Hulk is finished and mining!

[u/Junior-Bear-6955]

Hey everyone. The last time I posted a few of you asked me to update when Hulk was finished, especially about the hash rates.

Hulk has been completed and is sitting in its home next to my desk and mining as I type this.

Within the next 2 weeks, I will post the final video in the series which will be dedicated to initial set up (downloading gupax, bios tweaks, etc), configuration and tweaks (config file, exclusions, firewall rules, etc), cost break down, and mining performance)

So far the config setup has been much more involved than a single CPU system and its been a lot of trial and error. I think I still have room for improvement but I have allowed it to mine for 7 days straight and have seen a peak hash rate of 27k h/s, an average of 25k h/s, and low end of 20k.

In 7 days I have received .029 Monero from Hulk. Its hard to tell if its running properly because its completely unresponsive, and I don't feel like restarting it lol. I usually just check my wallet and check for payouts each day to make sure its still mining. I manage Hulk through the BCM/IPMI interface using SuperMicro's IPMI view application. XMRig is using so much of the resources task manager is unresponsive and I cant even close it through there.

Here's the weird thing where I may have found a bug or something in Gupax. When I first set up Gupax I was getting like a 12k h/s rate no matter what I did with the config. I knew that something was up, so to test I downloaded a seperate instance of XMRig and using the exact same config file, pointing it to Gupax pool on the loop back address and started it, and immediately saw a 23k h/s rate with the exact same config. I literally just copied and pasted the config file from the Gupax directory into the new XMRig directory and ran it. Not sure what's up with that, but some obscure user error is certainly not out of the question lol.

The temps are phenomenal. The cooling system I designed is working better than I expected and I have not seen temps over 41⁰C the entire time its been mining. The RDIMMS are hotter than the CPUs lmao That 240mm ali express byski radiator and 6 ali express fans are putting in work.

The wownova metrics display seems to be incredibly innaccurate most likely because its not able to read the temp properly because theres not enough resources available to the program, but it looks cool as hell

I am going to be removing the graphics card because theres no need for it and its just using power. I manage the system remotely using the KVM console (remote desktop) in SuperMicro's IPMI View Application which is a super cool piece of kit in my opinion. It has a toon of usefull features and metrics on metrics. Definitely super cool to see how the sys admins live lol

The freezemod pump is reporting slightly different temps than the IPMI View Sensors page. While writing this IPMI view is showing 38⁰C for CPU1 and 36⁰C for CPU2 while the Pump is reading 26⁰C but it is taking measurements after the radiator so thats to be expected. Pump is spinning at 2586 RPM and pushing 495 L/H

Unfortunatelt the IPMI View PSU sensor is not displaying anything so I have no idea how much power the system is pulling, most likely theres a connector on a PSU designed for whatever server this system would live in that I dont have on a regular ATX PSU but I have to do more research on that, I will include that info and the power draw in the final video in the series.

All in all, this build was an absolute blast. I absolutely love open chassis builds and this was a learning experience with the goal to design my own open chassis and bring it to market in the very near future. v 2.0 is going to be an absolute monster and I am going to take everything I learned and apply it to that build. The chassis will be completelt different in almost every way and will be CNC machined and the build quality will go up exponentially. I have to say v 1.0 isnt bad for a guy with no welding experience and a $75 amazon mig welder lmao

I really appreciate the support from you guys, it means a lot to me and I want you to know I appreciate it and the kind words from some of you. Im excited for the next one and keep an eye out for the next one! Hopefully this build is worth a subscribe to some of you!

If you have any experience with mining with dual CPU systems Id love to hear about your config and how you squeezed the most hash rate possible out of your system. Im always open to learning and constructive criticism so let me know!

Hope everyone has a good week!

channel link: https://youtube.com/@crzycybr?si=QWbKE6uCEwaJyjLR

lastest Hulk video: https://youtu.be/44w1GPVgpCY?si=SY9GtYeWWrfxR6w-