hey everyone and welcome back to another mining chamber video in this video we will be going
back to the rtx 3080 that i built a while back as i show in that video those cards get pretty
hot and in return your hash rate drops so in this video we are moving it from an open airframe to a
server case and see if that helps out with the temperatures now let's go ahead and get into it
right after the intro before i get into the server case that i've got i first want to give you guys
some background information on this rtx 3080 build and what was going on with it so you guys
understand why i'm trying different things to fix up the issue now before i've made two different
videos on the 3080 one is for the gpu overview and then the other one is a 6 gpu build of the 3080.
now this build worked out pretty well in the winter it's still throttled but it wasn't as
bad as it ended up being in the summer so my hash rate wasn't really that bad so i didn't have to
change any thermal pads or anything like that but then the summer came after the summer came
these 3080s did terrible they dropped down way too much in the hatchery and they just became
not worth the kidneys that i sold for them but then one day on youtube i saw red panda mining
posting a server case for the rtx 3080s where he moved his as well in them and his temperatures got
a bit better so right away i decided to go with that route as well now i can change the thermal
pads and that's usually the best solution for this but i decided to go with a different path until
i end up changing the thermal pads now in some scenarios even after changing the thermal pads
if your ambient temperature is still hot then your temperatures will struggle and you will thermal
throttle so do keep that in mind you might have to try a couple of different methods to get the
optimal results now before i tell you more about that server case let's first have a word from our
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ahead and get back to the video the case that i was talking about earlier is the minebox a gpu
case from mineshop.eu now this case comes at a cost of 735.50 but it is currently out of stock
and it should be restocked sometime soon this awesome server case comes with four high powered
fans and it comes with a 2500 watt power supply that only runs on 240 volt and it also has a cpu
motherboard ram and storage installed which is really awesome and it's super convenient now for
735 dollars in my opinion it's a really good deal especially now that all the mining motherboards
are around 500 and up and it's super hard to get your hands on them as well and one of the best
things about this case is it takes no risers at all you plug the gpu directly into the motherboard
which is pretty convenient and also saves you some money there there is enough space for your
gpus to fit in there you can see as well the gpu size recommendation on the website so it can fit
up to 320 millimeter long and up to 65 millimeter thick now in my case since i have eight gpu slots
and i only have six rtx 3080s i ended up adding as well two rtx 3060 ti's so now this case is holding
for me eight different gpus and it takes a lot less space and it's very compact and it's super
convenient to install your hardware in it so now more about the specs of this case and what you get
when you order it the motherboard comes with a lot of six pins on the board itself now there will be
some confusion with powering your gpus and how to power these slots on the motherboard so i'm going
to try to clarify it as much as possible right now so first you have your fans cable which you
can see connected to the board directly now these fans are pretty loud so they can go up to 70 to 80
decibels so if you're planning on running this in your bedroom then that might be an issue but
you can feel free to unplug the fans if your ambient temperature is fine but don't close
the case if you're planning on unplugging the fans because you need to get that hot air out of there
somehow now other than the fan plugs there's also all these different six pins on the board itself
now these six pins are for your motherboard and mainly they're powering your pcie slots
and there's also a bunch of different six pins on the left side of the board now what you need to
know about all these six pins is first you have the ones that are already plugged in you'll see
a couple of them plugged in here now those ones are for the pcie slots of the motherboard itself
and as you can also see on the far left end the last two are not plugged in which is completely
fine and you can leave those unplugged now for the other six pins that are right next to the ones for
the pcie slots those are made for gpus that need a lot of power so as you can see there's a bunch
of ones that are on the left side and what are those supposed to be used for is plugging into
them another power supply so using like a bit main power supply or just a server power supply
in general and then just plugging all these pins in there and what that will do is it will give you
power into the motherboard to be able to connect these black cables that comes with the case and
they are six to eight pin so that six pin plugs into the motherboard and then that eight pin plugs
into the gpu now why do we have that is because if you're for example running an rtx 3090 which
consumes more than 300 watts you're not going to be able to run that off of just the power supply
cable because the power supply cable can supply up to 280 watts and you only get eight of them so you
have eight of dual eight pin cables and if you try to run it on there then eventually it will burn
out so now instead of running the entire gpu off of just the power supply cable you can just plug
one eight pin of the power supply cable into the gpu and then the other eight pin through the
one that's connected to the motherboard and it's getting power from that other power supply that's
connected to the side ports so it is a little bit confusing but you only have to do this if you're
using a 3090 as of now or any gpu that uses more than 250 watts now for 3080s you're safe because
you can use only 220 watts while you're mining so you don't have to worry about that there and if
you still have questions on building an 8x 3090s in this case then please check out vitalin's video
on this case where he builds 8 of the 3090s into it gantasvitalins is the person behind mineshop.eu
and he's the one that sent me the case to use it for my 3080s which i'm really grateful for
he's an awesome guy and definitely check out his channel he has really good content out there that
you can definitely benefit from i will leave the link for his channel in the descriptions below
so now that talks about the 3090s but now let's go back to my case which is the 3080s so i've
simply slid in my gpus in there and made sure that i screw them properly now the gpu won't sit fully
into that slot but it will be completely fine just make sure that you actually got it into the slot
itself and not on the sides of the slot and then after that for the power cables you want to make
sure you don't block your fan's path because these fans pull a lot of air so you don't want your
power cables to come in the way and accidentally get sucked in there and cause a lot of issues so
make sure you either tuck them below the fans very neatly or above the fan now i've done it below the
fans and it worked fine for me but i feel like above the fans will be a lot more reliable and
a lot more safer now one more thing that i need to cover about this case is the storage device
that it comes with now for me this storage device came with ios installed but you do have the option
to choose from the website itself what operating system you want on there now you can also do no
software but then you do need to find a way to flash an operating system on that drive itself
the storage drive is an msata so it's not an m.2 but it's just a similar concept and slower so now
that basically covers all the specs you need to know about this motherboard as well as the entire
case in general so now the real question is did this help the temperatures for my rtx 3080s or was
it all for nothing so i unfortunately messed up on making sure to record the temperatures that i
was getting before moving them to the closed case but i do have a picture that was a while ago that
will give you a good idea of what was going on so here in this picture you guys will be able to see
that i have my fan speeds running at 90 percent and my gpu core temperatures were around 50 to 65
which is not so bad for core but for the memory they were getting really hot which leads to the
thermal throttling now you can see here i have two gpus at above 90 megahertz and then the rest
of them are just plain out very bad two of them are at 69 and then one of them is at 79
so i was losing out a lot of hashrate on these 3080s now after putting them in the server case i
will be honest i've had a lot of different issues with the rig and it's not being stable at all but
it's not from the server case but it's definitely something that i need to figure out what's causing
it but that doesn't stop us from getting some data so i've had the rig run for almost an hour
at most without crashing at all but running for an hour the temperatures were not as bad at all
now it was far from perfect but it was also far from terrible now just to give you guys an idea of
the temperature in the room the temperature of the room is around 33 to 35 celsius depending on all
the rigs being on or not now since this rig has been turning off a lot then the room temperature
is a bit lower now but when i turn on the rig and it runs for an hour the temperatures don't get too
bad and it runs for a hash rate not less than 70 megas which is really good in my opinion at least
it's one step forward and instead of getting a total of 488 mega hash now i'm getting around 520
megahertz just from the rtx 3080s and then with the 360ti you have the 120 more mega hash there
is definitely a lot more room for improvement and i will be tuning it and trying to figure out the
best methods that i can do for this mining rig until i change the thermal pads now i'm not sure
if i'll be making a video on changing thermal pads but if you guys want that whenever i get them then
please let me know in the comments below so now to give you guys my conclusion i'm still in love with
the case and i love that it comes with everything and all you have to do is just put in the gpus
and then do your operating system and then you're all good to go now the fans are pushing air out
as well as the gpus are pushing air out at the same time so there's nothing that's actually
bringing air into the case itself because of the way that the fans are oriented so you can feel
free to try to switch the fans around and see if that helps your airflow better now the idea
of having everything pushed out is so you can dissipate all the heat but it might be better
for you if you have something that pushes in air and then something that pushes out air now before
we wrap up the video the last video that i posted the rx 6700 xt i did a full review on the gpu and
then i told you guys for a lucky winner i will quote unquote give away the gpu for msrp price
so what we're going to do now is i'm going to announce the winner of that msrp price of the gpu
and if they don't get to me back in time then i will pick another winner so make sure if you have
enjoyed that then feel free to open up the rx 6700 xt video and then comment where your region is and
just leave a feedback in there and then that will be good to go so if the winner doesn't get back to
me then you have a chance of winning it in the next video i might do this more often whenever
i get a gpu and i pay for its scalper price or msrp price i will try to sell it to you guys for
msrp so you guys have a chance to jump into mining for a cheaper price so the winner of the 6700 xt
from the last video is jamerson brown so jamerson brown if you're watching this video please make
sure to get back to me over email which is team miningchamber.com or you can just join the discord
and then message me there i also left your comment back to get your attention so hopefully that works
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