Motherboard: MSI 890FXA-GD70 AMD 890FX Chipset CrossFireX Support DDR3 Socket AM3 ATX Mainboard w/ 7.1 HD Audio, eSATA, Dual GbLAN, USB 3.0, SATA-III, RAID, 5 Gen2 PCIe, 1 PCIe X1, & 1 PCI
Video Card 1: AMD Radeon HD 6970 2GB GDDR5 16X PCIe Video Card (Major Brand Powered by AMD)
Video Card 2: AMD Radeon HD 6970 2GB GDDR5 16X PCIe Video Card (Major Brand Powered by AMD)
Video Card 3: AMD Radeon HD 6970 2GB GDDR5 16X PCIe Video Card (Major Brand Powered by AMD)
Looking to build this mining rig for about $2000 USD. My goal is to use three 6970's at first, with potential to add a fourth one. Does this look like a reasonable setup?
I realize the CPU liquid cooling is likely unnecessary, but figured I may as well keep the unit as cool/quiet as possible.
if you can set it up within 3 days with that config you will get around 3.5 btc daily (for next 10 days, after that less and less with each difficulty increase)
IF you need upgrade - buy whatever you want, if you want a mining rig get cheap mobo, pcie risers, forget about liquid cooling and fancy cases or you will lose money
buying 6970 is massive waste of money (unless you are HARDCORE overclocker) as any 6950 with unlocked shaders can be just as good, with 3 stock coolers on cards you won't hear any noise by cpu fan anyway