my vertical mining case/frame

[duniek]

I know, I know hot air goes up, but i tested it horizontally as well and then i had maybe 2-3*C less temps, the same noise (tested with 4x1060 and 2x1070)
case have room for one more gpu (total 7 risers inside, and maybe i can add 3 long gpus on top or 4 short ones) via pci-e multiplier






24x28x61cm (40l)

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[kjs]

Nice construction! 

[ROFLED]

Please let us know what temp-s you get at all

[farmtester1]

What MB is this? looks like a very old socket

[MikeJones!]

Pretty Slick! nicely done

[duniek]

temperatures - 62-64*C at 45-48% fans speed

motherboard on pictures is gigabyte ma-790fx-dq6 am2+ (5x pci-e with powered molex) + i added pci-e multiplier 1x pci-e x1 @ 4x pci-e x1 (8 gpu in total)

(mobo + cpu + ram - 40eur, multiplier 20-22eur) total 60-62eur - i think cheapest 8x pci-e BTC mobo cost about 90-100eur (without cpu/ram)

cheap and I dont have to mess with all that bios settings like pci-e gen,4g encoding or all that crap, 8 gpus works plug and play

[wacko]

Nice, would love to see some more pics with the fully loaded rig. I was considering doing something like this myself, mainly because of those leaky Sapphire RX480 cards.. there were reports out there of those cards dying, supposedly because that oily liquid mixed with dust shorts something. Not a problem in regular desktop PCs, but turned out to be a problem for mining rigs with GPUs placed vertically. So a rig like yours, with cards placed horizontally, is probably the best way to go for "leaking" cards. But it's a lot harder to build a rig like this, so I eventually gave up.

[Johny101010]

Great job looks great.
You might want to mount the motherboard on the other side facing your cards. Those riser cables die to quicky if bended.

[shibob]

Look cool. Even your monitor is also vertical haha.
I'm thinking to change some of my rigs to vertical build like yours, it may help on ventilation and saving area, actually my room is pretty small with 3.8m x 3.2m.

[ivakar]

well it is always nice to see greatly done stuff as your rig, for example.
it is well think of and planned well before construction and save a lot of space I must admit

post a picture with full gpus load))  then we all will give thumps up!

[umine]

Solid alluminium case - it's right approach! Just add external fans at the back side of the frame (befor GPUs)  and "problem - hot air goes up" will dissapear. It's due to fans airflow is faster than the convection of air bottom-up

[DevonMiner]

This sort of idea caught my eye a while back, it's not too dissimilar to the way Genesis Mining build their rigs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUs3Z1z0TvA

Looks like they are using Asrock Pro BTC boards with their own custom software/os on USB stick.

[Sev18]

It's first time to see vertical case. Looks good.

[duniek]

Great job looks great.
You might want to mount the motherboard on the other side facing your cards. Those riser cables die to quicky if bended.

risers/usb cables are not bend at all

60cm risers are long enough, but always you can use angle usb conectors like this:

https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1CM6KPFXXXXauXVXXq6xXFXXXI/PCI-E-1x-to-16x-Mining-Machine-Enhanced-Extender-Riser-Card-Adapter-with-60cm-2-feet.jpg


more pics soon, maybe tuesday

PS

whole case is made by hand (hand drill/ hand threaded) base is 24x28 bcoz i have 24x56cm sheet of aluminium plate at home so i decided to not order new one

i decided to make it by hand bcoz for CNC I will wait 1-2 weeks

[deadsix]

This sort of idea caught my eye a while back, it's not too dissimilar to the way Genesis Mining build their rigs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUs3Z1z0TvA

Looks like they are using Asrock Pro BTC boards with their own custom software/os on USB stick.

They actually use Colorful boards, which are like $40 in bulk, and server PSU's that cost them 50$ with the breakout and cables, a 40$ CPU's with a 30$ stick of RAM, so their total systems costs them $160.
Cant beat that price and efficiency, and it sure beats a 12/13/19 GPU build in stability.

[juanichiloco]

Looks good, nice work, could work better for some people as heaters during the winter

[bigjee]

Great idea 

Its nothing new.
Ive seen these before and pretty sure there's hundreds if not thousands in use.
See below:

]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUs3Z1z0TvA&t=35s[url][/url]

[duniek]

believe me, I try to found some pics in google vertical case but no luck

also important thing for me are risers mounted with spacers firmly to frame - now mounitng/changing gpu is very very simple and fast

[Oakey22]

Looks a great way to minimise the footprint of the rig. My only concern would be as heat rises the upper cards are then becoming hotter than the bottom.

[mintzt]

This design can minimize dust stick on processor heat sink.