Hi all just wanted to let you all know how easy it is to setup a verium mining farm using Birty's great guide and just to let you all know the Intel Atom mining of verium is on!
Currently got 48 micro atx Intel Atom boards with dual core low power CPU (tdp 5W the chipset consumes x4 lol) and each with 1Gb RAM. So far 48 boards give 96 cores and 48Gb Ram (1Gb each) the setup is pulling a steady 960W with 16 250W psu (one 250W psu powering three Micro atom boards) but wiring the power leads is a chore nobody makes y splitter power leads with 3 out 1 in lol and prob for good reason they prob wouldnt be cheap enough anyway! on average each Atom board is using about 20W :-) (980W/48)
I am also utilizing a bag of small 130Mb usb sticks found in my dusty shelfs to run the boards as managed to get effects to cause verium miner compiled in Tiny core linux making the image size about 69Mb lol perfect for a "saving of old computer stuff from the tip" project like this haha.... The atom boards came out of recycled digital advertising screens lol, at the every least it is keeping the ground floor of my home nice and warm! the interesting thing to note i have found is that Tiny core linux loads into RAM making it perfect for running of USB stick cos it writes itself into RAM and occupies around 250Mb of Ram with another 250Mb used for running the system leaving 500Mb of RAM unused or spare...... and thats with 2 threads mining away!
There is two different types of intel atom board running in the farm and they are both old kit,
LD945GCLF = 130H/m (atom 230 @ 1.6Ghz DDR 2)
D425KT = 145H/m (atom 425 @ 1.8Ghz this is DDR3 to!)
12 x LD945GCLF = 1560H/m (60W tdp)
12 x D425KT = 1740H/m (60W tdp)
total hash rate of 6600 H/m
Heres a photo of the farm:
so far there is still one shelf to fill and that will be constructed in a week or so bringing the farm upto 60 boards total. Each shelf hosts 12 boards with 4 x 250W psu behind them, the atom boards dont use very much power they only use infact the main 20 pin ATX connector and the p4 for cpu power and each psu seem to run three micro ATX boards just fine havent tried to run more as thought it might stress things a little to much but might have a test soon lol. Total current hashing power over 6.5Kh/m for 980W power consumption, its not odroid efficient but its fun and informative and hopefully one day will be productive lol.. the dropping of the difficulty over the last days has been interesting :-)
I like Verium because it is GPU resistant back in 14 I used to mine LTC but had to pack my rigs up when it became to hard to mine I am doing this with out any idea what will happen to verium but i suspect it will catch on next year in a big way :-)
Cheers Birty... :-)
