The Beast – Bitcoin Mining Powerhouse
If you wanted some impressive numbers for Bitcoin mining, you have come to the right place. The Beast is a rig build around a Core i7 processor and motherboard and 5 GPUs working in tandem off of a single power supply.
Here you can see three cards lining up to be utilized for profit computing: the Radeon HD 6990, Radeon HD 5970 and Radeon HD 6970. With a total of 5 GPUs in this configuration we were really pushing the boundaries of our power supply and office air conditioning.
This screen grab shows you the 5 GPUs at work and the impressive (and dangerous) temperatures as a result. The HD 6990 card GPUs actually hit the 103 degree Celsius mark! Power consumption on this combination peaked at 1067 watts which actually tells how well built the Corsair AX1200 power supply is! The cards got HOT very quickly and the fans were spinning a much higher rate than we are used to. While the configuration did work for a while in our test bed I would not recommend anyone with a sane mindset build it for actual 24/7 usage.
So, let’s look at some of the performance results from "The Beast"!
Pushing nearly 1.6 Ghash/s, The Beast nearly doubles the performance of the overclocked ASUS ARES card.
Somewhat surprisingly, even at an estimated cost of $1710, the GPUs on The Beast were a better value than most of our other configurations and were only bested by the HD 5750, HD 5830 and HD 6850.
So, yes, The Beast used about 1067 watts during peak power consumption but in terms of performance per watt, again it impressed us by coming in second in this metric! The use of a pair of dual-GPU cards seems to be helping it out as those appeared to be the most power-efficient options.
As expected The Beast earns the most with just about $14.65 entering into your virtual wallet every 24 hours.
So it cost you $1710 to buy the cards but how long until you pay it off at that rate? A surprisingly modest 116+ days.
Because of the high cost of the ARES relative to other dual-GPU cards, The Beast is able to out gain the overclocked version of it by a factor of 2.18x with a potential profit of $3,637 per year AFTER paying off your $1,710 investment.
When we first decided to build The Beast for this article we thought it would definitely be an outlier in the performance metrics with that much power but we also though it would be way to power hungry and costly to make sense. That wasn’t really the case though – not only did we reach 1.6 Ghash/s but the power consumption and costs, though very high, were actually better than expected in relation to that performance. This indicates the hashing and SHA256 key creation process scales VERY close to linearly on these GPUs; something gaming rarely does.
You DO know that there are
You DO know that there are single-slot water-cooled Radeon HD 6990 monstrosities out there, do you? 8 of these in a single system *head spins*…
This whole thing sounds kind
This whole thing sounds kind of stupid.
Who is this IDIOT slamming
Who is this IDIOT slamming bit coins? Moron, the US government has nothing to do with the Federal Reserve Bank. It is owned by private individuals. Do you homework before your next show-n-tell.
Who is this IDIOT slamming
Who is this IDIOT slamming bit coins? Moron, the US government has nothing to do with the Federal Reserve Bank. It is owned by private individuals. Do you homework before your next show-n-tell.
Now i know why i can’t find
Now i know why i can’t find another 5850 to run crossfire with. The ones i do find are way overpriced now.
I’m looking at testing out a
I’m looking at testing out a very simple mining rig. If I get a Radeon 6XXX series GPU, would it make sense to use it on a Core 2 Duo system? Would the CPU be a bottleneck?
So your telling me you put a
So your telling me you put a Virus on your computer that helps criminals launder money.
you let it operate through your GPU because there is no security there.
and you spend hundreds on hardware and power, for a experiment in social engeneering?
then you think that because 3 places are taking the hype of the bitcoin as a COUPON to sell you shit at 3 times the normal cost, that the bitcoin is therin a currency?
what do you think your GPU is really processing?
or does anyone think?
You just dont get it,
the GPU
You just dont get it,
the GPU is processing YOU!
It is internally cyclicly redundant pre-processing your own non-trasnactions, into a multilevel advertising purchacing and marketing scheme.
If they do not enable the user with a journey, then there is no game to be played. There is no Corelation to alternative universal dimentional shifting of exchange goods in virtuality, when there still is nothing but virtuality in existance.
How do you perceive that something exist when one person tells you that it exist, and masses of people join that ONE person to confirm that it exists.
That is a singularity of the black hole variety.
IQ75 Clown pretending knowing something back then and has not even a slight idea what a gpu is or btc keep crying now
Isnt this a great record of BTC history!
Issue -problem guiminer with
Issue -problem guiminer with dual gpu card HD6870x2 powercolor. After creating new worker for the second Gpu, it still doesnt work 0 Mhashes the first gpu at 304 Mhashes clock at 970 Mhz 60% fan speed temp 74 degrees Celsius
flags -v -w128 -a4. Does anybody know how to setup this correctly , so that both gpu´s work at the same time thank you for helping me out.
This is all far too
This is all far too complicated for me. Can’t you have a simple link to click on that will look at one’s machine and say “yes” or “no”?
How do I buy the beast? Then
How do I buy the beast? Then after I buy, I would probably find a better more efficient system where?
You guys really need to rerun
You guys really need to rerun this test using bitminter. I have the GTX 560 TI and I am getting 138 Mhps with that card. Also would really like to see how the new ATI 7xxx series cards perform.
is your 560ti a 448 core
is your 560ti a 448 core version or no? also are you only running 1 card or do you have a sli, tri-sli, or tri-sli with a fourth dedicated physics card?
kinda wonder what my ole x58 rig might pull off with its i7 980X cpu
3x GTX 560Ti 448 core GPU’s
lowly 9600GT that is just in there as a dedicated PhysX processor
course I built it with a 1600 watt psu and the system doesn’t pull enough juice to really even warm the power supply up LOL
Has anyone considered solar
Has anyone considered solar power for the electricity? Take longer to recoup costs, but any analysis?
Ralph