Mother Mine - Extreme Mining Setup

abbotsmike · 17 Jan 2014 at 12:13

Makhaira said:
Is this a long term thing? If so then I'd look at putting in floor vents (cellar ceiling) as you'll be able to use some of the heat to warm up your house, reducing heating costs!

No point throwing heat away!

On that thought, big fan drawing cold external air into the cellar, vents (or vents with fans in) exhausting that air into the house. Assuming the air gets warm enough of course. It should do, given that most of the power going in comes out as heat. The ideal would be to have the whole house as a closed loop, feeding the air from the house back in to the cellar to be re-heated. The only issue is that the gpu's (and the house!) would probably get way too hot!

Makhaira · 17 Jan 2014 at 12:19

You could just open the windows then, if the heat needs venting anyways then short of making an elaborate storage system, it's going to get released as waste one way or another.

abbotsmike · 17 Jan 2014 at 12:26

Yeah, I was thinking in the case of not bringing external air in to the cellar. I suspect that even bringing the cold air in from outside, with a bit of thought put into the arrangement of vents and hardware you could do quite nicely out of it.

Angel_Rex · 17 Jan 2014 at 13:07

**Wants to live in your basement**

I'm after a 280x and a nice warm place to live.

**Lines up outside his front door**

Looking good tho

Uncle_Gravy · 17 Jan 2014 at 13:52

Now I know how you come across all them BF4 codes, jesus, I can't imagine the cost, and I bet Gibbo had a field Day.

waso_dude · 17 Jan 2014 at 13:56

abbotsmike said:
Just don't switch them all on at once. The inrush probably will trip the breaker!!

PLEASE DO THIS!

abbotsmike · 17 Jan 2014 at 14:48

waso_dude said:
PLEASE DO THIS!

Tripping a breaker is a pretty uneventful process!

MofoKilla · 18 Jan 2014 at 09:38

how much are you hoping to make each month with this project?

Th3P · 18 Jan 2014 at 10:40

Looks one hell of a project, The best of luck!

SayWhat? · 18 Jan 2014 at 17:20

wndsr said:
Scrypt Mining likes RAM because it allows for a higher thread concurrency. One of my current systems is limited to how 'intense' it can mine because of its lack of RAM.
The SSD uses less power than the HDD - only reason. Linux is very good and seems stable though as you can't easily get it to mine to multiple pools I favour Windows.

My costs have been just over £5000 currently. That's including everything from all the hardware, the networking stuff, the fitting of new plug sockets, the PCI risers.

Power wise I am probably looking at over £300 per month. Will do a full power test when I am up and running.

As promised...

When you get a chance, can you or anyone who have bought the Powercolor Radeon R9 280X TurboDUO tell me how long the card is? I have the Sapphire Radeon 280x Toxic Edition which is 12 inches in length and that doesnt fit in my case, so I'm hoping this is smaller in size.

snips86x · 18 Jan 2014 at 21:21

SayWhat? said:
When you get a chance, can you or anyone who have bought the Powercolor Radeon R9 280X TurboDUO tell me how long the card is? I have the Sapphire Radeon 280x Toxic Edition which is 12 inches in length and that doesnt fit in my case, so I'm hoping this is smaller in size.

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MrAdamski · 18 Jan 2014 at 22:21

HOLY COW....... :O That's a nice pile o' 280's you got there

Gittins · 19 Jan 2014 at 06:16

What will the setup be running at when completed? 25GH? Isn't mining more of a hobby and not a money thing?

wndsr · 19 Jan 2014 at 10:49

Gittins said:
What will the setup be running at when completed? 25GH? Isn't mining more of a hobby and not a money thing?

GH is for Bitcoin buddy. Scrypt mining is still down in the kH/s and MH/s at best.

MofoKilla · 19 Jan 2014 at 13:34

how much will this earn you per month?

wndsr · 19 Jan 2014 at 16:13

MofoKilla said:
how much will this earn you per month?

It's hard to say for sure, but I don't doubt it will make enough money to keep me happy. It all depends on the price of the currencies at the time.

Original post has been updated!!

Trig · 19 Jan 2014 at 17:09

Liking the Antec PSU, got a bit of a soft spot for their kit tbh...

Also, the back plates on GPU's are a necessity these days imho give the weight of the cards, flextastic without them

MofoKilla · 19 Jan 2014 at 19:28

It's hard to say for sure, but I don't doubt it will make enough money to keep me happy. It all depends on the price of the currencies at the time.

Do you think you will make more than it costs to run the rigs ?

lmfy2k · 19 Jan 2014 at 19:47

great pics mate

2 qustions if you dont mind me asking

1. what hash rates are the PowerColors giving you?
2. Where did you get the red tubing from?

wndsr · 19 Jan 2014 at 20:33

MofoKilla said:
Do you think you will make more than it costs to run the rigs ?

There would be absolutely no point me doing this if it didn't.

lmfy2k said:
great pics mate

2 qustions if you dont mind me asking

1. what hash rates are the PowerColors giving you?
2. Where did you get the red tubing from?

Sure. Currently about 730kH/s out of the box. When I can be bothered to spend a day tweaking, maybe they can do more.

Aluminium ware from a company called Aluminium Warehouse who cut it all to size. Very hassle-free process. Google them