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However recently a few things changed; first, with Ethereum entering the scene it became a profitable endeavor with a ROI that would exceed the initial investment in less than a year. So after running all the numbers to make sure it was profitable, and testing it out on genesis-mining. Really in many ways it is a win-win proposition. Like so many other things I get into I had to take my endeavor to the extreme. I wanted the best, most profitable, mining rig I could build; something that would be equally powerful for my professional endeavors as well.
Of course I also needed to figure out how to accommodate four double-wide graphics cards on any normal motherboard. I spent about 2 days surfing NewEgg. Added some velcro to secure that 4th card.
Looks much better now and is a bit safer than before. With current network parameters; that means I mine about one block each day at about 5 ETH per block. It took me about 2 days to fully assemble the box and get it to the point where it was mining Ethereum.
In the end I gave up and moved to Ubuntu. Once Ubuntu was freshly installed on the system I just had to add a few repositories and install a few packages. I found a tutorial which described the process pretty accurately. After racking my head for hours I found that if i ran it with the ethmine command instead it ran successfully.
Here are the commands I ran to get the miner going. Never content to just leave things as they are, I wanted to try to find ways to tweak the settings to boost performance slightly. Two settings in particular struck me as useful, as they effected how much work is sent to the GPU at one time. These were --cl-local-work and --cl-global-work. Knowing I had a top of the line GPU I figured boosting these values a bit might increase performance.
Indeed they did, but I had to play with a lot of different numbers to get the benchmarks to max out. I tried enabling the CPU too with --enable-opencl-cpu however that produced a segfault. So I left it out. With an ROI that pays for itself in under a year, and the future usefulness of such a rig, it is really a no brainer for me to have set this up. It was also a lot of fun, and profitable. Though I think a cost-analysis might be useful to compare different rigs and hash rates to ultimately figure out what is the cheapest rig for the output it produces.
I advice upgrading to something with a bit more power, next model up should do it. I will add names and pictures here. The following is from Rolf Versluis rolfv prioritycue. The specifications are as follows: Roadblocks It took me about 2 days to fully assemble the box and get it to the point where it was mining Ethereum. Conclusions With an ROI that pays for itself in under a year, and the future usefulness of such a rig, it is really a no brainer for me to have set this up.
I hope that helps you guys in setting up your own mining rigs, happy mining! Updates turns out the power supply is under-powered for the system.