Here is the best mining hardware that every miner should have in this days, at least this is what i will choose
I have selected the best mining hardware such as best gpu for mining that have good mining hashrate and at the same time low watt consumption. This can be achieved only by modding the bios, changing the timings like 1500MHz clock speed is used at 1625, 1750 and 2000MHz and will result in higher transfer speed of data from and to the GPU. Check this tutorial for more details, that’s a great example, note that this is available for AMD RX GPU cards.. Nvidia GPUs run on stock BIOS!
I have also tried to select based on quality, performance and price the best motherboard for mining, best psu for mining, cpu, memory ram, ssd, usb risers, frame and few more useful stuff.
This is the best mining hardware configuration that can be used for a mining rig setup to mine the following coins / altcoins: Ethereum (ETH), Ethereum Classic (ETC), Monero (XMR), Ravencoin (RVN), Bitcoin Gold (BTG), Zclassic (ZCL), Nexus (NXS), Luxcoin (LUX), Purk, PascalCoin (PASC), Decred (DCR), Expanse (EXP), Lbry Credits (LBC), Siacoin (SC), Komodo (KMD), Ubiq (UBQ), Karbowanec (KRB), Bipcoin (BIP), Orbitco (ORB), Zencash (ZEN), Hush (HUSH). Algorithms like Ethash, Equihash, CryptoNight, CrypoNightV7, CryptoNight Heavy, Lyra2RECv2, NeoScrypt, Blake (14r), Pascal etc..
Let’s begin
Best Mining Hardware
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AMD Radeon RX series video cards are one of the best gpu for mining and most used to mine Ethereum, any coin that runs on Ethash algorithm (Ethereum Classic, Ubiq, Expanse, Pirl, Ellaism) and Monero or coins that runs on CryptoNight, CryptoNightV7 algorithms (Electroneum, DigitalNote, ByteCoin, Karbo).
Since with the new RX Vega 56 / 64 released things have changed a bit, everyone want to make a rig with those, those became fast one of the best gpu for mining Monero (CryptoNight, CryptoNightV7). RX Vegas costs twice than RX 580/570 but also the tripled hashrate makes the difference and pays for the price.
Mining Motherboards that can support up to 6, 8, 12 GPUs!
I have carefully selected ONLY the motherboards that i have sucessfully tested, below you can find the best motherboards for mining that i recommend and can run up to 6, 8 or 12 GPUs mining rigs!
H81 PRO R2.0GA H110-D3ABiostar TB250-BTCASUS PRIME Z270-AGigabyte GA-B250-FinTech
As best PSU for mining i have selected the ones from EVGA and Corsair (to be listed soon), i never had problems with them! Enough cables to power USB Risers and GPUs.
Best for 6x GPU mining rig EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G2 80+ GOLD 750W Power Supply
IMPORTANT: Buy two EVGA 750w G2 only if you are going to have 6 GPUs on your rig with! Use a dual psu adapter like this one: Add2PSU Multiple Power Supply Adapter
2x PSUs for 6x GPU mining rigs with GPUs like RX 580, RX 570, GTX 1060 or GTX 1070!
80 PLUS Gold certified, with up to 90% efficiency under typical loads
Fan Size / Bearing: 140mm Double Ball Bearing
Highest quality Japanese brand capacitors ensure long-term reliability
Heavy-duty protections, including OVP (Over Voltage Protection), UVP (Under Voltage Protection), OCP (Over Current Protection), OPP (Over Power Protection), and SCP (Short Circuit Protection)
Unbeatable 10 Year Warranty and unparalleled EVGA Customer Support
Superior vertical double layer main transformer increases power output
Quiet and Intelligent Auto Fan for near-silent operation
Best for 8x GPU mining rig EVGA SuperNOVA G3 850w 80 Plus Gold Power Supply
2x EVGA 850w PSUs for 8x GPU mining rigs like RX 580, RX 570, GTX 1060 or GTX 1070!
80 PLUS Gold certified, with up to 90% efficiency under typical loads
Fan Size / Bearing: 140mm Double Ball Bearing
Highest quality Japanese brand capacitors ensure long-term reliability
Heavy-duty protections, including OVP (Over Voltage Protection), UVP (Under Voltage Protection), OCP (Over Current Protection), OPP (Over Power Protection), and SCP (Short Circuit Protection)
Unbeatable 10 Year Warranty and unparalleled EVGA Customer Support
Superior vertical double layer main transformer increases power output
Quiet and Intelligent Auto Fan for near-silent operation
Best for 6x GTX 1080 Ti GPU mining rig EVGA SuperNOVA G3 850w 80 Plus Gold Power Supply
Like i said above, i strongly recommend 2x 1000w PSUs with GTX 1080 Ti Mining Rigs!
80 PLUS Gold certified, with up to 90% efficiency under typical loads
Fan Size / Bearing: 140mm Double Ball Bearing
Highest quality Japanese brand capacitors ensure long-term reliability
Heavy-duty protections, including OVP (Over Voltage Protection), UVP (Under Voltage Protection), OCP (Over Current Protection), OPP (Over Power Protection), and SCP (Short Circuit Protection)
Unbeatable 10 Year Warranty and unparalleled EVGA Customer Support
Superior vertical double layer main transformer increases power output
Quiet and Intelligent Auto Fan for near-silent operation
Best for 6x GPU mining rig EVGA SuperNOVA G2 1300w 80 Plus Gold Power Supply
I recommend this PSU only if your are going to have a 12 GPU Mining Rig, if not you can go with 2x 750w to spread the power
80 PLUS Gold certified, with up to 90% efficiency under typical loads
Fan Size / Bearing: 140mm Double Ball Bearing
Highest quality Japanese brand capacitors ensure long-term reliability
Heavy-duty protections, including OVP (Over Voltage Protection), UVP (Under Voltage Protection), OCP (Over Current Protection), OPP (Over Power Protection), and SCP (Short Circuit Protection)
Unbeatable 10 Year Warranty and unparalleled EVGA Customer Support
Superior vertical double layer main transformer increases power output
Quiet and Intelligent Auto Fan for near-silent operation
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6 High Quality Solid Capacitors for reliable and safe power delivery. Version 008S riser kits are the newest and top of the line solution for setting up GPU mining rigs. STABLE and SAFE: 4 Solid Capacitors deliver power to Graphics stably and safely.
60cm USB 3.0 extender cable enabling flexibility in the placement of your PCI-E devices
REDUCE MOTHERBOARD BURDEN: 4PIN, SATA and Graphic card 6PIN interface are optional to power, which provides Graphic card independent power and reduces motherboard burden when using more Graphic cards. WIDELY APPLICABLE: Suitable for all Window systems, LINUX and MAC.
FRAME
As for the frame ill recommend to do it yourself, is not that hard. If you find the right materials and tools then you will not around 1-2 hours to build it and will const you around $50-$80. Check this tutorial!
But if you don’t want to build one, here are some ready made mining rig frames!
1stMiningRig Frame6x GPU Mining Server Case
Support the blog by purchasing this mining rig open air frame case v4.0 *UPDATED*
This smart plug is great because you can monitor energy usage (just like a regular energy meter) of your mining rig, and not only, if the miner gets stuck it can be restarted remotely via mobile app.
Monitor energy usage of any device plugged into the HS110 right from your phone
Turn electronics on or off from anywhere with your tablet or smartphone using the free Kasa app (Compatible w/ Android 4.1 or higher & iOS8 or higher)
Includes both ArctiClean 1 (30ml) and ArctiClean 2 (30ml)
Easy to use and install. Just plug a device into the Smart Plug and connect to your Wi-Fi network
Storage Interface:6 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors, Support for SATA RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5,RAID 10 and JBOD, 2 x eSATA 6Gb/s Support for RAID 0 and RAID 1
Expansion Slots: 2 x PCI Express x16 slot running at x16 ,1x PCI Express x4 slots, 2 x PCI Express x1 slot, 1x PCI slots
Memory: 4 x 1.5V DDR3 DIMM sockets supporting up to 32 GB of system memory.Support for DDR3 2000(O.C.)/1866/1600/1333/1066 MHz memory modules.* To support a DDR3 1866 MHz (and above) memory, you must install an AM3+ CPU first
CPU: AM3+/AM3/AMD Athlon II Chipsets: AMD 990FX/AMD SB950
Compatible with Z87 and Z97 motherboards. Z87 motherboard users may need to apply a BIOS update for compatibility. Not compatible with Intel Motherboards.
Here are some results of mining hashrate per 1 Sapphire Nitro+ RX 470 4gb OC GPU (modded, overclocked) , note that i did not spent more then 2-3 minutes with each miner, so there may be better hashrate results.
If you get better performance, let me know so i can update.
ETH & ETCZEC & ZCLXMRPASCEXPDCRLBCUBQSIAKMD
Ethereum
Stock: 22.xx Mh/s
Modded BIOS & Overclock: 29.xx Mh/s
Ethereum Classic
Stock 22.xx Mh/s
Modded, Overclock, Undervolt 29.xx Mh/s
ZCash
Stock: 270 H/s
Modded: 330 H/s
Zclassic
Stock: 270 H/s
Modded: 330 H/s
Monero
Stock 630+ h/s
Modded 750 h/s
PascalCoin
Stock 550 Mh/s
mod 630 Mh/s
Expanse
Stock 22.xx
Mod 29.xx
Decred
Modded: 1,150 Mh/s
Lbry Credits
Modded 90 Mh/s
Ubiq
Modded: 26.xx Mh/s
Siacoin
1,000+ Mh/s
Komodo
Modded 280 H/s
The costs
Total costs (on amazon) is around $3,000 – $4,000, depending on what GPUs, for instante a GTX 1080 Ti Mining Rig can cost up to $9,000. The best price that you can get for a full rig is around $3,500 with RX 580 8GB , if you are going to build the frame then the costs will reduce a bit. If you are from USA/CA, then you are lucky, i think there are the best sales and prices.
Costs updated on April, 30 2018 for one mining rig with 6x Sapphire Nitro+ RX 580 8GB GPUs!
US/CA: $3,500 (1151)
EU: $3,300 (1151)
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