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Re: Pictures of your mining rigs!
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Keir
on 24/09/2016, 20:56:16 UTC

are these for sale?

5 x GPU rigs x 2 per chassis?

Yes these can be bought, but final price is not completely certain yet, current estimate is around 310€.

I've got a batch of 8 cases in production, there's some changes compared to the prototypes. First 4 were 2x5 GPU rigs, next ones will have 2x6 GPU's. 7 should be possible with newer cards that have lower power consumption.


MarkAz - Thanks I'll check those grills out, mine are 230mm low rpm plastic fans, I've lost quite few fan blades instead of fingers by accident Tongue
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Re: Pictures of your mining rigs!
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Keir
on 24/09/2016, 11:05:52 UTC

Nice - I wish my laser had enough power to cut steel, but I'm not baller enough to do oxygen assist.  Wink  The slats will definitely solve the problem, I tried a similar design before and had exactly the same problem, that's why I suspected why you mounted the fans the way you did.  Wink  Oh, and you're better off not cutting that spiral pattern out of the metal - not only will it reduce your cut costs dramatically, but I suspect you're loosing 5-10% of your fan performance by having them:

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Effects-of-Grill-Patterns-on-Fan-Performance-Noise-107/

All in all I think you did a great job on your build - definitely one of the most well thought out designs I've seen.


Laser is not mine of course it's an industrial machine. I've seen that study about grill patterns and the one I've chosen is a trade off between performance and cut costs. I would prefer wire grills but I haven't found one for that fan size at reasonable cost, yet I want to have something in front of them.
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Re: Pictures of your mining rigs!
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Keir
on 24/09/2016, 09:26:37 UTC
First prototype cases, first batch coming soon.

Very nice - I see you're a fan of 8020 as well!  Wink  What material are you using for your sides?  I use acrylic but primarily just because I have a laser cutter and it's one of the easiest materials to work with:


One suggestion you might consider - I experimented a fair bit with airflow, and if I'm interpreting things right you're pushing in on the bottom of the front and pulling out on the top of the back.  I tried a similar approach, but it ended up being less efficient, and the best was actually making the push and pull parallel to eachother, and just putting vent slats above the front of the inlet fans, so hot air can't get trapped in there.  If you put the vents above the exhaust, then it tends to short-circuit - but as you can see in my latest builds, I just opted for no back panels at all and use industrial tubeaxial fans.

Panels are laser cut from galvanized steel, exterior is powder painted, I've used intake/exhaust fans on same height before but it used to have problems with hot air trapped above GPU's, current setup is performing much better. I might try slats above intake next time I order laser cut parts.
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Re: Pictures of your mining rigs!
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Keir
on 22/09/2016, 19:00:50 UTC
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Re: Pictures of your mining rigs!
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Keir
on 16/06/2014, 18:57:49 UTC
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Re: Oceanwhispers' Transaction Thread
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Keir
on 28/01/2014, 16:20:58 UTC
Traded some SMC with him, everything was alright.
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Keir's thread
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Keir
on 28/01/2014, 14:00:09 UTC
Feedback about trading experiences with me.