Somebody can please help me for making my old PC into a gpu mining rig.
My PC specs.
Motherboard : gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2
2 PCIE slots : 1 PCIEx16 & 2 PCIEx1
Processor : AMD Phenom ii x6 1045T
Hard drive : 1TB HDD
Ram : 4gb
PSU : 200W
I am going to buy 2 asus rog strix gtx 1080 ti OC will it work on my built ?
Do I need to modify or completely upgrade to a new system ?
Also can I go with 1 gtx titan volta instead of 2 asus strix gtx 1080 ti oc ?
-Motherboard seems just fine
-You'll need one x1 to x16 USB riser for 2 graphics cards (one will be plugged in at x16 and one will be plugged in at the riser)
-Processor seems fine
-Hard drive is fine
-RAM is fine
-PSU is useless. Throw it and buy a new one with 1000 watts power supply.
-Those 2 GPU's should work just fine on this built (after the required changes)
-Complete upgrade isn't required
-No, go with 2 GTX 1080
Before setting up my rig I am doing as much research as I can. And I found upon setting up a cheap mining rig.
A cheap hp server psu 1200w and the manufacturer may have been made it very stronger so as to run 24/7 for server pc.
Also we can find online the conversion kit from psu to 12 pci 6 pins power slots with cables from 6 pins to 6+2 pins for the 1080ti 8x2 pin power slots
This 1200w psu will be the second for just to power up the gpus and risers while the primary psu 200w will power up the motherboard.
I hope this setup will be a cheap and a better one ?
Buying that HP server PSU will be a mistake. It'll consume way more power, I'd never recommend it. Combination of two PSU's will work too, but then again, will consume more power as this all will lose power efficiency big time.
Buy a good PSU once, it'll provide you much more comfort.