Whats your setup? Hobbyist Miners

[SlyFoxy12]

As I'm a hobbyist miner and I need to make a few posts I thought I'd make an effort to see what other hobbyists use. Mine:

2 AMD 6950 graphics cards I got off Ebay
and a beast of a computer I built a year or two back running Xubuntu.

Used to generate around 1BTC a week (I've had some issues with OS instability and cards overheating lately), I don't pay power bills as my work was kind enough to let me rig up a machine in their server room.

Hoping to get on the ASIC bandwagon at some point but not overly worried about this gold rush atm, seems a lot of people have faith in the things.

[D1rk D1ggler]

I have 15 BFL Singles mining away with 15 SC upgrades dancing in my dreams. Every email I get I hope it is BFL asking me to send them in for upgrade.

[AndNorTar]

Wow, I really envy you guys who found some free power! In Denmark, the kWh rate is about 0.36 USD, so it's pretty expensive to mine over here, haha.

I turned out to have a Radeon 5850/Core i5-750 SFF PC lying around, so that's been setup for mining. Definitely going to upgrade this though: removing the (albeit well cooled) SFF case, and buying more GPU's. (Too bad those PCI-E riser cables seem so.. rare?)

There seems to be a lot of hype around the Radeon 7950, but man, that card is just insanely expensive. Over here, a used 5850 is around 1/4th the price - and maybe I'm just lucky, but they seem rather easy to get hold of as well.

[SlyFoxy12]

Wow, I really envy you guys who found some free power! In Denmark, the kWh rate is about 0.36 USD, so it's pretty expensive to mine over here, haha.

I turned out to have a Radeon 5850/Core i5-750 SFF PC lying around, so that's been setup for mining. Definitely going to upgrade this though: removing the (albeit well cooled) SFF case, and buying more GPU's. (Too bad those PCI-E riser cables seem so.. rare?)

There seems to be a lot of hype around the Radeon 7950, but man, that card is just insanely expensive. Over here, a used 5850 is around 1/4th the price - and maybe I'm just lucky, but they seem rather easy to get hold of as well.

I've struggled to find any 5 series cards in the UK, there's quite a lot of 6 series cards flying around though on Ebay, considering expanding but I'd rather not if these new ASIC miners do change the game that much, I'd rather save some BTC for a 2nd Gen or a second hand 1st Gen.

I have 15 BFL Singles mining away with 15 SC upgrades dancing in my dreams. Every email I get I hope it is BFL asking me to send them in for upgrade.

Are your FPGA quite stable to run then?

[curtisbigs]

15 BFL ghezzz how did you get those you must have known someone on the inside

[SlyFoxy12]

15 BFL ghezzz how did you get those you must have known someone on the inside

Must have cost a bomb admitantly

[schnebi]

Im mining with 4 X 7850 / 2 x 7770 / 2x 7950

Makes about 3000 KHashs consuming 1,5 KW/h :-D

Im payinf 0,28 $ per Kw/h, so at the moment its really worth the effort.

[AndNorTar]

Im mining with 4 X 7850 / 2 x 7770 / 2x 7950

Makes about 3000 KHashs consuming 1,5 KW/h :-D

Im payinf 0,28 $ per Kw/h, so at the moment its really worth the effort.

What types of chassis do you use for those machines (and perhaps in particular, the quad-GPU one)?

I have a well-ventilated SFF case for my single-GPU system, but I guess I'll have to use milk crates or something when it reaches 4..

[theblazehen]

Intel ATOM N2600 (1.6 GHz) CPU

[dnyce]

Im mining with 4 X 7850 / 2 x 7770 / 2x 7950

Makes about 3000 KHashs consuming 1,5 KW/h :-D

Im payinf 0,28 $ per Kw/h, so at the moment its really worth the effort.

What types of chassis do you use for those machines (and perhaps in particular, the quad-GPU one)?

I have a well-ventilated SFF case for my single-GPU system, but I guess I'll have to use milk crates or something when it reaches 4..

I 2nd this request... Can you share more details?

[dnyce]

I have 15 BFL Singles mining away with 15 SC upgrades dancing in my dreams. Every email I get I hope it is BFL asking me to send them in for upgrade.

Damn.... Sounds like you knew someone over at BFL...   

[josiasrdz]

I'm using my laptop  

[JWU90]

just a 7950, but mining litecoins to convert to bitcoins

[toolbag]

I just got into mining in the last few weeks, more as a hobby than to make serious money. I built a dedicated mining rig with a single 7870 that gets about 412 Mh/sec and just added a 6670 to my "server" PC which yields an additional 110 Mh/sec or so. I did a lot of research beforehand and still ended up spending more money than I'd intended/hoped, but that's another story that's not terribly interesting. All told, I probably spent $300 on video cards and another $200 on miscellaneous components for the dedicated miner.

I'm not sure what my power consumption is, but I have a Kill-A-Watt meter that I'll hook up at some point to measure it accurately. I also just confirmed my pre-order for a BFL Little Single, so I hopefully won't be left in the dust too badly when the ASIC revolution drives the difficulty through the roof. At that point I'll probably repurpose my GPU's for Litecoin mining. I placed by BFL order before the price hike, so that makes me feel a bit more like all this gear might eventually pay for itself.

I think D1rk D1ggler is talking about having 15 BFL FPGA units, not ASIC devices.

[zonark]

I'm using my laptop  

Same as this guy, using an ASUS laptop with a 3000something ATI card. Averaging 30mH/s. I get .001BTC a day 

[jdot007]

2 x 7970's @ about 1300 Mh/s woo-hoo!

[ymeiner]

3X XFX 7970 Black Edition. Used a chassis i had and built a second floor for the GPUS.

~2GH/s

I'm selling it BTW, if somebody wants to buy.


http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Complete-Bitcoin-Miner-2-0-1-85-gh-s-/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/MEMAAMXQQQhRfqGW/$T2eC16hHJHIE9nysfptKBRfqGVrBkw~~60_12.JPG

[simonp]

1 Linux server with a 5760 and soon a 9750. 2 game systems each with an nvidia card for gaming and secondary 9750s that will run 24/7 for mining. 3 9750s 1 5760 for about 2400Mhs/sec.

[simonp]

3 9750, 1 5760, 2 nvidia cards. Spread across 1 server and 2 game systems. Total of about 2.4 Ghash.

[SlyFoxy12]

Intel ATOM N2600 (1.6 GHz) CPU

Are you.... seriously?