Will here and today, I am going to be sharing a little project I decided to start back in early January. It is something that I had done some research on for a couple of months before finally taking the leap to do it and that is cryptocurrency mining. I would have had this article together and up sooner but I have been away for the last 2 weeks doing training as I am in the Army. So, when Uncle Sam tells me to do something, I do it. First up in this build is the processor. For this mining rig, I chose the Intel Celeron G3900 processor. The Intel Celeron G3900 is a relatively cheap processor which is why it is perfect for a mining rig. The Intel Celeron G3900 is a dual core processor without hyperthreading and fits into the LGA1151 socket. The processor operates at a locked 2. The processor comes with an included cooler plus Intel HD Graphics 510 integrated and supports up to 64GB of RAM. The next component was the motherboard. This is a microATX motherboard with the LGA1151 socket. The board comes with 2 memory slots that support up to 32GB of DDR4 RAM at 2133MHz. There are 4 SATAIII ports. For mining purposes, there is a single PCIe-16x slot and 2 PCIe-1x slots for support of up to 3 GPUs when using riser cards. The board does support M. The next component was the RAM. For this rig, I chose the Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 4GB RAM module at 2400MHz. This may be a bit of overkill for this system but this RAM was actually cheaper than the less aesthetically pleasing standard RAM modules at the time. The rig boots up super fast for when I was making adjustments to the system. For the heavy lifter of this system, I went with an AMD card as they are still the best and most efficient graphics cards for mining cryptocurrency. As I was looking at graphics cards and the current market, I felt really stupid that I sold the RX 570 card I had purchased during the Black Friday deals as this card was nearly two times the amount of the RX 570. I purchased the most inexpensive RX 580 I could find that had 8GB of video memory. The MSI RX 580 Armor OC operates on a core clock of 1. Finally, powering this system is a Corsair CX650M 80+ Bronze Certified semi-modular power supply. This entire mining rig was placed into an old DeepCool Tesseract case that I repurposed. I will add custom railing for the GPUs and risers as I purchase them. The plan at this time is to pay off a card and then purchase another card for a total of 3 mining cards, all RX 580 8GB variants. If the profitability remains, I will continue to upgrade cards as more powerful and efficient cards become available. I have a custom BIOS I am using with this card and have adjusted the core clock to 1117MHz and a memory clock maxed out at 2250MHz. The power limit is set at -15, temp limit at 75C and a fan speed of 70%; all adjusted via MSI Afterburner. These settings along with the BIOS mod nets 30. With this speed and my 26. So, there you have it. 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