What do you think for first build? (Updated again)

[Monetizer]

So I will be building my first rig soon and I can get all of these for $240 minus the 5850's and a psu. I will likely sell the Spare video card and case for whatever I can get. Is this a fairly good build for under $400?

AsRock 970-Pro3
AM3 Sempron LE-145
Patriot 2GB DDR3 1333 Memory
HDD (Recommend me one)
2x Radean HD 5850's
Corsair VS550 (Would it work with this build?)

[Ion77]

You can go easy with 2 GB Ram or even 1 GB.
I have Celeron G465 - and this is more than enough.
Why such a big hard drive? You can go with used 80 GB hard drive (I've found one for 9 bucks), or you can install Windows 8 on 32 GB USB stick.
And I think that 7850 is the best option from all sides. 400 Kh/s on litecoins or 350 Mh/s with bitcoins. Only 150 Watt. Low price. What can be better than this?

[Monetizer]

It comes all in a bundle
Would it be worth selling for a smaller HDD? Also I am gonna install windows of a portable disk drive. And finally I was told I could get 300 Kh/s or 400 if extremely lucky from a 5850 and they are pretty cheap (Am on a tight budget)

[HellDiverUK]

So I will be building my first rig soon and I can get all of these for $240 minus the 5850's and a psu. I will likely sell the Spare video card and case for whatever I can get. Can anyone recommend a PSU and is this a good price/build?

Intel Celeron Dual Core G1610 2.60GHz
ASUS F2A85-M-LE(FM2) DDR3 Motherboard
Genuine AMD Boxed Cooling Fan
Genuine AMD 760G Chipset/AMD A55 Chipset

Why are you trying to use an Intel Celeron in an AMD FM2 board?      

FM2 is a bad choice too, just get an AM3+ board - all FM2 adds is the ability to use a CPU with built in GPU, which you don't really want.  Go with a AM3+ and a cheap Sempron 145.

The 5850 cards would need to be cheap, because they don't really give much performance.  I get about 380MH/s out of a 5870, but it's hot, noisy, and a bit shit.  I'll be binning it when it dies (not long, fan is knackered).

So, basically, everything you've got listed there is the wrong choice.

[Monetizer]

I have updated now. Thanks for the tip (also happens to be my first build let alone rig)

[os2sam]

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_rig

[HellDiverUK]

If you know linux, there's no reason you can't run one of the small mining setups off a USB stick.  Something like BAMT https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28967.0 - I've never tried it, but if it works, then you don't need a HDD.

PSU, well if you're just going for the two card, a decent 500W will do you.  If you plan on adding more cards in the future, then you're best buying something a bit heavier to start off with.  When I was mining with two cards (a HD6970 and HD5870) on a Celeron G530 machine, I was using a OCZ 500W PSU which worked perfectly. It was very cheap, about £30.  I also used a really, really cheap Deer PSU which I had lying about, it worked OK but smelt funny after a while.  

[kinitex]

If it were me I'd get something that can mine scrypt just as well. No point bottle necking yourself around SHA-256 when mass produced asics are right around the corner.

[HellDiverUK]

If it were me I'd get something that can mine scrypt just as well. No point bottle necking yourself around SHA-256 when mass produced asics are right around the corner.

What?     There's nothing mentioned in this thread about anything that traps him in to SHA256? 

[Monetizer]

If it were me I'd get something that can mine scrypt just as well. No point bottle necking yourself around SHA-256 when mass produced asics are right around the corner.

Actually I was gonna litecoin/Altcoin mine

[HellDiverUK]

If it were me I'd get something that can mine scrypt just as well. No point bottle necking yourself around SHA-256 when mass produced asics are right around the corner.

Actually I was gonna litecoin/Altcoin mine

Yeah, but nothing you've included in your list holds you to SHA256, which is what the previous poster was implying.  You could mine anything you like with a GPU.

[Monetizer]

Bump, No one gof any help?

[CoolIT]

So I will be building my first rig soon and I can get all of these for $240 minus the 5850's and a psu. I will likely sell the Spare video card and case for whatever I can get. Is this a fairly good build for under $400?

AsRock 970-Pro3
AM3 Sempron LE-145
Patriot 2GB DDR3 1333 Memory
HDD (Recommend me one)
2x Radean HD 5850's
Corsair VS550 (Would it work with this build?)

The following posts have details about my first and very basic easy to configure miner.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=170401.msg1777044#msg1777044



Your motherboard should be good.
The sempron is perfect for the job. I run slower and it always sleeps
Any memory should do the trick
My first rig uses a crap 80gig sata.
my second rig uses an ultra old maxtor 40gig IDE drive... so any harddrive will work. (The ASRock doesn't have IDE)
Corsair VS550 (Would it work with this build?) If you have it in stock, it should work, however I would strongly recommend minimum about 700W to be extra safe.



All in all, the above should do fine, specially if you got your hand on 2x5850's.

Windows7, guiminer is the easiest way to go about it. it is ultra stable. My rigs are always on.

[Monetizer]

Thanks fr the reply. I will probably upgrade my PSu if that is what's best. As for A HDD I will probably buy an 80GB harddrive from somewhere. Also I will be looking ebay and such for the 5850's (I have a strong $400 limit so those are perfect)

[Monetizer]

Bumpy bump