A $30,000 GPU mining farm.

[Bigdrago]

Hi folks and friends from BCT!

I'm here asking for advice once again, as we're planning to make a $30,000 usd investment in GPU mining:

10 rigs using:

Comp:	Model	Price	Final price
GPU:	Msi Armor Radeon 580 8gb	$384(x6!)	$2,304
MB:	Msi Z270-A Pro	$152	$152
Micro:	Celeron G3930	$36	$36
RAM:	Corsair VS DDR4 4GB	$73	$73
PSU:	NZXT Hale90 or alike	$136	$136
Final price:			$2,701

The prices have been converted to USD so it might change a little bit, and yes, in my country the taxes aren't the best ever.
Like I mentioned, we're planning to buy 10 units like this mostly for Ethereum mining, so I would really appreciate your advice before proceeding with the order.

I have been wondering how long it might take before ETH goes PoS, and assuming it does, there should be a few other coins that are worth for GPU mining, right?

What are your thoughts? Is there any better investment that I might not be considering? Or any missing risk?

Kind regards;
Chris C. Russo

One option is to use the Octominer B8PLUS, https://octominer.com/product/octominer_b8plus/
New batch of boards will be in stock in less than 2 weeks. The advantage is that this board comes with 8 full size PCIe slots, no need for risers like the MSI board has. Also the octominer board has built in Intel Mobile 3855u CPU , which makes it very energy efficient.

What about warranty on that b8plus?

[Bigdrago]

I actually like that octominer, but I alraedy bought... I wish you good luck however on the sales. Perhaps once I replace the current batch...
I never had so many fckd up risers in my life before...

Where and what risers u have?

[chrusso]

These are the risers I'm using...



Now, I'm not sure how it could be happening, as I replace them, the new ones seem to be running without any problem. But the error wont show up as soon as I turn on the miner... it actually runs for 20 or 40 minutes, or even a few hours, and then it shows up "GPU X hangs in opencl call..."

I've been replacing all the risers for those GPUs so far... and it seems to be working for now... but, how can it be possible that it runs for hours before getting unstable?

Kind regards;
Chris

[Michael20]

Is it stock clocks and voltage, if not lower clocks and go up with voltage.
How hot it get?

[zoufou]

Nowadays $384 target price for that GPU is becoming hard to find ! it's running ~500 USD for same gpu on amazon !

[rdluffy]

I think that it's not the right time to buy a rig, buy a coin directly, the coins are very cheap at the moment, and in the next spike you could gain a lot of money to buy your rigs, and the prices of GPUs now are insane

[octominer]

Hi folks and friends from BCT!

I'm here asking for advice once again, as we're planning to make a $30,000 usd investment in GPU mining:

10 rigs using:

Comp:	Model	Price	Final price
GPU:	Msi Armor Radeon 580 8gb	$384(x6!)	$2,304
MB:	Msi Z270-A Pro	$152	$152
Micro:	Celeron G3930	$36	$36
RAM:	Corsair VS DDR4 4GB	$73	$73
PSU:	NZXT Hale90 or alike	$136	$136
Final price:			$2,701

The prices have been converted to USD so it might change a little bit, and yes, in my country the taxes aren't the best ever.
Like I mentioned, we're planning to buy 10 units like this mostly for Ethereum mining, so I would really appreciate your advice before proceeding with the order.

I have been wondering how long it might take before ETH goes PoS, and assuming it does, there should be a few other coins that are worth for GPU mining, right?

What are your thoughts? Is there any better investment that I might not be considering? Or any missing risk?

Kind regards;
Chris C. Russo

One option is to use the Octominer B8PLUS, https://octominer.com/product/octominer_b8plus/
New batch of boards will be in stock in less than 2 weeks. The advantage is that this board comes with 8 full size PCIe slots, no need for risers like the MSI board has. Also the octominer board has built in Intel Mobile 3855u CPU , which makes it very energy efficient.

What about warranty on that b8plus?

1 year warranty for the Octominer B8PLUS. We will have service and warranty centres opened up soon in USA and Europe also.