Monday, September 19, 2016

How to Build 186.6 MH/S 970 Watt power Ethereum , Monero , ETC , EXP , LBRY mining rig

At This Post we will Show you how to build A Cryptocurrency Mining Rig that have a Hash rate speed 186.6 MH/S for Ethereum (ETH) , Ethereum Classic (ETC) , Ethereum Expanse , ( EXP) , LBRY , and alternative speed of Monero (XMR)  4500 H/S , And only uses Power consumption  around 970 Watt 
No need for Advanced Cooling systems , Just a room with Temperature 25 ~ 28 Celsius and a silent fan speed of Graphic cards 75~ 77 % this will make less than 45 db noise 

The Estimated Profits of this mining rigs for Ethereum coins is around ( 220 ~ 350 $ )per month or ( 8 ~ 12$ )  per day Without calculating the power usage fees , it depend on electricity rates  from place to another .

To build this mining rig we need a computer Hardware that will cost from 2300 to 2500 $ depend on the prices you'll find

let's Start with the Rig requirements : 




Hardware needed : 


1 - Motherboard with 6 PCIe Slots , Most used is ASROCK  Pro BTC H81 , another one same 6 slots  is ASROCK H97 Anniversary 
or Pick one from this list 

2 - Any cheap processor to fit Motherboard socket LGA 1150 , Lets say Intel Celeron G1840 Processor .

3 - 8 GB DDR3 RAM kit fit with MB like Ballistix Sport 8GB Kit 

4 - SSD 60 to 120 GB hard drive  like Kingston Digital 120 GB 

5 - 1200 Watt Gold Rated Power Supply  to power the 6 GPU cards , best match of this and it come with full cables kit is Evga SuperNOVA 1200 P2 

6 - PCI-E 16X to 1X Adapter with minimum Length of 50 cm to allow more space for Graphic Cards land Must have Molex power connector  like this x1 to x16 Riser 

7 - PCI-E 16X to 16X Riser for the x16 slot

8 - Power Button to power up the system 

9 - AMD Radeon Rx 480 or 470 Graphic GPU cards 6 or 8 units From this list 

10 - Optional open Air frame you can make it by yourself using any cheap plastic or wood components or buy it ready like this 

Software Needed  :

1 - windows 10 pro 64 bit to be installed on the SSD drive 
2 - AMD Crimson 16.8.2 or 16.9.2 Driver for the Graphic cards  , Download Win 10 pro 64 bit version 
3 - Mining  Software , the best one that run 6 cards together and allow to control each card alone is Claymore's Dual Ethereum+Decred_Siacoin AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v6.4 or higher version from this link 


How to Start : 

After setting your Hardware together and Setup Win 10 pro 64 bit and install MB software , AMD crimson 16.8.2 software , Downloaded the Claymore Claymore's Dual miner last version . 

Now you need to Start configuring the Rx 480 GPU roms

First connect your screen to you Motherboard VGA not the card HDMI output

Then you need to Modify each card alone on the X16 PCIe Slot once card by one , and after finish flashing all cards connect the 6 cards to the risers

( Backup your Original Bios card through ATIFlash, run the ATIFlash as administrator u will find a SAVE button press on it and choose Save to file ) 

 flash the bios through this steps :

1 - go to your system drive C:\ 
2 - create a folder name winflash .
3 - Download ATIFlash 2.74 form this link .
4 - Extract the ATIFlash compressed files to C:\winflash .
5 - Download the the bios.rom for reference card sapphire Rx 480 8gb  from this link and Must copy it to C:\winflash  with ATIFlash files  , Dont flash this bios to any card else just search for each card bios .
6 - Place the first card only  at the X16 PCIe slot 
7 - Right click to windows 10 Start menu and select Command Prompt ( Admin ) 
8 - Type : cd C:\winflash  and press enter
9 - Type : atiwinflash -f -p 0 bios.rom , then it will Load the Bios for like 1 min and ask for a windows Restart 
10 - now Restart your windows and now your card is flashed 
11 - remove the flashed card and add new card and flash it the same way in steps 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 and do this for all your cards one by one 

After flashing all cards the Driver may show Error not reading the Cards and the AMD setting will not open due to signature check of new cards , we will follow this steps to make the driver able to read the 6 cards together without need the Crossfire technology 

1 - open start menu press power icon then hold left SHIFT key and  then press Reboot , it will open new window with many options . 

2 - press : Troubleshoot > advanced> startup settings > restart , in menu at boot you choose option 4 to get in safe mode

3 - In safe mode navigate to: C:\Windows\System32\drivers
Replace the file atikmdag.sys with the modified one from this link   , dont forget to backup your original atikmdag.sys

4 - reboot again with left shift pressed down. Again choose: Troubleshoot + advanced + startup settings + restart In the menu at boot choose option 7

now all your cards will be read by the driver and ready for mining 


Now Open your Claymore Dual miner folder and follow this steps : 

1 - make a copy from start.bat file and rename the copied file to Eth-only-mode . 

2 - right click on Eth-only-mode file and press Edit 

3 - Replace the code with this code :

setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0

setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100

setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100

EthDcrMiner64.exe -epool eth-eu.dwarfpool.com:8008 -ewal 0x5404a56d1b6bd124196a2c17028eeaaf3c9be0ba/worker1/mhstart2@gmail.com -epsw x -tt -77

4 - Change the wallet address and the e-mail after the word (-ewal ) to your wallet address and e-mail , i recommend dwarfpool as it take only 1% and stable pool with high hash rates , the payout every 4 hours to your address 

5 - save and close   and then double click to Eth-only-mode file , it will open a cmd window and start mining automatically , also will show u your hash rate  speed and cards temp , every card should make like 31.1 MH/S
The End

Please donate to support me test more powerful cards and less power consumption in lower prices 
my BTC address : 3FLuW2ws5hRCUVCieCbZJSVDVSmkWah4zM
my ETH address : 0x5404a56d1b6bd124196a2c17028eeaaf3c9be0ba

you can trade your mined coins in poloniex.com daily

29 comments:

  1. How and where i can download ethOS(linux based)?

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    1. hello Kashif
      its official download page here http://gpushack.com/collections/gpushack/products/ethos-16gb-digital-download
      but i recommend using claymore dual miner to get more Hash speed
      what is your GPU cards ?

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    2. Not yet, no gpu mining start, still planning to buy a hardware for it.

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    3. can i know what mh/s and h/s u take from this build ?

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    4. u can get 186.6 MH for Ethereum and like 650 +++ h/s or sol/s foe Zcash mining
      now u should get like 15$ daily per day for the whole rig

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  3. I have one problem, i flash 4 cards and one of them only start and turn off how can i return backup bios?

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    1. if you did not backup your original bios send me your card brand on mhstart2@gmail.com
      if you made a backup bios file flash it back by the same way you flashed the modified bios

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  4. What's the profitability like right now for ETC?

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    1. https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/calculator/etc
      it takes the live data from mining pools payouts

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  5. Hey Mohammed? Is this setup with ethos or win10? Thanks!

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  6. السلام عليكم محمد. هل طريقة عمل فلاش لبطاقة 480 تنطبق على بطاقة 470. شكرا

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    1. لا , الموديل مختلف و ال bios مختلف
      هناك bios لل 470 28MH بإستهلاك 90 واط

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  7. هل باستطاعتك منحي فلاش جيد لبطاقة 470.
    جربت فلاش جاب 25 ميقاهاش اريد ان ارتقي ل 28 ميقاهاش.

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    1. try this and tell me the result
      http://www.mediafire.com/file/0qjoh3am3om9lua/470nitro4gbelpidaoriginalX.rom

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    2. لو ما نفع امشي علي طريقة هذا الفيديو
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP_zSP2H6ho

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  8. Please with all above instructions u have given,can we have a laptop specialised to do all the above or can we have a laptop customed to mine cryptocurrencies with high hash rate power as u mentioned above?

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    1. Till now no , maybe in future some company makes a usb pci connections to attach to laptops
      but u can mine with your laptop GPU if it has
      download and run claymore dual miner and test , and tell me the results

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  9. can you please help

    http://www.sapphiretech.com/productdetial.asp?pid=A471FEC5-AAA9-482B-81C3-4A7E059A3574&lang=eng

    I have this card above and flashed with your room. but now I have 2 image on screen and it blurring I can't see nothing.

    I was able to login safe mode, but I can' not use atiwinflash it said i need administrator right.

    I have search and somebody said i need to do it on DOS flash.

    Do you know how i can dos flash so i can flash back my original room.

    thank you

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    1. try to connect your screen through the builtin VGA not the nitro card and it will work normally
      also there is a bios switch button under the red led button u can switch bios and it will work fine
      sapphire nitro has special bios i will provide you just send me mail on mhstart2@gmail.com

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  11. Hi Coin Pedia,
    I am planning to buy AMD 2xR9 270 Vapor-x GPU for mining zcash with the mobo MSI Z97 Gaming 5.
    Is this the good combination?

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    1. if you will buy it as used hardware for cheap prices its ok
      if you planning to buy new hardware never buy old series cards older than Rx 470 because of power usage is too high and the hashpower will not be satisfying
      msi z97 sometimes stuck in 4 cards or 5 not with all people

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  12. hi mate, i downloaded the bios you posted and its same as the original, so could you please upload the modified one? thanks

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    1. hey mate its the modified bios
      can you please tell me your card brand and model ?

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  13. Hi Mohamed, thank you very much for this detailed HowTo! However, i have a question. I don't have "atikmdag.sys" in system32\drivers
    My cards mention a Driverfailure after the flash process, like you discribed. I use Windows IoT 2016 LTSB.. Maybe you know a solution.

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    1. yes
      first remove the current driver and clean system using AMD cleanup utility
      then setup driver crimson 16.9.2 or 16.11.3
      and tell me the results :)

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    2. Thanks very much for the fast response! I'm going to test this next week! of course, I'm giving you notie! :)

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