What's your KH/S, MH/S or TH/S, power consumption and electricity bills?

[ooTiGeRoo]

Hi All,

Just wondering what hashrates people have, how much power you use and how much do you end up paying for running costs. Eg: mining rig, aircon, fans, Internet,  etc.

Unfortunately this is an area some people don't look into or take into consideration when mining at the beginning. When the bill comes in after 3 months, they get slapped with bill shock.

Australia isn't cheap for electricity either. I pay roughly 35c per kw. It isn't the coldest country either. So fans and aircon are a must as well, which add to running costs.

Please share your running costs calculations, hashrate and wattage used. It would be very interesting to see which countries and areas are the cheapest to run mining rigs.

I would imagine somewhere really cold would be awesome as the rigs would act as heaters.

Thanks in advanced!
Chris

[Crypto Rigs]

I have the following rigs:

1) 4x7950 MSi TF3 @ 2,528 kh/s @ 900w
2) 4x7950 MSi TF3 @ 2,528 kh/s @ 950w
3) 3x7950 GB WF3 + MSi TF3 @ 2,064kh/s  @ 900w (Gigabyte cards use more power than the MSi cards)
4) 4x7970 Sapphire Dual-X @ 2,880 kh/s @ 1200w
5) 2x7950 GB WF3 @ 1,260 kh/s @ 550w
6) 2x6850 GB WF @ 500 kh/s @ 300w

That's 11760 kh/s @ 4800 watts.

Cost wise, i'll let you know when i get bill shock. I'm estimating around around $3,500 - $4,000 every quarterly bill. That is JUST for powering the rigs. That doesn't even take into consideration aircon and fans, internet and other things needs to keep them online.

[BigShot]

I have the following rigs:

1) 4x7950 MSi TF3 @ 2,528 kh/s @ 900w
2) 4x7950 MSi TF3 @ 2,528 kh/s @ 950w
3) 3x7950 GB WF3 + MSi TF3 @ 2,064kh/s  @ 900w (Gigabyte cards use more power than the MSi cards)
4) 4x7970 Sapphire Dual-X @ 2,880 kh/s @ 1200w
5) 2x7950 GB WF3 @ 1,260 kh/s @ 550w
6) 2x6850 GB WF @ 500 kh/s @ 300w

That's 11760 kh/s @ 4800 watts.

Cost wise, i'll let you know when i get bill shock. I'm estimating around around $3,500 - $4,000 every quarterly bill. That is JUST for powering the rigs. That doesn't even take into consideration aircon and fans, internet and other things needs to keep them online.

Much wow. That's insane! What're you mining with them?

[Crypto Rigs]

I was originally mining LTC, but due to network difficulty and hashrate, it became unprofitable.

So just renting them all now just so that i can keep going without having to sell my rigs.

Much ouch at the moment.

[Kluge]

Running air conditioners for miners is insane. Fans are unnecessary assuming you have a couple case fans (or no case) and the graphics card isn't poorly-designed. You can ignore Internet costs since bandwidth consumption is insignificant and I'd guess you'd have an ISP even without miners.

I'm projecting $288/mo in electricity costs for 3MH/s, but miners have replaced electric heating units (since it can be better-directed, it's cheaper than propane out here), effectively negating those costs, too. They are effectively free to run until mid-Spring, when cost will be that $288/mo in exchange for what's currently worth ~$952 in BTC (through Scrypt->BTC autoexchange pool). I'm bullish on BTC (and many altcoins, fwiw), so I'm actually projecting the current BTC income (which is raised since BTC price is low) to be worth >$2000/mo by the time I cash out, so I'm looking at this as a steep discount for "DIY BTC."

The cards are under three-year warranty, so the only real concern is having moisture damage colder parts of motherboards (which is a quick $50 to replace, assuming it doesn't also damage the CPU, then another $45). It was never an issue when BTC mining with GPUs using outside air, but still a concern.

[opnoskatt]

I have the following rigs:

1) 4x7950 MSi TF3 @ 2,528 kh/s @ 900w
2) 4x7950 MSi TF3 @ 2,528 kh/s @ 950w
3) 3x7950 GB WF3 + MSi TF3 @ 2,064kh/s  @ 900w (Gigabyte cards use more power than the MSi cards)
4) 4x7970 Sapphire Dual-X @ 2,880 kh/s @ 1200w
5) 2x7950 GB WF3 @ 1,260 kh/s @ 550w
6) 2x6850 GB WF @ 500 kh/s @ 300w

That's 11760 kh/s @ 4800 watts.

Cost wise, i'll let you know when i get bill shock. I'm estimating around around $3,500 - $4,000 every quarterly bill. That is JUST for powering the rigs. That doesn't even take into consideration aircon and fans, internet and other things needs to keep them online.

Advice on your rig location, I don't know your geographic location or how often you need physical access to your rigs but you could collocate that setup into a datacenter for cheaper than your power bill.  A lot of places offer half-rack (21U) with dedicated cooling and redundant power for <$1,000 month.  I started saving ~$1,200/mo in power by moving my rigs into a DC.

[Crypto Rigs]

I have the following rigs:

1) 4x7950 MSi TF3 @ 2,528 kh/s @ 900w
2) 4x7950 MSi TF3 @ 2,528 kh/s @ 950w
3) 3x7950 GB WF3 + MSi TF3 @ 2,064kh/s  @ 900w (Gigabyte cards use more power than the MSi cards)
4) 4x7970 Sapphire Dual-X @ 2,880 kh/s @ 1200w
5) 2x7950 GB WF3 @ 1,260 kh/s @ 550w
6) 2x6850 GB WF @ 500 kh/s @ 300w

That's 11760 kh/s @ 4800 watts.

Cost wise, i'll let you know when i get bill shock. I'm estimating around around $3,500 - $4,000 every quarterly bill. That is JUST for powering the rigs. That doesn't even take into consideration aircon and fans, internet and other things needs to keep them online.

Advice on your rig location, I don't know your geographic location or how often you need physical access to your rigs but you could collocate that setup into a datacenter for cheaper than your power bill.  A lot of places offer half-rack (21U) with dedicated cooling and redundant power for <$1,000 month.  I started saving ~$1,200/mo in power by moving my rigs into a DC.

Sounds like a great idea. =)

I'm in Sydney, Australia and this country isn't the most coldest in the world.

Yesterday was 41'C (106'F). We're in summer until February. Winter isn't too cold here.

But i will look into the DC idea. =)

[opnoskatt]

I have the following rigs:

1) 4x7950 MSi TF3 @ 2,528 kh/s @ 900w
2) 4x7950 MSi TF3 @ 2,528 kh/s @ 950w
3) 3x7950 GB WF3 + MSi TF3 @ 2,064kh/s  @ 900w (Gigabyte cards use more power than the MSi cards)
4) 4x7970 Sapphire Dual-X @ 2,880 kh/s @ 1200w
5) 2x7950 GB WF3 @ 1,260 kh/s @ 550w
6) 2x6850 GB WF @ 500 kh/s @ 300w

That's 11760 kh/s @ 4800 watts.

Cost wise, i'll let you know when i get bill shock. I'm estimating around around $3,500 - $4,000 every quarterly bill. That is JUST for powering the rigs. That doesn't even take into consideration aircon and fans, internet and other things needs to keep them online.

Advice on your rig location, I don't know your geographic location or how often you need physical access to your rigs but you could collocate that setup into a datacenter for cheaper than your power bill.  A lot of places offer half-rack (21U) with dedicated cooling and redundant power for <$1,000 month.  I started saving ~$1,200/mo in power by moving my rigs into a DC.

Sounds like a great idea. =)

I'm in Sydney, Australia and this country isn't the most coldest in the world.

Yesterday was 41'C (106'F). We're in summer until February. Winter isn't too cold here.

But i will look into the DC idea. =)

It's certainly worth a shot to eliminate that power issues.  If you do go that route I highly recommend getting an offline console device (similar to a DRAC) so you can still gain console access if you have a hardware failure. Many times I've got an alert than a GPU was down; instead of driving to the DC I can just console in and disable it temporarily until I have a few minutes to drive in.

[Crypto Rigs]

I have the following rigs:

1) 4x7950 MSi TF3 @ 2,528 kh/s @ 900w
2) 4x7950 MSi TF3 @ 2,528 kh/s @ 950w
3) 3x7950 GB WF3 + MSi TF3 @ 2,064kh/s  @ 900w (Gigabyte cards use more power than the MSi cards)
4) 4x7970 Sapphire Dual-X @ 2,880 kh/s @ 1200w
5) 2x7950 GB WF3 @ 1,260 kh/s @ 550w
6) 2x6850 GB WF @ 500 kh/s @ 300w

That's 11760 kh/s @ 4800 watts.

Cost wise, i'll let you know when i get bill shock. I'm estimating around around $3,500 - $4,000 every quarterly bill. That is JUST for powering the rigs. That doesn't even take into consideration aircon and fans, internet and other things needs to keep them online.

Advice on your rig location, I don't know your geographic location or how often you need physical access to your rigs but you could collocate that setup into a datacenter for cheaper than your power bill.  A lot of places offer half-rack (21U) with dedicated cooling and redundant power for <$1,000 month.  I started saving ~$1,200/mo in power by moving my rigs into a DC.

Sounds like a great idea. =)

I'm in Sydney, Australia and this country isn't the most coldest in the world.

Yesterday was 41'C (106'F). We're in summer until February. Winter isn't too cold here.

But i will look into the DC idea. =)

It's certainly worth a shot to eliminate that power issues.  If you do go that route I highly recommend getting an offline console device (similar to a DRAC) so you can still gain console access if you have a hardware failure. Many times I've got an alert than a GPU was down; instead of driving to the DC I can just console in and disable it temporarily until I have a few minutes to drive in.

I can remote into all the machines already. They are currently located offsite as it is too hot to have them at home.

I am remoting into them now and updating people's pool details as they email me with requests.

So i've got that part covered. =)

Just running costs is what i need to look into.

[btcmonster]

atm i have 2 rig running with 4 7950s in each, 2x2400khs free power

[opnoskatt]

atm i have 2 rig running with 4 7950s in each, 2x2400khs free power

running inside a company network room or DC?  If so, great resource if you have it available.  Sadly the DC I run is 1200 miles away and we only fly out 4 times a year, would make for a touch location.  Are you mining an alternating pool?