How to build a budget crypto miner close cased barebone in 2021 for under $300?

Weijing Jay Lin
2 min readJun 30, 2021

Yes, you might able to build something like this ugly open rig.

But if you ware looking for beautify cased ATX case miner, the answer would be simply NO~! It seems all low cost motherboards that support 4 or more GPU that can support low cost CPU are gone. The 4 GPU motherboard would cost more than $250, then plus CPU $100, case $50, which would easily existing $400.

I just build a pcpartspicker list that you might want to check it out which could be around $350.

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/MHVLQD

CPU: AMD Athlon 200GE 3.2 GHz Dual-Core Processor ($109.20 @ Amazon)
CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Alpine AM4 CPU Cooler ($11.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: MSI X470 GAMING PLUS MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Crucial 4 GB (1 x 4 GB) DDR4–2666 CL19 Memory ($24.99 @ Adorama)
Storage: Western Digital AV-GP 320 GB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($13.99 @ Amazon)
Case: HEC HX300 ATX Mid Tower Case ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Segotep GP 600 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply ($49.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $345.14
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021–06–29 19:46 EDT-0400

Other more expensive solutions you can checkout here (GPU ready).

Someone also wrote an article with budget of $500 for AI barebone (not including GPU) in 2019/2020, but for mining, you might not need super CPU or a lot of memory, so the budget could be much less.

Well, if you are headache of building the machine, you could purchase our prebuilt barebone for $369 here:

https://offerup.com/item/detail/1231446118

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Weijing Jay Lin

A software engineer entrepreneur in San Francisco Bay Area.