#Best zcash miner gpus how to#
#Best zcash miner gpus install#
#Best zcash miner gpus Pc#
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Don’t add any more graphics cards until you get at least one working. If it doesn’t boot, this is the time to do basic troubleshooting.

Press the ATX power button, or short the power button header pins with a screwdriver.

Plug the power cord into the power supply, turn on the power switch.

Attach a keyboard to the motherboard and HDMI monitor to the GPU card.

Put a GPU into the PCI-E riser card, screw it into the case, and attach a PCI-E power cable to it.

Screw in one of the PCI-E Riser cards in the second slot (right above the CPU fan), plug it into the second PCI-E slot on the motherboard closest to the processor, and plug in power from the power supply.

Attach power cables from the power supply to the Motherboard, CPU power, SSD.

Attach the power supply to the right side of the case.

Put the motherboard in the case and screw it in with the smaller screws.

Plug the SATA cable into the motherboard.

Optional – attach the ATX power switches and LED’s to the power header.

Put the CPU, CPU fan, and memory on the motherboard.

#Best zcash miner gpus install#

The idea is to get a basic computer built, troubleshoot any potential issues, install the operating system and application, then build the rest of the machine. Here’s some basic instructions for the most efficient order of operations when building the machine. Total Cost for Bill of Materials: ~$3500 Build Instructions Risers and GPU’s to case – Maxmoral 200pcs Toothed Hex 6/32 SCREW 6 – 32 Computer – qty 200.

#Best zcash miner gpus Pc#

Motherboard to case – PC Mounting Computer Screws M3 x 1/4-Inches Long – qty 50.

GPU – ASUS GeForce GTX 1070 8GB ROG STRIX OC Edition.

Risers – ITHOO USB3.0 PCI EXPRESS 1X TO 16X EXTENDER RISER CARD ADAPTER W/ 24″ CABLE from parallel miner – Qty 6.

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Power Supply – Corsair HX1200 1200W 80 Plus Platinum.

Case – ParallelMiner BAREBONE – ALL ALUMINIUM 6.1 GPU OPEN AIR MINING CASE – $220.

SSD – EthosDistro 16GB with operating system and application pre-installed.

Memory – 4GB Single DDR4 DIMM 288-Pin Memory.

Processor – Intel Celeron Kaby Lake 2.9GHz LGA 1151 processor.

Motherboard – Biostar Motherboard TB250-BTC.

Buy from wherever you can get the best deal! Bill of MaterialsĮquipment list – Links are to Amazon or Parallel Mining product page.

#Best zcash miner gpus how to#

This is a list of what to buy and how to set it up to get you mining quickly. This has happened in the past, and will happen in the future.Īnyway, to make a long story short, Nvidia GTX 1060, 1070, and 1080 GPU’s are good for mining ZEC and ZEN, and since I believe both project have good long-term prospects, I figured I needed to be making some Nvidia based GPU miners. And as long as the cryptocurrency has good prospects, if you hold it for a long time it might go up in value 5x, 10x, or even 100x. By holding then converting a portion of your mined crypto’s to Bitcoin or Ethereum when the price doubles, you improve your mining profitability substantially. The smaller crypto’s are volatile, and as long as they have a good team developing and improving them, they will go up in price over time. I also run masternodes and stake different cryptocurrencies to participate in other crypto generating activities.Īlthough the leaders in the cryptocurrency mining space are BTC, ETH, LTC, DASH, ZEC, and XMR, there are benefits to mining lesser known cryptocurrencies, if you are able to hold them for a while.

For example, in the past few months I have mined BTC, DGB, BCH, ETC, EXP, ETH, UBQ, ZEN, ZEC, LTC, MUE, DASH, and others. If you watch my latest youtube video, CryptoCurrency Mining Strategies and What I am Mining Sept 2017 (below), you will see that I advocate mining with many different types of miners, and mining many different types of cryptocurrencies, all at the same time. Nvidia GPU’s are the opposite – they do better on Equihash and are decent with Ethereum. I believe AMD GPU’s are still a little overpriced and hard to buy, so I decided to build six Nvidia GPU based mining rigs.ĪMD RX 480 and 580 GPU’s work really well on Ethash mining algorithms, and do a decent job on Equihash. GPU pricing got a little crazy this year for a few months, and I took a break from building new GPU mining rigs because they were too expensive.