I want to be a miner - Part One

Let me start off with I have no clue what I am getting myself into. I am a Linux system administrator by day. After hearing about bitcoin, buying some bitcoin ( around £300 worth) then trading it for Ethereum and making around £50 from a few days of holding on to it, I have decided that I now want to try my hand at mining Ethereum.  I had an old NVIDIA GTX 770 that I had sold on EBay but after the buyer never paid I decided to put it to work.

So I have bought the components I think I need to make the rest of a mining rig.

• Intel Pentium G4400, S 1151, Skylake, Dual Core, 3.3GHz, 3MB Cache, 1000MHz GPU, 33x Ratio, 54W, CPU, Retail
• MSI Z170A SLI PLUS, Intel Z170, S 1151, DDR4, SATA3 6Gbps, M.2 (PCIe/SATA), 2-Way SLi/3-Way CrossFire, USB3.1Gen2 C, 
• ATX650W Corsair VS Series VS650, 80 PLUS White, Fully Wired, SLI/CrossFire, Single Rail, 50A +12V, 1x120mm Fan, ATX PSU
• Sama Black Fish Silent Computer Chassis, 2x 120mm Front, 1x 120mm Rear Silent Fans, 4x USB, Black
• 4 GB DDR4 Memory
  

I didn't need a great CPU as most of the computation is going to be done on the GPU, I would of liked a better power supply but money was short so I compromised in the hope I can upgrade it later.  I did not compromise on the board. The MSI Z170A has 6 PCI Express ports so expansion is possible later.

My spend on the components including the GPU which I had purchased earlier was just under £350

I'll assemble it, install the OS and install mining software over the next few posts.

Find part two here