Burr its cold in here, light em up! -2016 Gpu miner build log
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Good FTC prices today, looks like I got paid to keep my house warm 3 winters in a row. Thanks guys!
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As the seasons change stay tuned for part 2 - Ahh Im melting in here! -2016 Gpu summer miner efficiency tuning
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So after doing so looking around trying to figure out what to do, here is my plan for the spring for the farm.
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Build another rig, I ordered a CPU/MOBO/Ram combo from a friend on the forums and have several GPUs sitting
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Bake in the oven and try to resurrect 2 dead 7970s
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Get a copy of ethOS and mod it to include nsgminer for easy mining of both FTC and ETH
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Spend a bunch of time re-flashing GPUs to get them all stable and maxed out for efficiency
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Install 1 or 2 8-12 inch duct exhaust fans in the basement to suck hot air outside
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Get an electrician friend over for an evening to increase my available circuits to mine with
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If I move to linux mining, rebuild 5 or 6 GPUs per rig
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Mother nature is drunk and cant figure out what the weather should be. Went from nearly 70f on Friday to 27f and snowing today.
Cooling will be an issue once temps maintain themselves above 50f. On Friday I came home to 87f upstairs and in the 90s in my basement. Opened up a bunch of windows to vent and got it back into the 70s. Then woke up to open windows and it was snowing outside LOL
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Lots of work to come, I have a rackmount AC unit on its way along with a bunch of Edimax smart plugs. The current plan is to build or buy an rack locally and then vent the hot side outside via a 6 inch duct.
I might just build a rack from wood and ignore rails and ears… we will see.
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@RIPPEDDRAGON said:
Lots of work to come, I have a rackmount AC unit on its way along with a bunch of Edimax smart plugs. The current plan is to build or buy an rack locally and then vent the hot side outside via a 6 inch duct.
I might just build a rack from wood and ignore rails and ears… we will see.
whichever way you go, remember… pics or it didnt happen! :)
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@AmDD said:
@RIPPEDDRAGON said:
Lots of work to come, I have a rackmount AC unit on its way along with a bunch of Edimax smart plugs. The current plan is to build or buy an rack locally and then vent the hot side outside via a 6 inch duct.
I might just build a rack from wood and ignore rails and ears… we will see.
whichever way you go, remember… pics or it didnt happen! :)
I have been lazy about my uploads, have pics on my phone from the last 2 months or so, ill put them up soon.
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Smart Switches FTW, reset one rig twice already while away from home
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@RIPPEDDRAGON said:
@AmDD said:
@RIPPEDDRAGON said:
Lots of work to come, I have a rackmount AC unit on its way along with a bunch of Edimax smart plugs. The current plan is to build or buy an rack locally and then vent the hot side outside via a 6 inch duct.
I might just build a rack from wood and ignore rails and ears… we will see.
whichever way you go, remember… pics or it didnt happen! :)
I have been lazy about my uploads, have pics on my phone from the last 2 months or so, ill put them up soon.
Still too lazy… maybe sometime soon for pix.
Txt update:
Holy crap its hot in the house, temps upstairs are in the 90s and I need to do something about it. Been looking at getting 2x 1800 CFM carpet dryers with 4 inch duct adapters. The plan would be to have the first one on a smart switch and the 2nd on a temperature controlled switch.I undervolted and underclocked a everything I could after I set a personal best for power bill last month… Managed to drop about 15% total power usage and lost 3% in hash rate. I already had done work with my older rigs and so there wasn’t much to do with them.
After a month of use of my Edimax smart plugs I am really impressed. I enjoy seeing power usage in real time and not having to plug in a kill-a-watt when I want to see a server’s draw. I probably averaged more than 1 reset a day, mostly due to one or two rigs remaining unstable for a day while undervolting/clocking. The plugs will pay for themselves in 2016! I only failed twice in a month at resetting a rig as you have a small window to power down and power back on for the motherboard to reboot rather than shutting down. The trick I found with the smartphone app was to make sure you are getting realtime power usage data before attpemting a reset, that way you know you have a good connection to the switch!
For those of you that remember my boxer from The White Mountain Mining Consortium pix a while back. He passed away suddenly 4/22 and is missed very much so.
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It has been about a month since this guy left us for good. Looking through photos on my phone is still really hard to do.
I have some photos that I will be uploading every couple of days so keep your eyes peeled.
I decided to bake a few of my older GPUs to see if I could get any more hashrate from them. I tried a sapphire and a MSI 7970, sadly I didnt get either of them to come back from the dead!
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nsg mining away
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BIGGEST GPU EVAH: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131680
picked it up for $599 including the razor mouse and got a $100 rebate that I bought some new shoes with, best gpu deal of 2016 so far
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@RIPPEDDRAGON That thing is massive!
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Looks great! - Any thoughts on the Geforce 1080X/1070?
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Holy crap, 5k stream processors? Make sure you post your hash rate, that’s a monster.
PS: My condolences on the dog, lost the wife 6 weeks ago and the dog keeps me going. Remember we’re pioneers in mining.
“Leave a Mark.” - UnklAdM
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@UnklAdM It will be a bit before I get to post some neoscrypt hash rates, they mined ETH for a bit and now are off for the summer due to heat issues in the house. I am running one rig with 6x xfx 280x some days as these cards are 20% more efficient on power than my next best and yes every GPU I use has modded bios.
I ordered a pile of evga PSU cables with the dual connector (6+2 and 6 pin) in one chord. I will be tearing all of these rigs apart here this summer for cleaning and will post some pix. I need these running perfectly by mid September to heat my house again for a 4th winter straight.
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Getting ready for another winter here, did some $s to find out how much I was spending last year.
I ran my house on oil for a few months last year, extrapolating the data here were the results:
$750 in oil for just hot water per year
est. $1100 in oil for heating per year$400/month in electric for miners
$1000/month income in ETH/BTC/FTCI only run miners for heat so approx 6 months out of the year
After 1 year no mining - $1850 spent
After 1 year with mining - $2850 earned
Which comes out to $4700 more in my pocket at the end of the year
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Good luck, we’ll be rooting for you.
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@RIPPEDDRAGON Lucky guy :smiley:
here in Germany the calculation would be totally different.
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Its looking like this weekend I am going to need to get some cans of air and prep the servers for the cold winter ahead. The weather here is slated to drop from mid 70s and low 80s to mid 60s this weekend with no reversal of that trend in sight. Almost overnight ill go from running ACs to keep the dogs cold during the day to running servers with windows open to cool the house. PIX to come, stay tuned!
Heat transmission may be an issue this year as I have been working on finishing the basement. I might look into running a duct fan and exhausting it into a closet on the 2nd floor for some forced hot air circulation… time will tell.
