02-19-2019, 05:43 PM
(02-19-2019, 05:29 PM)royce Wrote: I hadn't seen that case before - interesting form factor. If you intend to run long jobs, make sure that your cooling of the room itself is adequate.
I haven't done the math, but 2x1600 PSUs seems a little high for 8x 1080s. But it might be buying you some future-proofing (if you upgrade the cards someday), so that may be fine.
What will be using to connect the cards to the board? I haven't looked around for M.2 risers.
Eventually, most crackers get to the point where they wish they had more RAM (for sorting large wordlists). I try to max out the RAM.
Yeah, the portability with the handles is what I like most. The rig will be in my office most of the time, but it can get hot in here so being able to just move it downstairs is a huge plus for me. Network connectivity will be by a USB wireless card. Two 1600 PSUs is probably overkill but like you said, it does add some future-proofing and a decent buffer.
I haven't looked at M.2 to PCIe risers either, but that's the goal is to have risers for all the onboard PCIe slots, then M.2. to PCIe adapters for the two M.2. slots on that motherboard. I'll do some more research but I've read miners often do that since finding a mobo with 8 PCIe slots is a bit rare.
Good call on the RAM, I'll probably push it to 64 GB then.