A Rookie Miner's Blog

This is a beginner's guide for building up a 12 AMD GPU mining rig from start, it can be used for AMD RX580 RX570 RX470 RX480 graphics cards. Everyone has their own idea and method to build up a mining rig, there is no setup as the perfect method or solution, only you know what is the best setup for yourself. I won't argue which is the best, but will only explain why I choose each hardware and software. I will begin this tutorial step by step and go as detail as I can. 1. Select Hardware Motherboard BIOSTAR TB250-BTC PRO Checkout this Motherboard on Amazon US  or Amazon UK CPU Intel G3900 or G3930 Ethereum mining does not need much CPU power, I would recommend Intel G3930 or G3900 which ever is cheaper. Or any other Intel 7th Gen CPUs, Just make sure it is the INTEL 1151 SOCKET to be compatible with the motherboard. Checkout this CPU on  Amazon US  or  Amazon UK RAM - 8GB ddr 4 Make sure you choose DDR4 memory to be compatible with the...

It's probably not a good time to start a blog about mining since the price drop, however, just thought it might help some people who want to start mining today. I am not any sort of expert, just using this blog to share my experience on mining crypto currencies. When I started mining Ethereum, I had zero knowledge about crypto currency mining, although there were tutorials all over the Internet, however, I found the infomation is fragmented, so I had to dig into the forums and watch Youtube videos one by one to solve one simple problem. So the main aim of this blog is to make a record of the steps of building and optimising my own rig, share difficulties I met, and also the best possible solutions I found. Hope this blog will help someone who is about to started mining and wants the same rig setup as mine.