Im planning on making a PC to mine litecoins and i want to do it with 4 amd r9 290's because they have the best hash rate to power ratio (to my knowledge).
this is the system that i am planning on building:
M/B: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3, AM3+ socket
Ram: 4GB
CPU: AMD Athlon II X2 270 3.4GHz 65w
graphics card: AMD R9 290 times 4
hard drive: any old crappy one I have laying round the house
Case: no case this will be an open air rig
My question is what power supply unit would you recommend to power this set up? I plan on overclocking the memory on the graphics cards.
you may want to look into 2 power supplies you may find that its more energy efficient than one large one because you would likely be above the 80% usage for efficiency mark, that being said i don't have any experience litecoin mining so this is just coming from building my own rigs and changing dead psus in aileanware rigs
i live in the UK so i get better efficiency from this power supply at 100% load which is 92%. in america it is 89%
their is probably no room in this power supply for overclocking and it is just enough power for me to run my set up
if i had opted for a top of the line CPU with everything overclocked then i would need a 1500w~ roughly to over clock and add hard drives, fans, led strips and such.
i hope this helped for anyone else with a similar question :)