Crypto currency mining

[ainarssems]

Originally Posted by MikkiJayne

for micro-rigs with a secondary purpose

Can you split that single PCIe port?

I could and I have 1 to 3 splitter. It was not working well on Microserver, I thought it was splitters fault and have not used it since but it was a bit dodgy on Microserver even with one card without splitter so the splitter might be OK. There are other versions like 1 to 2 and 1 to 4 as well, possibly even more. My friend is using 1 to 2 without any issues. The bus bandwidth is not an issue, each card only uses 1-2% of available bandwidth running on Gen2 x1 PCIe slot.

On this one the idea is to use 1x normal riser and 1x mPCIe riser as that should be less bulky than using splitter.

Also I think I will skip the mSata SSD on this one and run EthOs from USB stick if I can get WiFi working on it as I do not want to run Ethernet cable to it because I have not any Ethernet sockets in the room I want to use it in.

[moltuae]

Well, I have 2 x L3+ Antminers (inc. PSUs) just arrived this morning.

Still not sure whether to keep them or sell them yet. They're selling on Ebay for as much as £3,500 (inc PSU). Not counting any loss of cryptocurrency investment profits (since I used crypo to purchase them), I think they cost me the equivalent of about £1,800 each, including PSU, shipping and duty.

If I decide to put one/both of them on Ebay, I'll probably put them on at a £3K reserve. I'd prefer payment in BTC, so if anyone here is interested in one, I'm happy to sell one for somewhere in the region of 0.25 BTC (inc postage), which would give me small profit. Probably not as much profit as I would've made had I kept the funds invested, but just about enough to make buying them worthwhile I think.