This guide will demonstrate to you generally accepted methods to assemble an Ethereum Mining rig yourself which has two fundamental advances - picking and sourcing your hardware and after that assembling it! Contingent upon times its most likely going to take you a week or so to get every one of the pieces and afterward another a large portion of a day fiddling with designs and so on. Its the same as building your own PC regularly yet with a couple of additional contemplations that essentially include which GPU's you pick.
In the event that you would prefer not to purchase mining hardware, You can likewise take a stab at purchasing a cloud mining contract with Hashflare or Genesis Mining.
Sourcing your Equipment
Your going to have to get hold of a fair few components and the costs stack up quite quickly:
1) A MotherBoard - A motherboard is the brain of the computer and is what you build everything onto - the base of your mining rig. The main feature you are looking for in a motherboard is the number of GPU slots it has as this will determine how many graphics cards or GPU's it can fit - and in the end your total hashing power. 3 PCI Express slots will mean you can fit 3 x Radeon HD 7950 with a hashrate of 20 MH/s each - or a total hashing power of 60 MH/s. A PCI Express slot is a connection port on the motherboard and looks like the picture below - they are often coloured white but can be beige - you can get other types of slots but most GPU's work on a PCI express. We used the GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 which you can get here!
2) Graphics Card - Pick your GPUs! Some graphics cards cost a fortune but don't hash much whilst some are more reasonable but use more power. Ultimately its a balance between how powerful you want your rig to be and how much you want to spend - but a word to the wise - make sure you pick an efficient GPU. You can buy second hand GPU's from reputable providers such as GPU Shack - be careful though when you buy them off a street corner as often they have problems that you won't see until you get the card home and plugged in. We have a list of GPU's here that you can sort through and work out what fits your budget.
Another issue you can have with your graphics cards and your motherboard is that they just won't all fit in together nicely because of the spacing on the motherboard between the PCI Express slots. Fear not - you can use a GPU riser that is basically an extension cable for a PCI Express slot. Some graphics cards are really quite bulky so be careful when you are making your selection. You can get a riser here.
3) Hard Drive - You need a hard drive to store your operating system and your software for mining. A standard SSD drive will do (an SSD hard drive is just a storage device and is called solid state as there aren't moving bits which can break). The size will depend on what you are planning to do when mining. If you are planning to download the entire blockchain and mine as shown in this guide here - then you will need to take into account how big the blockchain will become and need to spend a little more. If you are just going to mine ethereum as part of a pool then you don't need to store the blockchain and can get a smaller SSD drive. We used the SSDNow V300 120GB. Buy it here.
4) RAM - or Random Access Memory - this is a basic component in any computer is basically a scratchpad for jotting down calculations and recalling information quickly in a computer. 4GB should do the job. You can get some here.
5) A PSU or Power Supply Unit - Power supply units come in many sizes and this can trip some people up when they are looking at calculating what size they need. You need to sum up the power consumption of your GPU and all the other components and make sure your power supply has the capability to supply more! So if you have two GPU's that consumes 220 Watts and other components that need 250 Watts then you can get away with a 750 Watt power supply unit as the total power needed is only 690Watts. If you are building a "mega rig" which has 6 GPU's you might find it more cost effective to have two separate power supplies because at 750 Watts and $100 each rather than a 1500 W and $300 dollars!We got a Seasonic 1200 Watt which you can buy here.
6) A Case - Again this can be quite a difficult choice to make as it will depend on your GPU's and whether you are using GPU risers. You don't want components sitting on top of each other as there is a fire hazard potentially. You can leave the whole system open air or even build your own case to give it that personalised touch. You can buy off the shelf rigs from a couple of providers - for example SW mining here have their own set of rigs that take up to a week to ship. They do all the hard work for you.
Alternatively you can source some of you components from gpuShack, on our second mining rig we are using the MOBO/CPU/RAM/SSD Bundle for 5 GPUs. Remember to use the promo code CRYPTOCOMPARE gets 5% discount off your purchase.
Putting it together
As specified ensure your energy supply unit can deal with the Graphics cards and that you have risers fit for setting additional GPU's in a protected area. Ensure every one of the associations are in pleasantly and everything is held together immovably.
A word on situating. GPU's can get hot - particularly on the off chance that you overclock them so make certain to get the best value for your money - and to be protected to put your apparatus in an all around ventilated territory so it doesn't overheat.
When it switches on you have to ensure all the product is there for you to make them mine!
Software for your Rig
The primary thing you have to do is introduce a working framework on your PC. For the all the more actually disapproved there is linux Ubuntu yet for the larger part Windows is presumably best as it robotizes introducing drivers for your PC to talk accurately among every one of the segments. The upside of Ubuntu is it gives you more alternatives and its free!
You can donwload EthOs which is a particularly outlined APP for Ethereum Mining - you can read more about this here however its an awesome method for having a bespoke digging framework for your apparatuses and GPU's to oversee them!
When you have introduced the working framework there are two ways you can mine:
Solo Mining - Solo mining implies its you against the rest. In the event that your hash is right you win the square reward. Yet, with an apparatus of 60 MH/s and a system hashing energy of 1.2 GH you wouldn't get ether all the time. The other issue is you need to download the blockchain for yourself. See our guide here on the most proficient method to solo mine ethereum.
Pool Mining - This is the place you collaborate with different excavators to decrease the instability of your profits. This implies whether you get 5 ethere each 5 days or 1 ether consistently. The benefit of this is you get a persistent stream of ether and you don't need to download the whole blockchain. Look at our guide on the most proficient method to mine ethereum as a feature of a pool here.
On the off chance that there are any inquiries on the most proficient method to get your apparatus up and running - or any piece of the procedure - simply drop us a line at the base of the article - our inhabitant mining master will enable you to out. You can likewise post in our Ether Forum and one of our group ought to have the capacity to enable you to out! Additionally in the event that we have something incorrectly or it can be clarified better let us know!
