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Other => Graveyard => BitShares PTS => Topic started by: Amazon on November 03, 2013, 08:51:21 pm

Title: Best mining hardware
Post by: Amazon on November 03, 2013, 08:51:21 pm
Thanks to azwccc @ bitcointalk
Prebuilt Systems can be found here: http://www.portatech.com 

Complete Barebones System w/ Core i7 4770 @ 4 x 3.9GHz
Intel Socket 1150 Motherboard & CPU w/ CPU Fan Heatsink
2 GB RAM
High Quality Mid Tower Case w/ Power Supply
Free Professional Assembly & Testing
USB Flash Drive with Linux for OS + Miner
Price Of Advertised Item: $414.93 -- FREE Assembly & Testing Included


Thanks to MineMind @ bitcointalk
If you would like to build your own: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1W43u
Intel Xeon E3-1220 V3 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor
MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
G.Skill 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
HEC Enterprise MicroATX Mid Tower Case
Raidmax 450W ATX12V Power Supply
USB Flash Drive with Linux for OS + Miner

Total: $348 after Discounts, Rebates.


Some things to note about these systems.

1) No benchmarks have been performed using our mining algorithm
2) The initial ProtoShares-Qt client requires about 1 GB per core, in theory enhancements to the algorithm should allow 1.5 GB to be used with any number of threads.  Until someone contributes an enhanced mining algorithm to the ProtoShares client you will require about 12 GB of RAM
3) The Momentum Proof of Work is memory bus limited, having 2x1GB DIMMS may be better than 1x2GB DIMM.
4) These systems assume boot from USB stick running Linux.  You will have to build ProtoShares from source to mine on these systems until someone releases a downloadable USB drive image.
Title: Re: Best mining hardware
Post by: soniq on November 03, 2013, 09:07:48 pm
where can we download the mining software?
Title: Re: Best mining hardware
Post by: bytemaster on November 03, 2013, 09:13:33 pm
Right now you can compile the latest ProtoShares from source from here: https://github.com/InvictusInnovations/ProtoShares

The Genesis block and other settings are not final yet, but we should have binaries posted on invictus-innovations.com tomorrow for Windows.   There are bounties for OS X binaries.
Title: Re: Best mining hardware
Post by: jimbobway on November 04, 2013, 09:30:59 am
So, if I order a portatech tech system it comes with everything I need including the Linux binaries for protoshares?  I just plug it in and boot?  Do I have to contact someone from portatech to make this custom order?

Also, are these systems upgradable to 16 GB?
Title: Re: Best mining hardware
Post by: Amazon on November 04, 2013, 12:45:09 pm
Quote from: jimbobway on November 04, 2013, 09:30:59 am
So, if I order a portatech tech system it comes with everything I need including the Linux binaries for protoshares?  I just plug it in and boot?  Do I have to contact someone from portatech to make this custom order?

Also, are these systems upgradable to 16 GB?

No, the portatech has no relationship with ProtoShares. If you purchase from them, you still need to install Linux and Protoshares yourself.
Title: Re: Best mining hardware
Post by: MisO69 on November 14, 2013, 08:17:04 pm
Wow thats cheap! I was looking at newer gear, 4770K, liquid cooling, o/c the bitch to 4.6ghz, 16gb of fast 2400Mhz ram, a mobo that has dual channel ram and 8 phase cpu power(Asus Z87), small SSD, plus a decent power supply .. $1100.00 ++

Now, I don't know how much performance gain I would achieve over the $414.00 core i7 4770. Probably not enough to warrant all the extra cash. I can probably get 3 for the price of this one. So where do these guys get their parts!? off the back of a truck or something? lol..