My home PC Mining Rig

[Zondaa]

What is up my tech enthusiasts!

 

After a long time of not posting, i return with something relatively juicy.

 

With the current craze of ethereum mining and people getting their hands on as many AMD gpu's as possible, i've chosen to take another route and mine with some Nvidia cards! #goteamgreen (I'm just trolling here i love amd's stuff as much as nvidia's).

 

I know many of gamers are pretty mad at miners because of how both AMD and Nvidia have raised pricing on what are meant to be affordable cards due to demand (rx 570,580s, 1060, 1070s etc) So I thought to go all in and pick up a couple more 1080ti's with the intention to mine ZCASH! (An underrated cryptocurrency imo)

 

I have not gotten my hands on a mining frame to properly separate the cards and give them adequate breathing room but for now have just installed them all in my H440. 

 

I currently get a max of 2300 sol/s with light overclocks on the air cooled cards and a heavy clock on the hybrid cooled one.

 

This equates to about 0.07-0.1 Zcash a day. It's working out to be pretty profitable at the moment and have amounted one coin so far!

 

 

 

 

TL;DR : Bunch of 1080ti's packed in a h440 mining zcash in my garage

[Zando_]

Hmmm. Looks good, but it'd look even better if you just ran two cards, and sent me the third for some long term testing. 

[tom_w141]

You are a bit late no?

 

ZEC just like ETH and other GPU mined coins has crashed hard over the last week.

 

https://www.worldcoinindex.com/coin/zcash

[Zondaa]

Just now, Zando Bob said:

Hmmm. Looks good, but it'd look even better if you just ran two cards, and sent me the third for some long term testing. 

Haha, I'm sure it's not going to be so profitable to mine in the future, so who knows! Maybe wait and see 

[HunterSkater429]

I hope you have been mining for a while now and this is not a new rig. As the currency has majorly crashed 

[Zondaa]

1 minute ago, tom_w141 said:

You are a bit late no?

 

ZEC just like ETH and other GPU mined coins has crashed hard over the last week.

 

https://www.worldcoinindex.com/coin/zcash

Late to the game, yes. I did have the rig set up a couple weeks ago prior to the crash. But i still believe in a brighter future with cryptocurrencies in general.

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, pasha786 said:

Haha, I'm sure it's not going to be so profitable to mine in the future, so who knows! Maybe wait and see 

Even if it isn't profitable, you should be able to make a beast (or two) of a gaming rig with a bunch of 1080 Tis. 

[Zondaa]

Just now, Zando Bob said:

Even if it isn't profitable, you should be able to make a beast (or two) of a gaming rig with a bunch of 1080 tis. 

Exactly! I have an SFF system using a node 202 case so i can just end up hybrid cooling the second card in the H440 and throw the third one in the Node!

[HunterSkater429]

1 minute ago, Zando Bob said:

Even if it isn't profitable, you should be able to make a beast (or two) of a gaming rig with a bunch of 1080 tis. 

Or so overkill that it won't help performance becase one is enough.

 

Unless he's trying to do 8k gaming lol 

[Zondaa]

Just now, HunterSkater429 said:

Or so overkill that it won't help performance becase one is enough.

 

Unless he's trying to do 8k gaming lol 

I could imagine 2 in a system would future-proof it for quite some time. I enjoy max settings on games and play on 3440x1440

[HunterSkater429]

1 minute ago, pasha786 said:

I could imagine 2 in a system would future-proof it for quite some time. I enjoy max settings on games and play on 3440x1440

Yeah 2 would be amazing but still more than you need. But if your a fellow money maker like me the more the merrier.

 

When your rich you can have more than you need  

[Zondaa]

Just now, HunterSkater429 said:

Yeah 2 would be amazing but still more than you need. But if your a fellow money maker like me the more the merrier.

 

When your rich you can have more than you need  

Exactly! I just love tech and can't really help myself buying it

[Princess Luna]

7 minutes ago, pasha786 said:

Late to the game, yes. I did have the rig set up a couple weeks ago prior to the crash. But i still believe in a brighter future with cryptocurrencies in general.

Yes because doing pointless math calculations wasting computing power that could be used Folding for Cancer Cure to get some virtual fake money is super bright indeed.

[Zondaa]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

Yes because doing pointless math calculations wasting computing power that could be used Folding for Cancer Cure to get some virtual fake money is super bright indeed.

The cure to cancer does exist. But do you really think that they'll just openly offer it to any and everybody?

[Zondaa]

3 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Yes because doing pointless math calculations wasting computing power that could be used Folding for Cancer Cure to get some virtual fake money is super bright indeed.

Also i can't justify the electricity cost for something where i can't see any real impact or results in what i do.

[Princess Luna]

Meh don't mind me... I'm just salty with miners.

 

Cool looking computer nonetheless.

[Zondaa]

Just now, Princess Cadence said:

Meh don't mind me... I'm just salty with miners.

 

Cool looking computer nonetheless.

It's cool, I can understand why you would be. But i'm barely a miner. I'm a gamer at heart

[HunterSkater429]

1 hour ago, Princess Cadence said:

Yes because doing pointless math calculations wasting computing power that could be used Folding for Cancer Cure to get some virtual fake money is super bright indeed.

the cure for cancer will never be released, a cure for cancer means no steady income from cancer patients and no donations for "research".

 

they would lose a fuck ton of income if they told eveyone they had a cure. instead they just slow the progressing so you can live longer but you will be paying $3000 a chemo treatment needing 8 treatments, and then after that finding out you need more and more just to live, money is a sad thing. 

 

even if they made the cure cost a lot of money, over time its less $$$. 

 

[Zondaa]

Just now, HunterSkater429 said:

the cure for cancer will never be released, a cure for cancer means no steady income from cancer patients and no donations for "research".

 

they would lose a fuck ton of income if they told eveyone they had a cure. instead they just slow the progressing so you can live longer but you will be paying $3000 a chemo treatment needing 8 treatments, and then after that finding out you need more and more just to live, money is a sad thing. 

 

even if they made the cure cost a lot of money, over time its less $$$. 

 

To also add to your point, It's a form of population control.

[HunterSkater429]

1 hour ago, pasha786 said:

To also add to your point, It's a form of population control.

seems like everything comes back to money and control. unless thats just us crazy people always alluding to it  

 

 

[Zando_]

15 minutes ago, pasha786 said:

Exactly! I just love tech and can't really help myself buying it

My problem too. I just saw a deal for a monitor (my old VGA monitor is kind of crapping out on me right now), and only barely stopped myself from buying it. I gotta unsubscribe from these Newegg deal emails...

[Zondaa]

Just now, Zando Bob said:

My problem too. I just saw a deal for a monitor (my old VGA monitor is kind of crapping out on me right now), and only barely stopped myself from buying it. I gotta unsubscribe from these Newegg deal emails...

Haha, if only we had a newegg in the UK! The deals on there are mind-blowing sometimes! But yeah i really can't help myself buying and upgrading my computer, it got to a point where i upgraded my whole system and had a good deal of computer parts lying around. i just ended up giving them to my friend and built a pc for him

[Zando_]

Just now, pasha786 said:

Haha, if only we had a newegg in the UK! The deals on there are mind-blowing sometimes! But yeah i really can't help myself buying and upgrading my computer, it got to a point where i upgraded my whole system and had a good deal of computer parts lying around. i just ended up giving them to my friend and built a pc for him

Yup! Once I get my Ryzen upgrade, I'm going to give my current PC to my cousin. Otherwise, I'll end up with a massive pile of tech lying around, with no way to use it all. And it's always awesome to help someone out (unless they break the computer once a week and call asking you to fix it). 

[Zondaa]

3 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Yup! Once I get my Ryzen upgrade, I'm going to give my current PC to my cousin. Otherwise, I'll end up with a massive pile of tech lying around, with no way to use it all. And it's always awesome to help someone out (unless they break the computer once a week and call asking you to fix it). 

That's dope! I don't think i've ever had the pleasure of owning AMD hardware, Only intel and Nvidia. (Unless you consider an ATI gpu in a old tower pc )

[Zando_]

3 minutes ago, pasha786 said:

That's dope! I don't think i've ever had the pleasure of owning AMD hardware, Only intel and Nvidia. (Unless you consider an ATI gpu in a old tower pc )

Yeah, I'm going for Ryzen since it's the best bang for the buck right now. I'm hopefully going to be able to get a 1440p monitor too. And Battlefront 2 when it comes out.