Building a Nvidia Mining Rig, Need Part Recommendation (1070s??)

[Jmattes]

Going to my local microcenter tomorrow to build a mining rig.
As you all know AMDs are all sold out, so I need Nvidia recommendations, unless I buy 550s.

So 1080s, 1070s, or 1060s?

I was thinking of getting a few 1070s to start. Here are my options based on stock:
(3) Gigabyte Overclocked 8gb at $390/each
(3) Gigabyte G1 8gb at $410/each
(3-5) Asus Strix 8gb at $410/each (they have a total of 8 instock at the moment)
They have EVGA, PNY, Zotac, MSI, etc if those brands are better.

I have the usb powered risers, but I need a motherboard, cpu amd psu recommend to support the cards.

Let say after I get mining I would like to have 5-7 cards.

[Nalut]

Checkout my rig setup by visting my profile
If you can afford $1500 for gpu i would recommend 2x gtx 1080 ti

[philipma1957]

Build my

Two 1080ti

One 1070

Riser free rigs.

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note my builds are with a biostar z170  but the gigabyte is fine


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1877588.msg19335622#msg19335622

the gigabyte board will do 3  with no risers.   1080ti 1080 ti 1070 mini


3 with no risers 1080ti 1080 ti 1070

[TheYankeesWin!]

Phil has two rigs  they do 2300 skein  550 watts  or 1900 zec 525 watts

[QuintLeo]

I was thinking of getting a few 1070s to start. Here are my options based on stock:
(3) Gigabyte Overclocked 8gb at $390/each
(3) Gigabyte G1 8gb at $410/each

 Should work well together, IIRC they are set by Gigabyte to almost identical factory overclock.
 I suspect that first one you listed is the one I have 6 of.

 For a triple 1070 rig, I find a good 850 watt PS is more than enough - could probably get by with a 750, or a 650 with enough undervolt and core downclock.

 I don't build riser rigs, and my rigs don't tend to be pure "mining" rigs though.

 Most of them are built on the ASRock FM2A88X Extreme 6+ (using 2 full-length 1070 and a Gigabyte "ITX" short 1070).

 Same motherboard could work with a pair of 1080 or 1080ti in the first 2 slots, but keep the "shortie" card for the third slot for cooling - and you will definitely want more PS for a pair of 1080ti (power draw on the 1080 is normally 20 watts or so more than the 1070, not exactly a big difference).

 For a pure mining rig, I'd probably go ASRock 970 Extreme4 (my current gaming rig and one other rig are built on this MB).

 Pretty much any "3 x PCI-E 16-bit slot" board should work, as they all have the same 2-5-7 spacing as the pair I mentioned, or the Gigabyte board Phil mentioned.