Yep. I've mocked up mining rig number 2 on to a leftover piece of a versa-lam beam I cut off the other day at work. I just hate seeing big chunks of wood going to waste. Yes it's a little on the heavy side but I've already found a home for it by the windows.
I screwed a cleat to the wall for it so sit on and anchor to, a screw on the other wall holding one side, and a leg at an angle to help support the other end. Perfect.
I decided to just go ahead and build another so as I upgrade video cards on rig one, I can transfer them to rig two. At least that's what I'm telling myself to justify my obsessive compulsive nature. Anyways, I purchased a replacement reset and power switch
in lieu of an actual case and it will be here Monday so I can turn it on and get it set up CPU mining Monero or some other coin.
The motherboard is a Boosts TB85 with an Intel Core i5-4460S 2.9GHz Socket -1150 OEM CPU on it, and a 4gb dimm. I suspect I can get somewhere around 120h/s mining cryptonight algorithm running the latest version of Xubuntu as an OS. I love my penguin software with its mousy XFCE desktop.
That pretty much sums up my Sunday afternoon. Come back later for the poor mans mining excursion and we'll both get rich beyond our wildest dreams. 😂 ,😂 ,😂! More like poor from buying electronic gizmos every week....
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By any chance did you look into HiveOS or SimpleMinerOS to simplify the software setup? Or is it bestest to run straight Ubuntu?
I wish it wasnt so hard to get some cards at msrp that are decent for mining... My single GPU is lonesome XD
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I did look at hiveOS and didn't care for it much. So far I've found it easier to deal with Ubuntu or Xubuntu, I like XFCE, and it seems easy enough to find info for Ubuntu versus anything else.
And yes I've just spent 2hrs pouring over reviews and prices on near every video card that may be worth anything to mine with. I think I'm going to stick with nvidia's GTX 1070 but the price of the rx 470/480/580's are getting my attention. I just have no experience with AMD cards and driver installation in a Linux environment. If my pocket book allows I may even break down and force myself to hold out a week extra and go full on GTX 1080. It's a tough decision but I'm thinking in terms of long term retirement income/hobby. Something that could help me pay a few bills or maybe half my rent down the road while I go fishing.
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I hear Radeon gpus are opensource hopefully won't be too bad. There might be a 500X series in the horizon. 560X, 570X, 580X series. It's expected to be a modest improvement and not a new architecture. Hopefully better priced gpus @.@!!!
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Awesome...im doing same thing myself 👍👍
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Coolbeans. I followed you to keep tabs. It's been a learning experience for me thus far and in about 6 months I'll have a couple of nice rigs mining. Splurge on the video cards is my advice. Go with at least a rx 470 or GTX 1060 at minimum. I wasted about $300 buying cheaper cards. They're OK for cryptonight and sha 256 but no good for ETH
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