Beginners guide to building a 6 GPU GTX 1070 rig using ethOS and Windows 10.

[Mognar69]

Okay, so I know I'm late to the game... I mined a little several years ago using my gaming rigs and finally decided to jump in and build a new 6 GPU mining rig.

I had a lot of trouble finding a step by step guide and spent more hours than I care to admit researching everything needed. So in the process, I decided to document all the steps required and I wanted to share them in case it can help someone else out who is new to mining as well.

I tried to make this guide as thorough as I can. I still have a few tweaks to make to it, but as it is, it should be able to walk anyone through the entire process. I've done a section on using ethOS mining ethereum as well as using Windows 10 mining ethereum.  So far, I really like ccminer and will be adding sections on how to mine various altcoins as I switch over to a new coin.

Following this guide, you should be able to achieve 31+MH per card. I'm hashing 191+MH in total mining ethereum and now I'm mining DmD with the same hash rates; mining DmD until they go PoS next week.

When you get a chance, please take a peek at the guide and let me know what you think. Also, if there's anything you feel that should be added, please let me know.

Here's the link: https://gpuminingcryptocurrency.blogspot.com/

I would love any and all comments. And I hope it helps the new miners out there!

Thanks,

Mog

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[MaxDigger]

Very detailed and constructive. It's obvious that you made a lot of effort to prepare this guideline.  I support this idea. Surely a lot of people will have benefit from this. Great work.

[ntsdm1]

this will certainly help many new miners

[Trofo]

Very detailed guide for total beginners. I skimmed over it because there is much text. I recently build 4x1070 rig and if I was writing a guide it would be 2 pages max. Now i can just point people to yours. Great work.

Maybe you could build something like a index. It is rather long and maybe someone wants to read only one part of it. Ie. Bios settings I lost most of my time  on bios when building the rig.

[killerelite]

Really Well Written Guide , with lots of information for newbie miners and even for old miners that want to get back in on the Gpu mining game
Remarkably written
Those amazon links make this even better for finding equipment easily .
Sent this to 1 of my pals who wanted to make his own rigs ,finger crossed that he will be able to make their rigs more easily (with out needing much of my help )
Sugesstions:
Make an Downloadable offline pdf
Start of with a summary of everything we are supposed to do

[deepcryptomine]

I looked over the guide and it seems that it is pretty well written. The guide is detailed as well since I saw you have amazon link for the screws as well   I am planning to build my own rig but with only one or two GPU cards. In the future I may add more.

[quick1unc]

Just to add, a single 1200 or 1300w psu is more than enough for 6 rx 580's as well. Granted amd cards use more power than nvidia's, but not so much that you need 2 psu's unless you are using 650 or 750's. A properly undervolted and memory overclocked AMD rig will use between 8-900watts at the wall single mining. About 1k watts dual mining. A Nvidia 1070 rig will use about 700-750watts single and 800-900watts dual mining.

As far as choosing cards, if you're running 6 and don't want to have to fork over extra money for PCI power splitters then just try to find cards that have single power connectors. This is mostly geared towards Nvidia cards. AMD cards you are more worried about getting 8gb cards vs 4gb and what memory they are using so you can try to optimize bios modding potential.

If you can't get a good price on a 1200 or 1300w psu, getting 2 psu's is typically cheaper and works just as well. I run dual evga's on many of my rigs and save a good chunk of money doing so:) If you're building a rig, your main focus should be on cutting costs where you can to reduce the time for ROI, buy used cards where you can, discounted motherboards, celeron processors, build your own frame, etc. You can easily get your cost down to $3k-3.2k without much work on a 1070 rig, of course even cheaper for AMD.

[InfiniteQuant]

Thanks a lot for Sharing, would you say there is an advantage using ethOS over Windows 10 if you plan to stick to ETH ?