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Originally Posted by Rathji
Those butterfly labs units have been pushed back for quite a few months.
The fact that they changed their pricing/models to match the results they were getting in their development is a good sign for me. Still about 30,000 units backordered at this point though, and best case shipping starts end of April.
I have wondered about setting up a small mining rig to run for a few months until they came online (and then sell and/or use the parts).
Any thoughts on motherboard/card/PSU?
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It depends on what you define by small?
As the motherboard, CPU, and ram have effectively no impact on mining, the most important factor for keeping costs down is aggregation and therefore all you need to consider is number of PCI-E slots on the motherboard. 1x slots work for mining as well as full length slots. Then you need to get ribbon expanders to get all the cards connected to the board as you will not be able to fit them all in and you will want to space them out for proper cooling. Last is to get a high efficiency (to cut down on heat and power consumption) powersupply rated highly enough to power your rig and also a in-socket power meter to see what your draw at the wall is.
My rigs were ancient multi-slot boards with el-cheapo CPUs and junk ram and small hard drives combined with a high-end PSU and cutting edge videocards.