Taking a part an old Chia mining PC

[fec32a4de]

Hello everyone.

Maybe I'm posting this in the wrong forum, as its less about mining and more about the aftermath...

Some time ago I was tasked with building a Chia mining PC for someone, but they gave up on that computer, and gave all the hardware back to me.
I'll repurpose the remaining hardware to make a decent gaming PC for a friend, its got a 3600X and 32GB of RAM. Just needs a decent GPU and a new SSD (despite the system reports, the SSDs have failed).

Its sure is a sight to behold

More storage = faster PC right?

 

[natr0n]

nice 10.9 tb drives.

You have no real gpu, so thats all you need. You could raid 0 those bad boys.

 

[ShiBDiB]

old Chia... It was definitely less than a year ago that Chia was somehow going to be the next big thing and it was touted as a green alternative to gpu mining (despite absolutely destroying HDD's for no good reason).

I still don't understand the end goal of the entire project besides some tinfoil hat conspiracy of HDD makers pushing demand.

I'm not sure I would trust any of those drives with any kind of important information at this point, not to mention they're all slower NAS drives.

 

[Frick]

I still don't understand the end goal of the entire project besides some tinfoil hat conspiracy of HDD makers pushing demand.

Like all crypto: Making Money combined with a ponzi scheme.

 

[GreiverBlade]

crypto shenanigans aside (personal opinion but whatever ... )

try to find a 6700 XT or 6750 XT with that initial setup : golden (second hand is fine but be wary of "ooohhhh evil miner that resell bullied GPUs" )

it's what i use minus the "X" on the R5 3600 and 16gb ram less (and i have yet to find a game that does not run fine maxed out @ 1440p or slightly optimized settings @ 1620p)

throw in a good 1/2tb SSD for starter (Sandisk Ultra are quite good as i've found recently ... and on the cheap side)

 

[natr0n]

The 1st ryzen cpu I got was a 3600xt. Mom using it now. Monster powerful though in games.

Not sure why I got the xt its no different than x or normal it seems now.

 

[R-T-B]

old Chia... It was definitely less than a year ago that Chia was somehow going to be the next big thing and it was touted as a green alternative to gpu mining (despite absolutely destroying HDD's for no good reason).

I still don't understand the end goal of the entire project besides some tinfoil hat conspiracy of HDD makers pushing demand.

I'm not sure I would trust any of those drives with any kind of important information at this point, not to mention they're all slower NAS drives.

It really only wrecked SSDs, HDDs could take it rather well.