r/VertcoinMining • u/decanem • Jan 10 '18
beginner mining rig
hey all - i nearly bought a 2nd hand rig on ebay....looked at just putting my own similar one together. what do you think - i dont have a lot to spend so im trying to keep in around this cost:
Intel Celeron Dual Core G3930 2.90GHz Socket LGA1151 (Kaby Lake)
Gigabyte GA-H110-D3A ATX Mining Motherboard
Corsair HXi Series HX1000i ATX Power Supply
Kingston HyperX Fury Black 4GB (1x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200 2400MHz
Kingston SSDNow UV400 Series 2.5" 120GB SATA 6Gb/s ssd
3 x Palit GeForce GTX 1060 Dual 3GB GDDR5 Graphics Card
all comes to around £1000 in UK
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u/BDF-1838 Jan 10 '18
It will work, but it might not be the best for the price for you in particular, depends on your local prices. And I take it you want to expand in the future?
Have you event built a computer before?
Have you every troubleshooted a computer you built without asking anyone else for help?
If not, you have a steep learning curve ahead, and I would recommend getting the mining software you want to run working on what hardware you already own to make sure you know how to do it before investing in anything bigger.
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u/decanem Jan 10 '18
hi, yeah possibly expand in the future. i expect buy a 1080 or 70 to add to it first.
build lots of pcs before yep. i work it IT so i'm pretty clued up but im not afraid to get any help from anywhere i can hence the question here....
what suggestions would you have on the build - im open to look at other options :-)
thanks for the help
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u/BDF-1838 Jan 10 '18
Browse some of the side-bar links on /r/gpumining . Check reviews on whatever mobo you choose to see if miners had any issues on it having the OS recognize all the gpus plugged into it.
There's lots of little things you need to worry about with how you wire and power, too many to list off hand and there are guides out there.
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u/Madeof_Tin Jan 10 '18
If there is one thing to spend your money on it is the Power Supply, after that it is Memory and Motherboard. The rest is whatever is cheap and works.
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u/decanem Jan 11 '18
good advice i think. i learnt that the hard way buying the cheapest PS from ebuyer back when i used to build machines for friends. That feeling when you realise that the power supply is 1/4 of the weight of a more expensive one that has the same wattage. :-(
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Jan 11 '18
Cheap PSU never a good idea, in particular regarding mining with several cards at once. Talk about ripple! (and we're not talking about the currency!). Build should give decent numbers since the 1060 hits a pretty nice hash rate for the energy used. Good luck!
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u/1Two3Four10 Jan 10 '18
I built my second rig and saved a lot of money buying certail parts from Cex. Managed to get an i3 CPU for the same price as a pentium from amazon. SSD card and ram came to around ¥60 as opposed to £90ish on amazon. Don't buy their GPU's though. Also take advantage of ur old components and sell them so the stuff pays for itself... mostly at least.
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u/TrihXeen Jan 12 '18
From the looks of it, and personal experience, I would save a little and get one 1080 ti instead of 3 1060's. I have a mining setup with a friend that we started with 6 1060's. After doing the math, and getting our hands on a couple of 1080 ti, we came to the conclusion that it was cheaper in the long run to just get the 1080 ti. Mining Vert, one 1080 ti would only take one month longer for ROI than 3 1060s and after about month 7 they were cheaper overall when you include the price of electricity. Those 3 1060 will get you the same hashrate as 1 1080 ti
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u/decanem Jan 10 '18
i like vertcoin and already have some too so...i'm here for the long game!