Mother Mine - Extreme Mining Setup

Wish you all the best with it mate. My workshop outside is getting a new power supply put in this weekend with the vision of future expansion.:D
 
Thanks for the comments guys.

Bought myself two desks from Ikea today, basically just big pieces of wood with legs! Also started to buy various cabling.

Got myself an 8-port network switch
Lots of Ethernet cable
10M HDMI cable so I can have a monitor at the end of the desks and just plug the cable into whatever PC I need to use.
 
I'm waiting on deliveries chaps, patience is a virtue! Unfortunately OcUK are out of stock with the GPU's at present.

You'll be the first to know about it when I get it all! :D

Edit: Just updated the OP to show current state of our cellar. It seems to love to keep stuff in this house and can't bring ourselves to bin anything! Oh how that will change!
 
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For the temperature of the room have you thought about a cellar cooling system similar to that which you would find in a pub?

The cost will probably far outweigh the benefit, but may give some food for thought.

Couple that with some sort of heat extraction system from the GPU exhausts, as you have eluded to, into the other portion of the cellar.
 
Huge commitment to undertake something like this, is damp not a concern in somewhere like a cellar?

As has been said, even if BTC/LTC mining does go downhill soon, the processing power could be used for a GPU farm of some sort or the hardware can be sold off to recoup some money.

Really cool to see people taking on huge things like this though, can't wait to see progress!
 
BigChief said:
For the temperature of the room have you thought about a cellar cooling system similar to that which you would find in a pub?

The cost will probably far outweigh the benefit, but may give some food for thought.

Couple that with some sort of heat extraction system from the GPU exhausts, as you have eluded to, into the other portion of the cellar.
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Ah Chiefington - I replied to your PM - not sure if you have seen it. Pretty sure I will need to look into something 'proper' soon. Most, if not all of my heat currently is coming from the insanely warm 290 cards.
 
I think you need to do another hole.
one to pump cold air and second to extract warm air, the rig have to be as low as possible preferably on the floor, warm air raise upwards, cellar cooling would not work due to condensation, it's design to make thing cold not to cool-down, theirs difference. And is there any mold on the wall?
 
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Oh gosh not that dreaded worm air! I'm quite nervous about this now...

Dave1240 said:
Might be worth waiting for the non reference coolers on the 290's.
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I already have 3 x R9 290 buddy, bought them a few weeks ago. The Mother Mine will consist of mainly 280X cards not 290. I may buy another cheeky 290 just to bring it up to 4 ;)
 
wndsr said:
I already have 3 x R9 290 buddy, bought them a few weeks ago. The Mother Mine will consist of mainly 280X cards not 290. I may buy another cheeky 290 just to bring it up to 4 ;)
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Ah right, Good luck! hope it all goes to plan. I am also waiting on some supplier to stock some cheap 280x cards, I also need a new power supply.

Choices choices :/
 
Good man. That's a wonderful project.

Make said:
In another forum, someone wanted to put over 30 cards under water, but people said it's next to impossible, as the heat load would be over 15000W.
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That's a strange idea. Do you have a link to the thread? I can see potential problems pulling 15kW from the wall as I'm not sure domestic housing can provide 60A, but dumping the heat is almost trivial.
 
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