who's ready to build a cpu mining rig and this one is special unlike the other ones we have done
what's going on everyone Rabid here and today we are going to be building another
dedicated cpu mining rig but first please hit that subscribe button thumbs up button as well as bell
notification to be notified for future videos so unlike our previous videos where we do build
with a 3900x cpu because we usually find them at the best deals i came across this right here a
3950x probably didn't focus too well because of the glare and whatnot but we got a 3950x ryzen
cpu for about 600 so these things are going retail at around a thousand to 1100 so we got this thing
at 600 so i was like i'm all for it that's only like that's almost the same as msrp on the 3900
x's and i never try to get cpus at this current market at msrp because you can always find them
cheaper so i recommend do not go out there and just splurge and waste money on msrp prices when
it does come to cpus who knows in the future what could happen if cpu mining does take off
prices could go to the moon and msrp looks cheap right now but right now i always try to
get everything as cheap as possible and right now that is under msrp quick build list here here we
do have our x470 gaming plus max which is already updated for ryzen's 3000s in the bios so you don't
have to have any issues and what i mean by that is some motherboards of the x470 they're not up
to date for 3900x and 3950x processors so you have to use an older one flash the bios update it or
these processes will not even work so this should work with the 3950x again we'll find out later on
second up our ssd drive we are using the one from vistang and gpurisers.com and if you would like
your your own this is 64 gigabytes just fine for anything to do with crypto mining any os
you need this will run it is big enough code rabid mining will grant you 10 off the 3 900
or 3950 i'm used to saying 3900x the 3950x does not come with its own cooler and i'm going to be
using because i have extra ones from ordering dh uh nhd50 noctua coolers i do have two extra wraith
prism stock cooler so i am going to be using that on this i think it should be just fine but
we'll find out what happens when i get into some testing here and if i do have to order something a
little more powerful in the future but i think we should be fine with this especially with your nice
efficient settings that i usually do use if you don't know what i'm talking about check out those
other videos ram versus verizon uh raptorium hash rates those couple videos go through my different
settings as well as ram usage uh here we do have g scale flare cl 14 ram 16 gigabytes so it's eight
gigabytes per stick i think you can get away with two sticks of four gigabyte for a total of eight
gigabyte because we do not actually use that much but why i do prefer cl 14 yes it's a little more
expensive cl 16 isn't too much less hash rate but for the price depending where you do live cl16 is
just fine but i do prefer the nice sweet spot is two sticks of cl14 again previous videos test all
this out for you now this motherboard does work headless but initially i do got this old what is
this like a gt 670 or something like that from gigabyte i will be using this two gigabyte card
just to get a display here and set up our bios and then i will be removing that doing all my tests in
hive os and we'll be checking power consumptions obviously to do that we got our trusty watt meter
right here so a lot of stuff will be happening on the cpu as most of my tests have always been on a
3900 x cpu so we're gonna find out is this upgrade worth it for the price and everything depending
what you do find on msp msrp obviously the best price to performance is the 3900x but we'll find
out based on the price that i got this one on and my last atx power supply is this 1000 watt corsair
psu which i actually got from rebtech quite a few months back when we were doing those rev
tech videos so thanks to them for this so we will be utilizing that i do not have any more atx psus
because they're all used up in my other rigs but i do have some workarounds coming on because i do
plan on running up to six rigs per server power supply so stay tuned for that my modern discord
gave me some fancy ideas and parallel miner has a special little breakout board thing not dedicated
to cpu mining but we're gonna be trying that out with a whole bunch of different hookups
and multiple picos that are rated for up to 300 watts so stay tuned when that stuff does come in
we'll be revamping how we do power all these rigs and of course a lot of you guys been asking me
are these 3d printed motherboard standoffs they are pretty sweet chump change actually printed
himself off some and he has his mounted to his wall so that is pretty cool but
i don't know i would not want my rig falling but hey that's what they're made for so you never know
i wouldn't trust to myself though that's pretty insane but grass view and it looks pretty sweet
there chumps so i can't wait to see until you get that whole wall filled up all right let's hit step
one and that is undoing this little lock clamp here now i did make sure all these were tight
already beforehand so we are all good there as you know in that first build video i did do
we did have one screw loose but that's okay we are not running into that issue ever again so here is
our chip bottom left corner usually if that focus is it's not focusing whatever bottom left corner
down here you will see a little mark and there's a little white spot on your motherboard down there
so you do have to line those up we're just going to plop this in here it is pretty simple to build
we've done multiple it fell right in just give it a little wiggle a little shake you can feel
it inside the groove we're all good we're going to clamp this down and our cpu is already installed
it is that easy nothing to it whatsoever next up we are going to apply our stock cooler but as i
say in previous videos it does come with its own pre-applied thermal paste but it can get
quite sticky you can use this 100 no issues but i do like to wipe it off and put on my own thermal
paste just so i know it is good also this stuff can get quite sticky we are cpu mining so it's
on all the time so it'll always be warm but when ryzen when this 3000 series first came out people
were having issues when their pc was turned off and they went to change their actual cpu
and they're actually ripping their cpu right apart if this top plate would come right off and all the
chips and everything would be inside still so it's split in two because this did get too sticky so
always warm up your pc before you do change these ryzen processors so you don't have that issue
this is also the reason why i do change my thermal paste so it's not as sticky as this
but because these are mining they will be warm all the time so you should have no issue
shutting it off when you're done if you do have to swap out a cpu or something
so i'm gonna go clean this up and we will be right back clean as a whistle and good to go
right on now we do have to apply our thermal paste first now as you can see i do have some noctua
right here there we go nth1 now they do have a newer version nth2 but i've never tried it and
this works 100 so why fix what's not broken but who knows the other stuff may be better other
people prefer other brands but you do what you got to do for you with ryzen cpus they do have two
chips unlike intel with one in the middle which is what you do use your bead method for your little p
size it is right here one on the left here in between the r and the y and right at the
bottom horizon and the second one is underneath here right between the z and the e so i like to
go a line right down the middle here to apply my thermal paste and here we go let's see oh no it's
all googled up come on there we go that's better a little messed up here oh we're all over the place
all right that's okay that should work that's just fine it doesn't have to be perfect the
pressure will smooth it out nice and even but yeah that's probably my worst job i've ever done
but i'm fine with it before i put this on and if you are unaware there is a little switch on these
coolers for the fans there's an l and an h now that's low and high and pretty much what the h
and l mean i always put it over to high before i actually install it because that unlocks the
rpm of the fan to allow it to kick up higher to ultimately keep your cpu cool so i always
put this on high i have no issues i don't really care about the noise we got an asic in the back so
if this thing is outperforming the asic and it's bothering you you got issues
i'm just kidding but just put this in high mode before you do install it or you can do it after
it doesn't matter but this time i usually don't forget it if i do it first all right let's get
this cooler in here nice and straight and smooth i always hate this part getting this first one on
get that one side over there in
there we go there we go i just gotta pull this one out can't get in here with the camera it's
right in front of me there we go push this down oh i pushed it in i'm failing totally horribly here
one issue with this cooler it's kind of a pain at times
let's just reposition there we go now we're in there in boom set now just
push a little pressure hold it nice and straight and just push this over like so
there we go all locked in get it down all the way we are good to go nice and tight let that
thing sit for a little bit and see what happens here a lot of people some people
uh if you don't put enough pressure on it this will seem very very tight people have actually
broken their handle so we didn't do that here so that's a good thing next up here we do have a
ram now if you are from unfamiliar with ddr4 ram there's a long side and a short side and you do
not want to put it in backwards one it won't fit in two if you think it's supposed to go that way
and it doesn't you put pressure on it you will wreck all your pins and you'll have a really bad
day that day this will be running and dual channel and on these motherboards they're all different
this is the only part i actually recommend if you don't know what you're doing you're trying a new
motherboard read your manual to figure out where the ram sticks do go for dual channel because
sometimes you start the cpu and work your way out and on this one specifically you start up this end
and work your way in and you use channel a and b so you use one stick in each channel
and this is where you do find that info in the motherboard now we use this motherboard on
almost every build that i have so i know exactly where these go we're going in
uh slot one and two this way so this is a1 and this is b1 so i'm calling that two i messed up
but it's a1 and b1 right here uh the first slot of channel a and first slot of channel
b to give you your dual slot action here okay let's get this ram in there this way this way
and clip clip oh that was the wrong way i'm just kidding guys it's not the wrong way i'm correct
don't worry i'm just messing with you i just told you not to do it the wrong way and i did it the
wrong way there we go our ram is in all set ready to roll now we've got to plug in our power our gpu
plug in the monitor uh tune this thing up in our bios there and then float her up in the hive and
let her roll power hookups for this motherboard is our 24 pin which is right in front of our ram
that is this big boy on your atx which goes into actually here you can see it's two separate plugs
on your atx psu and our eight pin psr cpu plug is going to go right here now this is a little
four pin beside it this is a gaming gimmick most pretty much all motherboards have it now
but pretty much it states plug that in if you want to overclock that way you can get more performance
in games well guess what this doesn't really do anything you can get just as much performance out
of this one as this one now the only time you'd probably use this if you're on like a big channel
like linus or possibly j2 sets and you want to do some super crazy overclocks with like liquid
nitrogen then you'd probably be using that plug but for gaming and mining and anything all you
need is a single eight pin just get rid of that right completely okay guys here we are everything
is completely built all ready to roll we got our gpu in ethernet cable don't forget that first time
ever you always need your power switch or it will not boot up in the bios when we do our settings
here in a quick minute you will i will show you how you can disable this you got to turn on your
restore power after ac loss so everything is good to go ignore this this is just for my monitor that
i'm going to be plugging in just to set up my bios and then this thing is up and running we're
good to go and we'll do some testing stuff in a future video but this is just the initial built so
i'm going to fire this up and we'll get into our bios set it up and we're all good here is
the moment of truth power supply is on nothing is spinning we are ready to hit this button here
and boom oh yeah look at that guys we're ready to roll i do have to spam the delete key
i'll be right back to get this into the bios here we are inside our bios as we can see we are up and
running and everything is detected as is so that's a great first start so i'm going to go f7 here we
are going to go into settings and i believe it's advanced where is power management and restore
after ac power loss power on right there all set good to go next up we're gonna have to go back
and i'm gonna go into my oc settings and we're gonna crank this too we're gonna go on all core
overclock at 3.6 3.6 you can see right there xmp we do have disabled we are keeping that
off sorry if you guys can't see the screen too too well default now we're going to go to our
power voltage and we're gonna go to override mode and auto we're gonna set this down to one volt
boom so that is it now we're gonna hit f10 that'll save everything so we can see restore after
ac power loss is now turned on cpu ratio is at 3.6 well 36 so that's 3.6 all core and cpu
voltage is at 1.496 well we change that over road to 1 volt so we're all set 3.6 all core overclock
at one volt i just gotta hit enter and we are all good boom now this should start loading into hive
os i'm gonna have to check my dashboard once this does load we're getting all blurry there
because it doesn't know what is going on here we are guys hive os load it up and there is our gtx
672 gigabyte card what should we mine with that thing uh what uh what algorithms are actually good
for under two gigabytes i don't know maybe that'll be a nice feature test what kind of profits will
this old old old gpu make us but there we are 3950 actually the gt 672 gigabyte cards we are
gonna shut this down now bam and confirm there we go shutting this rig down it should go down
any minute here now and once it does i will be pulling the gpu off and i will be rebooting this
up without any gpu in it so running headless and then we can start doing some power tests and stuff
but that is all for another video here we are guys rig7 back in hive os loaded up no flight
sheet getting ready to tell it what to do no gpu anything in stock and we are idling at 37 36 36
37 watts so we'll be doing some power tests and everything on this in a future video so i want
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