Hey everyone,
So i'm writing this post to get some help.
I've been dabbing with the idea of mining crypto and gave my hand at it for a few months with a mixed rig. I managed to learn about the issues of trying to worked mixed rigs first hand, so i decided to purchase a used Asus mining b250 board with it's CPU(an i7-7700k). When I used this board with the mixed cards i had, it worked just fine. This was powered by synchronising two psu's together. 1 1000 W psu with a 850 W psu both gold psu's.
To get done away with the hassle of mining with a mixed card rig, I decided to get 6 6600 xt's with a single 1300 W platinum PSU and started plugging them in one by one to the Pcie slots and the cpu seemed to boot up fine upto the first 4 cards and recognised the cards. When i attached the 5th card to the mobo, at first the system booted up.... but then halfway through the boot, i lost all power. When i started trouble shooting, i realised that i was getting power to the mobo while connecting the 24 pin to the mobo, but the moment i attached the cpu cable to the mobo, i did not have any power.
Presuming that i had a failed motherboard, I called upon my computer guy and got him to try and check all parts, and one by one started building the whole system on another motherboard (Msi Z390 A pro). Here, we successfully started up the cpu without attaching any gpu's. Once we reached this stage, I started connecting in sequence the 1st card that was on the b250 mobo build (the idea being that the 1st 4 cards worked, so technically that should hace worked on this mobo too).
Upon connecting the 1st gpu to the motherboard, i found my 2nd mobo fried too.
I am completely lost on what could have caused both my motherboeards from dying on me. Any inputs on troubleshooting this would be much appreciated.
Also, if anyone can recommend to me whether it is a good idea to setup a rig currently or would it be advisable to just sell all my hardware and just buy crypto?
Thanks in advance.
So i'm writing this post to get some help.
I've been dabbing with the idea of mining crypto and gave my hand at it for a few months with a mixed rig. I managed to learn about the issues of trying to worked mixed rigs first hand, so i decided to purchase a used Asus mining b250 board with it's CPU(an i7-7700k). When I used this board with the mixed cards i had, it worked just fine. This was powered by synchronising two psu's together. 1 1000 W psu with a 850 W psu both gold psu's.
To get done away with the hassle of mining with a mixed card rig, I decided to get 6 6600 xt's with a single 1300 W platinum PSU and started plugging them in one by one to the Pcie slots and the cpu seemed to boot up fine upto the first 4 cards and recognised the cards. When i attached the 5th card to the mobo, at first the system booted up.... but then halfway through the boot, i lost all power. When i started trouble shooting, i realised that i was getting power to the mobo while connecting the 24 pin to the mobo, but the moment i attached the cpu cable to the mobo, i did not have any power.
Presuming that i had a failed motherboard, I called upon my computer guy and got him to try and check all parts, and one by one started building the whole system on another motherboard (Msi Z390 A pro). Here, we successfully started up the cpu without attaching any gpu's. Once we reached this stage, I started connecting in sequence the 1st card that was on the b250 mobo build (the idea being that the 1st 4 cards worked, so technically that should hace worked on this mobo too).
Upon connecting the 1st gpu to the motherboard, i found my 2nd mobo fried too.
I am completely lost on what could have caused both my motherboeards from dying on me. Any inputs on troubleshooting this would be much appreciated.
Also, if anyone can recommend to me whether it is a good idea to setup a rig currently or would it be advisable to just sell all my hardware and just buy crypto?
Thanks in advance.