Chia Plotting Build $620 w/ Dual XEON CPUs

[@FransRytkonen]

Update: Pools dont come on 17th. They have just been moved to end of the month. You should check Bram's Twitter in case you dont believe me

[@marcfree2855]

Sourcecode?

[@SlothTechTV]

@@marcfree2855 its true! Pinned this comment!

[@marcfree2855]

But the say it:-(

[@xKevmachinex]

@@marcfree2855 dang, use this time to get hardware then, buy what ever you can, search locally and check the used market.

[@sreejhu]

How's is my build, what do you think ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/FgpVz7

[@d1ryan]

Really like your videos. You explain things in a very friendly (noob & nerd) way and I recommend them on to people having issues getting set up. I run my rig off of Debian 10 and used your awesome YT swar-plot-manager video (albeit windows), to get through some of my config.yaml questions. Keep the awesome content coming please!!!!

[@dronetrooperfpv7810]

I don’t think the growth rate will continue at the rate it is for much longer. Going from 2 EB to 4 EB is double, but 20 EB to 40 EB is also double and probably won’t happen over a few days. The space will grow, but we need to stop thinking that 100% growth rate in a few days will continue for years and years. However, it is possible and so is time travel.

[@kelanel]

I'm all for using older hardware. Great video to exposure to cheap proc options. I'd also recommend looking up local E-waste providers. Got a dell poweredge r720 with 2x xeon 2670 & 64GB ram, for $280 (needed hdd and bracket for sas front plane). Totally worth it

[@luisprates8223]

Hi, that sounds interesting, but how do you work with a server device for plotting? I never used one for anything

[@kyushka.]

What type of ram

[@kelanel]

@@kyushka. fully buffered ecc lddr3

[@kelanel]

@@luisprates8223 if you look at the owners manual, it's essentially a really long pc, complete with ramslots, cpu, pcie slots (with risers), etc. Some (blades) are smaller form factor and usually move the pcie slots elsewhere but otherwise are similar. Just more redundant components to ensure long life at full duty cycle

[@Nkhet]

Just finished flashing the perc h710p to IT mode, now waiting on my firecuda 520's.

[@yerry_verse]

We are buying some parts... thank you because your tutorial was the one make us enter this Chia-Race... keep them coming !!!

[@daelynrichards5806]

I love the dog in the background! Haha, "Woof! That's a lot of plots!" :-) Thanks for all your help, Mr. Sloth man. Keep up the great content and videos!

[@SlothTechTV]

Aw thanks! She really wanted to debut in a video, she told me she has been trying to catch a break but her acting career just hasn't taken off yet. I think this spotlight might help her -- she's the cutest dog there ever was.

[@LucaVicini]

You are brilliant. Your videos are the most informative and well documented, Chia plotting videos ever. A warm thank you from Spain

[@MB.Crypto]

You should make a video how you set up the device, what program you are using to plot?, how did you figure stagger time and what is your stagger time, how many lots at 1 time? How do you manage them and get your time information to gauge speed, I bought your exact build and would like to see how it works and how it is set up, how did you build your hdd Sara rig and set up raid and everything else. Thank you for your videos

[@CHRISG612]

Great video as usual and thanks for sharing the parts needed in the description. It makes things so easy!!

[@jamesvelvet3612]

Pure Gold. TY! The idea of repurposing old server hardware (sold at pennies on the dollar) makes soooooo much sense and I think it aligns well with the Chia culture of less ewaste and energy. I am KICKING myself for offing tons (literally) of old servers, NAS devices, and other enterprise and desktop equipment over the last few years. Hundreds of small (

[@slikk9958]

Also a good option to consider is getting a x99 motherboard either used or from AliExpress for around 120 dollars and pair it with a 12 core Xeon for about 100 dollars, if you have some other parts like a case, psu, etc. lying around, you can build a very good system for cheap.

[@SlothTechTV]

That's very true! I did this for one of my builds, I think most people are intimidated by building their own rig I figure maybe this could help them by starting small.

[@tigerzuo5770]

how much can it plot?

[@slikk9958]

@@tigerzuo5770 About 16 Plots a day with one 12 Core Xeon, you expect about 32 if you go dual socket, will cost about 300 $ more

[@slikk9958]

@@SlothTechTV Im a big Fan of doing everything my self, I don’t really like working with the dell workstations, because they don’t use standard components sometimes. You can get the cpu and Mainboard I mentioned and put it in a case wich can fit 16 3.5 inch drives like a Nanocia deep silence 6. You can plot on the rig and store 360tb of plots or even more depending on wich hard drives you get.

[@wackogames]

Would these CPUs work well with Plex? I plan to build a server for chia plotting and when have plotted enough use it as Plex server. Need to be able for 4-5 devices to stream at the same time 10-20GB movie files. I read Quicksync is important for that but it seems it is supported only in newer Xeons onwards.

[@alexl2848]

Hi, you recommend PCIe Gen4 SSDs, however the Xeon CPUs and adapters only support up to Gen3. Is there a particular reason you choose Gen4 over Gen3, despite the higher price? Will they perform faster? Thank you so much for your videos, really helped me! I get my T7910 with 2x Xeon 20c processors and 256GB RAM delivered next week. Just about to add some NVMEs via the Dell x16 -> Quad m.2 cards. Any feedback on that approach? Would you recommend to RAID the NVME drives?

[@HA-up5qq]

Great video. Can you confirm that having this workstation with 1 CPU gives you 40 plots per day? Or is this with dual CPU? Can you also show a video confirming the setup and evidence of the plots as many people are following with your videos for guidance too. Thanks

[@MiGo029]

Great videos. I've learned so much. I have an HP Z800 Workstation 2x Xeon Quad Core X5570 2.93GHz 48GB RAM 2TB 7.2K PC SATA Drives lying around. Would it be worth it as a respectable replacement for your recommended builds? Thanks

[@thommerlin]

Alex and you help out how you are configuring Swar with the dual Xeon's? I am working with a T7910 w/ 2x E5-2699 and 64gb RDIMM. Struggling trying to figure out the optimal plotting setup as I have a weird mix of SSDs. System came with 2x 240gb SSD and I was able to get a 800gb S3700. Trying to source some more SSD's currently. I have watched your videos every day back to back and I am drowning trying to figure this out better. Thanks again for your content!

[@kasumigames526]

Man I didn't even know you could run a dual cpu computer and I also didn't know that the pcie adapter's ran at full speed thank you so much sloth 👍

[@seanlundy9844]

Awesome video. Can you describe the setup you use to store/farm the plots (after they're created). I'm assuming this is a separate box with high capacity HDDs? Do you have it connected to the plotter via a 10G switch?

[@kishanbalaji1007]

Love your videos! thanks for helping the community by sharing your knowledge!

[@nerle71]

Great video and tips. What do you think which one is better, 12 core with 2,3Ghz or 10 core with 3 GHz?

[@luisandresdelgado1763]

Nice content! Just a question. Are the Prebuilt 7910 ones ready to plot or they still would need more add ons?

[@FirstLast-xk6fd]

So I guess the $620 doesnt include the $400 NVMe :( good content though, your previous video how to use Swar was amazing

[@justinaustill7419]

Just got a T5600 big thx to Sloth for these video's keep up the good work man.

[@user-ns1vi9to3e]

i bought one too! but i cant find the right settings... how many tb/day did you achieve? and what specs you got (ram/ssd)?

[@realPhotoMocha]

Did you add an nvme on the PCIe bus?

[@rcalvotorrejon]

Really awesome content!! Thank you very much for all your videos. I look for new ones everyday so keep on the good work! One thing I would like you to comment is which tool you use to monitor your plotting time. I would love to see those graphs of my plots!

[@seoultrain99]

Good info like this is so hard to find. Well done.

[@brentgt80]

Thanks for sharing! What size power supply are you running on the T5600? I'm wondering if the 635W will be enough, or if you need the 825W.

[@jz2188]

Many thanks for this, went for T5600 and dual E5-2690's , in the UK prices are higher but works out ok. Problem is finding fast nvme, how much impact would it be using WD blue 2600MB/s vs samsung 980's as there are none to be had. would the 32 threads be bottlenecked you think?

[@ariveloutsos2492]

@ Sloth Tech TV - may I ask what OS you running on dual xeon cpu, win10, winserver 2012,2016,2019, ubuntu?

[@Pathaholic]

Sorry for so many comments. im just really not seeing many creators talk about chia and you seem pretty helpful. I have an old HDD right now that is 1tb i filled with plots, i cant really afford any new hardware right now. is it worth doing with 8 plots? or should I just abandon it altogether.

[@VeniGaming]

I don't know how to add extra drive to chia gui one of my is full ang got one external drive but don't know how to add it 😪😪😪

[@SlothTechTV]

@@VeniGaming in the gui you'll go to Plots* then click top right corner there are three dots, click add plot directory then click add and add the new drive.

[@kuku556677]

Hello Mr. Sloth a quick question here if you have more than 2 NVMe SSD, do you think make them into raid 0 will make plotting faster ? thanks! great video as always

[@SlothTechTV]

its almost always faster to set up jobs on individual drives. I have found a performance penalty when doing raid 0.

[@SlothTechTV]

great question!

[@kuku556677]

@@SlothTechTV thank you for the reply :) so im just gonna leave them individually, again great videos, and good luck on farming chia!

[@TheSKeFi]

@@SlothTechTV May I ask you how much plots in parallel can I run if I only have 2x2tb or 4x1tb NVME drives that I want to plot on individually?

[@Stoic9]

if you generating that many plots per day aren't you spending a small fortune on storage drives?? And what do you do when all of your storage is full? Do you have dedicated farming rigs with all your full drives in em, or what?

[@renemondragon3752]

Awesome videos, the best for Chia! Have some questions man. 1. Does Prebuilt servers are like just plug and start plotting machines? 2. How many plots per day generate the Prebuilt 7910 with DUAL 2695 v3? 3. For this Prebuilt 7910 with DUAL 2695 v3 how many Samsung Pro 2TB NVMe do I need for max plotting? Thanks!

[@darioanguisaca3747]

I just ordered a t5610 with the cpu you recommended and also bought 8 600gb hard drives from your next video

[@csouth3136]

Any idea what motherboard the T5610 is using? I bought a T5610 the other day and am trying to plan out my setup while I wait for it to arrive. Trying to optimize my HDD setup, currently sitting on 5 x 12TB HDD and 2x10TB HDD and want to keep this from turning into a mess lol. Considering ordering a larger case with tons of internal 3.5HDD slots but need to know the form factor of the motherboard. Or if you just happen to know how many SATA ports it has thats helpful too, thx!!

[@Christopher0828]

Hey appreciate all the thorough guides. Helping me a lot set up my machine. Which tool do you use to analog your chia manager logs?

[@apapos]

I got the same setup . 2x xenon's , 10 cores each. 64 gb ram and 2x Nvme 2tb inland professional. I'm getting only 52 min per plot in madmax . Any idea why ? Thanks

[@alexcoded]

Hi, quick question. Is it "mandatory" to have one big disk for instance 18TB or can I have multiple disks (6 disks * 4TB) for the permanent storage of plots? I mean, since the program gives the ability to add plotting directories I should be able to have my plots available for farming from multiple disks, right?

[@DotcomDollar]

is the xeon e5-2660 good enough for the T5600 machine? How much more benefit does the 2690 provide? Thank you so much for your help.

[@evilloooo]

2660 is way better than my 2650 so go ahead

[@SlothTechTV]

Yeah the 2660 is pretty decent still, you can use passmark to compare them it's a decent comparison tool

[@chexmix1227]

@Sloth Tech Thank you so much for your budget build video. Went out and picked up a t7810 with 2x e5v2670w. I'm curious what your plot times are and what your settings are to compare performance.

[@DavidSilva-yd4mo]

completely new to all this, ended up wasting a bunch on money on random parts that I thought i needed... I wish i stumbled on your video before I spend thousands of dollars. Can you do a walk through of the entire process ( setting up the farming computer, fine tuning Chia plotting, running on parallel, ETC) Thanks!

[@tylerm124]

He has videos on how to setup a plotting Manger and how to get chia in cli and his settings

[@iamjacksundyingaddiction6595]

@@tylerm124 If I choose to do it this way "Z440 Add a 2699 v3! $349: amzn.to/3y5u8PM 40 plots per day with 2699 v3" then I just have to buy the Ram 64GB DDR3 ECC $199 and I can mine 40 plots and am good, right? Thanks

[@iamjacksundyingaddiction6595]

@@GMLZ330 Can you help me find parts I need to do 40 plots daily with budget of $1k I will pay you? Thanks

[@iamjacksundyingaddiction6595]

@@GMLZ330 but my budget is $1k ^ isn't that like $2k +

[@Dafnessific]

@@iamjacksundyingaddiction6595 better work out how you're going to store the plots you're producing after a few weeks, and how you're going to transfer them off your plotting box in time to keep it from bogging down, if you're that budget sensitive. 40 plots a day x 108GB = 4.32TB of plots a day. At going prices for in-stock 8TB drives, that's about $750 in farm space a week. $3,000 a month. And that's before considering what's going to host all those drives as they pile up. Consider whether you really need or want that much plotting capacity, if it's just going to sit around for want of static storage.

[@j1andrade2000]

I just built the T5610 from your guidance. Highly appreciated. Having a hell of a time installing windows or Ubuntu. Trying different BIOS setups from different sources to no avail. Do you have any guidance: video or someone else's video or blog. Day 2 of trying! Thanks in advance.

[@JasonSouthwell75]

What Power supply did your t5600 come with? Mine has 635w and boot errors on PS too small for dual 2.9's :(

[@CJ-zb6my]

I bought the following build a day or two ago based on one of your videos from earlier this week. Is it still a good option? Most were bought through your links. Thank you. - Dell Precision 7910 / T7910 Tower (duel cpus, using standard cpus that comes with server) - 64 GB of server ram, includes 16GB that comes with server - 3 Samsung 980 Pro 2TB NVMs (with pcie to nvm cards) - 1 WD Gold Enterprise Class SATA HDD 18TB. - 2 WD 10TB Elements Desktop Hard Drive HDD (plan to connect directly to server usb slots) **run external drives as usb-storage mode**

[@SlothTechTV]

that is a great option! faster than anything i have minus my 3990x... pretty powerful build. ty for supporting the channel!!

[@CSIG1001]

Great videos , are you using windows 10 or ubuntu for chia?

[@SeososIt]

the problem is find HD to keep the plots, aprt some countries, in some others are super expensive and also hard to get it

[@dracol]

Can you explain your plotting settings and strategy please?

[@sreejhu]

dont waste time and money this CHia is not at all profitable unless if you are ready to spread 10k investment and but still there is no hope on this project,

[@bekeneel]

@@sreejhu Huh based on? Alltho I have to say at this point, current price it's not worth it. Especially if you consider how expensive big hdds are.

[@sreejhu]

@@bekeneel based on experience bro!! Solo plotting you can't beat the network space! Once pool comes then we have to see but that also not worth it as per current price lol better invest in eth mining

[@bekeneel]

@@sreejhu You don't have to "beat" the network space, it all depends on how much you wanna invest in it.

[@donovannewton9507]

Curious question here, I noticed that for the 5600 you have linked Ddr3 1866mhz Ram. The manual shows the max is 1600mhz and I’m curious to know if it runs that fast. I purchased the 2680 processors and I wanted to max it out at 128gb

[@PablumMcDump]

Question about upgrades -- like LSI controllers and such -- does using a Precision mean not worrying about "IT mode" flashing of Dell server components? It seems that getting off-the-shelf used Dell can be cheaper than OEM, but usually carries warnings about compatibility or ability to upgrade firmware outside of Dell servers.

[@WhyDoIPosttt]

How hot do these machines run? My T5810 is running pretty hot when plotting.

[@moechenche2924]

i got a T5180 build from your guide, just started plotting my 1st 6 plots, not the fastest of machines, I have the 2TB Firecude, 32GB Ram, and E5-2670 V3 2.3Ghz 12-Cores CPU, plotting in Ubuntu. I think i need to stagger the parallel a little longer. Only did 30 minutes. After 8 hours my 1st plot only around 30%

[@SlothTechTV]

yeah -- stagger is key. its also important to give phase 1 more cores and time to complete before adding too many more drives to the nvme for phase 1. i think that firecuda can probably do a decent # per day if you set it up right.

[@moechenche2924]

@@SlothTechTV The PCIE only being 3.0 keeps the NVME from going even faster but i'm up to around 14 plots a day

[@SlothTechTV]

@@moechenche2924 I've found no noticable difference when plotting on 4.0 drives on 3.0 motherboards or 4.0 motherboards.

[@vituxx100]

Great video! thanks for sharing. Could you make a video on how you are setting up harvesters? do you use plot manager to link them to your farmer?

[@simonappleton8418]

What temperatures do you hit? My cpus are gettin gup to 90 degrees C, and the fans are very loud... wondering the best way to sort better cooling...

[@STATICRaiding]

I bought a T5610, put 128GB or ram and upgraded to dual Xeon E5-2690 V2. I also have 2 Samsung 1.6TB U.2 drives. Question is what are your chia setting to get to the 40 plots per day on this rig?

[@dvalin231]

@SlothTechTV: I would like to see some proof which numbers you are actually able to produce, sometimes you talk about 30plots per day, then 40plots per day, then 35plots/day - not very serious. Also, considering that people are complaining in your comments that they have a similar setup and barely able to reach 15 per day. Furthermore, please explain how many jobs in parallel you run, which settings you use and how big your SSD storage used for plotting is. Thanks, highly appreciated!

[@SlothTechTV]

Absolutely -- Currently I'm at 20 plots today with this dual 2690 t5600 and its only 11:02am. I'm plotting on Intel s3700 400GB SAS SSDs (very cheap on ebay.. or at least they were when i first made a video about them). I have it broken up by 3x 400GB SSDs in raid 0 with 2 plots in phase 1, 60 minute stagger time, 4 max concurrent and 4 cores each. Each raid 0 of 3 drives is capable of completing approximately 8-9 plots per day, I have 5 raid 0's with a total of 15 drives. That gets me 8*5 = 40.. I'm still tuning so I'll let you know what kind of performance i squeeze out with a bit more tune.

[@dvalin231]

@@SlothTechTV Thanks for sharing this. The first plots are not reliable, let's wait for your system to settle and look at a full day of plotting - very curious already! Just to understand it correct, you are running 5x 4 plots in parallel? Please provide more details about your setup, do you use e.g. plotman?

[@SlothTechTV]

@@dvalin231 I have been plotting on this for several days the 20 plots today was just a data point as i think I'll get more than 40 plots today. I said 30-40 in the video because ymmv with whatever storage you use. That said I am getting about 37-42 plots per day.. it mostly comes down to lots of fast SSD... The SAS SSD option is a bit more expensive but you can take advantage of having many of them vs just a few nvme drives.

[@dvalin231]

@@SlothTechTV Do you have discord or keybase? I have many more questions and would really like to share and improve this together!

[@SlothTechTV]

@@dvalin231 Yeah! Sounds great! I'm working on the discord piece ill get it all set up and share it with you

[@arseneandrouse5554]

Just got a T5810 last week (it's got a e5 1630 v3 4c, 8t and can currently get about 8~9 plots a day at best). Too bad I didn't see this video before making that purchase. Anyways.. planning to upgrade cpu to a e5 2678 v3(12c ,24t). Fingers crossed it gets me to 30 plots a day 🤞

[@yaksaredabomb]

Thanks for the great ideas! What do you think about the Prebuilt 7910 with DUAL 2690 v3 (12-core) 64GB RAM you linked for $1797 (currently $2168), versus buying 2x T5610 with DUAL E5-2670 (8-core) and 64GB RAM, for $560 each ($1120 total)?

[@rrsdove]

Loving the content. I am currently working on a building a Dell Precision 7810 unit now based on your videos. It has 2x XEON E5-2620 12 cores with 65GB of RAM. I am waiting on a SATA 1x4 splitter for the power supply so I can power the 4x Intel DC S3520 drives I found. The only issue I am running into now if finding a drive enclosure for my SSDs as there is not room in the case and I do not want to put them in a 4 drive USB 3 case. Any suggestions?

[@KosMosyt]

Hey I bought the lsi SAS board you recommended and plugged it into pci port and plug in breakout cables to sata into hard drives but the drives aren't detected by windows. Do I need to install drivers for the board?

[@anthonydangelo4584]

Are you sure your running nvme on a Dell t5600? I have 2 of them and from I read nvme adapters don't work. Can you please advise me?

[@realPhotoMocha]

I got the same issue, I bough an Dell T5600: Windows hangs when booting if the PCIe nvme Adapter with an Crucial P5 CT2000P5SSD8 2TB is installed

[@afrikcargonetworkchad8915]

Hi there, seriously found out about this just today and am ready to jump start. Have some questions though. I am in Cameroon will that be an issue for me to start chia mining? Can you help me get the right machine for plotting? Your earliest response will be highly appreciated

[@johnabrams3313]

I purchased equipment. What's the best game plan? Plot now, wait for pools to start plotting, buy a bunch of plots?

[@magdy0nline]

Really would like to thank you for your effort and I would like to ask you for the actual configuration of the plotter and a video on advanced tuning of the plotter manager on this exact rig as I'm going to buy it soon and want to take a shortcut :D

[@davejam7267]

Love your videos. It helped me very to figure out my setup. In my case i cant find 2699 v3 but 2697 v3 cpu for HP Z440. Will there be a big difference between these 2 Cpus? Thanks bro.

[@drumkatfrias]

I’m wanting to build up the T5600 system on this video. Thank you for all your hard work and info. Can you elaborate on just this system? Your information is very good but i get confused when you side tangent on other possible builds or options. What exactly would i need to build this specific system? Dell T5600 2x E5-2620 Workstation, (2) Intel Xeon E5-2690 Processors, (4) 16 GB PC3-14900 Memory. What else? I’m stuck here. Complete newb here but I am excited to get started on this journey.

[@SlothTechTV]

Sorry for the side tangents... You'll need to replace the 2620 cpus with e5-2690 or e5-2680 processors That should be enough RAM! great job. You'll also want either SAS Enterprise SSDS (S3700 intel, or hgst sas ssds) for temporary space to plot

[@drumkatfrias]

@@SlothTechTV Please don’t apologize. I’m am not savvy in this area at all. How many S3700 intel SSD can i out in this setup? Just trying to follow your instructions because I’m in the dark with this. Thank you for your time. I appreciate your content.

[@chukachris]

is price the only downside of the prebuilt 7910s?

[@maestro4356]

You recommended enterprise sata/sas SSD drives for alternative temp storage in your previous video. Would love to see a video about the performance difference between those and NVMe SSDs, given their lower read/write times.

[@SlothTechTV]

Will do!!

[@halukyildiz4126]

@@SlothTechTV Hi to all !!! I have a lot of questions to ask....What r we downloading? whats the data? i mean what is in it?...and all the time, what is it doing as a process? ok, they r paying us (with no money...with a currency they have invented)...but what r they getting from us?! can any one explain? this is like a big scam...they r illegally printing money...like...i can give you an example...once upon a time there were a family named UZAN Familiy...they have got one of the GSM operators here in Turkiye TELSIM....they also have got a bank named IMAR BANK...but they have somehow got in some fraud and left country...police have found a lot of GSM credit cards in their secret stashes...millions of them...they have printed the cards...and have been selling them..in that days, u must use these cards to load minutes to your gsm card inorder to use their system to talk on phone....when they needed money, they were easily selling discounted GSM credit cards and were collecting a lot of cash from people in short periods....I think that was a kind of playing the role of central banks....and as i think about this coin mining stuation....I dont know...I want to understand the logic, the process...I really want to understand....Look....I can sell my car now...its about 12k USD now in Turkiye...and i can build a couple of these systems with this money...so i will never need to work again....i can easily add and renew systems with the part of all income every year or every 2 years...is there any logic ?!?! any answers please !!!

[@SlothTechTV]

You might be surprised at the results.. nvme is usually faster from a total throughput perspective than ssd connected via SAS; however, plotting is not a high throughput process (well.. relatively speaking) its an IOP problem. many many small writes/reads.

[@maestro4356]

@@SlothTechTV so in practice, would that mean SAS SSD is still slower but much less than the difference for read/write speeds between NVMe and SAS, equal times or even better times which I would find unlikely? Looking forward to the vid man you got me heated up!

[@midget1993]

@@halukyildiz4126 did you sell your car?

[@habutti]

Another great informative video...thank you!! Now, when are you going to upload a build video of one of these systems :)?

[@WarhavenSC]

The 2TB PNY CS3030 has a TBW of 3115 TB, nearly on parity with the Sabrent Rocket's 3600, and much higher than most off the shelf SSDs, but for much less. ~$270 vs ~$400 for the Sabrent. I think the PNY is the best bang/reliability for the buck if you're looking for plotting SSDs. [edit] I miss-typed the PNY model. It's the CS3030, not the CS2130.

Corsair MP600 2TB 3600 TWB, currently for about ~400$, the best bang per bucks drive so far. 0.035$/plot if you plan to plot 9500 plots. I have one with 3720 TWB written, and it still works and claims 95% used. I have tried few SSDs, various generations...they still do same plotting time because they all use same NAND, Phison controllers. Only thing that changes is price per plot. If you can afford Intel Optane, they have same $/plot...but you need 2000$, while plotting 20k plots.

[@wenhaogao8012]

Question: Does E5 2680 v3 Supporting the DDR 3? I check the spec found it likely only supporting ddr 4, how's your set works?

[@SlothTechTV]

thea 2680 v3 doesn't support ddr3 -- this video was for a t6200 which uses a 2680 v1 or 2690 v1... Which does use ddr3

[@varekb]

Noob question: Do you plot and farm on the same machine? Or do you transfer the plot to a "farmer"?

[@lennesshaw2378]

I just got a 5610 I can't wait to get to it

[@chuba1]

in my main rig i have 480gb kingston ssd and 3tb hdd, 2tb space left, 16gb ram, here we go!

[@EduardoBlancoMiami]

HI, I bought one of the PCs on your links. I have a questions, I have a DL380e Gen 8 Server with 2x E5-2450L 1.8ghz. It plots at 12 hours +, do you think it is due to the CPU? I can upgrade to E5-2450 v2, Do you think those would work? LOVING YOUR VIDEOS!

[@FatmanGary]

Another great video, keep em comin

[@artjink]

Do some of the listed T5600s (with single CPU) have dual socket? Or only the ones pre-installed with dual CPU have dual socket?

[@SlothTechTV]

all t5600's are dual socket, they just might only come with a single cpu

[@autodiag7044]

@@SlothTechTV Please share your experience regarding 4 NVMe drive on those PCIE slots.

[@parkerfairfield201]

Hoping you can discuss a high end build. Let's say more than $2000 for the rig WITHOUT the HDD/ SSD

[@Fate025]

I believe you could also split up that capital to build 2 mid range plotting systems instead of just 1 high end build.

[@simonlussier9276]

If I buy a 5600 without a operating system would it be better if i install Linux, I heard that it is about 20% faster plotting compare to windows ? Thanks and great video !!!

[@eugenehernandez5809]

Can you share your setting to plot the amount that you claim per day? Thanks.

[@vidojearsic6746]

Nice man!Very good job!

[@DaveMossHeaterville]

if i buy one of those pre built 7910s, do i still need to add an NVME Drive?? are you adding the costs of the NVME in this $620 price? or is that a cost already factored in elsewhere

[@hulk2891]

Great info thanks , I'm new and only just setting out maybe I should just wait till pools? what is your thoughts on this ? start plotting or wait for pools if your new to the game.

[@BradeyMoore]

Great video, thanks for all of your advice! Would you mind listing exactly what you bought for your build? Wanting to follow suit. Thanks!

[@2112sup]

Great info! Using your link I went with a T7810 with dual E5 2680 V3 processors, 128gig ram, and 3 x 2tb sabrent rocket ssd. On windows 10 I can only see 1 CPU, under task manager while plotting it only is using 1 CPU it looks like, and under system information is just lists 1 CPU. I checked and there physically 2 CPUs installed. Any tips or tricks to make sure that you are plotting both CPUS and using all 24 cores? So far just able to see and use 1.

[@Ssalaars]

do the hard drives have to be set as a raid 0 striped as one giant folder for plots to live? i presume i cant have the 4 bays as separate drive letters each?

[@lironbrundel]

Thank you for the inspirational videos. Based on this I looked for used computers around my area. I found a HP Z600 with dual X5650 processors. According to geekbench benchmarks, they should have around 60% the performance of an E5-2690. I paired this with 24gb ram and 1tb NVME SSD, hoping to get 20 plots a day. Unfortunately, I have only been able to plot 10 plots a day, 4 in parallel with 9 hours on average per plot. I'm still trying to figure out what is slowing me down so much.

[@jackiesee1907]

I don’t know anything about plotting but I would imagine you are not getting full speed from your nvme. Your sister would not have native support for m.2 nvme so you must be using a pice adapter. I bet you are getting slow speeds from that adapter

[@WhyDoIPosttt]

Have you tried using these rigs for raptoreum?

[@seanmurphy5540]

I enjoy your videos and appreciate the time you offer but I have a request.In each build video you offer about 80 different options. Is there any way you could do a build on say the Dell Precision T5610 Workstation 2X E5-2660 Eight Core 2.2Ghz 16GB 1TB Q600 and just focus on what is needed for that build? I am not fluent in computerese but I am trying to learn. Your other videos are great but they overwhelm and confuse those of us who are not as well versed with computers as you are. Thank you

[@nathanlaux1071]

Dude, I love this. Thank you for putting this together. Question regarding M.2 to PCIe adapters. Will one of the ASUS M.2 16 PCIe 3.0 X4 expansion cards work? I'm probably going to have to get 1TB nvme drives.

[@dushkeushke9346]

I have a Dell t5600. I did a couple of plots and then more and more often it started throwing out BSoD "whea_uncorrectable_error". Do you know maybe what the problem is?

[@IY2K3]

does nvme v3 or v4 make a lot of difference when plotting ? thankls a lot for the video helping alot

[@CJ-zb6my]

Is this still good option? I bought on your advise from previous build. - Dell Precision 7910 / T7910 Tower (duel cpus, using standard cpus that comes with server)

[@maxipereyra7366]

Thank you for the informative videos! They are very helpful. I was wondering if you could provide swar settings for each of these builds. While the parts list and details about each is very helpful, once you get your hands on a similar build, I think it would be super helpful to see what configs would give you the 30-40 plots being discussed. Thanks again for the great work!

[@idjmic]

What would be wrong with using the E5-2670? It is 8/16 and 20mb cache just slower clock speed, but even cheaper included in pre-builds.

[@christianllanos1875]

Hi. I'm basing my build on the Xeon E5-2680 and the mobos I find are ASUS Z9PA-D8 and Super Micro X9DRL-3F. I'm worried whether or not a 980 PRO or similar will be compatible with it. I'm not sure if the adapter you listed will work or not. Edit: The drivers are what matter. So I reformulate my question. Will the drivers for that mobo work with those drives?

[@4kdefinition70]

In case anyone is considering this, one thing to mention which wasn't mentioned, an issue I ran into if you want to use windows, with dual CPU you need windows pro. I did not realize that but the more ya know. plenty of work arounds to be made, but thought I would throw that in for people like me who haven't built dual CPU with windows before.

[@SlothTechTV]

woah GREAT catch. Thank you for commenting!

[@nathanlaux1071]

​@@SlothTechTV do you know if the dual CPU will work with linux? My ideal plan is to set this up w/ linux and use my Macbook to SSH in

[@SlothTechTV]

@@nathanlaux1071 it works great with windows and linux..

[@Adrixcorp]

it is nice, but how much really you could make, and how long to recover your invesment?

[@alexisquirion821]

I have similar setup I was wondering if have 4x 1tb SSDs should I use them in raid0 pairs or not ?

[@frangaur2995]

great video!! I have a dual xeon e5 2683 v3 (56 threads total) with 128gb ram and 6tb ssd (2x2tb + 2x1tb), but i barely reach 15 plots/day, i think it should be much more (ram usage is always about 25 -50%, and cpu usage around 45%) What settings do you recommend me for the conifg.yaml on swar chia plot manager? im using windows 10 btw, linux to much dificult to me

[@SlothTechTV]

You can absolutely do more per day, it all comes down to staggering phase one as well as you can and don't raid 0 your drives! You'll want to make jobs one job per one drive

[@spencerbachus7494]

@@SlothTechTV I am having the same issue although I have 2 e52699s and two 2 TB drives but it is soooo compared to my other rigs. When you say one job per drive, like literally just one job at a time? Or just one plot in phase one per drive at the time?

[@SlothTechTV]

@@spencerbachus7494 2 2TB NVMe drives? You should be able to configure each 2TB nvme drive with 8 total plots 4 phase 1 60 minute stagger for a total of 16 plots per day minimum per 2TB drive... so 32 plots per day between the two.. probably even better if you tune it a bit.

[@Keis3311]

Great videos thank you for all the value you are bringing to the space. I really like your idea to use the T 5610. If I want to use ram disk with mad max how much total system memory do I need to run ram disk and plot?

[@anonimail6437]

I think you should try some other motherboard with 512GB RAM

[@ghaithbani4738]

Hello! Super new to this, but is it possible to buy some plots and start to farm from them instead of plotting them and then wait for them to complete? If yes where do I have to keep the plots? Will a normal Hard drive or SSD work? And do I need a super computer to do that? Thank you!