Cryptocurrencies cause a real excitement and not at all surprisingly, if you also wanted to try yourself in this area. Properly debugged mining works almost without your intervention, you will only need timely service and repair. As you already understood, you will need at least small knowledge in the field of components.
Mining on a video card or processor
In principle there are two types of mining:
- On processor performance;
- And on the performance of the video card.
As you can immediately understand, the mining on the processor resources is quite uncomfortable, since several processors you cannot connect to one system unit, but a lot of video cards are easy. Therefore, the first thing you need to decide on the view of the video card for mining.
At the time of 2017, one of the best-selling video cards is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080, since it is precisely the rest reliable and produced. Radeon video cards are not recommended, since in the process of mining you may encounter a number of problems.
Another type of video cards is "asic" or ASIC. This is a special scheme that is created only for mining, it will not be able to replace your video card, but at times more productive GTX 1080. Of course, the price of ASIC is also higher. Comparison you will find in the article Mining farm do it yourself
Cooling system
When several video cards or ASIC systems work at once, you can feel warm from them even without coming too close. Overheating of components should be avoided by all means: you will need a good cooling system.
Usually, for this buy coolers with fast rotation of the screw. For one video card must be at least one cooler, or even two. The thing is that during the mining, the performance of the video card rises to the maximum, and its heating is growing rapidly.
Many experienced miners prefer to buy large coolers and put them between video cards, so you can reduce the number of cooling systems.
Shelf for farm
When you have more than one video card for mining, it can already be called a conditional farm for mining. Such farms are achieved in the size of the whole hangars for aircraft.
In order not to expose the video card with mechanical intervention, you need to build special shelves for them, where not only maps, but also wires, cooling system will be placed.
As a rule, miners are mastered such shelves with their own hands to take into account all the needs of their farms, but you can search the shelves on the trading platforms on the Internet or re-equip any old tables.
Calculate payback
The first thing you need to estimate is: when your equipment and costs come out in zero. To do this, calculate the power consumption of your farm, find out how much you have to pay for electricity.
After that, add the cost of video cards and cooling systems. This amount you need to recoup as quickly as possible. If the payback comes out for more than a year, then such a farm is not particularly profitable.
For the calculation, it is better to take the course today, taking into account jumps for the month.
Is mining now relevant?
When mining overwhelmed the whole world, its relevance was not as high - mining is becoming more slower. If you have enough knowledge and time, it is better to look for new currencies, which are just starting their dawn, as Bitcoin becomes already difficult to achievable for home farms and small miners.
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