hey everyone welcome back to another mining chamber video in today's video
we are going to go over buying a mining rig so we're going to talk about all the
parts and which parts you should be buying and as well as from what stores you should
be buying them from and then we're also going to be doing a giveaway at the end
of the video so please stay tuned for that i hope you guys enjoy this video
the first thing i want to mention guys there will be a full write up on miningchamber.com so if you
want to skim through it you can go ahead and open that up the link will be in the descriptions below
so this video should be helpful to you whether you're watching it one year from now or you're
watching it at the time where the market is extremely high and all the gpu prices are
really high so we're going to try to make it as neutral as possible that you can use this as a
guide at any time now the first thing i want to do is i want to first go ahead and talk about all
the parts of your gpu mining rig and then from there we're going to jump into each one and go
into details on what you should buy and in a way provide you a buying strategy so that you don't
have to make any mistakes while you're buying your mining rig so if you're new to gpu mining
and you have no idea how they work and what parts they need then let me go ahead and briefly explain
it to you so gpu miners are basically a pc ipc has the same exact parts that you would put in
a gpu mining rig so you have the processor the motherboard the ram as well as the graphic cards
and a power supply except that in a mining rig we would put more than one graphic card so it's just
the looks that are different and the graphic cards you have more than one graphic card sometimes they
have more than one power supply or you would be running a server power supply and such and all
that we will cover more in details later on but just to clarify a mining rig is just a computer
with more than one graphic card so now that being said what we're going to do is we're going to
divide the parts in a mining rig and we'll set two different categories one is the essential parts
and then the other one is the main parts in the essential parts you will have your cpu motherboard
ram as well as your storage device and anything that you'll be using for network connectivity
so these parts in essential can be the same across any mining rig you don't need to change
them to accommodate whatever gpu you're getting or power supply and we will highlight more on
that later on and then now we can move on to the second part which is the main part of your rig
and that is your gpus and your power supplies so now we have two parts the essential and the main
first we're going to go over the essential parts and walk you through which ones you should be
getting and how to start with them and then after that we're going to move on to the main parts and
tell you what psu you should be getting based on how many gpus you're getting now the first
thing let's go ahead and start with the essential parts the first part in the essential parts list
is the motherboard so this is where you should be starting when you're buying your mining rig
because your motherboard will be what determines what cpu you should be getting as well as the ram
so for the motherboards i do recommend getting a mining specific motherboard it's very common
that i get a question that can i use a gaming motherboard or can i use this motherboard or that
motherboard and they're not mining motherboards it's completely fine you can use them they do have
most of the time less amount of pcie slots and those slots are basically what dictates how many
gpus you can run on your motherboard so each pcie slot means that you can run one gpu which means
is if you have a gaming motherboard with 5 slots you can run 5 gpu out of it but there is one more
thing to keep in mind some older motherboards don't have 4g decoding or they have really slow
pcie link speeds so in that case if you're trying to use a really old motherboard you can give it a
try it might work but if it doesn't work then it's most likely because it's very old so that's why i
usually just recommend getting mining specific boards because first they are cheap they're
cheaper than gaming motherboards as well and you would have been able to find them for decent
prices before all the markets went up really high so as far as recommendations for mining boards
you will find a list of recommendations on the blog itself and just get any mining motherboard
honestly they're all good so you can just grab any of them and you'll be set and the one thing
you want to keep in mind are the pcie slots so if you initially know how many gpus you're trying to
build like a six gpu rig or a four gpu rig then getting one with six slots is good enough for you
but if you're planning to eventually add on it more then probably getting one with more
than eight slots will be a good option but also you need to keep in mind that for example the
asus b250 mining expert while it has 19 slots that does not mean you can run 19 gpus of the
same brand or 19 amd and videos gpus if you notice in the asus b250 mining expert manual
they will mention that you need to run five mining dedicated cards in the last five slots
if you want to run 19 gpus out of this one board i honestly don't think you should push it more than
14 or 12 gpu rigs i feel like that's a good number and plus it will be easier for your power supplies
later on so you can easily distribute the power so the conclusion on motherboards get a mining
specific motherboard read through the manual make sure that you're doing everything right every
motherboard is different you do have bias options that sometimes you need to change to be able
to mine properly and those options are usually enabling 4g decoding enabling mining mode on and
setting the pcie link speed to 2 or 3. they are in different locations through every motherboard but
you will be able to find them in the bios if they are there now after deciding your motherboard this
will help you decide what cpu and ram you should be getting so first we should start with the cpu
so to get the right cpu i would first recommend going to your motherboard's compatibility list
and you will find that on the motherboard support page every motherboard should have that so you
should be able to find that list and then from there you'll see a list of different cpus and what
i would do is i would just find the cheapest there usually it's the intel cellar runs that you can
get for really good price you can get those for like 50 so i would get just the intel celeron for
the asus p250 mining expert for example you can see here that the intel celeron g3 900 to g3 950
are all compatible with the motherboard so you can just grab one of these cpus and if you don't find
them available just look for the next cheapest cpu on the list and as for ram you just need to check
what your motherboard's ram type is so there's ddr3 and ddr4 you're most likely going to have
ddr4 if you're buying a more modern motherboard but if you have an old motherboard then you
will be doing ddr3 so you'll find that on the motherboards page you'll find there's ddr3 or ddr4
and according to that you can get your ram you don't need to worry about the speed of the ram you
can get the lowest speed you can get the cheapest one and whether you should be getting 4 gigabyte
or 8 gigabyte that depends on if you're running on windows 10 or if you're planning on running on
hive os or a linux based mining operating system because windows 10 in general does require more
ram so if you're planning on mining in linux just get a 4 gigabyte ram if you're planning
on mining with windows 10 get 8 gigabyte or you can just always go with 8 gigabyte as a good base
and now that we have the cpu motherboard and ram we can go ahead and move on to the storage as for
storage the ideal is to get 120 gigabyte ssd this works for everything so you can put windows on it
or any linux based mining operating system some people use usbs for the linux-based mining os
but it's more reliable to just have an ssd and regarding to hdds or any other type of storage
i would just stay away from them for example the hdds they do take a lot more power
and they're just not efficient at all so it's better to go with an ssd 120 gigabyte you can
find those at most for 30 dollars which is really good and the next thing we want to look at is the
network connectivity so you have ethernet or wi-fi i would recommend going with ethernet all the time
as long as you can so sometimes you can't reach your ethernet cable from your modem to your rig
and in that case i would suggest getting a power line adapter which is basically two
plugs you would put in in two different rooms one near the bottom and it will plug into it
and then the other one will be somewhere around the house and then like that you can get ethernet
connection through that power line adapter and then you can buy like a mini switch with like four
different slots so you can power four different rigs with it the reason why you should avoid
wi-fi is because the more stable your internet connection the better it is and wi-fi generally is
not going to be stable all the time and all these things that we're mentioning in the video they
will be linked below in the descriptions and as well as in the article and finally the risers so
for the risers i would recommend getting the most recent generation because they are more stable
and they're more reliable so where should you buy them from there are multiple options the two top
options i would recommend are gpurizers.com and nerdgears.com they both are really awesome options
and you guys can't find them there there will also be a list of different stores that you will find
in the miningchamber.com article so feel free to check that list and then from there you can just
visit multiple different stores and get them from wherever works best for you now that covers all
the parts for the essentials list you guys can use this for any mining rig like i mentioned before
so you don't need to make any changes on the list that we just covered before unless you're planning
on cpu mining as well but that will be for another video so now we can go ahead and move on to the
main list which is the gpus as well as the power supplies so for the gpus we will first take a look
at the newest cards that came out so the rtx 3000 series as well as the most popular amd cards for
mining and before we do that we first want to talk about amd and nvidia generally both of them are
pretty good for mining but now with how the future is looking it seems like going with nvidia would
be safer because ethereum will eventually move on to proof of stake which means that you won't be
able to mine it anymore and that's what mainly all the gpu miners mine although there's still time
for this so there's probably at least one to two years until this happens i would recommend trying
to get as much nvidia as possible but if you come across good amd cards for decent prices then it's
also a good option so now let's go ahead and talk about which amd cards you should be looking for
and then we can talk about which nvidia cards you should be looking for so for the amd gpus
the top options would be the 5700 xt's as well as the 5600 xt's these two cards are really good for
mining they are both hard to find now due to their current market state but if you are able to find
these cards for a decent price near their msrp then it would be a good buy there is also the
5500 xt and if you get the 8 gigabyte version of that card it's also a good option it comes close
to the rx 580s and speaking of rx 580s and 480s these are also still good cards if you can find
them for cheap prices although i don't recommend buying them for 300 and above so if you can find
those cards for 150 or less then that's a good option other than that i would go for the newer
cards which are the 5700 xt's 5600 xts as well as the 5500 xt we also have the most recent amd cards
that recently came out which are the 6800 and the 6900 these cars are also good for mining but as of
now we still don't have much information on them and we can't really see their full potential yet
but if you do find them for a decent price that is not higher than the msrp then you can go ahead
and grab them as well they will be a good option i will cover how you can calculate the performance
and the watts of your gpus so let's first cover the nvidia cards and then i'll tell you guys what
to do when you find the card that you want and then you can go on and check how much money that
card will make you so as for the nvidia cards the rtx 3000 series is a pretty good option for mining
the 360ti and the 3080 specifically are pretty good cards you can also get the 3070s or the
3090s so whatever you can grab for a decent price it will be a good option other than the
rtx 3000 series you can also look for gtx 1660 ti's or supers these cars are also pretty good
and that would wrap it up for the nvidia cards so you have a good list of options that you can
pick from and whenever you find the card that you want for a decent price you can go ahead
and go to cryptex.com or whattomind.com and you will find a calculator there where you can select
that card and then it will give you an estimate of how much that card will be making for you as
of the day that you searched it just remember all these profits do change very regularly and
it all depends on the price of the cryptocurrency the volume of the transactions as well as the
difficulty so whenever you find whatever card you want just put them in those calculators put how
many cards you're planning on buying and then you'll get an overview of how much profits you
should be making and one last thing about gpus please make sure not to file for any scams on
alibaba or aliexpress you might find gpus for really cheap prices or pre-built mining rigs
with like rtx 3080s for a decent price just know that it's very unlikely that it's true
because of how scarce these cards are you want to make sure that you're getting them from the right
source so i would recommend looking for bots that would inform you about stocks we've used that one
for a 360 ti and that's how we were able to get one that bot is on discord and it's called stock
raider so i will leave the link for that server in the descriptions below so you guys can join
and then you can set up your notifications based on your region and then you can get notified
whenever a gpu hits the stock but you will need to be really quickly because these go out of stock
super fast so it can be gone in like 10 seconds if you don't order it and now that wraps it up for
the gpus we can go ahead and move on to the power supplies so now as for the power supplies we're
not going to get into details because we have two videos one covering the atx power supplies
and the other one is covering the server power supplies so if you want information on that i
will leave the link of both of these videos in the descriptions below but generally i would recommend
the server power supplies if your rig is not going to be running in your bedroom or your living room
but if you're planning on running your rig in your bedroom and such then i would go ahead and
go with an atx power supply i also talk about the wattage there and how to deal with your eight pin
six pins and how you should be plugging your gpus so all that information that you need will be in
those videos so please go ahead and check them out before you buy a power supply now the last thing
that we didn't cover are the frames so as for the frames it's hard to find them now but there
is aaawave.com and also mineshop.edu they still have pretty good frames there and other than that
i would just recommend building your own you can go to any local hardware store and buy some wood
or right angle aluminum and then just build it up and have the right dimensions for gpus and you'll
be set you can also use just basic shelves off of amazon and that would work as well so
now that wraps up the parts list so now you have your essentials and your main parts and we went
through all of them we will leave a link in the descriptions below for everything as well as our
recommended gpus and everything like that so feel free to use the links below to support the channel
and we're also going to leave the stores that we recommend buying from in the descriptions
below as well as in the article so i hope this video clarified for you guys everything but just
remember that if you don't find the parts that we mentioned here or if you find them for a really
high price just look around more find other places to buy it from and generally when you're buying a
gpu just look up its msrp price so just look up in google the gpu name and next to it msrp and then
you'll get the value that it came out with and after that just compare it with the price that
you're trying to buy it with i wouldn't go 200 over msrp and by no means this is a financial
advice this video is just a guide for you to figure out what to buy and what you need for your
mining rig now do i think it's worth it to get into gpu mining after the market is going up that
high i honestly think it's still a good time to go in that's only if you find hardware at decent
prices so if you can catch one of those new excels before they run out then you would be good but
if you're trying to go for an old gpu and buy it like 200 markup i wouldn't recommend that and i've
also did our interview recently with abu american where we talked about the market and the current
state of it so i do recommend checking that out the link will be in the descriptions below so
if you guys have any questions or anything that we missed on please let us know in the comments below
now let's go ahead and talk about the giveaway so i reached out to different hardware stores and
all of them have decided to join the giveaway and sponsor it with each one giving different rewards
and i'm really grateful for that and also red panda mining joined the giveaway and he's
giving away a hundred dollars worth of crypto so currently the rewards list is a hundred dollars
worth of crypto to two lucky winners by red panda mining so please make sure to subscribe
to red panda mining he does videos daily and he always gives really good content that you
can benefit from and then the second reward is from nerdgears.com they are giving two 25
gift cards for anyone in us or canada and then the third reward is from mineshop.edu
mineshaft.user run by gantus vitalins and he has a youtube channel and he makes really awesome
content about mining i do recommend checking him out he is going to be giving away a 100 voucher
for mineshop.eu and then we have the fourth reward which is from gpurisers.com they're giving away
two six-pack risers of zero zero nines to anyone in us and canada and then the fifth reward we
have aaawave.com they're also giving away two six packs of risers of zero zero nines to anyone in us
and then finally parallelminer.com they gave us a promotion code with 10
off of your order so we will leave that in the descriptions below as well so the way to win this
giveaway all you need to do is you want to comment below your region unfortunately for the ones that
i mentioned that have specific regions only people from there can win since they're only shipping to
that location but as for the crypto anybody can win it so please comment below your region whether
you're in us or canada or europe and also leave your ethereum address so you can have a chance
of winning the ethereum from red panda mining and other than that you just need to make sure that
you're subscribed so you can be notified when the next video comes out and you know that you won or
not please know that i will be getting rid of any duplicate accounts anyone that joined the giveaway
with more than one account will be disqualified so please be genuine and let everyone have an equal
chance to win and if you came here late and if you watch this video after the giveaway is over
we are sorry but we will be doing more giveaways in the future so please make sure that you
subscribe and that will be it for the video if you guys have any questions or comments please leave
them in the comments below and thank you so much for watching and i hope you have a wonderful day
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