Show Us Your Rig [6]

[Contrabardus]

Nice rig Contrabardus. That's a massive case and crazy graphics power. You could mine a few bitcoins with 3 x 6gb 7970's! Also makes an excellent room heater.....lol.

I've heard that mining is a bad idea on multi-gpu systems. It creates massive amounts of heat and would melt my PC pretty quickly. Otherwise I might consider it.

 

[ganjiry]

@ Steve, the rig looks very nice. I love the lighting around the CPU block and you did a very tidy job all round. How are your temps so far with the beast?

@ Alan, I have been following your build over the last week or so and it has turned out very nice, it looks like a real cool little build with a lot of power and some nice little touches . Nice work bud

Seems there has been a lot of building going on recently. I myself was doing a build all day yesterday for Jess' Dad, it all went pretty well and was fully up and running with all drivers and updates on by 9PM yesterday.
Specs below, I only managed to take a couple of really bad pics as it was very dark and I was tired, but you get the idea.

Switch 810 Gunmetal
i7 4770K
Maximus VI Hero
MSI GTX 780 Gaming OC
250GB Samsung EVO
8GB Corsair Vengeance Pro Series 2133MHz
Corsair H100i Water cooler
XFX Pro Series 850W PSU
Cooler Master Quickfire Pro Mechanical Keyboard.
And the monitor - Asus VX279Q AH-IPS 27" LED Frameless Monitor with DP/HDMI/MHL & Speakers 5ms - Scan.co.uk

Good job mate, it's a proper nice build
The Switch 810 is really tall isn't it and makes the Hero look loads smaller Good choice on the gpu, they're super quiet and my fav part of my build as I can do anything quietly now

 

[Britton30]

Nice one Paul, it looks very good, as always.

 

[Dude]

Very nice looking builds guys

 

[linnemeyerhere]

For what it's worth AMD gpu's are the defacto processor of choice for just purpose. NewEgg has several multiple GPU mining kits out, some with 6 of the 7970's. I've just heard that the power to effectively mine comes at a cost at least as much as the coin.

Nice rig Contrabardus. That's a massive case and crazy graphics power. You could mine a few bitcoins with 3 x 6gb 7970's! Also makes an excellent room heater.....lol.

I've heard that mining is a bad idea on multi-gpu systems. It creates massive amounts of heat and would melt my PC pretty quickly. Otherwise I might consider it.

 

[N00berG00ber]

i want to try my hand at mining. my 280x is the 2nd best gpu on the market rite now besides ASIC stuff.

 

[Britton30]

I must be out of the loop, what is "mining" you speak of?
(Alan you double posted)

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I must be out of the loop, what is "mining" you speak of?
(Alan you double posted)

Bitcoin mining.

 

[Dude]

Mining

 

[Britton30]

Ah, OK, I found this link in Wikipedia that makes more sense to me.
ELI5: bitcoin mining (xpost in ELI5) : Bitcoin
Also I think can be called "Exercise in Futility".

 

[linnemeyerhere]

Or one could say an effort into the future? Don't discount the power of the coin it's just the cost of energy outweights the average Joe from making a real go of this unless the parents don't question the sharp rise in the electric bill? lol

Ah, OK, I found this link in Wikipedia that makes more sense to me.
ELI5: bitcoin mining (xpost in ELI5) : Bitcoin
Also I think can be called "Exercise in Futility".

 

[Britton30]

Sorry to pull more OT, how much is a bitcoin worth, the value of the bytes it's printed on? $0.000000000000001

 

[Contrabardus]

Sorry to pull more OT, how much is a bitcoin worth, the value of the bytes it's printed on? $0.000000000000001

One bitcoin is worth around $833 US currently. Prices rise and fall just like any other market though.

You get them in blocks of 50 if solo mining, but one block of fifty can take years to mine for someone doing it on their own. Sometimes they can be found sooner and a person might get two or three in a year and then not see any more for a couple of years or longer. Some people might spend five years mining and get nothing.

So that's $41650 for potentially 2-3 years of work and huge electric bills. Somewhere around $13,000 a year before expenses.

You can join pools and split the take while getting more frequent payouts. You're still going to be running your cards really hard, payouts tend to come in percentages of bitcoins, still take long periods of time to mine, generating a lot of heat, and end up with huge power bills even doing things that way though.

I have heard there is often a profit in mining by pooling. Not a huge one, but it does work out to a net gain a lot of the time. Breaking even is pretty common with this method as well. Losing money isn't common, but it does happen.

Still, your PC isn't going to be useful for much of anything else while mining, you've got to do it for long periods of time, it takes several hours to set up, and requires constant monitoring. Bitcoin mining is pretty much a full time job.

You can also just buy them, and as I understand it that's the smartest way to get into them right now as the price has been steadily climbing recently. It'll probably take a while to pan out if you do, but a lot of analysts are calling it a relatively low risk investment with promising potential returns and a good chance to break even at worst.

The whole thing could collapse and you could end up losing money of course, but the same can be said of any investment market. I wouldn't recommend unloading a huge percentage of your funds into it, but it's a good way to diversify an investment portfolio.

 

[N00berG00ber]

Sorry to pull more OT, how much is a bitcoin worth, the value of the bytes it's printed on? $0.000000000000001

One bitcoin is worth around $833 US currently. Prices rise and fall just like any other market though.

You get them in blocks of 50 if solo mining, but one block of fifty can take years to mine for someone doing it on their own. Sometimes they can be found sooner and a person might get two or three in a year and then not see any more for a couple of years or longer. Some people might spend five years mining and get nothing.

So that's $41650 for potentially 2-3 years of work and huge electric bills. Somewhere around $13,000 a year before expenses.

You can join pools and split the take while getting more frequent payouts. You're still going to be running your cards really hard, payouts tend to come in percentages of bitcoins, still take long periods of time to mine, generating a lot of heat, and end up with huge power bills even doing things that way though.

I have heard there is often a profit in mining by pooling. Not a huge one, but it does work out to a net gain a lot of the time. Breaking even is pretty common with this method as well. Losing money isn't common, but it does happen.

Still, your PC isn't going to be useful for much of anything else while mining, you've got to do it for long periods of time, it takes several hours to set up, and requires constant monitoring. Bitcoin mining is pretty much a full time job.

You can also just buy them, and as I understand it that's the smartest way to get into them right now as the price has been steadily climbing recently. It'll probably take a while to pan out if you do, but a lot of analysts are calling it a relatively low risk investment with promising potential returns and a good chance to break even at worst.

The whole thing could collapse and you could end up losing money of course, but the same can be said of any investment market. I wouldn't recommend unloading a huge percentage of your funds into it, but it's a good way to diversify an investment portfolio.

there is also litecoin mining which is easier then bitcoin

 

[Indianatone]

Just wanted to say all you guys and gals have great rigs and give ideas and help to everyone else. It is not a case of keeping up with the Joneses but some of these rigs have had a bunch of expensive parts fitted and no end of labour spent getting it all right and just as it should be. Good job everyone. It is also inspiring but having recently spent $1500 on upgrades for 2 of my PC's and the wife's computer rebuild I am done for now. Keep up the good work. I really like this forum, no one runs anyone else's rig down saying you have an AMD or Intel or NVidia etc and mine is faster than your rig. Seven forums is a good place to be. Once again thank you everyone. Tony.

 

[Britton30]

We are glad to have you here to Tony, thanks for the kind words. Those attributes is what kept me hangin' on.
Only $1500 to upgrade 3 machines, that's good economics mate.

 

[linnemeyerhere]

Likewise Tony we're just here for the beer.......oh I mean the learning and pictures.

 

[sygnus21]

no one runs anyone else's rig down saying you have an AMD or Intel or NVidia etc and mine is faster than your rig. Seven forums is a good place to be. Once again thank you everyone. Tony.

Nah man, this is about showing off your rig, work, and art, not necessarily the financial or performance factor.

Whether it's top of the line or budget, if it looks great, we appreciate it.

And yes, trying to keep up with the Joneses will break you

 

[essenbe]

Personally, I don't believe it is possible to 'keep up with the Jonses'. I don't care how much you spend on a computer, whether it is $1500 or $15,000, I will promise you, there is someone with a better, faster, nicer looking computer than you have. So, the real thing here is about the illness. Most of us have a severe case of a terminal illness which I know of no cure for. It's a compulsion to keep buying parts so you don't go into DT's or having convulsions. It is also highly contagious for those of you who don't have the illness but hang around us that do. Ask Juan. He was not very long ago, perfectly normal until he started hanging out with us. Within a few short months, he was starting a business of building some extremely expensive and fantastic looking computers. I'm sure he would tell you, he couldn't stop if he wanted to. But,in all fairness, we warned him before he started hanging out with us.

 

[ganjiry]

Personally, I don't believe it is possible to 'keep up with the Jonses'. I don't care how much you spend on a computer, whether it is $1500 or $15,000, I will promise you, there is someone with a better, faster, nicer looking computer than you have. So, the real thing here is about the illness. Most of us have a severe case of a terminal illness which I know of no cure for. It's a compulsion to keep buying parts so you don't go into DT's or having convulsions. It is also highly contagious for those of you who don't have the illness but hang around us that do. Ask Juan. He was not very long ago, perfectly normal until he started hanging out with us. Within a few short months, he was starting a business of building some extremely expensive and fantastic looking computers. I'm sure he would tell you, he couldn't stop if he wanted to. But,in all fairness, we warned him before he started hanging out with us.

:roflmao: It's a very slippery slope once you start but if you have an itch it must be scratched