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[Venomous468]

i just discovered theres somthing called  a ethereum mining rig  and iam not being able get any information on this thing.

can someone breifly describe this to me?

and i dont even what a mining rig is lol.

thankyou.

[Buddelbox]

Cheap Mobo with many Pcie x1 Slots

Cheap Pentium or Celeron

Pcie x1 to x16 Riser

Rx 480s

1200W Platin PSU

60 GB of Storage

8GB of DDR3 Ram

 

Cheap Electricity and cool environment

[Zando_]

6 minutes ago, Buddelbox said:

Cheap Mobo with many Pcie x1 Slots

Cheap Pentium or Celeron

Pcie x1 to x16 Riser

Rx 480s

1200W Platin PSU

60 GB of Storage

8GB of DDR3 Ram

 

Cheap Electricity and cool environment

Basically it's depleting the market of RX480s and 580s (not that there's any left). If you don't know much about it, don't do it. You'll have to know a bunch of stuff I don't (like how to convert Etherium into money? Seems pretty important to me...), and you need to make sure your GPUs stay cool and aren't to stressed if you want to resell them later. 

[agobran]

unless ur willing to spnd about 400$ US on a rx 480/580 thats only actually worth 200$ dont bother

[2bitmarksman]

An Ethereum Mining Rig is a computer designed specifically for mining the cryptocurrency Ethereum. These are generally going to be utilizing AMD video cards as they are much better at mining Ethereum than Nvidia's CUDA core design. A generic ETH miner will usually look something like this:

Cheap Celeron/Pentium/i3 CPU w/ stock cooler
Motherboard with about 6x PCIe slots (doesn't matter if they are x1 or x16)
6 16x to 1x PCIe riser cards to interface with the graphics cards
4-8 GB of RAM, again cheap stuff works just fine
128 GB hard drive or SSD. Again not really important, just needs enough space for the miner and OS
6 AMD rx 470/480/570/580 GPU's - These are what will be used to mine with and generate Ethereum
1200W 80+Platinum/Titanium Powersupply - Need the high wattage to power all the cards and the 80+Plat/Titan rating means it is generally more efficient and consume less power. This should NEVER be where you cut costs. The GPU's and PSU are the most important parts of the build

Generally people make their own open air type cases to maximize cooling and honestly a premade case is an expense better put towards more GPUs or a better PSU.

If you want to see an Ethereum Mining Rig being built, here is a decent video of one being made from start to finish:
 

EDIT: I should add that GTX 1060's are an OK substitute for mining Ethereum, but generally Nvidia does a much better job of mining Zcash and will net you a larger amount of money per day than mining Ethereum.