My First Mining Rig - Dual Mining 215 mh/s Ethereum & 3200 mh/s Sia Coin

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Well I decided to get myself a little mining operation & let me tell you it's been quite interesting to say the least. I've made a ton of mistakes. My rig is still a work in progress & it is far from perfect. I still have a long ways to go before it's up to snuff so to speak. I definitely over spent on parts but I learned a whole lot & I'm still learning new things daily. I decided to use an ASrock H110 Pro-BTC motherboard because if you're going to do something then you might as well go all in. It can support up to 13 GPU's & when the five Sapphire rx 570 8GB Hynix memory cards I just ordered from newegg.com arrive I'll be running 13. I'm hoping to get at least around 364 mh/s on ETH once I get these new cards. Just for the record I do have the Sia Coin mining toned down a little. I've been testing out power supply's because I have a cheap 480w LOGISYS, a couple 750w Corsairs & my favorite which is an EVGA Supernova 1200w. I have a triple PSU connector/adapter(& a double connector I'm not using) so I can run multiple PSU's. I don't pay for electricity so I haven't had to worry about how much I'm using but when I have tried working on undervolting I run into a little trouble. See my GPU's so far consist of an XFX rx 460 4GB Micron memory that's 128 bit, two Sapphire Nitro rx 580 8GB Hynix Memory that are 256 bit & finally five Sapphire Nitro rx 570 8GB Hynix that are 256 bit. I've been working with modding the bios on every card along with using AMD's beta version of the Blockchain driver also I'm dual mining Ethereum & Sia Coin & from what I've been reading I can't use Afterburner or Sapphire Trixx while dual mining so I'm going to have to write the overclocking, undervolting into my Claymore miner's batchfile. Yes, it's been a little difficult trying to get everything to cooperate. If there's anyone that would like to help me out there I'd be eternally grateful. I've been working with computers for years but honestly I have hardly any experience with this kind of stuff. My CPU is an Intel Celeron G3930 Dual-Core 2.9 GHz LGA 1151 & I'm using 8GB of Ram which are two 4GB sticks of G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2133 (PC4 17000). I grabbed my risers from Ebay & they're T-Module PCI-E Express 1x to 16x Powered Riser Cables 4 Pin Molex's. I'm using a Team Group L5 LITE 2.5" 120GB SATA III Solid State Drive for my OS which is Windows 10. My frame is built out of 1/2" PVC pipe & fittings. I probably should have used 3/4" PVC because it's a little thin & the first row of GPU's was causing the one pipe to bow. I had to add another little section of pipe to support them. I have a few fans from the dollar store cooling the rig at the moment but I have some Aigo neon green LED fans that I plan on incorporating into my system at some point. My biggest regret is not going with the EVGA Supernova PSU from the start because it's rated platinum, it's obviously the most powerful & the cables can be disconnected from the power supply which makes cable management so much easier. I'm looking to order another EVGA so I'll be able to get rid of the mess of cables I have running all over the place. I did order a 2350w PSU but the seller on Ebay I got it from tried scamming me. They claimed to be a US supplier then it arrived from Singapore with a Chinese plug & it runs off of 240v to 264v. Ebay ended up refunding me & I got to keep the item. I'm not sure but maybe I'll be able to find someone that can actually use it. Like I said this has all been a learning experience & now I know what to buy when I start building my next rig. I'm probably going to start getting a parts list together & begin ordering tomorrow. Mining has completely sucked me in & now I'm going full "Steem" ahead. I plan on mining the most profitable coins then using my profits to build a diverse portfolio of cryptocurrencies. My job gives me a lot of freedom & the money to back this project. I don't really care what anyone else thinks because I'm really enjoying putting this all together regardless of what may happen in the crypto market. I'm going to include links for all the parts I bought down at the bottom. I'm not gonna lie they're referral links so I'll get a small commission if you'd decide to buy something. I got everything from Ebay & NewEgg. If you have any constructive criticism, suggestions or if you just feel like trolling me please leave a comment to let me know what you think.

Sapphire Nitro rx 580 8GB Hynix (Getting 28mh/s on ETH, 390 mh/s on Sia at the moment)
http://tinyurl.com/Sapphire-nitro-rx580

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