Quote from: PharmEcis on April 17, 2018, 03:56:13 PM

Quote from: Storx on April 17, 2018, 07:47:23 AM

Hows the servers working for yall?

Just realized your a fellow container farmer like myself, but i have mine setup on an all watercooled setup to control temps... how have you managed to control temps in yours?

mine is located in Florida, i bought some property that had 2 old mobile home pads with separate power panels that old abandoned burned down mobile homes lived once a long time ago...... Picked up the property for little to nothing and settled with the county to offset all the fees tacked on the property from all the junk and 2 abandoned mobiles if i cleaned it all up and got rid of the junk... so i spent a few months burning junk from the 80's lol....

Currrently I'm forcing tons of air through the unit. Soon I will have to AC. I've painted both containers white and am in the process of building a solar shade. I have my work cut out for me! Even though the servers have given me some fits, I'm glad I went that route.

Quote from: jmigdlc99 on April 17, 2018, 09:01:22 AM

I'm new to using USBs to run OSs for mining. Is it possible to use or does anyone have experience running Windows as an OS on these USBs? or do i need a custom mining OS like Hive or EthOs? I'm familiar with linux/ubuntu as well but windows is just way user friendly for configuring and remote troubleshooting.

USB sticks for Linux OK! USB sticks for Windows, NOPE. Sucks. Might work, you won't be happy. HIVEOS is the easiest of ALL once you figure out interface.

Quote from: spinx on April 17, 2018, 09:48:55 AM

I hit a wall at 9 cards on the 580 also, using SMOS. Spent countless hours getting 9 cards to work. In one way i love the HP servers, H/s on cryptonight is a bonus but as a gpu-mining platform they look good on paper but is in my experience not fun maintaining. Did anyone try to run Windows 10 on the 580 with success?

I haven't tried more than 9. I have one box that doesn't have the addin pcie board so I tried to use the 6th 8x PCIe Connector that is located on the SPI board that is supposed to be for a dual 10gb adapter so I could have 6 1080s going in it. Well when I powered on I heard a pop and I'm currently down one server awaiting a new SPI board. Cheesy

You can run Win10 on the 580 if you only want 2 procs recognized.

In my experience, Win10 and Server 2016 act identical on these servers.

Sooo beat. I was up until 3:30AM last night trying to finish my migration. I'm currently back to 90% operational.

I need to do some research on these servers that all of yall are running to see if they are still profitable to buy... GPU prices have dropped drastically, but profits have been marginal at best..

Ya i tried to use forced air at first, but the heat here in the summer just made it to impossible to maintain temps on the gear, so i had to build a script that would underclock the gear to 50%tdp during the hottest part of the days and back up to 65% during the night hours, so i searched into better means of cooling and invested in a large single waterloop that i run my entire farm off of now. I rented a ditch witch and dug a series of 2ft deep trenches on the property and i ground buried a few hundred feet of pex tube in the ground as my source of radiation of heat. My first attempt at running a test rig off the setup showed that running a typical watercooled pc pump was out of the picture, because the head pressure was to large on pushing fluid through 6GPU's on the first test rig. Then i moved to commercial inline pumps and over time they kept dieing on me also.. the head pressure combined with the heat just destroyed a commercial pump in a matter of a month and would start leaking from everywhere.. so i moved on to a spa/jacuzzi style pump thinking it was heat doing the issue and it turned out the heat was the issue all along killing the pumps, because it lastest the longest, so i started scaling up adding rigs to the waterloop and quickly i found myself pumpless again as the headpressure just was to much for the rigs. So a forum member mentioned an idea and its been rock stable for 6+ months now... I currently use a double pump system, but 1 is only running at a time, other is on pressure switch just as an emergency, but now i use a gravity fed system to cool all the gear. I have large 4inch pipes running across the top of the container wall that is pumped with water from the pump and on the end of the pipe about at the 90% level of the pipe, i have a large pipe dumping runoff back into the pump tank. Basically im using gravity to flow the water from the large 4inch pipe, into a diy manifold spreading the water to all 6 cards and flowing back out to the ground loop via a pipe at a level above the level of the pump tank. This has reduced the watts the pump runs at greatly and allowed it to stay cooled and reliable so far.. im letting gravity do all the work for me now... granted i went from a 40c loop to now a loop in the 50's, but it is the best way to go about it for me. I run universal copper CPU coolers i bought from alibaba in bulk, so my cost on them in bulk was around $8 each. after converting the system over to water, i dropped about 1500watts from the farm from removing all the GPU fans and just running a water pump and using mother earth to remove the heat. Now my entire farm runs at currently 58c max so far on the 90f+ days.. not sure yet what 100+ days will bring me yet, but if i have to im prepared to add additional cooling via a large radiator i purchased meant for industrial a/c system, but so far its been super nice running it this simple.