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Hi Guys, I would like to start mining Ethereum but was hoping I could get some tips from the pros.. What would a good reasonable budget price be to complete a rig with 6-8 GPUs (I’m going to go with the RTX3060 with dummy HDMI plugs, running windows and the developer driver on them)

Any tips on mobos, CPUs and decent PSUs I would greatly appreciate..


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There is an Ethereum upgrade coming later in July so your profitability will fall. The RTX 3060 also has a hash rate limiter which can be overcome with a set of beta drivers but I think it only works in the main PCI slot so you won't be able to run multiple RTX 3060's. This was research that I did a couple of months ago so not sure if anything has changed. Your best bet would be to get 1660 supers or 3060ti's
 
I sell ethereum rigs (except gpus) if anyone is interested. R13.5k.
 
Go to builders' or wherever. Get 2 of those 3 or 4 meter aluminium/wood flat bars. You can drill and use screws or a pop rivet to fasten the rig structure together. When considering the length of your rig, take care to allocate enough space between GPUs to allow for adequate airflow.

Choose your cards wisely, you gonna have to ROI. Look up the ROI of cards that are of interest, see if you can live with those numbers.

You will not find a BTC motherboard around. Biostar is out of stock at the moment. Less you get one on carbie.
I use Z97 Gaming 5 without issues but please prefer the BTC motherboards.

Assuming you got 6 cards and each card consumes max 300W (you will want to do this as power draw differs for coin algorithms), you'll need 2000W.
Yes, there is no 2000W psu on wootware but you can use these Power Supply Adapter to combine like 2 1000W psu.

You ideally want to feed your GPUs with power from the 8pin PCIE connectors because the 6pin only delivers 75W. The 8pin will give you 150W.
So the 8pin connector end that is split to connect to the GPU will deliver 300W. The GPU riser will add 75W to the mix, then you can power and overclock a 3090 if you wanna.
The above applies if you have power hungry GPUs. An RX480 for instance can live well with a 6pin connector.

DONOT power your power-hungry GPUs with the Molex connector. Use that for your GPU risers.
GPU risers can be powered with SATA power as well as the 6pin PCIE connectors.

Don't forget a power switch for that rig, you'll be jump-starting with your screw-driver every time.
 
My opinion, check out Chump change / Red Panda and Voskoin. Plenty tutorials on rig building there. as For GPU's, its all about ROI, but dont sell yourself short. Consider other coins that will also be mineable on your GPU (Ergo / ETC) etc etc.

Personally, i dont mine on WIndows, i prefer HiveOS, Easier to run multiple rigs from a single place, also you dont have windows slowing things down. Use the forums to understand power draw from your card of choice, remeber, dont exceed 80-% of your PSU MAX.

I use Biostar TB250 Mother boards
I run Celeron G3900 CPU
4gb DDR4 Ram (No need for more, unless you run windows, id bump it to 8gb)
128gb SSD
I have 3 rigs ( 1 x 1200W Raidmax Modular PSU running 1xRX50, 1XRTX2060, 3xRX570), (1 x Chinese 1600W non modular running 2xGTX1660 and an asic), (1 x 2000w chinese non modular running 10x RX580)

Rig stands are all home made

If you going to do ETH, check out Ezil - ETH+ZIL Mining. You can dual mine 2 coins to improve profitability.

Happy Mining
 
Hi,

i made a video on my first building project (sorry about the audio quality). I am improving as I make every new video..

This will give you some info on the route I have taken. I used 1660 Supers and the 16x series cards are not LHR and they are very (VERY) efficient!

 

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