How To Build A BURST Mining Rig
I'm going to build a 80TB mining rig, in the future it will be 180TB. I was trying to build this rig as economical as possible, but still have a good amount of power. Although the parts will be used or refurbished, they still have a lot of life in them, and if something dies it can be cheaply replaced. Except for the hard drives they will be new, at a minimum the drives may be manufactured refurbished.Down below you can see the specs. MoterBoard: $100 • Manufacturer: SuperMicro • Model: X8DTL-3F Rev 2.01 • Dual Socket: LGA-1366 • Chipset: X58 RAM: 120$ • Capacity: 48GB • Type: 6x8GB 1333Mhzz DDR3 ECC Registered DIMM ( 16GB chips are $200USD each, thats why I went to 8GB per chip. $1,200USD for ram is insane!
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I think 48GB is good enough. ) CPUs: 30$ • Manufacturer: Intel • Model: x2 Xeon X5570 • Cores: 4 • Threads: 8 • Base Frequency: 2.93GHz • Turbo Frequency: 3.33GHz • Cache: 8MB GPUs: $100 • GPU 1: Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 • VRam: 2GB, DDR5 • Core: 960 • TFlops: 2.008 • GPU 2: Nvidia Tesla M2050 • VRam: 3GB, DDR5 • Core: 448 • TFlops: 1.03 PSU: $110 • Out Put: 1200Watts HDDs: $ 2,300 - $4,700 • Size: 8TB ( Total 80TB, goal 160TB ) Cable, Case, CPU Cooler, and etc: $250 Grand total about: $3,000 - $5,500 ( Most of the pricing was based from eBay ) I am trying to save for this in Burst. I have 14 TB now, and 90% of my mining is sent to this project, the other 10% of my mining is sent to the v2Pool asset. The revenue from the v2Pool asset is helping support this project.
All you have to do to support this project is buy some shares of v2Pool from the asset issuer, it is 5 Burst per share. The asset dividends are currently based from the pool's fee at pool.burstcoin.ml and as I have mentioned 10% of my mining.
In the future the dividends for v2Pool will be paid from the pool's fee, plus 10% of the mining from this rig, and from my 14TB. When I get this rig built I'm going to make another asset, that will buy 80 more TB. The second asset will have a total of 1M shares at 4 Burst per share. The dividends for the asset will be paid from 50% of this rig mining. The rest of the 40% of mining will be sent to pay for the power costs of mining and running the pool's severs. The pool is currently using ~440 KWh a month @ $0.10. The operating system I will be using is Ubuntu Linux, I will be splitting the drives across both GPUs to improve mining speed.
When we get this rig done it will have a total of 160TB! Asset The asset is based on 0.70% of the pool's fee and 10% of my mining, payed monthly. Buy from Asset Issuer to help support this project. Asste ID: Asset Name: v2Pool Escrow Account: ( Burst will be held for 12 Months, by haitch ) Checklist • MotherBoard: N/A • CPUs: ✔ • GPUs: ✔ • RAM: N/A • HDDs: N/A • PSU: N/A • CPU Cooler: N/A • Cable: N/A • Case: N/A.
The project Create a small mining rig for burst. The goal was to be very 'green' because Burst is supposed to be a green coin. Also I wanted it to be 100% silent. The PC As this is my first attempt, I went for a cheap barebone fanless pc: Hystou with celeron (2 cores) ->140$ Advantage: • cheap • 0 noise • screw to fix it easily • 4x USB 3 ports • 4x USB 2 ports Disadvantage: • slow • only 2 cores Hard drives (to start. Maybe more to come) Bought 3 x 5TO external usb drives portable (110$ each): Why external portable usb drive? • no need external power supply (usb powered) • cheap • easy to resell or reuse later Disadvantage: • veryyyyyy long to plot directly The frame Then I build a very simple wood frame. This could be far better but I am not a woodworker expert at all: I made it so that pc and hard drives have space all around to cool.
Becoming A DigiByte DGB Miner. Final result Notice the gap under the pc, to optimize cooling (cooling it done passively through the case) The result is 100% silent (except hard drive, but you really need to have your ear very close to hear them). For the moment I plugged 2 x 5 TO + 1 x 1TB hard drive. At the moment it's already mining 7 TB of burt and some storj easily. I will publish the mining result in a few weeks, when I have more data to share.
Conclusion Very happy so far. Still need to plot more drives to see the max capacity it can scan. Also I am already planning some improvement for the next version (more cpu cores, better frame etc.). If you have questions / suggestions feel free to comment.
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