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April 24, 2013, 05:26:03 AM
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Hello, I'm fairly new mining, I've been mining for about a week with my laptop that does 24Mh/s, and it feels that it's going no where so I found this two gaming rigs on Craigslist that looks very promising for mining, I hope someone with moreknowledge on hardware can give me better advice, I feel like the first one can do better for mining but I could be wrong. Thanks ahead of time.
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Custom Gaming Computer - $940 OBO
CPU: AMD Phenom II 955 x4 @ 4GHz stock voltage tested stable in prime95 water cooled
GPU: XFX 7950 Double Dissipation with lifetime warranty
DRAM: Two 8GB Crucial Ballistix Elite Rated for 1866 at 9-9-9-27 1.5v currently tested stable in prime95 at 1600 7-7-7-21
Storage: Sandisk 64GB SSD 490MB/s read
Main board: MSI GD-65 890FX with two full 16x PCI Express 2.0 Slots
PSU: XFX Pro 550w 80 plus efficiency
Case: Black Antec Lanboy Air
Disk: Lite-On DVD burner 24x read
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CPU: Intel Core i5-2500 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus 76.8 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler
Motherboard: MSI H67A-G43 (B3) ATX LGA1155 Motherboard
Memory: Kingston 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Storage: Seagate Momentus XT 500GB 2.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 1GB Video Card (2-Way CrossFire)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 1GB Video Card (2-Way CrossFire)
Sound Card: Creative Labs Recon3D PCIe 24-bit 96 KHz Sound Card
Case: Rosewill RANGER ATX Mid Tower Case
Case Fan: Cooler Master SickleFlow 69.7 CFM 120mm Fan
Case Fan: Cooler Master SickleFlow 69.7 CFM 120mm Fan
Power Supply: OCZ ModXStream Pro 500W 80 PLUS Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply
Optical Drive: LG BH14NS40 Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Full (32/64-bit)
Keyboard: Cooler Master CM Storm Trigger Wired Gaming Keyboard
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April 24, 2013, 01:33:06 PM |
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April 24, 2013, 01:46:00 PM |
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Radeon 7950's are a good choice for the hashrate to dollar value. You can pick them up for around $300 in some places and get over 600 hashrate
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April 24, 2013, 02:21:42 PM |
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yup check the wiki. there are various rigs there that seem to be tried and tested.
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April 24, 2013, 02:37:17 PM |
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Radeon 7950's are a good choice for the hashrate to dollar value. You can pick them up for around $300 in some places and get over 600 hashrate
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I had a good idea that the radeon 7950 was better than the two 6850 combined even if they were overclocled. Thanks for your input. |
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April 24, 2013, 02:40:52 PM |
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The used market is also good for cards. You can sometimes verify that a card will do a certain hash rate. I've seen a 7950 or two that wont get more than 300kh/s.
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April 24, 2013, 02:44:43 PM |
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I think I'm getting more for the money in terms of harware on the second option, but my goal is to make more bitcoins, so I guess I go for the first option.
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April 24, 2013, 02:50:42 PM |
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6850 301.4 1.67 - 2.4 PCI-E 2.0 x16 guiminer / poclbm -v -f 2 -w 128 clock @ 985 mem @ 890
7950 605 - - - 1150 1792 2.6 (10.0.898.1) PCI-E 3.0 x16 DiabloMiner GPU: 1150MHz, Memory: 1375MHz; -v 1 -w 256
Thinking about it I can buy the second option since both 6850 will mine as fast as the the 7950, then later replace or add more graphics cards, what do you think?
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April 24, 2013, 02:53:08 PM |
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Why not the other way round, I haven't checked, but I would guess the first listed has a more recent motherboard if it's paired with a 7 series Radeon.
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April 24, 2013, 04:36:18 PM |
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So it's the first one, I hope I can give him a good offer.
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April 26, 2013, 03:29:55 PM |
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Hello, I'm back again. I've decided to build my own mining rig, and for about $800 I included everything I needed with the best graphics card for mining radeon 7970. I would like some constructive criticism on how can I improve this build for better mining. This is right in my budget, but I could expend up to $900.
CPU: AMD Athlon II X2 270 3.4GHz Dual-Core Processor ($54.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($33.99 @ Newegg)
Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 12g Thermal Paste ($21.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: MSI 970A-G46 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($73.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($32.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Video Card: MSI Radeon HD 7970 3GB Video Card ($413.98 @ Newegg)
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WN722N 802.11b/g/n USB 2.0 Wi-Fi Adapter ($15.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Rosewill CHALLENGER ATX Mid Tower Case ($52.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Raidmax 630W ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($62.13 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer ($17.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $781.01
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April 26, 2013, 06:41:18 PM |
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I moved this to hardware, since i'm allowed to post there now.
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