What else can I use a mining rig for?

So long as the GPUs are connected with the full PCI bandwidth and you’ve got good enough CPU with enough RAM, then you can use it for AI computing or video editing , or more specifically rendering video. Those would be the most common uses.

To build an ethereum mining rig, we will need all of the components of a conventional desktop computer, as well as good GPUs . A traditional desktop computer has a CPU for normal computing operations, a RAM and a hard drive. CPU and RAM are mounted on a motherboard, which connects all of the components of the computer.

A mining rig is an arrangement of hardware elements, either CPU, GPU, FPGA or ASIC that have been arranged to perform cryptocurrency mining .