...and then I walked amongst the living again: (hey now, it's 2018, would you look at that)



Hello internets! It's nice to see you're all still alive and trolling as normal. As some of you have noticed (and sent me some very nice emails over) it's been a couple months since I've been around. As you can tell via the linkage in my previous post I've been dealing with some health issues & have been out for treatment pretty much exclusively since then. As much as I'd love to talk about high gamma ozone insufflation right now, an would find comfort in discussing it with folks of like mind, this just really isn't the time or place for that. This is a mining thread! Which as you can expect no matter what happens in my personal life the business world keeps on moving & I've been trying hard to keep up to date!



Which uuhhh, has anyone looked at the markets lately? It's a dark day for miners and traders alike everywhere! (and has been for a hot minute) Though I've found great pleasure in reading and listening to others reveal what seems to be another well orchestrated market manipulation that has lead to the crash we're currently riding out. Given one of my passions in life has been understanding fractional reserve banking, the concept of applying interest to it, and wealth creation in general it's been a real trip to see market mouth pieces hop on over to my side of the conspiratorial fence for a while. Banksters going to be banksters! What do we expect? LOL! This has actually all made for a pretty rough journey for the casual miner trying to go large. I've got a fifty plus page business plan and have hit banks, hard money lenders, even traditional mineral mining operations trying to get them to see the light of Proof of Work based crypto mining. I've toured mega mines, I've built and retooled more rigs then I can remember, I've checked out pool operation, I mean I've really tried to get 10,000% into this scene no matter the angle.



Mainly I've made a large fool of myself a number of times as I'm just a single man with a dream. When your health is down you tend to not give the best presentations or even speak to people with the respect and consideration you generally should show your fellow man in life. I've tossed off emails to media outlets like LinusTechTips, having some very nice exchanges overall but being a bit of an enthusiastic nut job through the process. How much sense I really made at any moment was probably thanks to how I felt on a given day. As I watch damn near every tech channel on YouTube I just want to throw out that I think Stephen Burke over at Gamers Nexus puts out the best mining and hardcore tech related content I can find, respect, and appreciate. I'd recommend anyone who's reading this thread in particular to head on over and check them out both on their website an affiliated channels. Getting back on track this all means that over the last couple months I've not managed to open my own sizable mine yet. Even the logistics of getting five hundred of any respectable graphic card delivered to my doorstep is a real eye opener in distribution. (if there's any reps out there reading this thread, send me a PM if you can help)



Another logical problem is funding such a project! I've got three locations, two sitting around the 100K mark to get them up and running and one that would be absolutely god damn epic but require a real deep pocket to even consider, easily 500K to start. Hell it'd take half a year of just working every day to put it together, even with extra hands on board. Have you tried explaining blockchain, mining, efficiency curves, PoW vs. PoS, etc. to anyone who's not a nerd? Look if the bank itself doesn't already have a private mine with it's name on the side of it then they're not giving you money to create your own. Atleast in my last few months of experience on the manner, it's not like I've got years of experience here so maybe I'm still fumble fucking my way through doing it wrong. Then there's just the endless waves of clueless venture capitalist guys who are spitting out more random nonsensical industry terms per minute then a bestbuy cashier who wondered away from their register. Good lord I just want to build out a couple mega mines, thousand card stacks, run some pools, and get into some real interesting market plays once I have power to leverage. How hard could this be right? ROFLMAO!!



I've really been wanting to post here and share the journey I've been on. I could've tripled the size of this thread if I'd continued to actively blog on my experiences. But life has really been a learning curve for me lately and in all honesty, I should be dead right now. So not blogging, not being online, not even looking at a cell phone for large periods of time, that's been key to turning the corner an coming back at life full force. So while I've been missing the interaction I've come to enjoy so much with all of you, I've needed to be away as well and it's been good to be gone. Though like I said before, this is a mining thread and I'm sure you guys would like to see something cool instead of just reading about my experiences in the trenches! So today I give you a new machine I just finished putting together, the parts have been around for a while but I've not had the time to finish it until now.



The actual design has gone through a large number of revisions as you'll be able to see in the pictures. There has been some fun things to learn on this build mainly because things really needed to be customized at certain steps. At one point I had the entire thing spread out across a monster six foot by six foot metal rack though let's all be honest, that's jank and not professional at all. I wanted to show you guys the process of putting together a cool little mining machine for your home while having a rig to be proud of an not to be embarrassed by when the fellow nerds come on over. There was also the problem of actually moving such a computer, the first few versions proved to be a nightmare to carry around. Which is why I've ended up with it's current two part design of a controller tower with an attachable plugin open air GPU frame. I'll be sure to attach a parts list onto the bottom of this post after all the pictures so people can follow along at home if they want to join in on a replication. It's also important I feel to note, I know this could be done differently and even better! This is just the current revision and I already have a growing list of things I want to change and/or just make better overall in the next one.



#00: Pro Tech ToolKit FTW!

Info: I see this company all over the internet advertising their kits and honestly I'm glad I grabbed one. This thing has came in sooooo handy. #notapromo #paidfullprice

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#01: Quality power supply goes a long way!

Info: Corsair AX1500i PSU.

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#02: Lots of power supplies go even further!

Info: More AX1500i goodness.

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#03: Just lots of power supply box porn going on.

Description: Two EVGA 1600w P2 Supernova PSUs & a Corsair 150i Pro RGB AIO.

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#04: Going ham on ram for lots of future hyper-v overhead.

Info: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400mhz 32gb (2x16) Kit.

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#05: Straight out of China here's our graphics cards new home.

Info: Veddha 8 Open Air Mining Frame.

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#06: ..and like magic we've got a frame!

Info: Veddha assembly completed!

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#07: Here we'll just gut this old mid sized gaming case and reuse it.

Info: NZXT S340 Black/Blue.

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#08: ZOMG HOW MANY GPUS & PSUS!?

Info: Asus B250 Mining Expert Motherboard.

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#09: Always wire up your big ass power supplies outside the tiny case then slide it in for success once it's done.

Info: EVGA 1600w P2 Supernova being installed into the basement of the S340.

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#10: Getting creative with power cable management.

Info: These ten power cables (eight pci-e and two sata) are routed from the basement through a hole an out the side of the case.

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#11: Cleaning up the controller tower wiring.

Info: Thirteen cables extend outwards from the tower, the extra length is so they can be plugged into the GPU frame that will sit next to it.

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#12: Building bridges of fans, yes, bridges of fans!

Info: Seven EKWB Furious Vardar 3000 fans bridged across the front of the frame with safety grills installed.

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#13: These annoying little fuckers are like red headed step children.

Info: The key to attaching anything to this mining frame is learning to utilize these all over the place.

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#14: Fan cables everywhere! What to do with this mess?

Info: Each Vardar needs to be wired to the controller tower.

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#15: Cleanbois wiring only! #alexfaciane @facianea

Info: Here I've used an EK-Cable Splitter 4-Fan PWM extended length dongle to bring four Vardar fans together.

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#16: Flipped for that extra cleanbois feeling!

Info: The GPU frame upside down to attach wiring on the bottom.

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#17: Cheap bits getting the job done!

Info: These things cost $4 but I only needed one of them in particular to match the current hole size sooo three bucks down.

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#18: Things getting messy around the build site!

Info: 1080Ti's hanging out staying sexy.

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#19: Video card placement and radiator management complete!

Info: Twelve EVGA 1080Ti FTW3 Hybrid Edition Cards mounted.

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#20: Under the upper class graphics cards lives a windy world of pissed off vardars.

Info: Fresh air comes in below then gets pushed around the cards themselves and finally out the radiators above.

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#21: Extra airflow being added to the sides!

Info: Two Corsair high performance 120mm fans added to the sides to pull in more air.

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#22: ONE WIRE TO RULE THEM ALL.

Info: After multiple dongles tying them all together there's one single input cable that comes out of the GPU frame and plugs into the controller tower.

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#23: Two giants of power consumption and supply hanging loose.

Info: Two Corsair AX1500i power supplies.

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#24: Power cabling hanging out everywhere.

Info: Decided to remove half the side intake fans and mount the power supplies this way instead.

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#25: Let's take a second to relax and chill.

Info: Here's where all the magic happens. Goblins love mines.

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#26: So many cables!

Info: Another eight power cables on each side (two per card) need properly cable managed.

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#27: Keep with the zip ties!!

Info: Still need to clean this up some more but here's the basis of my attempt at getting two cables up to each card.

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#28: More power supply cable management.

Info: This is the second power supply that's mounted on the GPU frame. (pre proper management going up to each card in the back)

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#29: Meet a Riser.

Info: One Supercope PCI-E 006C 16x->1x Powered Riser Adapter Card w/ 60cm USB 3.0 Extension Cable & 6-Pin MOLEX to SATA Power Cable.

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#30: Riser Orgy.

Info: Or maybe gangbang?

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#31: Keep on that cable management train...

Info: Is there ever an end to wiring? Here's usb & power cables from the risers. Good work bois. #TPB

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#32: One big blue cable of bondage

Info: Here's one of the riser cable bundles for connecting the graphics cards to the controller tower.

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#33: Wiring of the GPU frame finished!

Info: Three bundles of riser cables (four in each) plus the cable that controls all the extra fans.

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#34: The two meet for the first time in the basement, on the white table, next to the monitor, ready to explore each other but still scared of being rejected.

Info: Uptight medium sized Controller Tower A meets huuuuge junk in the trunk open air GPU Frame B.

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#35: They hang out for a while before she decides he's worth sliding on the 1x pci-e usb adapters.

Info: Notice how they get closer to each other over time as a bond begins to form. Here you can see his long black extensions being emphasized in hopes they'll soon couple.

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#36: The importance of that one cable to rule them all.

Info: Remember that master fan controller cable for the GPU frame? It plugs in right here.

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#37: Clearly some very naughty things have occurred.

Info: Full on blue tentacle sync here, some type of odd Japanese fetish. (oh that's a nzxt kraken x62 in push+pull on the cpu there)

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#38: An entire shelf of innocent side devices deal with having seen the merging.

Info: EVGA has been consulted with personally for bringing in the appropriate trauma related counselors.

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#39: Sparks can't fly without the power!

Info: That's not a knife, this is a knife.

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#40: After netflix and chill the two decide to make a life together by updating their drivers.

Info: Installing graphics drivers takes a really long time when you have twelve of them. Just go smoke a bowl and relax.

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#41: One pretty tired Goblin calls it quits for the night.

Info: Oooohh it glows.

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#42: Then the next day we finally get to take a look around.

Info: Task Manager showing off one management iGPU and twelve ready to mine 1080Ti inside Windows 10 Pro.

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#43: We also clean up the project area. Remember a clean mine is a successful mine!

Info: Don't you remember? Goblins love mines.

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#44: You know what would make this better? Remote temp monitoring!

Info: Yeah that's right, I went to home depot or some other big box store and bought something.

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#45: I think it goes right here next to this block.

Info: Yeah, bitches love blocks that light up when you tap them.

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#46: See now you can smoke a bowl and relax while still knowing how hot it is downstairs!

Info: Gives you today, last 48, and weekly lows/highs. See the secret is that "outdoor" actually means "on top of the miner".

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#47: Let's go ahead and fire up some mining and see how stable our new baby is.

Info: Thirteen hours and thirty-three minutes into our first test run. (gpu+cpu mining as well acting as two separate hyper-v proxies)

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#48: Let's add some airflow to this party and go to bed.

Info: One eighteen inch oscillating fan added to help keep the air moving & house warm.

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#49: Twenty four hour test run eth mining results! (ethminer+ethproxy+dwarfpool)

Info: Whew boi, let's play spot the twelve gpu rig! Ready? Yeah.. that was easy. The other machines are two double wave vega 64 rigs and a single 1080Ti FTW3 Hybrid edition box I'm using for comparison.

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Build Log Parts List:

1x Windows 10 Professional x64 Operating System

1x Veddha 8 Open Air Mining Frame

1x NZXT S340 Black & Blue Mid Sized Case

1x Asus B250 Mining Expert Motherboard

1x Intel i7-7700K CPU @ 4.5ghz

1x Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400mhz 32gb (2x16) Kit

2x Corsair AX1500i Power Supplies

1x EVGA 1600w P2 Supernova Power Supply

3x Extra Heavy Duty Power Extension Cables

8x EKWB FF5-120mm Furious Vardar 3000 Case Fans

7x 120mm Metal Fan Protection Grills (still need two more for side fans)

3x Corsair High Performance 120mm Case Fans

4x NZXT 140mm High Pressure Radiator Fans

1x NZXT 140mm FN V2 Fan

1x NZXT Kraken X62 AIO

1x EKWB Ectotherm Thermal Compound (3g)

4x EKWB 4-Fan PWM Extended Length Cable Splitters

1x Asus 3-Fan PWM Cable Splitter (two inside case fans + gpu extension plugin)

1x Asus PWM Cable Extender (runs behind board then secured for gpu controller)

1x PNY 240GB SSD Drive

12x EVGA 1080Ti FTW3 Hybrid Edition GPUs

12x Supercope PCI-E 006C 16x to 1x Powered Riser Adapter Cards

12x 60cm USB 3.0 Extension Cables

12x 6-Pin MOLEX to SATA Power Cables

24x PCI-E Power Cables (16 from Corsair, 8 from EVGA)

5x SATA Power Cables

1x SATA Data Cable

3x 4-Pin Molex Power Cables

50+ Zip Ties & Misc. Cable Management Items

8ft Industrial Strength Velcro Strip

1x Cooler Master Octane Wired Keyboard w/ Optical Mouse

1x SteelSeries QcK Mass Mouse Pad

1x Pellucid HD Series HDMI Cable (sixer)

1x Asus VX238H 23" Monitor

1x 25' CAT7E Network Cable

1x 18" Oscillating Fan

1x Remote Outdoor+Indoor Weather Station

1x Minecraft Light-Up Redstone Ore Block

1x Unisex Novelty Miner's Helmet With Light

A Whole Naughty Fuck Load Of Time The whole system has been incredibly stable since turning it on, I expected more problems to be honest. The 7700K is running at 4.5ghz because that's the max I can get it to accept inside the bios. It's chugging along at 1.25V on the core. The fan cable coming off the GPU frame that plugs into the controller tower is actually monitoring the CPU temp for it's fan speeds. Inside the bios you can only monitor CPU or Motherboard so I've gone with CPU. The fan curve is 60+C runs at 100%, 50+C runs at 75%, and 40+C runs at 50%. Same with the CPU's AIO pump as well it's supporting four 140mm fans in push+pull, plus the extra 140mm+120mm case fans. When playing around with full blast you can hear this machine rev like a car engine and it actually passes through the floor overpowering the living room. The Vardar fans are no joke and move so much air it pushes papers off the desk next to it and gives the admin sitting anywhere close to it a wicked dry eye. Each 1080Ti is running at 2025-2050mhz on the core (depending on where it decides to sit, generally depending on room temp) & 11244mhz on the memory. I've tried running these same cards at 2075mhz on the core but they'll only go for eight-ten minutes before locking up.



While this is a thread specifically about Monero mining, we can clearly see this happens to be a Team Green rig. Ethereum was the test currency of choice just to get things rolling quickly though the machine will become more agile as I have time to setup more complex software. Each power supply covers four graphics cards. Each card is currently drawing 225W of power at max which gives us 900 watts of draw though when flipping to other currencies or projects the cards can draw up to 300, even more if you dual mine, which would leave us in the 1200-1300W range. This is why some pretty premium grade parts have been selected here for power supplies, it's really important to keep them operating in the top efficiency peak of their curves so I went with as big as could be purchased given the situation. They also each power five fans on top of the graphics cards. Except the controller tower power supply, as it powers the system plus an additional fan as well. This is why it's slightly bigger being a 1600W instead of a 1500W like the other two. Each power supply has been ran to it's own individual twenty amp breaker meaning this machine has the ability to consume sixty amps maxed out. Each power supply comes with a rather large warning sticker on it saying not to plug it into anything less then a fifteen with twenties being recommended.



This rig heats the entire home it's placed in and air flow is critical. You know if somebody has shut the basement door pretty quickly as you'll hear the Vardar fans spin up to 3000RPM even while watching something on the television. Though since this is a 100% water cooled rig the parts themselves never tend to get to hot just the entire rest of the house. This is really cool when it's snowing outside and you have the windows open on your top floor with the heating turned off completely and no fire to tend too. As far as space heaters go though this is one huge sum'bitch that not only heats your home but trades electricity for crypto at the same time! I guess if you needed a password or two cracked at some point you've got that covered too.



Anytime you want to move this computer you simply disconnect the risers and the power cables coming out of the controller tower. Two people are absolutely required to lift the GPU frame in any sort of safe manner. The tower is pretty light weight as it's only a medium sized with no peripheral bays. The big boi amount of memory was put in for alot of hyper-v headroom and for misc. experimental projects. It already hosts two proxies, one for ethereum & one for monero7. That's actually still what all my leftover CPU time is devoted too, mining Monero. I sat on Aeon for a long time but have came back to XMR full force after stacking up some other coinage. Given those Wave Vegas are like having two of these 1080Ti's when it comes to cryptonight & cryptonight-lite algorithm based coins it feels like a waste to toss this system on the Monero right away when I could be trading more profitable to mine per hour coins into Monero at a higher rate of return. Though that's a post for another day as this one has taken a pretty long time to write.



At this point I'm pretty exhausted. Going to post this, check on the systems one more time, get back on the treatment train, an once I'm out of pain I'm going to go attempt to hug a pillow. I apologize for any details I've left out! Feel free to post with any questions or comments, I'd love to hear what you all think and any suggestions you might have moving forward. (optimizations!! give me the optimizations!) I'm going to try and return to posting on a more regular basis as I have a lot of topics I'd like to cover. Though between running around trying to get that next epic level mine off the ground as well stay healthy you guys might have to be entertained with this one for a bit until I return.



'Goblin Quality power supply goes a long way!Corsair AX1500i PSU.Lots of power supplies go even further!More AX1500i goodness.Just lots of power supply box porn going on.Two EVGA 1600w P2 Supernova PSUs & a Corsair 150i Pro RGB AIO.Going ham on ram for lots of future hyper-v overhead.Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400mhz 32gb (2x16) Kit.Straight out of China here's our graphics cards new home.Veddha 8 Open Air Mining Frame...and like magic we've got a frame!Veddha assembly completed!Here we'll just gut this old mid sized gaming case and reuse it.NZXT S340 Black/Blue.ZOMG HOW MANY GPUS & PSUS!?Asus B250 Mining Expert Motherboard.Always wire up your big ass power supplies outside the tiny case then slide it in for success once it's done.EVGA 1600w P2 Supernova being installed into the basement of the S340.Getting creative with power cable management.These ten power cables (eight pci-e and two sata) are routed from the basement through a hole an out the side of the case.Cleaning up the controller tower wiring.Thirteen cables extend outwards from the tower, the extra length is so they can be plugged into the GPU frame that will sit next to it.Building bridges of fans, yes, bridges of fans!Seven EKWB Furious Vardar 3000 fans bridged across the front of the frame with safety grills installed.These annoying little fuckers are like red headed step children.The key to attaching anything to this mining frame is learning to utilize these all over the place.Fan cables everywhere! What to do with this mess?Each Vardar needs to be wired to the controller tower.Cleanbois wiring only! #alexfaciane @facianeaHere I've used an EK-Cable Splitter 4-Fan PWM extended length dongle to bring four Vardar fans together.Flipped for that extra cleanbois feeling!The GPU frame upside down to attach wiring on the bottom.Cheap bits getting the job done!These things cost $4 but I only needed one of them in particular to match the current hole size sooo three bucks down.Things getting messy around the build site!1080Ti's hanging out staying sexy.Video card placement and radiator management complete!Twelve EVGA 1080Ti FTW3 Hybrid Edition Cards mounted.Under the upper class graphics cards lives a windy world of pissed off vardars.Fresh air comes in below then gets pushed around the cards themselves and finally out the radiators above.Extra airflow being added to the sides!Two Corsair high performance 120mm fans added to the sides to pull in more air.ONE WIRE TO RULE THEM ALL.After multiple dongles tying them all together there's one single input cable that comes out of the GPU frame and plugs into the controller tower.Two giants of power consumption and supply hanging loose.Two Corsair AX1500i power supplies.Power cabling hanging out everywhere.Decided to remove half the side intake fans and mount the power supplies this way instead.Let's take a second to relax and chill.Here's where all the magic happens. Goblins love mines.So many cables!Another eight power cables on each side (two per card) need properly cable managed.Keep with the zip ties!!Still need to clean this up some more but here's the basis of my attempt at getting two cables up to each card.More power supply cable management.This is the second power supply that's mounted on the GPU frame. (pre proper management going up to each card in the back)Meet a Riser.One Supercope PCI-E 006C 16x->1x Powered Riser Adapter Card w/ 60cm USB 3.0 Extension Cable & 6-Pin MOLEX to SATA Power Cable.Riser Orgy.Or maybe gangbang?Keep on that cable management train...Is there ever an end to wiring? Here's usb & power cables from the risers. Good work bois. #TPBOne big blue cable of bondageHere's one of the riser cable bundles for connecting the graphics cards to the controller tower.Wiring of the GPU frame finished!Three bundles of riser cables (four in each) plus the cable that controls all the extra fans.The two meet for the first time in the basement, on the white table, next to the monitor, ready to explore each other but still scared of being rejected.Uptight medium sized Controller Tower A meets huuuuge junk in the trunk open air GPU Frame B.They hang out for a while before she decides he's worth sliding on the 1x pci-e usb adapters.Notice how they get closer to each other over time as a bond begins to form. Here you can see his long black extensions being emphasized in hopes they'll soon couple.The importance of that one cable to rule them all.Remember that master fan controller cable for the GPU frame? It plugs in right here.Clearly some very naughty things have occurred.Full on blue tentacle sync here, some type of odd Japanese fetish. (oh that's a nzxt kraken x62 in push+pull on the cpu there)An entire shelf of innocent side devices deal with having seen the merging.EVGA has been consulted with personally for bringing in the appropriate trauma related counselors.Sparks can't fly without the power!That's not a knife, this is a knife.After netflix and chill the two decide to make a life together by updating their drivers.Installing graphics drivers takes a really long time when you have twelve of them. Just go smoke a bowl and relax.One pretty tired Goblin calls it quits for the night.Oooohh it glows.Then the next day we finally get to take a look around.Task Manager showing off one management iGPU and twelve ready to mine 1080Ti inside Windows 10 Pro.We also clean up the project area. Remember a clean mine is a successful mine!Don't you remember? Goblins love mines.You know what would make this better? Remote temp monitoring!Yeah that's right, I went to home depot or some other big box store and bought something.I think it goes right here next to this block.Yeah, bitches love blocks that light up when you tap them.See now you can smoke a bowl and relax while still knowing how hot it is downstairs!Gives you today, last 48, and weekly lows/highs. See the secret is that "outdoor" actually means "on top of the miner".Let's go ahead and fire up some mining and see how stable our new baby is.Thirteen hours and thirty-three minutes into our first test run. (gpu+cpu mining as well acting as two separate hyper-v proxies)Let's add some airflow to this party and go to bed.One eighteen inch oscillating fan added to help keep the air moving & house warm.Twenty four hour test run eth mining results! (ethminer+ethproxy+dwarfpool)Whew boi, let's play spot the twelve gpu rig! Ready? Yeah.. that was easy. The other machines are two double wave vega 64 rigs and a single 1080Ti FTW3 Hybrid edition box I'm using for comparison.The whole system has been incredibly stable since turning it on, I expected more problems to be honest. The 7700K is running at 4.5ghz because that's the max I can get it to accept inside the bios. It's chugging along at 1.25V on the core. The fan cable coming off the GPU frame that plugs into the controller tower is actually monitoring the CPU temp for it's fan speeds. Inside the bios you can only monitor CPU or Motherboard so I've gone with CPU. The fan curve is 60+C runs at 100%, 50+C runs at 75%, and 40+C runs at 50%. Same with the CPU's AIO pump as well it's supporting four 140mm fans in push+pull, plus the extra 140mm+120mm case fans. When playing around with full blast you can hear this machine rev like a car engine and it actually passes through the floor overpowering the living room. The Vardar fans are no joke and move so much air it pushes papers off the desk next to it and gives the admin sitting anywhere close to it a wicked dry eye. Each 1080Ti is running at 2025-2050mhz on the core (depending on where it decides to sit, generally depending on room temp) & 11244mhz on the memory. I've tried running these same cards at 2075mhz on the core but they'll only go for eight-ten minutes before locking up.While this is a thread specifically about Monero mining, we can clearly see this happens to be a Team Green rig. Ethereum was the test currency of choice just to get things rolling quickly though the machine will become more agile as I have time to setup more complex software. Each power supply covers four graphics cards. Each card is currently drawing 225W of power at max which gives us 900 watts of draw though when flipping to other currencies or projects the cards can draw up to 300, even more if you dual mine, which would leave us in the 1200-1300W range. This is why some pretty premium grade parts have been selected here for power supplies, it's really important to keep them operating in the top efficiency peak of their curves so I went with as big as could be purchased given the situation. They also each power five fans on top of the graphics cards. Except the controller tower power supply, as it powers the system plus an additional fan as well. This is why it's slightly bigger being a 1600W instead of a 1500W like the other two. Each power supply has been ran to it's own individual twenty amp breaker meaning this machine has the ability to consume sixty amps maxed out. Each power supply comes with a rather large warning sticker on it saying not to plug it into anything less then a fifteen with twenties being recommended.This rig heats the entire home it's placed in and air flow is critical. You know if somebody has shut the basement door pretty quickly as you'll hear the Vardar fans spin up to 3000RPM even while watching something on the television. Though since this is a 100% water cooled rig the parts themselves never tend to get to hot just the entire rest of the house. This is really cool when it's snowing outside and you have the windows open on your top floor with the heating turned off completely and no fire to tend too. As far as space heaters go though this is one huge sum'bitch that not only heats your home but trades electricity for crypto at the same time! I guess if you needed a password or two cracked at some point you've got that covered too.Anytime you want to move this computer you simply disconnect the risers and the power cables coming out of the controller tower. Two people are absolutely required to lift the GPU frame in any sort of safe manner. The tower is pretty light weight as it's only a medium sized with no peripheral bays. The big boi amount of memory was put in for alot of hyper-v headroom and for misc. experimental projects. It already hosts two proxies, one for ethereum & one for monero7. That's actually still what all my leftover CPU time is devoted too, mining Monero. I sat on Aeon for a long time but have came back to XMR full force after stacking up some other coinage. Given those Wave Vegas are like having two of these 1080Ti's when it comes to cryptonight & cryptonight-lite algorithm based coins it feels like a waste to toss this system on the Monero right away when I could be trading more profitable to mine per hour coins into Monero at a higher rate of return. Though that's a post for another day as this one has taken a pretty long time to write.At this point I'm pretty exhausted. Going to post this, check on the systems one more time, get back on the treatment train, an once I'm out of pain I'm going to go attempt to hug a pillow. I apologize for any details I've left out! Feel free to post with any questions or comments, I'd love to hear what you all think and any suggestions you might have moving forward. (optimizations!! give me the optimizations!) I'm going to try and return to posting on a more regular basis as I have a lot of topics I'd like to cover. Though between running around trying to get that next epic level mine off the ground as well stay healthy you guys might have to be entertained with this one for a bit until I return.'Goblin