Want to mine with someone technical (NL)
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Calem, I was thinking of the 270 range of cards as they are way cheaper than the 280 range that I have been building mine with. I’m done with work for the day now, so I’ll start to pull together a shopping list for you. I’m due to come over to Amsterdam in April but I fear that is to far off for you
Distancewise Amsterdam isn’t a problem, Leiden and Haarlem are both close to Amsterdam. I see Calem just said a closed one isn’t the best thing to do.
About expanding, it’s not really about the money right now, I just don’t want to invest too much in it since I’m still a poor student which doesn’t want to lose his valuable fiat to a risk (did I just call crypto’s a risk? C’mon have some faith!). But if I like the small rig I might expand it if I can make some money out of the mined coins, yes (Calem doubles his khashes with just a 30% extra cost or so).
Also the rig will be in the room where I sleep, eat and study. I assume more cards will produce more sounds.
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Calem, how many kH/s are you getting out of yours?
Solid 480kHash/s.
Not sure if a second card would run the same speed… I put in my second but it went to 95 degrees Celsius then crashed the system… That’s where risers come in…
Also the rig will be in the room where I sleep, eat and study. I assume more cards will produce more sounds.
To be honest, the 270’s I have are no where near as loud as the aircon running above em.
I grew up as a teen with stupidly loud computers running in my room 24/7, so maybe I’m just accustomed to the sound…
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Calem, any change you already got a video on your channel with your rig running including the sound? :)
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If you go with a ASRock Extreme 3 board, with the correct risers you can get 4 cards running, is that enough expansion for you?
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If you go with a ASRock Extreme 3 board, with the correct risers you can get 4 cards running, is that enough expansion for you?
Yup, I might even have some stuff laying around at my dad’s since he’s into the PC’s but got to check that out when I’m over there.
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I’m using the ASRock with a AMD ATHLON II 250 CPU picked it up for £21 of eBay, and 4GB of RAM (£11 from the Bay) with 4 280x Toxics, and there are no performance issues.
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I’m using the ASRock with a AMD ATHLON II 250 CPU picked it up for £21 of eBay, and 4GB of RAM (£11 from the Bay) with 4 280x Toxics, and there are no performance issues.
Those prices seem reasonable!
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Just had a look on ebay.nl for a Gigabyte R9 270 OC 2GB and they look over priced, from here they come in at about 170 euro each
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In common shops here I see; Sapphire, MSI and Asus but can’t find any GIGABYTES around here. Prices of the others are between 150 ~ 180 euro. Are these equal to the GB one?
/edit In online stores available in The Netherlands for approx 170.
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My personal preference is to leave MSI’s alone, but only because I had a 280x that was that bad it got sent back after 48Hrs!
The Sapphire gets good press and is about 174 euro over here so your pricing sounds about right
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So my list would be…
Motherboard: ASRock Extreme
**CPU: ** AMD ATHLON II 250
Memory: 4GB of anything you can get cheep cheep cheep
GPU: I’m going to go with Calem on this Gigabyte R9 270 OC 2GB
Storage: USB key anything 8GB or above
OS: BAMT
PSU: spend anything you have left from above on getting as much W as possible on a single rail
Casing: Open frame, If I had to buy mine I think it would have cost around £30 from B&Q
I feel the above will give you a solid bases to start from, you can add additional cards as and when funds allow, factoring in the prices of risers at the time.
Now you have a couple of options here:-
- You can try and get all the bits together over there, and I will help you build it over Skype, Team Viewer, etc…
- I can build your BAMT install and send you an image with instructions if you confirm your MoBo choice
- We can throw a bit of trust in here, and I’ll build it for you at cost and ship it over to you
In return I expect nothing for my services, just happy to help another person secure the network
UM
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I’ll lookup the list later - any clue on how much it would cost to ship a full rig to me?!
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I’ve been doing some more digging and came across this at a good price, then started looking at Intel CPU’s they seam to be a little bit pricey TBH, but then it’s been a long time since I have purchased one with my own money, (I brought 64 i7’s today at work for a new VMware farm)
The list of supported CPU’s can be found here now if we could find a Haswell core Xeon for a decent price, they claim to only consume 16W! I know you said power was not an issue but heat reduction across the rig helps, and any power your not using here helps with more W being available to feed you GPU’s
I have no ice what shipping would be, I’ll measure and weigh my 4 card rig later and get a quote from DHL to get it to my friends in Amsterdam as a starting point for you
UM
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Calem, any change you already got a video on your channel with your rig running including the sound? :)
I do have a video on my channel, but it’s so dark it’s ridiculous… It does have sound… but I have a song playing over the top of it.
I’ve got work again tomorrow but what I can do is rerecord a new video for you.
I’m guesing your interested in the amount of noise the rig generates, correct?
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I am running a few 7950’s @ 580 ~ 600 k/hash each (XFX) 200eu (alternate.nl).
Get a cheap board / cpu / ram @ marktplaats.nl and a decent 600watt power supply and you will have a 1mh/s+ rig :)