who (in the U.S) wants to build this miner for me....

[jjj0923]

Ok - so I've been doing a lot fo reading about mining equipment and I own a Bitmain S1 Dual Blade but now I'm ready to move up.

I've read here that someone else built the following and he (or she..not sure) believe it will run over 2 GH/S so I'm soliciting opinions and would like someone to build it for me. I'm sure I'm capabale since I was swapping boards back in the early 90's when the only NIC was arcnet but I have NOT had my hands 'seriously' in hardware for 20 years although I was swapping boards in some office PC's yesterday but it's nothing like building one of these rigs.

I'll pay to have it built - order what you tell me to have it all sent you your place - have you build and test it then ship it to me. If it goes well I may come back to you for additional computers. You SHOULD have lot of posts here and a great reputation. We'll need to talk on the phone and you MUST be in Canada or the U.S.

If you're in the Northeast, U.S. or Mid Atlantic area that's even between I live near Newark, De.

here's what I'd like to have built.

water cool the quad 7970's

AMD FX-8120
Asus M5A97 r2.0
Gigabyte ATI 6990 (x2)
Wifi card
128GB SSD
Coolermaster 1200w 80gold
Diskdrive (for driver CD's)
Corsair 600T


thoughts, opinions, takers?

thanks in advance...

[nachius]

Do you already own all this hardware?
4 7970s - around 740Kh/s each
2 6990s - around 800-850Kh/s each

Asus M5A97 r2.0 - only has 4 PCIe slots so I'm confused about what you are planning?

If this is going to be used for mining only this would be better off and more cost effective in an open air frame w/ fans and not worry about water cooling.  SSDs are overkill for mining machines and the dvd drive would only be used for the OS install IF you wanted a hard drive at all and didn't boot BAMT or something similar from a 2-4 gig usb jump drive.

1200 watt power supply may also be pushing it on hoping for it to push 4 cards and the components.

Lastly the r9 series cards 270, 280, 290, have since outdated the 7900 series cards.  the r9 280/280x are about the same cost as the 7970 with a higher hashrate.

[Skaterdiejosh]

I would suggest you check into gridseed miners and save yourself some power and money. You can get 300-400kh/s per gridseed miner at about 25 watts. They cost about 200$ - 250$ each...  There's a whole bunch of group buys going on now on here ...

[jjj0923]

thanks for the replies - I do not own any of the hardware yet - am ready to purchase though if I feel I can trust the person recommending what to buy. My goal is to wind up with 2+ Th/s BTC hasing power to put me in a position where I can generate over $100/day in mining operations. I'm open to all suggestions. I have a great home to host it with lots of a/c and a backup generator and lots of ups's that I came into when a local data center upgraded.

I'm open to all ideas but I'd like to generate over $100/day (at current bit coin prices) with as small a footprint energy and space wise as possible.

thanks

[nexus99]

Just buy 4 more s1.

[jjj0923]

but the s1 is only 180 Gh/s and I want 2 Th/s

[nachius]

You've misunderstood or are trolling:

the above computer system is Mh/s for mining the scrypt algorithm not SHA256 BTC

[jjj0923]

ok - sorry - I misunderstood

[nexus99]

but the s1 is only 180 Gh/s and I want 2 Th/s

2000/180 = 11 units... so 10 more.

Or OC to 200GH/S each and buy 9 more.

Or pre order something and wait.

or buy some used equipment on EBAY for huge dollars.

[zvs]

Ok - so I've been doing a lot fo reading about mining equipment and I own a Bitmain S1 Dual Blade but now I'm ready to move up.

I've read here that someone else built the following and he (or she..not sure) believe it will run over 2 GH/S so I'm soliciting opinions and would like someone to build it for me. I'm sure I'm capabale since I was swapping boards back in the early 90's when the only NIC was arcnet but I have NOT had my hands 'seriously' in hardware for 20 years although I was swapping boards in some office PC's yesterday but it's nothing like building one of these rigs.

I'll pay to have it built - order what you tell me to have it all sent you your place - have you build and test it then ship it to me. If it goes well I may come back to you for additional computers. You SHOULD have lot of posts here and a great reputation. We'll need to talk on the phone and you MUST be in Canada or the U.S.

If you're in the Northeast, U.S. or Mid Atlantic area that's even between I live near Newark, De.

here's what I'd like to have built.

water cool the quad 7970's

AMD FX-8120
Asus M5A97 r2.0
Gigabyte ATI 6990 (x2)
Wifi card
128GB SSD
Coolermaster 1200w 80gold
Diskdrive (for driver CD's)
Corsair 600T


thoughts, opinions, takers?

thanks in advance...

that ^^ above will get you about 1.8ghash, which would be less than 1/1000th of 2 thash

but i don't see any quad 7970s, just two 6990's

buying stuff to mine bitcoins is a losing proposition

start developing your own ASICs instead

[jjj0923]

I do apologize for my ignorance as a newby. I'm going by the calculations presented on this page: http://www.bitcoinx.com/profit/ and if you type in 2 Th/s as the hash rate it shows potential income at about $168 day and I'd like to get over $100/day that's for sure.

I figured I'd need a whole lot of gridseed miners to get to 2 Th/s - so correct me if I'm wrong but I'd need about 5,000 of these things running at 400,000 kh/s to equal 2 GH/s  which is 2,000,000,000 hash - correct? because 400,000 goes into 2,000,000,000 5000 times.

again - if I missed something I so apologize for my ignorance.

[nexus99]

If you want to mine BTC avoid Gridseed.

[philipma1957]

I will pretend you are not trolling.

 for btc hashing  use an antminer s-1.

  6 at 180gh will pull  about 2200 watts and give you around 1080gh hash for btc.  

cost you about 1.1btc each or 6.6 btc and you need 3 1000 watt psu's to run this. and some wires and a gigabyte switch so   after all is said and done  your investment would be about 5k  you would mine at close to 1.1th and pull 2200 watts.


the setup above could be fully installed in your home in delaware by  next fri as this gear is in stock .   right now I don't know of any other deal  that would give you 1.1th in your house hashing for 5k by fri the 14th.
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here is a shit 1 year deal


https://www.cloudhashing.com/

 you get 1 th for 9k for 1 year and do not own the gear.


below is my referral link for cex.io  1 btc gets about 50gh instantly use my link I get a bonus

https://cex.io/r/0/philipma1957/0/

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gpu cards or gridseed are for alternate coins there is some money if you jump to the correct coin at the right time,but there are

many bad coins that will infect your pc.

frankly if I were you I would add  a second ant miner s-1 and leave it at that.

[nexus99]

^^^^^^ What he said, that's a good way to go.

[jjj0923]

thanks- I'm starting to understand the difference between mining for bitcoin and the other currencies. It would appear to me that based on the calculator here (as an example)

http://www.litecoinminingcalculator.com/index.php?khs=4000&diff=3921.63289755&cdiff=3921.63289755&fee=3

that if I threw 4,000 hk/s at litecoin mining I'd be able to about 1 ltc per day and that would put me in the ballpark of where I want to be.... I'd need about 10 to 15 gridseeds to do this
and then I'd need what system I need to hook them all up and have them connected to some sort of pc correct?

I'm not married to bitcoin in terms of mining and just trying to understand the difference and what's entailed and required.

thanks

[philipma1957]

^^^^^^ What he said, that's a good way to go.

I have 4 s-1's and I am done for gear as of today.

[philipma1957]

thanks- I'm starting to understand the difference between mining for bitcoin and the other currencies. It would appear to me that based on the calculator here (as an example)

http://www.litecoinminingcalculator.com/index.php?khs=4000&diff=3921.63289755&cdiff=3921.63289755&fee=3

that if I threw 4,000 hk/s at litecoin mining I'd be able to about 1 ltc per day and that would put me in the ballpark of where I want to be.... I'd need about 10 to 15 gridseeds to do this
and then I'd need what system I need to hook them all up and have them connected to some sort of pc correct?

I'm not married to bitcoin in terms of mining and just trying to understand the difference and what's entailed and required.

thanks

  zoomhash will sell you a 10 gridseed setup    for about 2.4k

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=494166.0


I have 4 of his pieces as my house can no longer use any high watt gear. 

[nexus99]

^^^^^^ What he said, that's a good way to go.

I have 4 s-1's and I am done for gear as of today.

That is exactly what I have now too. Pulls down about .1 BTC/day... not bad.

Where do you mine? I'm at ghash.io... but I'm not sure if I like it or not.

[philipma1957]

^^^^^^ What he said, that's a good way to go.

I have 4 s-1's and I am done for gear as of today.

That is exactly what I have now too. Pulls down about .1 BTC/day... not bad.

Where do you mine? I'm at ghash.io... but I'm not sure if I like it or not.

I use btcguild >

I have an account with cex.io/ghash.io   but it is only hash from referrals that I put back into cex.io   from 1 gh I purchased and 7 gh of referrals since last oct it is now 50gh.  I just keep plowing those earning back into the account.

[jjj0923]

I did some math last night and arrived at the following calculations

tell me where I'm wrong please... of course I'm a noob and I'm basing my calcs off websites that offer calculators...

let's says I invested about $5k in a 20 packs of Gridseeds and mined Bitcoin - the 20 packs adds up to 160 Gh/s and would only as best generate $3,800 total in one year - not a good use of gridseeds.

if I used the same 20 pack to mine ltc , they'd give me 6,000 kh/s and mine about 550 ltc in one year = $8,600

on the other hand if I invested $5k into 5 S1's it would give me 900 gh/s of bitcoin mining which would yield about $22k to $23k in a year.

seems like a no brainer to me.

what have I missed?