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      Ignition75 Regular Member last edited by

      You’ll get 3 270x’s on that easy. With a bit of undervolting you’ll probably use up 400-500 watts max.

      Depends on your hard disk and CPU, the mobo should pull between 80 and 150 watts. Mine pulls 86 watts with no GPU’s.

      Even without undervolting you should squeeze 3 270x’s on their fairly easy.

      Find a feathercoin mining calculator and plug in 1500 kh/s to give you an idea of return on investment. Or you could mine Doge or Vertcoin if you wanna just do profit mining, but I suppose I shouldn’t be encouraging you to do that on a FTC forum…

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        MrWyrm administrators last edited by

        It’s a Phenom II x4 940, and runs very hot, I’ll be shocked if it’s power efficient haha.

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          Ignition75 Regular Member last edited by

          Hmmm, I’m not sure about bad@ss CPU’s, I’ve only ever measured the cheapest CPU I could buy for a particular Mobo.

          Also need to check what kind of cables are coming out of your PSU, you got enough ports to power 3 PCIe GPU’s? The 270x’s have 2 x 6 pin female plugs to power the card…

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            MrWyrm administrators last edited by

            I’ve got 2 x GTX 460 both with 2x 6 pins in there at the moment. The PSU only provides 2 x 6pin, the other two I used 2x 2 Molex to 6pin converters.

            Again, that’s another reason why I was looking at the 750ti, I’d only be looking at 1x 6pin per card. I figured an optimistic 900kh/s for the investment of 3 cards at £130 ish each was pretty reasonable versus the £500+ and a new PSU for looking at the AMD camp. I need the lowest investment possible to get me out of the blocks.

            Thanks for your help BTW, it’s greatly appreciated.

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              Ignition75 Regular Member last edited by

              It’s a pleasure mate, no issues at all…

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              • MrWyrm
                MrWyrm administrators last edited by

                Thanks,

                I’m making up to business proposals before I apply to the bank of SWMBO. On the AMD side, I would go with the Toxics on your recommendation, but on the videa side, is there any preference between ASUS, Gigabyte and EVGA who all have power plugs?

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                  uncle_muddy administrators last edited by

                  I’m making up to business proposals before I apply to the bank of SWMBO.

                  That there is pure genius!

                  Just what I needed a morning pick me up cheers dude

                  UM

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                  • MrWyrm
                    MrWyrm administrators last edited by

                    Glad I can be of some help! haha

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                      Ignition75 Regular Member last edited by

                      No idea about NVIDIA cards mate, on brand alone, Asus make really good kit so perhaps them.

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                      • MrWyrm
                        MrWyrm administrators last edited by

                        Pay day tomorrow. Beans on toast for a week!

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                          Ignition75 Regular Member last edited by

                          LoL, I’ve maxed out every credit card and taken a loan out, but ROI is 2 months so I’m happy…

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                          • MrWyrm
                            MrWyrm administrators last edited by

                            I’ve not long bought my first house to do up. More debt isn’t an option haha.

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                              Ignition75 Regular Member last edited by

                              Citibank give credit easy and they have 6 months interest free at the moment…

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