14x 5700xt build on HiveOS - How we did it

[alumar]

Quick overview covered in less than 5min video. I have been trying to keep these as lean as possible for viewership. Any idea's how I can make them more streamline?

https://youtu.be/Xe48gOrwva4

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[safar1980]

I never understood why to collect so many video cards on one farm and why install video cards so close to each other. This is all done with one goal only - to show everyone that you have a big dick farm . If we talk about practical application, then 98 out of 100 miners will not do this.

[badbart]

Great video do you have any stability issues?  Make me want to try this with my 5700s, not sure if I could keep it running never had luck with rigs over 8 cards. 

[agente]

I never understood why to collect so many video cards on one farm and why install video cards so close to each other. This is all done with one goal only - to show everyone that you have a big dick farm . If we talk about practical application, then 98 out of 100 miners will not do this.

because 98% are small miners. They don't need that

[alumar]

I never understood why to collect so many video cards on one farm and why install video cards so close to each other. This is all done with one goal only - to show everyone that you have a big dick farm . If we talk about practical application, then 98 out of 100 miners will not do this.

There are a lot of things to consider.

1) Maximizing single machine to take advantage of the ASUS, Biostar or ASROCK boards which all support 11-14 GPUs (dependent which board), where you have a single CPU/Memory cost per rig.

2) While not always practical, our farm mostly has 7-8GPU rigs on the B250 vs running them up to 14, however we had not visited this since the RX 470's series, so why not try it.

3) I have been trying to provide content to this community since 2013, it's not about showing off, its about enabling more people on how to do it and what our experiences were, including in this video. Showing off would be just taking some B roll of if, saying hey look at this with no other time spent showing you exactly how we hooked it up.

Maybe this video will show it can be done if someone runs into 14gpus and wanted to put it all on one rig.

[alumar]

Great video do you have any stability issues?  Make me want to try this with my 5700s, not sure if I could keep it running never had luck with rigs over 8 cards.  

Yes, as said in the video, the machine runs well for 24 hours and has at least 1 reboot per day; we have went as long as 27 hours then it will fault and reboot. Still trying to figure out the significance of 24 hour reboots.

Here is the current status, showing 1 full day up; cards that showing 100% seem to be my problem ones; Ultimately may have to replace thermal pads on those GPUs

[safar1980]

I never understood why to collect so many video cards on one farm and why install video cards so close to each other. This is all done with one goal only - to show everyone that you have a big dick farm . If we talk about practical application, then 98 out of 100 miners will not do this.

There are a lot of things to consider.

1) Maximizing single machine to take advantage of the ASUS, Biostar or ASROCK boards which all support 11-14 GPUs (dependent which board), where you have a single CPU/Memory cost per rig.

2) While not always practical, our farm mostly has 7-8GPU rigs on the B250 vs running them up to 14, however we had not visited this since the RX 470's series, so why not try it.

3) I have been trying to provide content to this community since 2013, it's not about showing off, its about enabling more people on how to do it and what our experiences were, including in this video. Showing off would be just taking some B roll of if, saying hey look at this with no other time spent showing you exactly how we hooked it up.

Maybe this video will show it can be done if someone runs into 14gpus and wanted to put it all on one rig.

I agree that if you were showing regular farms it wouldn't be that interesting. I use inexpensive x2 240 processors and analogs that cost $ 3-4. I also select inexpensive mobo like Giga 970A DS3. DDR3 can also be bought cheap, and this does not affect the performance of video cards.

[Metroid]

install video cards so close to each other.

That is only done on cold environment, doing that on hot environment means death for those video cards, gpus need to stay at least 25cm apart on hot environments.

[safar1980]

install video cards so close to each other.

That is only done on cold environment, doing that on hot environment means death for those video cards, gpus need to stay at least 25cm apart on hot environments.

In summer, the temperature in the room where the video cards are installed reaches 45 degrees Celsius. Practical experience has shown that 10-12 centimeters of distance between videocapters is sufficient.
Even GTX 1080 has no overheating problems.

[Metroid]

In summer, the temperature in the room where the video cards are installed reaches 45 degrees Celsius. Practical experience has shown that 10-12 centimeters of distance between videocapters is sufficient.
Even GTX 1080 has no overheating problems.

Good luck with that ehhe