Rebuilding the Chia Farming Server with Dual RTX A4000 GPUs

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Today I'll be rebuilding the Chia farming server that I building less than a year ago. There are a few reasons why, with the biggest being the plot filter halving that's scheduled to occur in a few months. This will effectively double the work being put on the GPU. It's time to step up our game with a second A4000!
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:42 Rebuild Reasons
03:32 Case, CSE-836
04:49 Motherboard, X10SRL-F
05:51 CPU, E5-2623v4
07:32 Expansion Cards
09:15 GPU Power
10:47 Linux Kernel Setup
12:47 NVidia CUDA Setup
14:55 Farm Size Testing
16:06 Conclusions
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[@HomeSysAdmin]

Let me know what you think of this build and the direction Chia is headed in! Cheap 18TB Drives... ebay.us/tBC10b Cheap 20TB Drives... ebay.us/LbGqSI (affiliate links)

[@mattymaxx]

I'm from a gpu mining background. Your absolutely fine on the power on the adaptor/6x pin setup. (bit of peace of mind for you bro!) Nice setup dude!

[@wildmanjeff42]

Thanks for the video, I love supermicro equip. The servers I have have never given a problem.

[@HomeSysAdmin]

Agreed! I love that most cases accept standard motherboard form-factors so you can reuse and upgrade pretty much anything.

[@shephusted2714]

good to see you back, congrats on migration to fiber - it must be night and day difference, i recently ran security onion and messed around with oracle linux - not impressed but it is fips compliant - keep cranking and do more videos #cuda #supermicro

[@HomeSysAdmin]

Thanks! The fiber came just in time as Comcast kept refusing to renew my contract (business class) unless I agreed to pay $20/month to rent their dumb modem due to forcing "Security Edge" snooping stuff on you. The speed and latency difference is INCREDIBLE. Next up might be a pfsense change. My current build doesn't negotiate 2.5Gb ethernet and they're supposed to be offering 2Gb as an option by the end of the year ;)

[@DjPsYcOtIc]

Thank you.

[@DigitalSpaceport]

NICE SET!!!! and also a nice set of A4000s I am ordering a 9217s, awesome looking card! #Chia workload goes brrrrrr

[@HomeSysAdmin]

The A4000's are kick@$$ for sure! Not sure how I feel about that CPU yet though lol.

[@coreyrowsell7356]

How are you plotting with only 32gb of ram?

[@HomeSysAdmin]

This is a farming server. I have a plotting server with 512GB of DDR4 memory.

[@arigornstrider]

New vid!

[@HomeSysAdmin]

Yee, last one was 6 months ago! Just don't have the time these days unfortunately

[@arigornstrider]

@@HomeSysAdmin I never started making videos in the first place, so you have me beat.

[@DjPsYcOtIc]

​ @HomeSysAdmin We still respect your efforts, I do 1 video a year if that! keep up the good work, Respect from England.

[@DjPsYcOtIc]

@@arigornstrider😎

[@Kingboy17365]

looks like it can fit just the cables in the way

[@clarencewiles963]

Thumbs up 👍

[@dragonball41876]

Sir, you should apply your farming experiences into AI infrastructures. AI may break one day, but definitely it will bring some amazing products for our everyday use.

[@inflatablemicrowave8187]

Iirc eps12v (cpu 8 pin power) is rated for 300w. You are well within those limits, so you should be perfectly fine

[@CustomComputing]

Your biggest views are when you put chia in the title

[@HomeSysAdmin]

Apparently, this topic seems more popular than I was expecting

[@witness1013]

Alternate title : How to waste money you'll never recoup

[@HomeSysAdmin]

Sounds like pretty much every hobby in existence :)

[@josefpdx1]

you should make a video how much power you used vs income

[@HomeSysAdmin]

I could, but I'm not sure how that's of much use. The price of the tokens changes constantly and I haven't sold a single token so far. Last week, I could tell you one token was $30. Today one token is $51, so the token I earned last week is worth significantly more today.

[@restrtestra9234]

you sold old chia drives class act.

[@HomeSysAdmin]

Just the 10's and replaced them with 18's :)

[@tvojejbabkydedko]

all that to mine a crypto.... insane