GPU Mining

[DatacenterGeeks]

Hi all,

 

I wanted to ask about a GPU-mining specification with the gurus on here to see if anyone had better suggestions for maximizing the 'bang for buck'

 

We've bought in a *lot* of stock of 1080Ti cards (can be sold separately btw) and are looking to put them into the following system build:

 

i3-7100

16gb ram

1x small ssd

2x 1080ti

4u rackmount case

 

The users seem to be getting good results, but wondered if anyone else has suggestions?

 

Regards,

DC Geeks

[tom_w141]

What are you mining?

[DatacenterGeeks]

Ok so we're not directly mining ourselves, just wanted to get an idea of what sort of setups people would want to use to mine whatever coins are popular right now.

 

We're using 4U cases and with a motherboard change we can potentially up the number of gpus per system to 3 but then we'd be looking at getting Xeon chips, dunno if that's worth the hassle for the return. 

[Lurick]

Drop the i3 down to a pentium and the 16GB of RAM down to 8

[Samfisher]

CPU power and GPU bandwidth do not matter in mining.  Get the cheapest CPU you can with the most PCIE slots you can to mine.  x1 PCIE is totally fine.