I have been so busy working on my little farm and family life that I have have forgotten to register most of my mining rig hardware with the exception of some parts of the first 2 rigs I had built. Of the first 2 rigs I built I did manage to register the 12x XFX RX 480 8GB cards and the 2x EVGA 1300W G2 power supplies. Not sure if there are any of parts that I should be worrying about registering or not.
Since I have built my first 2 rigs I have built more and unlike the first 2 rigs it was, as you GPU miners (and gamers) know that is very difficult to pick up more than 1 (let alone 2 or 12) of the same model and brand GPU. It is even became difficult at times to source the EVGA 1300W G2 PSU at an acceptable price and for a couple of my rigs I had to buy 2x EVGA 750W G3 per rig.
I now have 6 rigs (w/ 6GPUs ea) consisting of; not exact but guesstimates (not wanting to run and grab all the boxes for an exact account but based on sitting her looking at them); 12x XFX RX 480 8GB, 7x MSI Gaming X RX 4/8GB cards*1, 1x XFX RX 4/5?, 1x GIGB AROUS RX 580 8GB, 8x SAPPHIRE RX 570/580 4/8G (*2), 2x SAPPHIRE RX 470/480 4/8G (*3), 2x SAPPHIRE RX 470 4GB Mining Edition (1 Samsung, 1 ?), 2x PowerColor RedDevil RX 570/580? 4/8G?, 1x MSI AROMOR RX 580 4GB
*1; some cards may be 470/480/570/580 *2 Have blackplates, most have the Sap that lights up on the cards *3 Have no backplate *4 One has RGB where the RD lights up on top, other does not and has 3 fans
I have used the ASrock H810 Pro BRC R2.0 on all my rigs using Windows 10 x64 buying scraped keys. (If anyone should need to purchase any Windows 10 keys; I bought in bulk and have many to sell). For the first 2 rigs I had bought for each a 1 TB WD HDD but for the others I had bought 2x Samsung 260GB SSD then 2x ScanDisk 120GB SSD based on price at the time.
Tip for anyone building a rig; the SSD is definitely the way to go as it will speed up the setup process and any troubleshooting can be far quicker compared with a standard HD as it is so much quicker restarting and doing do so many task. One of the reasons I bought the 1 TB HD for the first two rigs is because at that time I was solo mining and needed the space for geth and the blockchain which consumes a lot of data. I haven't kept up geth storage requirements to solo mine but there may be a way to solo mine on a smaller (<120GB) SSD drive now if they have the improvements mentions months ago (doubt it, though) but anyhow I pool mine now. I use Corsair Vengeance Blue 16 GB (2x8 GB) DDR3 1600MHz RAM in each of my rigs. At first when I had 2 rigs they each had 16GB each in them but as built more and learned I seen 16 GB was too much (not adding to the mining or stability) so I took a stick out of rexrig0 and rexrig1 to be used in 2 and 3 - also was trying to cut down cost. Using a couple different types of risers as everyone time I order from Amazon despite it being the same product I had ordered in the past ends up giving me different risers in appearance anyhow. Some have a green or black board, some have blue or black USB cords but all the 4 pin to SATA connectors. I contact 1-2 risers per SATA and though 4 months haven't had a single riser issue. I have read and heard so many stories about risers failing or not working at start and perhaps I have been lucky that 36/36 of my risers worked right away and still do. Some GPUs have higher hashrate when only 1-3 GPUs are connected but a notice a slowdown on the MH/s on 0-2 cards per rig once all 6 are up and running. Not sure if this is a riser issuer, driver conflict issue or some sort of registery issues where the GPU ID is using timings or some data from another GPU or ID. When setting up my rigs I usually flash each card then test then go on to the next without doing a comple DDU driver uninstallation - perhaps this is it and I didn't know it was neccessary until recently when I read a comment in a thread stating this. The process of flashing a new VBIOS then testing it is very time consuming and the need to constaly uninstall and reinstallers drivers each time would greatly add to the time for each card.
Recommended product;
Fosmon HD8062 - Intelligent 5-Port HDMI Switch, Supports 4K, Full HD1080p, 3D with IR Remote and AC Adapter
I have found this device to be invaluable as I can connect of my rigs to this adaptor and use the remote to switch between the different rigs. This is great as you don't need displays for each of your monitors or your not constantly having to plug your display from your GPU to your monitor/TV. I find this most helpful when I am updating software (say drivers or Claymore). Again I gain nothing by you buying or not but its made things a lot easier for me working in the farm.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01DJI0TJQ/Links to products mentioned;
ASRock H81 PRO BTC R2.0 LGA 1150 Intel H81 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Motherboard
https://www.amazon.com/ASRock-H81-PRO-BTC-R2-0/dp/B01M5FQZYE/ $101.87 Prime eligible
ASRock H81 PRO BTC R2.0 LGA 1150 Intel H81 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Motherboard
$84.50 delayed shipping 9/11-14
https://www.amazon.com/ASRock-H81-PRO-BTC-R2-0/dp/B01M5FQZYE/Corsair Vengeance Blue 16 GB (2x8 GB) DDR3 1600MHz (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory 1.5V
$116.99 Prime eligible
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009M0TCK8/Intel Core i3 Processor 3.7 2 BX80646I34170
$128.35 Prime eligible
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00VHKZ6I8Risers
$35.90 Prime eligible, noticeably down as I paid $48 for a set of 6 months ago, currently 10% off if you buy 3x+
6-Pack PCI-E 16x to 1x Powered Riser Adapter Card w/ 50cm USB 3.0 Extension Cable & MOLEX to SATA Power Cable - GPU Riser Extender Cable
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N3UVJHMSanDisk SSD PLUS 120GB Solid State Drive (SDSSDA-120G-G26) [Newest Version]
$59.75 Prime eligible, not positive its newest ver
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01F9G414U/ SSD 850 EVO 2.5" SATA III 250GB
$89.99 My Discover card and it shopping portal gives me 10% cashback at Samsung so I considered this in the cost, these are now cheaper than when I bought them with their $20 off promo. In fact I may buy 2 more to replace the ScanDisk 120GB I have since these are double the HD space, higher quality and only +33% cost!
http://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/ssd-850-evo-2-5-sata-iii-250gb-mz-75e250b-am/EVGA SuperNOVA 1300 G2 80+ GOLD, 1300W Fully Modular NVIDIA SLI and Crossfire Ready 10 Year Warranty Power Supply 120-G2-1300-XR
https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-SuperNOVA-Crossfire-Warranty-120-G2-1300-XR/dp/B00COIZTZM/ $289.99 Prime eligible
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1012719-REG/ $269.99 Free shipping, 0% tax in NY, NJ (where I bought my last one)
EVGA 750 GQ, 80+ GOLD 750W, Semi Modular, EVGA ECO Mode, 5 Year Warranty, Power Supply 210-GQ-0750-V1
https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-Modular-Warranty-Supply-210-GQ-0750-V1/dp/B017HA3RGE/ $289.99 Prime eligible, dont own
https://www.evga.com/products/Compare.aspxEVGA site compares the PSU; Certain that this link did not save the 2 different EVGA PSUs I have linked above but to do your own comparions; just go to the site and click on "POWER SUPPLIES" (on the left hand size of the product navigation) which will open a new menu; click on "750 WATTS (12)"; then search for the GQ and G2 and check the "Compare" box on the two; then scroll up and hit 'Compare'. Here the differences I noticed and my takeaways; Warranty: GQ has warranty is 5 years verses the G2 of 10 years.
If you do purchase 2 PSUs in order to save money, lack of availability or for whatever reason you will need an adaptor to connect the 2 PSUs together to work together often referred to as a Daisy Chain.
Dual PSU Power Supply 24-Pin ATX Motherboard Adapter Cable(30cm)
$8.79 Prime eligible,
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B072JM7KVD/ Kind of already making this too long but you should always search and try to find a better price and always consider the merchant, delivery times, taxes and return policies.
On 8/23 I preordered a MSI VGA Graphic Cards RX 580 ARMOR 4G OC from Amazon and have now recently received it. As of this posting the cheapest this card is being sold for is $374.99 with a slight delay. Even without the delay; do not buy this outrageously priced card. After tax I paid $246.09 for the card. It is still sealed in original plastic. I had forgotten about until it showed up and had already ordered GPUs to finish my last rig and at this time I can't go ahead and get another MOBO, RAM, CPU, SSD, PSU, 5x GPUs and the misc items required to build an additional rigs - primarily out of electrical capacity. Something I actively working on as I believe the GPU mining industry is here for quite some more despite ETH rewards reward deduction, ETH switch to PoW/PoS and eventual PoS, and such. GPU rigs can serve more fuctions than simply mining cryptocurrencies but this gets into an entirely different discussion. I will willing to sell this card for $247 in BTC or ETH with the shipping being paid by the buyer. Just contact me via PM if your interested. I would suggest that it be done by you buying and sending me the shipping label. I have a 100% feedback rating on eBay and although a new active participate here on bitcointalk. I am active elsewhere. This wasn't the primary intent of this post but since I writing here I thought I would throw it out here first before I go to my Discord channels and I would hate to sell it on eBay with their 10% rake. Honestly my intent was to help some get a GPU at not such an outrageous price. Just kind of wanting my money back. Also considering giving the person who will take some time and help me with a few VBIOS optimization issues.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XZZ93FQ/OT: But if you do a lot of purchasing on Amazon it may be worth wild to sign up for JetBlue as they have a mileage program which awards you 3 points for every $1 you spend on Amazon which can quickly add up to a free site. I've linked a more detailed article about it. It is the only 'shopping portal' type that I know that offers cashback and or miles for purchase on Amazon other than some others in which you have to buy items from very specfic categorizes to be rewarded. I caught on to it late but I have already 3.1k miles. None of my above links are affiliated links although I am trying to figure that out now and not really intended for here at bitcointalk but for some other things I have going on. Not sure if it would work but if your not interested in JetBlue miles and want to possibly help me help then my link is below as well.
https://www.doctorofcredit.com/earn-3-jetblue-points-per-dollar-amazon-purchases/https://www.amazon.com/?tag=jet0ec-20&ascsubtag=%23%213tzcN8OSBRW7Q%2B6yzMENi1c2xTDNIouZqetE12OY4j528E4L%2FGGrNljGc5aYs9L6I'd really like to make a video of my farm and get some constructive feedback from you guys on how I can approve it; if any of you would be interested please let me know.
My primary point of this post is that my focus has been getting these rigs up running and optimized and when I am not doing that since it has taken so much time away from my children aged 3 and 5 I have spent much time with them and have forgotten about the need to register all these parts. Especially considering my luck is very poor I think I will need to take advantage of the various warranty programs at some point. I started to prepare myself to start registering many things today but ran into some problems. I started with the GPUs and my MSIs. They wanted me to upload an invoice and to be honest I doubt even if I spent some time looking around I would find and recover very few and I am certain some vendors like NewEgg and Amazon never seen me any actual invoices. I suppose I could email them and ask for them to email me one or I print my payment or shipping confirmation from their site. I have saved all of the boxes that each of the parts arrived in with the exception of 2 Sapphire Nitro GPUs boxes in which my son tore them up (my fault for them leaving them where he could get.) Since I have multiples of some items and they were ordered at different points I have no clue which was from x and which was from y - in the end does it matter? Does registering even matter or is it required if a product should fail so long at the time I could produce proof I bought it on that date? Or will the companies require that the product already have been registered within x days/months of the purchase date?
I know this post went over a lot so your input in any of the areas addressed would be greatly appreciated.
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