We just finished our 7200h/s Zcash mining rig project!steemCreated with Sketch.

in cryptocurrency •  7 years ago  (edited)

It's been a tough week, but finally we got all 24x GTX 1060s up and running on our Linux set up!

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"Our first project under Hash Courier name (our wanna-be-company) that we've build together with my friend and Co-founder of Hash Courier mining services - David."


HARDWARE SPECS:

  • Mobo: Asus Prime Z270-A
  • Procesor: Intel Pentium G4400 (I know - celeron is cheaper, but hey, I got these with 20% discount...)
  • GPUs: 8x EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0 (on each miner)
  • Memory: Kingston HyperX 4GB DDR4 single
  • PSUs: 2x Corsair HX750 (on each miner)
  • SSD: Western Digital 120GB green
  • Additional fans: 3x-4x Corsair AF140mm (on each miner)

It did not start very well at the beginning....

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We still had to wait for our risers and additional Add2PSU + M.2 to PCI-e adapter that were all shipped from USA

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We decided to start with our shelf, which probably was the easiest part... :D

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Then we moved on to 3x builds...

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After connecting more than 3 of the GPUs on each cards we encountered the stability problems which forced us to switch from Windows 10 to Ubuntu 16.04 (my natural habitat, hohoho)...

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And after like 5 days of testing benchmarking and patching we finally managed to run all 8 GPUs on each rig!

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We decided to go for Zencash mining via zenmine.pro pool - around 7000h/s gives us a solid 30$

We are looking forward to essembling more mining rig in the future (once we get some ROI back :D), stay tuned for more cool mining rig builds!


-lifipp a.k.a Hash Courier
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What were the prices for 1060s? They are really hard to get so im kinda surprised how you got 24x of them.

I got them from wholesales in a specialized shop - I was lucky my friend's father works with computes so I bought them with 15% sale All 3 rigs costed around 3000$ each so that makes 9000$ plus Monitor, keyboard, mouse and some cabels... :)

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Really cool project! Upvoted and submitted to @curie for an upvote. Good luck hopefully you get an upvote!

Thank you sir @crytpoviking, I really appreciate your support :D

Hard work.

Thanks :)

You are welcome.

I had to up vote this one, looks like a lot of hard work.

Thanks pal, I apreciate your support! :)

WOW!hark working.followed and voted you.
Please vote my comment :-)

Thanks for support :)

WHOA! What a magnificently creative mining rig! Well done! Can't wait to check out any additions you make to it.

Thanks you sir! I'm gonna keep you updated!

Looking forward to it! :)

Nice project keep it up 😀

Thanks! :)

Hi, im builing a rig with this gpus but im having trouble with my mobo detectinf this cards.

I currently have a gigabyte 990fx gaming g1 when i connect this gtx 1060 with my powered usb risers they are not detected but if i use older gpus they get detected! Im using a evga 1600 g2 so power is not problem.

Do you have a recomendation for workinf with this cards?

Hey @sigimtz ! :) thanks for asking! I need to know what mobo do you have?

@lifipp Gigabyte x990fx gaming g1!

It might be a problem of the GPU drivers - if you're running Windows 10 uninstall all the drivers and install them via device manager, also make sure your virtual memory is on 16GB. I hope that will help :)

Im running it with ubuntu 16.04 latest drivers available, y have 3 other gtx 1060 different manufacturers only the pny one is not detected with risres i have a box with 10 more risers so risers is not the problem. I have other gpus and tested and they got detected just the pny is not. I will change this card for an asus or gigabyte for further testing thank you!

ok @sigimtz good luck with your rigs! I hope it will work as it should! :)

real hard work , keep it up guys

We will! Thank you :)

What ROI do you expect?

about a half a year - depends on upcoming price trends

Thanks for sharing this is a really great build. Look forward to you posted in the future.

You're welcome and thanks for your support :)

Stay save and don't forget your helmet.

lol dude :D @simonfinkelstein

Nice setup. But I've got a question. How do you get to use 8 GPU in only one MoBo? I know some motherboards have up to 4 PCI-E slots, but... 8?

hey @jfuenmayor96 :) thanks for asking! I am runnnig an ASUS Prime Z270-A motherboard that has 7 PCI-e slots and in addition to that 2 M.2 slots that can be used as a small PCI-e slot if you find the right adapter to it. That means I can even run 9 cards on that mobo, but because of the lack of wattage from my PSUs and because of the sake of stability I only run 8 cards :)

Wow. That's sick. Good to know, I didn't even imagine that something like that existed.

I am glad I could explain it to you @jfuenmayor96 :D

Be careful with the EVGA FTW cards, some have had issues with cooling the VRM, my guess is yours not affected, but you might want to check up on it and reach out to EVGA if there is any issues and have them send some thermal pads!

Thanks for an advice @wessel

Awesome job! I'm planning to make a mining setup somewhat like yours.
Do you have any tips?

Be patient - mining is hard business that requires a lot of tweaking and maintaining - prepare for that! :D

Fallow me

naw man, there is gotta be reason for that sorrey :D @maheshkapgate

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wow, that's cool :) thanks!

Wow! I'd really like to get into this, just gotta get some money to start with.

If you'd like some help with your miner - follow me, I am making tutorials for set up and configuration of mining rigs! :)

WOWO great rig

Thank you @gunsmasterrock sir! :)

Awww.. a thing of beauty :D

Thank you @theboogie :) I am glad you like it :D

only food minig....D:)

foof mininig @nusr-et-555 ? :D Well those rigs are pretty hot so I gues you could fry some eggs on top of it, bu that would ruin my GPUs :/ so I am not doing that

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