Soon after releasing the build for the Budget Cracking Rig, I received a lot of community feedback. Most feedback circled around one main issue: Cost. Reality is that not many small companies or enthusiasts can stomach dumping $5000 into a Budget Cracking Rig nor $15,000 into an 8 GPU rig. Even so, most security professionals would still not likely efficiently use an expensive rig and it's cracking power to its full potential (unless running HashStack). This issue launched my research into finding a suitable solution that doesn't pack a punch on your wallet, but can respectably hammer some common hash types. Additionally, I wanted this rig to have other advantages over the 4 & 8 GPU behemoths, so it's as compact as I could muster at the rough price point of $1,000 (depending on market conditions). It has happened on occasion a customer would request no data or hashes leave the network during a pentest, so all resources needed to be onsite. I would have killed to have had this portable rig at the time, instead of a Macbook Pro clunking through simple dictionaries while also performing other tasks. So with this rig, weighing in at 19 lbs,I am able to pack it in the center of my checked suitcase, with clothes piled all around it, for a week long onsite engagement. Also plenty of room leftover to stash my One-Time Grid: Random Password Book for random password generation, creation, and storage.