Setting up my new RIG

[(B.K)]

Hi, I am setting up a 6 nVidia GTX 1070 FE rig using GIGABYTE H110-D3A motherboard. I am slight unsure on which CPU to use. Is i3/5/6 CPU necessary or a Celeron will do aswell. Also about the RAM, will a 4GB DDR4 do? Thanks

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[rumpel_tusk]

Hi, I am setting up a 6 nVidia GTX 1070 FE rig using GIGABYTE H110-D3A motherboard. I am slight unsure on which CPU to use. Is i3/5/6 CPU necessary or a Celeron will do aswell. Also about the RAM, will a 4GB DDR4 do? Thanks

I have an Intel Pentium G4400 CPU and 4GB of RAM will be fine. If you are GPU mining, you don't need a Ryzen level CPU. Just get a decent i5 or similar. The hardware that will be doing all the work is the GPU and the PSU. Don't cheap out on them if you want your equipment to last.

For motherboard, you just need a solid mobo that will support 6 GPUs without throwing up errors after you add the nth one to the board. Also, make sure you get a PSU that can support enough wattage. It is recommended that all of your hardware can be handled by 80% of the PSU's wattage capability to be most efficient.

[jillscarbrough]

Actually with a Celeron processor can also be used, including 4 GB of RAM is also mining is able to run. But it would be nice if using series i and RAM processor above 4 GB.

[zukko]

I think there's no point in spending money on i5, Celeron will be enough.

[shibob]

I have a rig with same mainboard GIGABYTE H110-D3A with 6 MSI nVidia GTX 1070 Seahawk, I used Intel celeron G3930, and 8Gb DDR4 RAM, 1300W PSU.
I havent tested but 4Gb should work as well. This mainboard may face the boot problem when you update the window, if it's the case, you need go to bios to change boot option to window sth, I dont remember exactly the name of that option. Basically, my rig's running quite stable!

[Ryuh]

I have a rig with same mainboard GIGABYTE H110-D3A with 6 MSI nVidia GTX 1070 Seahawk, I used Intel celeron G3930, and 8Gb DDR4 RAM, 1300W PSU.
I havent tested but 4Gb should work as well. This mainboard may face the boot problem when you update the window, if it's the case, you need go to bios to change boot option to window sth, I dont remember exactly the name of that option. Basically, my rig's running quite stable!

I have pretty much the same setup, but with 4 gigabytes of ram and 1200W PSU. Never had any problems with it, rig is using 800 watts from the wall.

[flip4flop]

Celeron is the best way to go if this is a pure mining rig.  You will not need to spend the additional money to spend on anything above that as you cant really mine anything with your CPU that will make enough money right now to pay off a top of the line CPU without taking a very long time.

[Vit83]

Does somebody have a 4 * 1070 RIG, what PSU is normal for rig? I don't want to spend extra money for nothing. Who have real experience using such rigs? Is 850 W will fit to rig or need more power?

[james6546]

180w per 1070ti means you will be ok with an 850w PSU, but it would be better with a 1000W one if you can stretch to it

[Vit83]

180w per 1070ti means you will be ok with an 850w PSU, but it would be better with a 1000W one if you can stretch to it

Thank you. Checked prices. It looks like difference is not very huge between 850w and 1000w if don't take cheapo PSU.

[maduranga]

i think no need to go to a i5 or i3.celeron processor and 4gb ram ok

[DevelopmentBank]

Hi, I am setting up a 6 nVidia GTX 1070 FE rig using GIGABYTE H110-D3A motherboard. I am slight unsure on which CPU to use. Is i3/5/6 CPU necessary or a Celeron will do aswell. Also about the RAM, will a 4GB DDR4 do? Thanks

A "legit" mining rig would not need an i3/i5/i7 processor. A celeron would do but since it has the same power consumption as the pentium, people usually go for a pentium g4400/g4560. This is so that you can still use the PC as an office computer incase mining goes south.

With regards to RAM, 4GB will be enough to run multiple instances of different miners. Anything beyond 4GB is unnecessary.

[rehe]

Hi, I am setting up a 6 nVidia GTX 1070 FE rig using GIGABYTE H110-D3A motherboard. I am slight unsure on which CPU to use. Is i3/5/6 CPU necessary or a Celeron will do aswell. Also about the RAM, will a 4GB DDR4 do? Thanks

Why GTX 1070? This cards are too expensive for their hashing power. Much better are AMD cards (Rx 470, Rx 480).
Celeron and 4GB is OK.
There is calculator for different GPUs: www.whattomine.com

[CryptoWatcher420]

Hi, I am setting up a 6 nVidia GTX 1070 FE rig using GIGABYTE H110-D3A motherboard. I am slight unsure on which CPU to use. Is i3/5/6 CPU necessary or a Celeron will do aswell. Also about the RAM, will a 4GB DDR4 do? Thanks

Why GTX 1070? This cards are too expensive for their hashing power. Much better are AMD cards (Rx 470, Rx 480).
Celeron and 4GB is OK.
There is calculator for different GPUs: www.whattomine.com

Celeron is good if you don't mind the rig to boot slow, same with using only 4gb ram. if you set a page file aka the virtual memory larger that's more performance lost, yall should really understand what the virtual memory is for. if you had 16gb of ram, youd have virtually NO need for a page file except that of which windows normally sets. why cause its got access to better faster ram and more of it instead of using the page file that's on a slow hard drive or ssd

[(B.K)]

Thank you all for your replies. I will buy Celeron 3930 with 4GB RAM.

I am using Corsair HX1200i Platinum PSU which I guess would be ok for my setup.