Quote from: Plant Power on December 11, 2017, 11:35:36 PM

Quote from: bobrottenchild on December 11, 2017, 10:12:56 PM

Hi,

I've been mining with my gaming rig for a few years and it's been a fun way to pay for games and gift cards from various suppliers to order online and now I'm looking forward building a custom mining rig for mining on altcoins pools such as MiningPoolHub and ZCoin.

1) I wanted some advice on what's currently the best bang for the buck rig to start with? Most particularly GPU-wise? I read and heard from friends GTX 1070 were a good spot but I'm pretty sure there's less expensive alternative.

2) Also what do you suggest to use as a rack? I'd like it to be as portable as possible so I can move it somewhere else once it's ready and stable.

3) AMD vs NVIDIA? Is there really a difference performance-wise and money-wise?

Any advice, suggestion or tips are welcome!

Thanks and have a nice day.

1) I wanted some advice on what's currently the best bang for the buck rig to start with? Most particularly GPU-wise? I read and heard from friends GTX 1070 were a good spot but I'm pretty sure there's less expensive alternative.

- There's two things to consider the up-front cost and the power consumption.. 1070's are known to be efficient to run.. in terms of bang for buck what can you get cheap in your local area, wait for Christmas or Boxing day sales and get something 20% off.. use benchmarks to figure out your ROI.. something you're familiar with can lead to less downtime

2) Also what do you suggest to use as a rack? I'd like it to be as portable as possible so I can move it somewhere else once it's ready and stable.

- Anything.. a milk crate.. a shoe rack.. a dish rack with cable ties.. a custom built aluminium or wooden frame with cable ties.. something you buy from ebay..

3) AMD vs NVIDIA? Is there really a difference performance-wise and money-wise?

- Again this can be opinion.. Depends on what you want to mine and what you have been mining, they both have different software.. go with what you know to start with

I just built my first 6 gpu rig last week. I used six RX Vega 56's. Soft power play to reduce my wattage from 1375 down to 1100. Some have flashed the 56 cards with the 64 bios in order to do more power and memory tweaking, but I'm not interested in doing that at this time. Not sure if it voids the warranty or not. My rig is running stable and I'm very happy with the total hashrate. Squeezing out a few more hashes and trading it for instability or voiding the warranty isn't worth it to me.

I bought an aluminum frame off Etsy for $70USD and all you get are the parts and instructions. Still have to drill the holes yourself. I'm in the process of building the second rig and ended up just going to a hardware store to buy the supplies I need for the next frame. You can get everything you need for around $30USD.

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