Novice building a Mining Rig

Vigospqr

Hi Guys

To understand this world better I have decided to build myself a rig. Need your help.

The plan is to mine feathercoin and maybe bitcoin gold if that becomes possible. Or maybe open an exclusive feathercoin pool??. Well I still don’t get most of this so not sure if most of this will be possible. But Rig is happening.

Doing research last few days (mainly looking at other rigs) this is the list I think I require.

Graphics Card:
Option 1: Gigabyte Geforce GTX 1070 Windforce OC GeForce GTX1070 Internal Graphic Card 8192 MB

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-Geforce-Windforce-GeForce-Internal/dp/B01HHCA1IO/ref=sr_1_2?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1506877863&sr=1-2&keywords=Gigabyte+Geforce+GTX+1070

Cost: £380 (will buy one or two and see if get this rigs becomes operational, will add more later)

Option 2 : Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB GDDR5 128 bit Graphics Card

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-GeForce-GDDR5-Graphics-GV-N105TOC-4GD/dp/B01MEHGRMS/ref=sr_1_9?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1506877863&sr=1-9&keywords=Gigabyte+Geforce+GTX+1070

Cost: £143 (Buy few and see if get this rig becomes operational, will add more later)

Motherboard
I am planning for this rig to eventually have 8 graphics card so please make sure this is okay and will work when I add more cards.

ASUS LGA 1151 PRIME Z270-P Intel ATX Motherboard - Black

https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-1151-PRIME-Z270-P-Motherboard/dp/B01N1WIKVS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1506881480&sr=8-2&keywords=asus+z270+motherboard

Cost £107

RAM: HyperX FURY DDR4 HX424C15FB2/8 Ram 8 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 CL15 DIMM

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01D8U2BKA?aaxitk=a-g2df8LrHcf.oIn4q60yA&th=1

Cost: £73

MEMORY: SanDisk SSD PLUS 120 GB up to 530 MB/s Sata III 2.5 inch Internal SSD
https://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-PLUS-Sata-inch-Internal/dp/B01F9G414U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1506881717&sr=8-1&keywords=120GB+SSD+Hard+Drive

POWER: EVGA SuperNOVA 850 P2, 80+ PLATINUM 850W

https://www.amazon.co.uk/EVGA-SuperNOVA-PLATINUM-Warranty-220-P2-0850-X3/dp/B011RGX5MU/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1506881755&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=850w+EVGA+SuperNova+P2+Platinum+Fully+Modular+Power+Supply+Unit

Where I copied from, he had 2 power supplies with 8 cards so I only require one now right?

Cost £138

RISER ADAPTOR
https://www.amazon.co.uk/YIKESHU-Powered-Riser-Adapter-Extension/dp/B071ZPXJWM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1506881820&sr=8-1&keywords=pcie+risers

Cost £40

FAN
cryorig qf120 Silent Computer Case Fan
https://www.amazon.co.uk/cryorig-qf120-Silent-Computer-Case-Fan/dp/B00S7YA9Y8/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1506881942&sr=8-2-fkmr0&keywords=+Arctic+12cm+silence+pwm+fans

Cost:£13 each

Wooden Rig, I will try to build it myself, otherwise I will get from ebay.

What do you think? Is this all I require? Or should I change something?

Any comments will be appreciated.

Thanks for your help.

Wellenreiter

Without knowing the details of your GPUs I doubt, that your 850W Power supply will support more than 2 cards. My PC took about 410 W with just one AMD GPU two years ago.

Did you read some tests of your planned GPU and checked the maximum power consumption?

Mining drives a GPU to it’s max.

Vigospqr

Thanks

Recommended is 500w.
http://uk.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-N1070WF2OC-8GD-rev-10#kf

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/gigabyte-geforce-gtx-1070-g1-gaming-review,8.html - says it requires 450w each card.

http://cryptomining-blog.com/tag/gtx-1070-power-consumption/

So I guess I require 2 for 2 cards.

ChekaZ

You should flash your cards that they need less power with nearly the same kh/s. So you should be able to power 3 cards with 1200 Gold

looarn

Is the noise a issue for you ? :)

If not you can have look in server PSU, you can find on ebay very cheap PSU with good power 1000W, and depending on the brand Gold or superior rate.

Be aware those are loudy.

Otherwhise no choice than EVGA 1600W that can handle quite a load of GPU, for a relative silent PSU.

Vigospqr

@looarn

Noise is not a major concern but “loudy” got me little afraid. lol

evga 1600 it is thanks

https://www.amazon.co.uk/EVGA-SuperNOVA-PLATINUM-Warranty-220-P2-1600-X3/dp/B00OHJPAW8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1506925137&sr=8-1&keywords=EVGA+1600W

Vigospqr

@chekaz

Thanks for the tip, looked at few videos on youtube, didn’t knew this was possible.

Vigospqr

Which is best graphics card option for mining feathercoin?

option 1:
Gigabyte Geforce GTX 1070 Windforce OC GeForce GTX1070 Internal Graphic Card 8192 MB

I cant find the mining speed for neoscrypt but for ethreium it is 30.5Mh/s on ETH

Option 2 : Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB GDDR5 128 bit Graphics Card

2 X cards gives 24MH for ethreum

option 1 being twice the price and neoscrpt (FTC) being relatively easy, is option 2 better?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1989368.0

http://www.miningspeed.com/list/index.php?brand=both

Which one should I go for? or something else? only concentrating on feathercoin

Thanks

looarn

I think for that a @ghostlander is needed. :=)

AmDD

Im not sure what the ‘best’ card is. we should probably collect some data on this since we are getting some new members more recently with the possibility of access to new/different hardware. To my knowledge, most of the miners here all run AMD and most are on older hardware still.

Vigospqr

@amdd

Thanks

but out of the two cards, which one you think would be better suitable for mining feathercoin?

I get it it’s difficult to tell but 8gb -4gb, £150-£350

Which one I should go for? Thanks

AmDD

@vigospqr The amount of RAM wont make a difference. Id assume the 1070 will hash faster than the 1050 however its also much more expensive. The 1070 seems to be one of the more popular cards out there so it may be a good option as you can see stats on how it performs on other coins as well.

Vigospqr

@amdd Thanks

taurus

Agree with @AmDD. Get 1070 if you can afford it, or at least 1060 (6GB version).

ccminer uses less 1GB, so theoretically, you could build a rig using super-cheap 2GB 1050 TI’s, but you’ll need 3-4 of them to match 1070 hash rate, so price-wise it will be the same. 2GB 1050 TI’s are cheap now because you can’t mine Ether with them.

Vigospqr

@taurus cool 1070 it is. Thanks

Lordas

I have spare MB+CPU+RAM for beginner miners - Gigabyte B73-D3V with 2 full PCIe slots and 3 small, i5 3350P and 8GB DDR3, if smth.

Vigospqr

@lordas Interested Pmed you.

ghostlander

I’m getting about 700KH/s on a 1070 with NSGminer now. It’s likely to go higher in the future if I get enough time to work on an NVIDIA only kernel.

ChekaZ

I get 860~ with my 1070 on CCminer

Vigospqr

An Update:

Well i went back and forth, whether to do this or not. Financially i think its border line, costs are probably the same to mine, you are speculating on the price what will be few years down the line, but then you can buy the feathercoins now at probably the lowest price its ever gonna be.

Does the mining help the community, initially it does i guess, but afterwards its just competition. Was excited at first but then it seemed sluggish. and wasn’t 100% sure if i will get it running.

But @Lordas came to the rescue, provided me with all the stuff i need, a community feeling arose, End up bying these two graphics cards:

ASUS GTX 1070 8 GB White Graphics Card (DUAL-GTX1070-O8G)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-NVIDIA-GeForce-Graphics-DUAL-GTX1070-O8G/dp/B01IFESATU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1507892458&sr=8-2&keywords=1070+8gb

Why: £380 i think its a good price, good company, good hash rate, and apparently its an overclocked edition, above all it looks fancy (lol).

2.Asus GTX 1050TI 4 GB
https://www.amazon.co.uk/NVIDIA-GeForce-EX-GTX1050TI-4G-Express-Graphics/dp/B01M6YD55M/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1507892754&sr=1-1&keywords=1050ti+4gb+asus

Why: £150, Value for money, still 4GB, Also wanted to compare what hash rate i get on this for FTC compared to the 1070, may help in future if i wanted to build a rig or may help other novices.

Lets see how it goes, Seems like fun, Excited Again…

For Other Novices: apart from the top list you also need a processor for your motherboard (i3 pentium £100)