Project: Royal Mine

Loving the ghetto test bench, make sure that thing is on full pelt when you are on TS, that way it will drown everything ou! Much load, many monies!
 
I spent most of this afternoon fashioning a a case to put the mine in. It was fine just resting on the desk, but I wouldn't want to have it like that long term. The GPU's needed some support too as they were leaning under their own weight which I'm sure over time will put huge strain on the ports. To do this, I took a saw to an old case I had in the cellar and decided to cut in in half!

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This left me with the half that I was going to use. Where there are no sides, that's where my desk fan will go to blow air into the case and over the GPUs. I also fashioned some rubber feet for it.

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I had a slight problem trying to fit the extra large AMD 7990 into the bottom PCI slot as the case isn't designed for three GPU setups. In true wndsr style, out came the drill! I managed to drill a few holes in the metal just below the last motherboard screw to allow the silver backplate of the GPU to fit through. I did take a photo, but can't seem to find it now.

Everything installed - into the cellar it went. I had to route an ethernet cable from the back room where the router is, under the floorboards and through the beams of the cellar. It was a pain in the backside.

It should be fine like this for a while, at least until I get my desk fan and PCI riser so I can fit my third R9 290 card.

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Not currently, they are on 75% and the temperatures are currently 75-87 for all cards, with the exception of the one that's squashed in. I think that card will need to come out and go on a riser cable to be honest.
 
The second R9 290 is at about 95 degrees currently and has been since getting it going. I don't imagine it will go much over that now to be honest, but we will see.

I'm going to leave it running overnight to see how he gets on.
 
With my current setup pulling over 1300W off the wall, I opted to buy a second PSU to power two of the four cards.

I won't be setting it up until after Christmas though. Then I'll have the third R9 290 plugged in too - mega hash! :)
 
My last 290 is now plugged in and I'm finally doing all 4.5 MH/s - woo! I think I have the ugliest rig in the entire Project Logs section, but it was worth it!

I even learnt how to use two PSU's together using a safety pin - result! The noise and heat this thing generates is insane. We haven't had to turn the radiators on in the living room due to the heat coming up through the floor from the cellar.

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In terms of GBP going into my bank account nothing.

I've mined over 250,000 Dogecoins (currency deemed most profitable on CoinWarz) in about 48 hours. Somebody today offered me £400 for 500,000 - so I'll let you do the math and work out how much I could potentially make per month.

That would be a strict mine-sell setup for instant cash. I'd prefer to sell say, 60% instantly for the income and keep 40% in reserves that I can then trade for other currencies. WorldCoin is an up and coming currency that is expected to rise greatly next year to in excess of $1 a coin so I've just put 1.5MH/s mining that.

Hope that answers your question - there's no clear answer really as it depends on each persons approach to it.
 
wndzr said:
In terms of GBP going into my bank account nothing.

I've mined over 250,000 Dogecoins (currency deemed most profitable on CoinWarz) in about 48 hours. Somebody today offered me £400 for 500,000 - so I'll let you do the math and work out how much I could potentially make per month.

That would be a strict mine-sell setup for instant cash. I'd prefer to sell say, 60% instantly for the income and keep 40% in reserves that I can then trade for other currencies. WorldCoin is an up and coming currency that is expected to rise greatly next year to in excess of $1 a coin so I've just put 1.5MH/s mining that.

Hope that answers your question - there's no clear answer really as it depends on each persons approach to it.
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thanks. i understand, you must be using a lot of power though :D
 
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