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Bitcoin miner died

After three days of debugging and endless frustration I’m sure that my mainboard died. I’ll get a 1:1 replacement, but I’m losing about 8 BTC until I get it.

My Bitcoin miner

Because I believe in the future of Bitcoins I built this 1.4 Gh/s mining rig: MB: MSI 890FXA-GD70 (4 usable PCIe slots) CPU: AMD Sempron 145 (2.8GHz, there’s no need for a fast CPU in mining) RAM: KINGSTON 1GB CL7 KVR1066D3N7/1G (cheapest available RAM) GPUs: 4x Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Xtreme (came in stock at [...]