litecoin Mining Rig

trekky · May 5, 2013

Specs
Evga x58 SLI LE
i7 E5520 Xeon
10gb ram (probly will lower)
Enermax Platimax 1350w PSU
Windows 7 x64 ultimate (had a extra key laying around)
im trying to get windows on a 64gb Flash drive but that or a 80gb hdd
GPUs so far
6950
6970
(planning on getting 3x 7950/70)

more pics coming soon! as im still working on it :thup:

ghost_recon88 · May 5, 2013

Litecoins the next bitcoin or something?

trekky · May 5, 2013

ya its the silver of bitcoins (bitcoins being gold)
when its done it should make $200+ month EDIT I mean $600+

Boulard83 · May 5, 2013

Why the riser ?
And how 10gb on an X58 ? Its a 3 chanel DDR3 board, should be divisible by 3.

trekky · May 5, 2013

Riser for the extra 2 slots for GPUz to mine!
going to have 5 gpus
also
2 4gb sticks and 1 2gb stick = 10gb

freeagent · May 5, 2013

Boulard83 said:
Why the riser ?
And how 10gb on an X58 ? Its a 3 chanel DDR3 board, should be divisible by 3.

You can run 5x2gb in tri-channel

Boulard83 · May 5, 2013

unmateched is not the best idea too but i dont think its revelant in that purpose.

Boulard83 · May 5, 2013

freeagent said:
You can run 5x2gb in tri-channel

this is not 3 channel anymore.

trekky · May 5, 2013

I may pull it down to 8gb to save Watts and underclock the CPU and disable HT

ChanceCoats123 · May 5, 2013

The ram performance is less important than the total ram capacity when mining LTC. And the reason for the risers is so that a) you can fit more cards on the board, and b) it keeps the cards cooler. This was my mining rig for BTC:

With that setup, I was able to put 5 cards on a 2 x16 bit motherboard, AND the cards had half an inch of air in between each other as opposed to no space at all. Kept all my cards under 65*C.

moho · May 5, 2013

nice, i hope to get something like this running once i get my hands on some risers

Boulard83 · May 5, 2013

I just hope you guyz dont pay for electricity

Even here in Quebec, we pay a very low price and it's not worth it to mine unles BTC or LTC price go up quite a bit.

xsuperbgx · May 5, 2013

Risers are cheap on eBay. It just takes a week or two sometimes.

moho · May 5, 2013

xsuperbgx said:
Risers are cheap on eBay. It just takes a week or two sometimes.

yeah, already ordered some, just waiting

trekky · May 5, 2013

Boulard83 said:
I just hope you guyz dont pay for electricity Even here in Quebec, we pay a very low price and it's not worth it to mine unles BTC or LTC price go up quite a bit.

my electricity would be $60 a month my profit (after electricity) is $610
so I make $670 LTC a month how do you lose money?

moho · May 5, 2013

trekky said:
my electricity would be $60 a month my profit (after electricity) is $610
so I make $670 LTC a month how do you lose money?

whats your current kh/mh/s?

Boulard83 · May 5, 2013

trekky said:
my electricity would be $60 a month my profit (after electricity) is $610
so I make $670 LTC a month how do you lose money?

Hope your calculation is right .... 5 7970/50 at 100% 24/7 is a HUGE amount of electricity. ( and heat )

trekky · May 5, 2013

well after I get my 3x 7950/70 I would make 2600Kh/s
and I have a 5870 and 7970 mining BTC (it used by ppl a lot so cant mining LTC)
and when im at work my 7970 mining LTC so add 600kh/s

yep I checked my math

ScrubyMcBubble · May 6, 2013

Forgive me for a noob question, but is there any performance loss by having more then 2 cards? (like instead of running x16 its running x8 or x4?)

trekky · May 6, 2013

I see no loss in mining on the PCIe x1 slot if that's what your asking

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