Building GPU (Ethereum) Mining Rig from Scratch - Part 2 Assembling

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I originally built this mining rig back in December 2017 (during the golden days of crypto), I've unplugged this rig from electricity since September 2018, but I might turn it on again in 2019.

Today's article is the second and final part from the series I started back in 2017, see Building a 12 GPU Ethereum Mining Rig From Scratch - Part 1: Ordering Details

The total cost for this rig (4 GPU's with hashing power of about 60 MH/s) was about $1,300. I never break even. To do so ethereum should reach around $5,000 per coin (still hold minned ethereum) To Break Even My GPU Mining Rig, Ethereum Should Reach $5,153

With this rig, I've mined ethereum, expance and ethereum classic using simple mining OS

Before building my first mining rig I experimented a lot with mining at our office computer with cheap Radeon GPU, see Learning Crypto Currency Mining The Hard Way

First package arrive to Georgia

The first package arrived at Georgia

In total it took me some 3 shipping to get all details, luckily I managed to get them all in about 3 weeks 

Power block, PCI risers and SD drives

Power block, PCI risers, and SD drives

Accidently I got two SD drives

Motherboard, Graphics card and processor

Motherboard, Graphics card and processor

The second shipment arrived

ASRock H110 PRO motherboard

ASRock H110 PRO motherboard

Now, it's time to assemble it together

Installing processor

Installing processor

Mounting cooler a top on processor

Mounting cooler a top on the processor

Adding 4gb RAM memory

Adding 4gb RAM memory

Mounting GPU graphic cards

Mounting GPU graphic cards

In above I have mounted EVGA 1060 6 GB and Sapphire TX 560 4GB

Despite I could mount up to 13 GPU's on this ASRock motherboard I never mounted more than 4.

Ethereum mining rig

Ethereum mining rig

Attached some old monitor for graphics interface, added a cheap keyboard. Connected to the internet via wire through the router.