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so today we are finishing off part two of the mine rig and now before you hit the dislike button think about this I'm only using samples that are collecting dust and I borrowed some samples of Steve as well I have literally out laid hardly any money at all I bought a couple of motherboards off eBay on a sale and that was really about it when it came to this build other than that I want to get into mining to test it out just to learn new things so when people ask me about mining I can tell them hey X Y Z and you can do it with a DD anyway guys today we are going in the room where I've currently got eight GPUs set up at the moment so I'm kind of like strapping back here there's eight GPUs I'll show you in this room here eight GPUs and two of them are not connected at the moment because I had eight in this room working and it blew out the power on this house so actually I've got a ship four of these GPUs off to my friend's house and then I'll have four GPUs running here so my friends agreed to have a power meter going in his house and then I'll just pay in power every month really cool friend has actually been helping out the channel a lot over the last year so big thank you to Shannon but anyway without further ado let's go finish off one of these rigs at my house and then we are going to go ship the other rig to the other house and then we'll have these V mines finished you so here's the part going to be sending to my friend's house there's a couple of GPUs I'm going to pull the main GPU out of my main rig as well self-sacrifice for the win and then we've got this is the ax 1500 I it's one of the best pounce flies out there it's titanium rated as well so if you thought platinum was like the highest you could get this is like titanium as well so it's incredible we're going to be using this thing to literally like get the best power efficiency we can with these GPUs but also if you guys want to set up a mining rig then you're going to need these things here they are pci express cable rises they cost about six dollars a pop but essentially they'll allow you to fit more graphics cards on a motherboard because all those thick graphics cards if they're two or three slot they can now be split apart and then you can also rise them above the motherboard to get the heat dissipated a little bit easier kind of like what I'm doing here I've got them risen above the motherboard even though it's a little bit dirty at the moment I just don't really have time to clean it up but this setup here is pretty much going to remain the same I might just move the motherboard and keyboard over to the right and then finish that one off so that's pretty much finished that's the setup it's going to remain here okay so there's a setup in my place it's all done it's all ready to go so that is one setup complete on the D mine but also goes before we do that and yes that is a doorjamb in the background here you know Gorge in for the win but before we do that z cash honestly so far people are asking me how profitable is it is it worth your money is it worth your time I won't know for a good month like I've only had this thing running for like a couple of weeks and so far it's definitely nowhere near as good as I thought it would be like people are telling me they're making mad bucks like they're living it up I'm not really living it up at all guys actually I think you would be like if you went out and bought all this hardware especially at the moment you'd be lucky to even break even especially in Australia on the current power costs so I mean this sort of mining thing it really does favor people who live in countries who have access to extremely cheap power yeah let's get this all sorted out finish it off and then we'll get parts in the gun and finish off with the friends house all right so right now at my friend's house we got all the gear unpacked this is Shannon here as a member of tech yes City is actually a member on the forums - really cool I've got to get back into the forums when I get a lot of free time basically when I'm moving to the new studio which is coming really soon so we're going to put these on this little rack here mini Rack old monitor and that's all you need for mining is a real dirty old monitor so you can just boot it up and open the Exe file and yeah let's start putting this thing together for GPUs and motherboards going to be on this little custom thing here and the power supply is going to sit right behind it all right so after about an hour of fiddling around got this monitor working and the whole setup is working mining and we had a problem on this graphics card here where the DVI ports actually blowing out so I had to get a DVI to HDMI connector off the other 1080p eyes and kind of wish you know every 1080p I had a DVI port on it but not to worry the mining rig is set up at this place and my friend's house and the mining rig is set up at home so in about a month's time I can tell you guys how profitable this whole endeavor is and how you know mining Z cash has been going for me and whether or not it's worth your time but at the moment preliminary figures my mining on a pool called supernova it's really not that great you know like I heard a lot of really good stories about people were just making millions and I mean I'm sure they are if they've got like a thousand GPUs and they're in a power place with cheap power but for me personally I don't know it's really it's not that much like I mean put it this way you certainly couldn't live off it so on eight GPUs so you may be wondering in my mining setup why I'm using Nvidia graphics cards and I'm mining what's called eques hash and that's actually suited for Nvidia graphics cards and now since the and boom I sold all my rx graphics cards off actually got ridiculously good money for them and now with the theorem that cryptocurrency is suited towards AMD graphics cards they do a lot better in terms of mining performance then Nvidia graphics cards I have heard though with that cryptocurrency they are starting to favor and video graphics cards a little bit I'm not too focused on that however as I'm mining a different cryptocurrency called Z cache now this uses eques hash and NVIDIA grabs cards are actually really good for mining this cryptocurrency so now a lot of people in the last video ask me how I mind these cryptocurrencies and I'm actually only mining the cash at the moment so I've only got experience with that cryptocurrency and in order to mine this you have to do a couple of things and it's not difficult at all it's really quick all you have to do is have your graphics card ready or how many grabs cards you want to use and download a thing called a miner I use a wbf which is suited for Nvidia graphics cards utilizes CUDA and it does really well for the cash and other eques hash crypto currencies and what you do with this is essentially you just put in your transparent address or your private address in the miner and you can do this by opening a wallet first so I'll put the link in the description below for this to download if you want to mind d cache for example download d cache for win and then if you install this program it'll open up a wallet and then you can make a new address and there's essentially your address where you receive and send money in the cryptocurrency that you're using and in my case I'm using Z cache so I make that address and then I open up with the miner the text file and I can choose different pools I actually don't know how to solo mine yet so don't ask me anything about that only know how to jump on a pool so actually just edit the file with your address and then you can put a dot after that and put in the worker so if you've got just rig one for example and that'll be easy and then you open that file up and now you are mining the cryptocurrency and you can automatically get paid however if you want to mine with say an example I mind with supernova if you want to mind with a cryptocurrency pool like supernova then you actually have to make an account first and this is what I've done they charge a 1% pool see I know also the software developer of the program of ewf charges one as well so once you've done with those two you are now mining and you are now making money and the good thing about supernovae is they get a little website where you can monitor your computers and make sure they are mining and if one of them is down you can then be alerted if you're out and about and you'll be like okay I need to reset that computer and start up but what about the frequency of crashing and overclocking and tweaking your graphics cards to mine the cryptocurrencies well actually at the moment I think if you do a 90% power limit it's what I finding is working best in terms of mining the cryptocurrency and also keeping the gravis cards a little bit cooler than usual and also have them not crashing as much in terms of overclocking them that's something you'll have to do I find just giving it a little like 30 40 even 50 megahertz boosts 80% fan speeds at all times and then 90% power limit and then about 200 megahertz on the memory works fine they hardly ever drop out they do drop out probably once every couple of days so you have to reset the machine and then start it up again so that's my experience so far but as I said before I've only been doing this with six graphics cards at the moment and from today I'm actually doing with 8 graphics cards so from today I'm going to come back in a month time and see how profitable it's been but at the moment it's not looking anywhere near as profitable as I heard it was it's about maybe $25 a day u.s. and you're paying about six to seven dollars power in Australia so really sir how many graphics cards I'm using it's not that profitable it's not like hella profits yes sir yeah you're making much more at your day job at the moment anyway so there it is with crypto currencies guys it's definitely one of those things that I'm just trying I'm really I'm for both arguments on both sides of the fence I mean there's valid points that people raise on both sides of the fence so I'm really just one of those guys who's just giving it a go I want to learn it and understand it rather than bash on it before I start to understand it or have little to no experience with it so that's what I'm trying to do at the moment with a crypto currency trying to get experience with it see if it is profitable see if it is safe and transparent and see how to trade that for actual money in my pocket as well that's probably when I'll make the next video is when I've actually got cash in a main currency like a strain doll the US Dollars and I'll tell you guys and update you about how profitable it has been or whatever the deal is so I'll keep you guys informed and I hope you enjoyed this video if you did then please give it a big thumbs up and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon and if you've got any questions about cryptocurrencies especially with Z cash then be sure to drop a comment as well I'll get back to you as soon as I can and I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye Oh doodle that's why I happen to be wrong with no audience just somewhat Vidya tobacco go Bureau we're all here old mister I'll put that on the bloopers the printer doesn't sound too good what about a monitor how does it monitor channel so this is an induction speaker and and basically you put it on something and the surface then becomes a speaker okay let's try the ball is low cool the wall definitely sounds the back I go let's try a clock what about my graphics card good bumper on the car wow it's pretty good [Laughter]