\[RUNNING\] - My First Rig - Smos FTW

mirrax

270 is easier to get, not so demanding to PSU, you can build cheap 4-GPU rig with those.
My MSI 270 was about 200USD and I am pulling 450kH/s easily. It is very good card…

delimitri

Goodluck :D Im looking to build my first rig aswell. Keep us updated.

vikingalex

you got a big PSU for using a micro-ATX motherboard ::). you would suffice with 550w+ on micro-ATX. 550w can handle 1 highend gpu or 2 midrange gpus.
and you got some old chassi.
and that chassi is for M-ATX? if so you would probably suffer from heat problem when mining OC 24/7
better get midtower or full tower just to counter heat increase.

mmyhre

[quote]you got a big PSU for using a micro-ATX motherboard ::). you would suffice with 550w+ on micro-ATX. 550w can handle 1 highend gpu or 2 midrange gpus.
and you got some old chassi.
and that chassi is for M-ATX? if so you would probably suffer from heat problem when mining OC 24/7
better get midtower or full tower just to counter heat increase.[/quote]

Good luck to you.

If you run into temp problems. Buy a cheap table fan, open up chassi and stick it up close. My first rig was running at 72 degress one one card and 89 at the other. The table fan got it down to 66 an 81.

On the R9 series you should be good as long as you keep it under 85. Works in the 90 also, but the cooler the better.

uncle_muddy

Good luck to you man :)

That PSU sounds like a reasonable place to start to me, been doing a lot of research and re-learning about these things after my 1st PSU went bang within a couple of days ???

[img]http://imagescdn.tweaktown.com/content/5/6/5613_02_thermaltake_smart_750_watt_80_plus_bronze_power_supply_review.png[/img]

So the single rail is good, and with 744W on the 12v rail you should easily have room to expand to a 2nd GPU without any issues.

If you going to go USB, give BAMT a blast, It’s simple to setup and just kinda gets on with it for you :)

UM

TheTribesman

Nice one! Come and join us at the pools.

[img]http://www.londoners.net/fatcat.jpg[/img]

Have a cigar!

[quote name=“uncle_muddy” post=“47287” timestamp=“1387881599”]
So the single rail is good, and with 744W on the 12v rail you should easily have room to expand to a 2nd GPU without any issues.
If you going to go USB, give BAMT a blast, It’s simple to setup and just kinda gets on with it for you :)
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My mate reckons (don’t quote me on this), apparently the 12volt rail is supplying just the cpu and gpu. Nothing else is on the 12v rail.

I’ll give BAMT a go then. Cheers for the suggestion=^-^=

[quote author=vikingalex link=topic=6352.msg47283#msg47283 date=1387878170]
you got a big PSU for using a micro-ATX motherboard ::). you would suffice with 550w+ on micro-ATX. 550w can handle 1 highend gpu or 2 midrange gpus.
and you got some old chassi.
and that chassi is for M-ATX? if so you would probably suffer from heat problem when mining OC 24/7
[/quote]
I didn’t realise it was m-atx until I got home. Did notice it was particularly small but the pci-e slots were spaced enough apart. The case I’m using has been gutted as much as possible. No back plate and its open on both sides and its laying down on an old workstation table with slots all ready cut out from it. I’ll upload pictures soon. It’s also directly under a split system aircon.

I need the 750w psu because of the coming second 270 oc. They use around 300 watts each. The cpu draws 45watts. The usb will draw bugger all.
It was either that or a 500w. I wanted to buy everything I needed from the one store, cause I’m impatient.

[quote author=bacobob link=topic=6352.msg47273#msg47273 date=1387874580]
Is there a reason why you choose a 270 not 280?
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Price wise to khash/s ratio… Wasn’t sure about power draw to khash/s. Plus I only had “so” much money. I needed to get this thing as cheap as possible. I’m on a budget.

[quote author=mmyhre link=topic=6352.msg47286#msg47286 date=1387880574]
If you run into temp problems. Buy a cheap table fan, open up chassi and stick it up close. My first rig was running at 72 degress one one card and 89 at the other. The table fan got it down to 66 an 81.
[/quote]
Cheers for the advice

As mentioned above, its directly under an aircoin. I also work at an electronics store so we have 60 and 120 mill fans. one in particuair is about 3 inches deep and made of solid metal. so I have enough room in the case to mount that thing if the aircon above is not doing it’s job. If need be I can move it to a riser setup.

It looks like the ram was dead… My mate had the second one right there so we swapped it out and now it boots to bios. So I’m ready to go.

Sorta stopped at that point, havin a few drinks and doing christmas stuff with family on skype. But soon I’ll get back to it and hopefully have it mining for some good photo’s.

ChekaZ

Most important thing is, dont safe money on the wrong spot!

I fired up 2 PSUs - they were both shitty, had a 850W - which couldnt pull 600W/h without dying.

And I had a 500W one which couldnt even pull out 350W.

Another reason is the power consumption. - I’ve safed about 150W/h on 2 cards just cause I bought a new 1050W GOLD PSU. :)

Regards,
ChekaZ

[quote name=“ChekaZ” post=“47297” timestamp=“1387885820”]
Another reason is the power consumption. - I’ve safed about 150W/h on 2 cards just cause I bought a new 1050W GOLD PSU. :)
[/quote]

I think I’ll get a Seasonic 1000w 80+ platinum when i upgrade my mainboard and gpu’s.

Loi

[quote name=“ChekaZ” post=“47297” timestamp=“1387885820”]
Another reason is the power consumption. - I’ve safed about 150W/h on 2 cards just cause I bought a new 1050W GOLD PSU. :)
[/quote]

So when you use a better power supply (compare to no name), you make money?

Crazy.

aatje92

[quote name=“Loi” post=“47301” timestamp=“1387891536”]
[quote author=ChekaZ link=topic=6352.msg47297#msg47297 date=1387885820]
Another reason is the power consumption. - I’ve safed about 150W/h on 2 cards just cause I bought a new 1050W GOLD PSU. :)
[/quote]

So when you use a better power supply (compare to no name), you make money?

Crazy.
[/quote]

Well you dont make money you save money, from electricity and your computer not blowing up :p

I can’t get bamf 5.5 or 1.2 running right. 1.2 appears to work before it shows me a red screen saying that the gpu has errored.

Might try a linux boot

TheRedViper

i second the PSU advice :)
good luck with your setup, keep us updated!

Im trying an ubuntu usb boot but i can’t get the sdk’s and drivers installed.

gonna try do a windows 7 usb boot if that’s even possible

[i]edit[/i]

I don’t suppose anyone is willing to help me out in BAMT… I’m running v1.2.

I am not completely sure what im doing wrong.

TheTribesman

These are the 2 guides I used when setting mine up.

[url=https://github.com/kanoi/linux-usb-cgminer/blob/master/linux-usb-cgminer]https://github.com/kanoi/linux-usb-cgminer/blob/master/linux-usb-cgminer[/url]
[url=http://www.cryptobadger.com/2013/04/build-a-litecoin-mining-rig-linux/]http://www.cryptobadger.com/2013/04/build-a-litecoin-mining-rig-linux/[/url]

I’d suggest cgminer 3.1.1 though

[quote name=“TheTribesman” post=“47370” timestamp=“1387915188”]
These are the 2 guides I used when setting mine up.

[url=https://github.com/kanoi/linux-usb-cgminer/blob/master/linux-usb-cgminer]https://github.com/kanoi/linux-usb-cgminer/blob/master/linux-usb-cgminer[/url]
[url=http://www.cryptobadger.com/2013/04/build-a-litecoin-mining-rig-linux/]http://www.cryptobadger.com/2013/04/build-a-litecoin-mining-rig-linux/[/url]

I’d suggest cgminer 3.1.1 though
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ok. I’ll have another crack at it after some sleep. ive been away for 20 hours now 10 of em at the computer. and the other computer… and the rig. it took only an hour to get it running but ive hit a brick wall with the OS.

I was thinking of just getting my external usb 3 hd and putting a windows 7 install on that and go the scrypt guiminer stratum / cgminer or what it was that cuda was built on. I’ll find out.

this aint over yet.

OK. with [url=http://www.cryptobadger.com/2013/04/build-a-litecoin-mining-rig-linux/]http://www.cryptobadger.com/2013/04/build-a-litecoin-mining-rig-linux/[/url]

So far so good.

I had to fix my usb flash drive using diskpart inside windows. I was left 90% of my disk space unallocated from the bamt installs I attempted. I kept formatting to 500 meg and the other stick which i was trying to install xubuntu from didn’t really work on it.

So yeah. Fixed the USB drive. The Xubuntu boot on the other flash worked. Was able to allocate the space needed and now the install is finally working.

[quote]If youâ€™re using a USB stick that is exactly 8GB, the installer may complain about the default partition sizes being too small. Create a new partition table with these settings: 5500mb for root (/), 315mb for swap, and the remaining amount for home (/home). If youâ€™re using a USB stick larger than 8GB, you will not have to do this.[/quote]

Fingers crossed I get onto the Xubuntu desktop and from there I hope that ill finlay get the catalyst drivers installed using -

[code]sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates fglrx-amdcccle-updates fglrx-updates-dev
sudo aticonfig --lsa
sudo aticonfig --adapter=all --initial
sudo reboot[/code]

Then “Step 4: Install SSH, Curl, and package updates” I’m not sure if i will even need this but ill try it anyways.

So if this all works and I can installer cgminer, all i need to worry about then is configuring the miner. That I should be ok with.

This looks to be the most promising attempt yet.

I’ll keep ye posted.

edit

It finished and said it was gona reboot but it didnt see it as a bootable device.

Gona go have some christmas lunch with friends… I’ll have another crack at it later.

Yeah I ran through the installation again and the same thing. It says it installed fine and needed a reboot, but it simply doesn’t see the install as a bootable device. I’ve tried booting it with and without the original usb installer.

It just won’t look at the bootable device.

I think I’m doing this bit wrong.

[quote]Create a new partition table with these settings: 5500mb for root (/), 315mb for swap, and the remaining amount for home (/home). If youâ€™re using a USB stick larger than 8GB, you will not have to do this.[/quote]

I’m not sure what settings the partitions need to be.

ERMAGERD

So ive got smos running… I’m back inside BAMT but this time the gpu is all good. Looks like the miners are running and hashing at 450khash/s but when I check my pool, It’s not registering.

One step closer.

So it’s back to BAMT using smos. I just need to get it pointed to the stratum at nut2pools now I think… It’s been a long 36 hours but I think I’m almost there.

[i]edit[/i]

gpumon is showing that im accepting shares and i am hashing. I can even hear/see the gpu spin up.

Still figuring out where i need to drop in my cgminer stratum info / worker info.

O. M. G. I think im hashing… i thinkits alive… im gona let it run for about an hour and check to see if my shares are getting updated in the confirmed/unconfirmed section of nut2pools…

I’m not getting my hopes up… but i think its working!

[img]http://image.bayimg.com/3bc5175d59dbaacc31c8fb6b9f98c26e11394c16.jpg[/img]