Let me start off with I have no clue what I am getting myself into. I am a Linux system administrator by day. After hearing about bitcoin, buying some bitcoin ( around £300 worth) then trading it for Ethereum and making around £50 from a few days of holding on to it, I have decided that I now want to try my hand at mining Ethereum. I had an old NVIDIA GTX 770 that I had sold on EBay but after the buyer never paid I decided to put it to work.
So I have bought the components I think I need to make the rest of a mining rig.
- Intel Pentium G4400, S 1151, Skylake, Dual Core, 3.3GHz, 3MB Cache, 1000MHz GPU, 33x Ratio, 54W, CPU, Retail
- MSI Z170A SLI PLUS, Intel Z170, S 1151, DDR4, SATA3 6Gbps, M.2 (PCIe/SATA), 2-Way SLi/3-Way CrossFire, USB3.1Gen2 C,
- ATX650W Corsair VS Series VS650, 80 PLUS White, Fully Wired, SLI/CrossFire, Single Rail, 50A +12V, 1x120mm Fan, ATX PSU
- Sama Black Fish Silent Computer Chassis, 2x 120mm Front, 1x 120mm Rear Silent Fans, 4x USB, Black
- 4 GB DDR4 Memory
I didn't need a great CPU as most of the computation is going to be done on the GPU, I would of liked a better power supply but money was short so I compromised in the hope I can upgrade it later. I did not compromise on the board. The MSI Z170A has 6 PCI Express ports so expansion is possible later.
My spend on the components including the GPU which I had purchased earlier was just under £350
I'll assemble it, install the OS and install mining software over the next few posts.
Find part two here
Looks good so far! Do you know what cryptocurrency you want to mine? Also what OS are you running?
Thanks. Im going for Ethereum mining. I'm currently looking at Fedora or CentOS for the OS, they're my go to distro's in the Linux world.
I think Ethereum is a good choice, but I might recommend ethOS as your OS. It's super simple since all the configuration is already taken care of for you. You basically just have to assemble your miner and turn it on. Here is the official ethOS quickstart guide as well that covers most everything you need to know.
Thanks, I had already started to install Fedora, it didnt turn out well, although I will leave that for an upcoming post! I have now an OS that I am happy is as good as it can be.
You don't have to pay for ethos . Just go free with any linux OS you want and mine what you want . Bitcointalk is a great forum for taking advices .
Thanks, so do you have to pay for ethos?
I think ethos is not open source . It is based on a linux distro as far as i know. Why pay for something like this you don't need to .
If you know linux commands then it will be a piece of cake for u .
Watch some youtube tutorials and read some articles on bitcointalk .