Feedback for this rig I bought. What can I change?

Tsunami

Here is a link to what I bought
What mods do I need to make or how can I make
It better?

Solo mine or pool…!?

Nutnut

Assuming you mean better for mining, the first thing to do unfortunately is ditch the grahics card and buy an AMD card (preferably a 7950/7970). nVidia cards are terrible for mining and generally cost more in electricity than you make in profit.

Other than that the rig is fine for mining. You could lose some ram and the Blu-Ray drive to save a couple of watts.

Unfortunately that is a gaming rig which will no doubt perform majestically in Crysis 3 but it wont mine very well at all. :'(

Edit: Just checked the hardware comparison - the GTX 570 does about ~130KHs which at the current difficulty wil get you about 5.6 coins per day. The difficulty is going up in a couple of hours though and you’ll be looking at 5.23 per day. That’s approx $0.46per day.

Tsunami

Thanks. I’m gonna order those 7950’s now…

Tsunami

Two of them or can this run three?

Nutnut

All valid points.

There’s also the motherboard itself. being high-end you should be fine to run 3+ but some mobo’s can be finicky. Unfortunately i couldn’t find anyone mining with one of those… Us miners are all cheapskates and won’t pay top dollar for a motherboard. ;)

svennand

Two cards will be max in case without getting heat issues.
Ive tried severall cards, (7990,7970,7950 and so on, with different cooling solutions, brand Sapphire/Gigabyte/Asus/XFX (XFX is the most CRAP when it comes to cooling and khashrate) ), my case has been fractal design r3/r4 and fractal design XL (biiig case).
Even with my Asus Extreme V i wasnt able to run more than two cards. 4 cards for gaming is no problem. but for 24/7 mining the spacing between the cards is just to tight.

Also note that i used 5x140mm fans for air circulation in those chassis, also tried with door open. still overcooked the cards… Everything runned at stock speed.