Recently, I’ve discovered the beta version of Steam OS. I was greatly surprised with the easy installation process. A simple succession of “Next” buttons. Then you connect yourself with your Steam account and that’s it! And the best point is the automatic installation of NVIDIA driver and the future support of Intel and AMD hardware. The installation of proprietary drivers is almost a pain in Gnu/Linux machine. In brief, Steam OS turns your computer into a very easy-to-use gaming console without any difficult trek.
But, let's think for a moment. When you don’t use your machine, there is a GPU (with interesting CUDA cores), a CPU and some USB ports which are in idle mode. So, we can use them to manage a complete miner with custom cryptocurrency wallet.
Yeah, but I’m sure you know that the equipment for mining is different from for gaming.
You’re right! But the difference isn’t enough big to make two different machines.
For example :
GPU
We need recent NVIDIAs (DDR5 memory, CUDA cores and high clock rate)
CPU
An octa core processor with at least 3.5 Ghz and AES-NI support would be perfect.
Motherboard
More than eight USB ports and a PCi e 16x port must be present.
Memory
16Go of DDR5 is compulsory.
Hardware wallet
An orange pi powered by a battery round the clock should be perfect.
So, where is the differences ? In fact, we need the same equipment.
The challenge is to create a user-friendly miner with a Steam OS interface. We have to stay in the way of thinking “console”. Everything must be within reach of the click. Never will the end user use the terminal. It's really a machine for the average person we need to create.
This series will be separated in several parts. Each week, the next part will be posted.
Steps:
- My current computer (we can recover items to avoid buying them)
- Hardware wallet (based on an orange pi or a raspberry pi)
- Gaming hardware
- Mining hardware
- Marketing approach
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