Definitely get around 6-8 GB of RAM, it'll come in handy. My reaper applications run in at around 1.5 GB each so it takes quite a huge amount of memory for LITECOIN.
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Re: Rig for a friend .. opinions
April 21, 2013, 03:26:05 PM
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Hmm thats interesting, ive been running 4GB on my rigs and use reaper and able to pull expected rates.
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