best computing pc for $1000?

[Colt_0pz]

i was wondering what parts @1000 dollars are great for computing such as F@H, and cryptocurrency mining and run 24/7?

[Inception9269]

i was wondering what parts @1000 dollars are great for computing such as F@H, and cryptocurrency mining and run 24/7?

 

I put this together based on my limited knowledge on cryptocurrency mining

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($69.99 @ NCIX US)

Motherboard: MSI A88X-G45 GAMING ATX FM2+ Motherboard  ($105.99 @ SuperBiiz)

Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($44.99 @ Newegg)

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($71.49 @ OutletPC)

Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 380 2GB Video Card (2-Way CrossFire)  ($199.98 @ SuperBiiz)

Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 380 2GB Video Card (2-Way CrossFire)  ($199.98 @ SuperBiiz)

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 1600W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($308.99 @ SuperBiiz)

Total: $1001.41

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-29 04:11 EDT-0400

 

The cpu doesn't matter from what I know, and it's also better to get one without integrated graphics from what I know.

As for the motherboard I know there's converter cables where you can plug graphics cards into smaller pci-e slots (cryptocurrency mining doesn't really require high bandwidth so it will be fine using smaller pci-e lanes)

I think you could get by with just 4gb of ram but not sure.

A 120gb ssd should be all you need since this won't be for gaming.

The video cards are the meat of cryptocurrency mining, AMD cards being better at it. from what i hear the 280 and 380 are the better cards for mining. I chose two, but if you want to be serious about mining you're going to need more than a $1000 budget, and need more cards than 2.

I left the case blank cause if you do use more than 2 then it would be better to get a test bench that allows for you to ghetto mount the extra graphics cards so they're not just lying on the ground.

As for the power supply that should offer enough room for more than 2 AMD gpus, although from what i hear if you're going to have a lot of gpus running it's better to get two psus that work with dual psus (I think i heard Antec has some psus like that)

 

Honestly you would be much better off getting Asic cards which are designed specifically for mining and will most likely outperform using gpus. (don't ask me which Asic cards, I don't know) Although I think i heard Asic cards don't work with litecoin.

[Guest]

I put this together based on my limited knowledge on cryptocurrency mining

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($69.99 @ NCIX US)

Motherboard: MSI A88X-G45 GAMING ATX FM2+ Motherboard  ($105.99 @ SuperBiiz)

Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($44.99 @ Newegg)

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($71.49 @ OutletPC)

Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 380 2GB Video Card (2-Way CrossFire)  ($199.98 @ SuperBiiz)

Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 380 2GB Video Card (2-Way CrossFire)  ($199.98 @ SuperBiiz)

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 1600W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($308.99 @ SuperBiiz)

Total: $1001.41

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-29 04:11 EDT-0400

 

The cpu doesn't matter from what I know, and it's also better to get one without integrated graphics from what I know.

As for the motherboard I know there's converter cables where you can plug graphics cards into smaller pci-e slots (cryptocurrency mining doesn't really require high bandwidth so it will be fine using smaller pci-e lanes)

I think you could get by with just 4gb of ram but not sure.

A 120gb ssd should be all you need since this won't be for gaming.

The video cards are the meat of cryptocurrency mining, AMD cards being better at it. from what i hear the 280 and 380 are the better cards for mining. I chose two, but if you want to be serious about mining you're going to need more than a $1000 budget, and need more cards than 2.

I left the case blank cause if you do use more than 2 then it would be better to get a test bench that allows for you to ghetto mount the extra graphics cards so they're not just lying on the ground.

As for the power supply that should offer enough room for more than 2 AMD gpus, although from what i hear if you're going to have a lot of gpus running it's better to get two psus that work with dual psus (I think i heard Antec has some psus like that)

 

Honestly you would be much better off getting Asic cards which are designed specifically for mining and will most likely outperform using gpus. (don't ask me which Asic cards, I don't know) Although I think i heard Asic cards don't work with litecoin.

don't get the SSD for a folding etc rig its unessercary simply get the cheapest HDD you can get.

for the RAM i recommend getting only 4GB 

alllso enugh.

 

And maybe you can find some sweet deals on R9 285 wich are essentially the same like a 380. On some shops there cheaper now. performance is the same. And the PSu is WAY overkill get some 1000W PSU and one 380/285 more. This will increase power MUCH

[Guest]

Honestly you would be much better off getting Asic cards which are designed specifically for mining and will most likely outperform using gpus. (don't ask me which Asic cards, I don't know) Although I think i heard Asic cards don't work with litecoin.

Yes sure. But for Folding/Boinc you're much better of with AMD

[Guest]

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/RbDV8d

Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/RbDV8d/by_merchant/

 

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($69.99 @ NCIX US) 

Motherboard: MSI A88X-G45 GAMING ATX FM2+ Motherboard  ($105.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Memory: G.Skill Value Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory  ($41.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: Western Digital WD Green 1TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($47.00 @ Amazon) 

Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 285 2GB WINDFORCE 2X Video Card (3-Way CrossFire)  ($172.98 @ Newegg) 

Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 285 2GB WINDFORCE 2X Video Card (3-Way CrossFire)  ($172.98 @ Newegg) 

Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 285 2GB WINDFORCE 2X Video Card (3-Way CrossFire)  ($172.98 @ Newegg) 

Power Supply: Rosewill 1050W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($139.99 @ Newegg) 

Total: $923.90

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-29 05:02 EDT-0400

 

 

 

MUCH better

[Inception9269]

Yes sure. But for Folding/Boinc you're much better of with AMD

 

I honestly never heard of folding, which is why i focused on just the mining part he's doing.

[Inception9269]

don't get the SSD for a folding etc rig its unessercary simply get the cheapest HDD you can get.

for the RAM i recommend getting only 4GB 

alllso enugh.

 

And maybe you can find some sweet deals on R9 285 wich are essentially the same like a 380. On some shops there cheaper now. performance is the same. And the PSu is WAY overkill get some 1000W PSU and one 380/285 more. This will increase power MUCH

 

the psu is over kill but i made it big if he goes the route of having 4 or more AMD gpus, AMD ones using a lot of power. 1000w might work for 4 gpus, but that would be running really close to the max wattage, which isn't a good thing for psus.

[Guest]

the psu is over kill but i made it big if he goes the route of having 4 or more AMD gpus, AMD ones using a lot of power. 1000w might work for 4 gpus, but that would be running really close to the max wattage, which isn't a good thing for psus.

ya... but i think 300$ is to much. I think its more important he can afford 3 GPUs now and maybe later upgrade that PSU

[Guest]

What about this

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/dHDV8d

Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/dHDV8d/by_merchant/

 

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($69.99 @ NCIX US) 

Motherboard: MSI A88X-G45 GAMING ATX FM2+ Motherboard  ($105.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Memory: G.Skill Value Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory  ($41.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: Western Digital WD Green 1TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($47.00 @ Amazon) 

Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 285 2GB WINDFORCE 2X Video Card (3-Way CrossFire)  ($172.98 @ Newegg) 

Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 285 2GB WINDFORCE 2X Video Card (3-Way CrossFire)  ($172.98 @ Newegg) 

Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 285 2GB WINDFORCE 2X Video Card (3-Way CrossFire)  ($172.98 @ Newegg) 

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 1300 G2 1300W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($153.99 @ NCIX US) 

Total: $937.90

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-29 05:14 EDT-0400

 

this should leave enough room for 4xGPU

but is not super silly expensive

 

and with this kind of budget for a folding/mining rig he should really get triple crossfire 

[Colt_0pz]

@Metallus @Inception9269, thanks for the posts, should help me in the future if i choose to build such machine

[Guest]

@Metallus @Inception9269, thanks for the posts, should help me in the future if i choose to build such machine

Especially the GPU market changes quickly

So when you decide to build do an other post so we can check if this thing is up to date

[brob]

Toss up between a Pentium G3258 oc and the i3.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4170 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($99.99 @ Micro Center)
Motherboard: Asus Z87-Pro (V Edition) ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($94.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($30.75 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 160GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($22.00 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 285 2GB WINDFORCE 2X Video Card (3-Way CrossFire)  ($172.98 @ Newegg)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 285 2GB WINDFORCE 2X Video Card (3-Way CrossFire)  ($172.98 @ Newegg)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 285 2GB WINDFORCE 2X Video Card (3-Way CrossFire)  ($172.98 @ Newegg)
Case: Corsair 400R ATX Mid Tower Case  ($94.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: EVGA 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($117.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $979.64
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-30 02:54 EDT-0400