Re: Setup Monero Mining Rig

Quote from: Mattthev on April 18, 2017, 02:10:01 PM

Hi,
I'm new to mining. Can you please help me setup mining rig?

I've bought HP DX 2400MT with some Core 2 DUO CPU... When it arrive I will check it, I want 45nm CPU for better cooling.
http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c01399523

CPU: 45nm Core 2 DUO or maybe QUAD
RAM: It has 4GB, do I need more?
HDD: 320GB
GPU: I'm trying to buy HD 7850, R9 270x and cheap 7770 for start.
My plan is to change them after, to at least 3x 7850 or better.
PSU: It has 300w, but I want buy new Zalman ZM700-LX
Is this enough for 3x 7850 or 3x R9 270x?
Cooling: I have some 12cm Arctic fans.
Also I don't know what is CPU cooler, so I will buy some old heatsink if it's not good.
I'm trying to buy some OC cards with better cooling than reference, I will only put some Arctic MX2 on it, maybe MX4 for the more powerful ones.
OS: It has Win 7 64bit, is it good or update to Win 10?
Mining SW: Claymore? I'm using now XMR Stak NVIDIA there is also AMD version, will try anyway.

Will the PSU be enough? Any advices for me?
Is USB 3.0 power riser good or should I use ribbon?
I'm mining with 860m on my laptop now on Minergate XMR+FCN and also with this rig I want too, any advices?

Thank you for any help

If you will buy new gpus anyway why don't you just buy the rx series , why hd and r9s they are not power efficient i don't recommend them if your electricity price isn't very cheap, you can buy 3 rx 470 4gb and 700 watt psu will do fine , maybe a mobo with 3 x 16x pcie and forget this raisers , just mount your gpus directly onboard , any cheap cpu will do fine , and 4gb of ram is ok.
Also: you don't need all that hdd space