Mining rig

A mining rig is a computer system used for mining bitcoins. The rig might be a dedicated miner where it was procured, built and operated specifically for mining or it could otherwise be a computer that fills other needs, such as performing as a gaming system, and is used to mine only on a part-time basis.

Tips

• Motherboards with on-board graphics (also referred to as integrated graphics) often are either problematic or unusable when more than one GPU card is installed. Choose a motherboard with no on-board graphics.
• The following component list might be used to help in building a new rig. To minimize shipping costs, components from the same supplier were preferred over compenents from the least expensive source.

Single-GPU Configurations

Bill of materials - dedicated miner (entry-level), single ATI 5830: Approximately 245M hash/sec

Component	Description	Source	Amount
Chassis	n/a	n/a	n/a
Power Supply	Rosewill Green Series RG530-S12 530W, 80 PLUS Certified	NewEgg	$49
Motherboard	Foxconn M61PMP-K AMD	NewEgg	$45
CPU	AMD Athlon II X2 250	NewEgg	$60
Memory	2GB DDR3	NewEgg	$12x2
Graphics card	Radeon HD 5830	NewEgg	$110
Case Fan	n/a	n/a	n/a
Storage	Western Digital Caviar 80GB	NewEgg	$21
Media Drive	DVD Rom Drive	n/a	n/a
Keyboard, Mouse and Display	n/a	n/a	n/a
Total			$309 + s/h/t

Bill of materials - dedicated miner (midrange), single ATI 6950: Approximately 300M hash/sec

Component	Description	Source	Amount
Chassis	n/a	n/a	n/a
Power Supply	Rosewill Green Series RG530-S12 530W, 80 PLUS Certified	NewEgg	$49
Motherboard	ASUS M4A78LT-M AMD	NewEgg	$70
CPU	AMD Athlon II X2 250	NewEgg	$60
Memory	2GB DDR3	NewEgg	$12x2
Graphics card	Radeon HD 6950	NewEgg	$243
Case Fan	n/a	n/a	n/a
Storage	Western Digital Caviar 80GB	NewEgg	$21
Media Drive	DVD Rom Drive	n/a	n/a
Keyboard, Mouse and Display	n/a	n/a	n/a
Total			$467 + s/h/t

Bill of materials - dedicated miner (high-end), single ATI 6990: Approximately 750M hash/sec

Component	Description	Source	Amount
Chassis	n/a	n/a	n/a
Power Supply	CORSAIR CMPSU-850TX 850W, 80 PLUS Certified	NewEgg	$135
Motherboard	ASUS M4A78LT-M AMD	NewEgg	$70
CPU	AMD Athlon II X2 250	NewEgg	$60
Memory	2GB DDR3	NewEgg	$12x2
Graphics card	Radeon HD 6990	NewEgg	$734
Case Fan	n/a	n/a	n/a
Storage	Western Digital Caviar 80GB	NewEgg	$21
Media Drive	DVD Rom Drive	n/a	n/a
Keyboard, Mouse and Display	n/a	n/a	n/a
Total			$1044 + s/h/t

Bill of materials - casual miner (multipurpose miner/gaming rig), single ATI 6990: Approximately 750M hash/sec

Component	Description	Source	Amount
Chassis	CoolerMaster HAF 932	NewEgg	$155
Power Supply	CORSAIR CMPSU-850TX 850W, 80 PLUS Certified	NewEgg	$135
Motherboard	MSI P67A-GD65	NewEgg	$180
CPU	Intel i5-2500k	NewEgg	$225
Memory	G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB	NewEgg	$41
Graphics card	Radeon HD 6990	NewEgg	$734
Heat Sink Fan	CoolerMaster Hyper212+	NewEgg	$40
Storage	Seagate 1TB 7200RPM HDD	NewEgg	$70
Media Drive	ASUS DVD-RW	NewEgg	$22
Keyboard, Mouse and Display n/a
Total			$1602 + s/h/t

Multi-GPU Configurations

Bill of materials - dedicated miner - rack mount, dual ATI 6990: Approximately 1.4G hash/sec

Component	Description	Source	Amount
Chassis	IPC-4370S 4U	P-Link Computer	$85 (incl s/h)
Power Supply	Antec CP-1000 1000W, 80 PLUS Certified	NewEgg	$135
Motherboard	MSI 890FXA-GD70	NewEgg	$200
CPU	AMD Athlon II X2 250	NewEgg	$60
Memory	2GB DDR3	NewEgg	$12x2
Graphics card	2 * Radeon HD 6990	NewEgg	$1480 ($740 × 2)
Storage	Kingston 30GB SSD	NewEgg	$76
Keyboard, Mouse and Display n/a
Total			$2,060 + s/h/t

Bill of materials - dedicated mining tower, three ATI 6990s: Approximately 2.1G hash/sec

Component	Description	Source	Amount
Chassis	CoolerMaster HAF X	NewEgg	$200
Power Supply	CORSAIR AX1200 1200W, 80 PLUS Certified	NewEgg	$280
Motherboard	MSI 890FXA-GD70	NewEgg	$200
CPU	AMD Athlon II X2 250	NewEgg	$60
Memory	2GB DDR3	NewEgg	$12x2
Graphics card	3 * Radeon HD 6990	NewEgg	$2220 ($740 × 3)
Storage	Kingston 30GB SSD	NewEgg	$76
Keyboard, Mouse and Display n/a
Total			$3,060 + s/h/t

See Also

• Mining Hardware Comparison