3x the cost per gpu over just building it yourself. Price would need to drop to around $10,000 for this to be a good buy.
Impossible. I'm using Distributors with volume break and there is barely any profit to be had. I am not building each system. I have to pay builders, their insurance, taxes, custom packing boxes and material, etc. Just trying to break a American based company into the market. Once again, the system is profitable and stable for a long period of time.
In my opinion and in our company's opinion this is a very bad mining rig => you need to use good equipment which is uselles at mining at the moment but you need to require good system standards.
The biggest 2 problems of this miner are:
High investment cost....
24GPU miners work like crap. We expiremented for 3 weeks with a 24 GPU miner and these one are not working stable. The stable working of a miner is very important.. always reboot or else is annyoing and time consumptioning.
As I stated in my GPU test section. Only the MSI was stable. Why? I cannot tell you. I Love EVGA but was so disappointed as it was the slowest and most unstable GPU. Plus, I had originally went with 4 EVGA Titanium Power Supplies and they did not even send enough VGA cables and wanted to charge me for more.
Because the low end standard CPU's, ie G4400 will not work beyond 8 GPU's, 9 MAX on windows.
Why? I don't know about G4400, but 2-core/4-thread CPUs definitely work in windows with up to 19 GPUs. That's G4560, for example, which is a lot cheaper. 6600k seems like a waste of money.
This system is all about maximum lifespan and stability. The MB/CPU/RAM/SSD are only a fraction of the overall cost. Because of this I went with the higher end. It was going to be a Intel i9, then i7 7700k was tested, then i5 6600k. The i5 performace perfect and the is priced lower than the 7700k.
The bottom line is the overall profit. If the ROI is 10-20 days higher for the ability to "Plugin and Go" for years, then we met our goal. The 6/8/12/16/19 GPU Rigs are just not as profitable.
Now, stability. Each MSI GTX1080ti is initially set for: 65,75C,65,750
I then adjust each card targeting 610MH/s (Lyra2REV2)
Every GPU is different even though they are the same. Do not SYNC all Like cards. DO tweak individual.
Closed Loop Liquid Cooled GPUs cost ~$50 more, but cool better therefore you can raise the settings higher while staying under 75C.