3 Dual Rigs completed for now - testing underway :)

[VyprBTC]

First thanks everyone I've bugged and who's helped me out - you guys are great and there are so many awesome people here!

After TONS of reading and then more reading and searching and a few questions I finally built 3 dual GPU rigs to test out for myself.

For my test run I only bought:

2 RX 470's
2 1070's
2 1080 Ti's


Here they are





Currently just running NiceHash with Claymore Dual Miner but if anyone can suggest something better I'm all ears

The nVidia's I have on zpool using nemos 1.7.3

Always looking for better way to set up -

In the garage I also have 8 more RX 470's but I just bought 10 more 1080Ti's to replace the RX 470's since they are not earning much on NiceHash at all.

I don't have anything flashed, the nVidias are just tuned a tiny bit with Afterburner.

Thanks again for all the awesome info - my journey couldn't have even began without all you lovely people!

[VyprBTC]

CPU's: i3-7100's
HDD's: Kingston 120Gb SSD
RAM: 8GB Corsair DDR4
MOBO: MSI Z270 A Pro


Z270 only had room for 2 onboard - I'm thinking about getting a couple of these:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130968&cm_re=MSI_Z270_XPOWER_GAMING_TITANIUM-_-13-130-968-_-Product

They look like they can have 4 GPU's on board which I wanted to test out - if anyone has any experience I'd like to know.

I also have a Corsair AX1500i ready for the 1080 Ti's when they arrive.

Sad to see these spare parts - 1060 and 2 RX 470's that I won't be using ... well maybe who knows.

[hedfun22]

Z270 only had room for 2 onboard - I'm thinking about getting a couple of these:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130968&cm_re=MSI_Z270_XPOWER_GAMING_TITANIUM-_-13-130-968-_-Product

They look like they can have 4 GPU's on board which I wanted to test out - if anyone has any experience I'd like to know.

As long as the motherboard has any sized PCIe slot (1x - 16x) you can purchse PCIe risers like this: https://www.amazon.com/PCI-E-Powered-Riser-Adapter-Extension/dp/B06XHVTCRF/ref=sr_1_6?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1495766268&sr=1-6&keywords=pcie+riser and just plug the riser into the motherboard and the card into the riser. Mining doesn't use that much slot bandwidth so mining performance is unaffected on the bus speed.

I'm currently using a mobo with 3 16x slots and 3 1x slots and using those risers in all the slots to be able to use 6 cards.

Since you already have an AX1500i you could just buy more cards or use those 470s and the 1060 and the risers and plug them into any open PCIe slot on your motherboard but you might have to do some research to see if your motherboard can hold 4-5+ GPUs.

[VyprBTC]

Z270 only had room for 2 onboard - I'm thinking about getting a couple of these:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130968&cm_re=MSI_Z270_XPOWER_GAMING_TITANIUM-_-13-130-968-_-Product

They look like they can have 4 GPU's on board which I wanted to test out - if anyone has any experience I'd like to know.

As long as the motherboard has any sized PCIe slot (1x - 16x) you can purchse PCIe risers like this: https://www.amazon.com/PCI-E-Powered-Riser-Adapter-Extension/dp/B06XHVTCRF/ref=sr_1_6?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1495766268&sr=1-6&keywords=pcie+riser and just plug the riser into the motherboard and the card into the riser. Mining doesn't use that much slot bandwidth so mining performance is unaffected on the bus speed.

I'm currently using a mobo with 3 16x slots and 3 1x slots and using those risers in all the slots to be able to use 6 cards.

Since you already have an AX1500i you could just buy more cards or use those 470s and the 1060 and the risers and plug them into any open PCIe slot on your motherboard but you might have to do some research to see if your motherboard can hold 4-5+ GPUs.

Yeah I wanted to do riser-less builds to test them out for now - I'll probably toy with a riser build in the future to run it side by side with a 4 card no riser build.

For now I just came home to some different 1080's to play with