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3 way Crossfire? Check.
Large fan for 3 way Crossfire? Check
Dinky little AMD stock heatsink and fan? Check

Something seems a bit off here...
 
It was from before Bitcoins were impossible to mine with GPUs. Had the fan just lying there to provide additional cooling :)
Tried connecting some bridges and see if it could game. Didn't work so well :)
PS: Spent about $40 worth (estimated) of power on getting $30-40 worth of coins. Then coins rose to $300 value - and then I send them to an old wallet in a stupid hangover. BB BTC :P
 
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Jiniix said:
It was from before Bitcoins were impossible to mine with GPUs. Had the fan just lying there to provide additional cooling :)
Tried connecting some bridges and see if it could game. Didn't work so well :)
PS: Spent about $40 worth (estimated) of power on getting $30-40 worth of coins. Then coins rose to $300 value - and then I send them to an old wallet in a stupid hangover. BB BTC :p
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Maybe this isn;t the thread for it, but how does mining bitcoins work?
 
I remember that bitcoin mining was kinda waste of power. Is that still the case or is a regular miner again able to gain rather than to lose money?
 
With the introduction of ASICs, GPU mining died. Bitcoins are still very much a thing, but you need specialized hardware.
My HD 6950 2GB would do about 350MHash/s, while my friends GTX 590 would do about 250MHash/s. It was very AMD optimized (OpenCL/OpenGL I don't remember :)).
ASICs are small, low wattage, one-purpose devices that use about 5-10W and do 1GHash/s or more.
TLDR: You synchronize your wallet with all other miners, you lend your GPU/ASIC to be used for back-end banking services for Bitcoins and you get rewarded. The more power you can supply (measured in MHash/s) the more you are rewarded. But the overall MHash (effectively PHash at this point) determines the 'difficulty', ie how much you are rewarded.
 
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So in short, it's great for people living at their parents home and don't have to worry about the cost of electricity to power the mining machines.

Anyways, I built a new PC last night! I didn't have my DSLR so these are all with my phone:





 
Beast of a machine Geoff! Should be able to handle anything you throw at it for the next few years.

And that Noctura heatsink is massive.
 
Looks great Geoff!, love that board. The new G.Skill RAM looks pretty darn nice aswell. I had the MSI 980Ti's before I swapped them for my EVGA SC ones. They were great cards, Solid build, super quiet. Loved the backplate on them aswell!
 
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Very clean Geoff!

Why did you choose for 3x 840 RAID 0 vs M.2? Did you transfer them from your old build?
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Thanks! I had 3 of them from my old build, so I just reused them. I originally had 2 in RAID 0 and one in my MacBook Pro, but I got rid of the Mac so threw the third one in my new desktop. I was originally going to get an Intel 750 PCI-E SSD, but I figured it wasn't worth $400 over what I had.
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Beast of a machine Geoff! Should be able to handle anything you throw at it for the next few years.

And that Noctura heatsink is massive.
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I can't wait to start overclocking it!
tylerjrb said:
Looks great Geoff!, love that board. The new G.Skill RAM looks pretty darn nice aswell. I had the MSI 980Ti's before I swapped them for my EVGA SC ones. They were great cards, Solid build, super quiet. Loved the backplate on them aswell!
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Thanks! I love the look of the new board and RAM, goes very well with my white/red/black theme. This is the new G.Skill Ripjaw V RAM as well.
 
That mATX board in an ATX case though :p

Looks pretty good though mang.

Edit: I guess that case is just roomy enough to have that effect on full ATX boards :P
 
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3 way Crossfire? Check.
Large fan for 3 way Crossfire? Check
Dinky little AMD stock heatsink and fan? Check

Something seems a bit off here...
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Btw, it's M3A32-MVP Deluxe 790FX (supports 4-way CFX), AMD Phenom II X2 555BE and 3x HD5770 1GBs :)
 
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Small update. Finally got round to removing my HDD bays and disk drive area. Used a couple of plates i made at work to mount the HDD and SSD at the top. HDD is in the back of the case now mounted on the bottom plate. I hope it might help someone looking to do anything similar. Love the look of it and definately added some light and more spacious feeling into that part of the case. Camera quality a little better now due to my new nikon 3200 :).

Ohh and custom Spray painted SLI bridge with Red LED. The wallpaper... Really need to get round to changing it lol.

 
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That thing looks like amazing. Makes me want a bigger case window.

90 percent of the reason I want a water cooler, is because they look awesome. I'm assuming it's a custom loop? Those radiators all across the top?
 
Darren said:
That thing looks like amazing. Makes me want a bigger case window.

90 percent of the reason I want a water cooler, is because they look awesome. I'm assuming it's a custom loop? Those radiators all across the top?
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Thanks :). It is a custom loop yes. The radiator on the top is a 480mm x 60mm. There is also a 480mm x 38mm and 240 x 38mm in the bottom. Bit overkill but thought might aswell if the case can fit it all in without much extra hassle. Allows plenty of cooling capacity for anything i change too in the future.
 
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