If you are low on budget, you can always order less and increase as you go. With 13 GPUs, we can achieve a hash rate of about 5600 Sol/s.Īs we are building 13 GPUs, we are going to order 13 GPUs. With one GTX 1070 Nvidia Graphics card you can achieve 430 Sol/s.
Our cryptocurrency mining rig will consist of –ĮVGA build some good Nvidia Graphics Cards. Nvidia cards are better for mining ZEC rather than any other coin.
6 AMD + 6 nVidia and saves you more.Zcash can be easily mined with Nvidia cards. Reading reviews it seems to have a 6 to 7 per vendor GPU limit like the Biostar below. This will knock about $150 off the bill and supports 13 GPU. I'll put in the one that I've found aswell. But if you had a recommendation that would be really nice. I'll look for a motherboard that's compatible. I don't think i would be going for more than that for a while. The most GPU's I'm going to go for would probably be 6 or 8. Although Linux can provide greater reliability. Then prepare for a much more difficult setup. If you plan to go past 8 GPU of one vendor you'll want to use Linux instead of Windows. Those multi-fan recirculating heatsinks need room to breathe. You'll want cards with blower style fans in that setup. Although at 4 GPU you can get a board which can accommodate them all without risers. If you are just going to stick with 4 GPU. It is slightly faster and no downside I'm aware of.Īlso I don't know what your ambitions are for an ultimate number of GPU. The Celeron G3900 is popular to use in multi-GPU mining rigs. Thanks for actually sticking to this subject, man. I'm going to have a second look and see if this ASUS motherboard is actually "real". I've heard that sometimes it can mess up the compatibility checker, and also the fact that the motherboard I'm planning to use doesn't exist on their site.
What CPU would you recommend? The Intel Pentium G3930 (for what I see) is a Kaby Lake-S, so I'm planning to get into that since I'll be only using the PC for mining. As you appear to be more serious and looking at a specialized mining build. You are probably better off asking questions here or on forums dedicated to mining. Which can be anywhere from a Celeron to a Core i7. Especially when you choose PCIe x1 to PCIe x16 risers or a PSU splitter.įor that motherboard you need a Skylake or Kaby Lake-S Intel CPU not Skylake-X or Kaby Lake-X. has a compatibility checker.It will have some problems with the specialized mining board. But one thing, is there a site to tell what parts are compatible with eachother? It seems that I'm spending a lot of unnecessary cash. The 1070 Ti is likely a safer bet if you have to switch back to Ethereum. Especially if you tweak with the OC settings to drop power consumption.Ī GTX 1080 Ti scales quite well price wise with ZCash. If you mine ZCash you can get way better results per dollar with a GTX 1070 Ti as the price is nearly identical to the 1070 but gets a higher Sol rate.
It would pay for itself in about 6 months.
Going by the calculators in my market at current energy rates in my area. ZCash appears to be more profitable at the moment. That system will be more profitable on ZCash than Etherium. That depends on how stable the market is price wise, how much the difficulty changes and your power costs. As just a few percentage points in energy efficiency pays for itself pretty quick.Īs for profitability. Although stick with Platinum efficiency or better. I'd probably just use multiple 1200w models with a PSU splitter. I don't think you need that powerful a PSU. Unless you are planning to add more GPU in the future. 8GB System RAM should be enough 16GB won't hurt. Also system RAM speed shouldn't matter just get whatever is cheapest. I'm not aware of any differences in available PCIe lanes between a Celeron and Core i7. You could drop that CPU to a compatible Celeron or Pentium.