Alright everyone.
It's Austin with the Crypto Playhouse and today we're going to be taking an in-depth
look at our in-house three 1080 Ti GUP Miners and kind of give you guys an idea on what
sets us apart from the crowd in terms of the miners.
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So, one of the big things with buying a mining unit nowadays is, generally the people out
there that are selling them, for the most part, they're not computer guys.
They're trying to capitalize on this crypto market, and one of the biggest things that
we've really seen is that there's very little transparency, and with something like cryptocurrencies,
no transparency is the antithesis of we are trying to do here.
So today I'm gonna show you a little bit about what's going on inside these rigs.
How we ship them out and really how those things are different from what you're gonna
see with the other miners that are currently on the market.
So as I mentioned, I'm sitting here with two of our mining units.
We got a three 1080 Ti with the EVGA FTW's and then over here we got one with the SC2
black edition cards.
Now, personally the SC2's were my favorite.
It's got a little bit of a higher RPM on the fans and it really cools them down quick and
we're mining around 50 degrees Celsius, which is absolutely phenomenal for the hashrates
we're getting.
So obviously we do prefer mining on the GPU units just because they have much better longevity.
The decrease in profit, that curve is much less extreme.
As you can see, we do have some ASIC units over here.
We do still mine on ASICS, but that profit drop-off is much faster, so our main core
backbone over here at the Crypto Playhouse is definitely our GPU units.
So, we're gonna go and take a look and we're gonna dive in, look at the hash rates, see
the power usage and just generally show you guys what our units are doing straight out
the door.
So right here we're working from the EVGA SC black edition one.
And as I mentioned before, those high RPM fans keep the temps nice and low.
As you can see right now it's sub-50, we're seeing about 45 degrees Celsius and to start
you guys off, we're actually gonna go to our handy-dandy WhatToMine and we're gonna check
out what the general estimates for these mining units with three 1080 Ti's are.
Alright, so as I mentioned, we're gonna look at WhatToMine real quick here and we're gonna
have a good look at what our estimated hashrates are based on the global averages and then
we're gonna show you what we are actually getting.
So as you can see here, I got my three 1080 Ti's plugged in.
We're working with a 10 cent per Kilowatt-Hour pricing.
Granted, that's not very important for this video because we're gonna be looking purely
at hash rates rather than profits and, as we see here for Equihash, we're looking at
2055 hash and for Lyra2 Revision 2 about 192,000 kilohash per second estimates.
Now, we're only using two algorithms here because those are the top earners on the NVIDIA
cards.
They've been ranking at the very top of WhatToMine for many months now.
Now, even though we're only using two algorithms, there are a large number of currencies we
can mind there.
We've got Zcash, Zclassic, Zencash, Hush is another one on the Equihash algorithm, and
as for Lyra2 Revision 2, recently Vertcoin and Mona Coin have been some big earners.
So, as I said we got 2055 for our estimate, 192 for our estimate on Lyra2.
Let's take a look at what we're actually getting.
So the first time you get your miner and you open it up, this is what you're gonna be greeted
by.
We ship our units out ready to mine these currencies.
The configuration file is already set up, ready to go.
All you have to do is plug in your wallet key for the currency that you wanna mine.
You're good to go.
So let's see...
Alright, so it may look a little scary at first, but all that really matters here is
you're wallet key.
So you'll be greeted by this screen her and all you have to do is select the currency
that you want to mine, is just remove these hash symbols.
Now by doing that, you're removing what is a comment line in the code and it's basically
just telling the miner, OK, this is what I wanna mine.
So, I pulled those out and as you can see here, I do already have my wallet key in.
You'll just need to fill yours in, but you're gonna take that, give it a save and let's
start up the miner and see what we're really working with.
It does take a moment to ramp up.
Alright, so while the unit is ramping up, I figure that I'll mention, you know, we were
kind of checking out the market and one of the big things that we saw with the other
guys that are out here selling these crypto mining rigs is nobody seems to have any proof
for what they're units can actually do.
We see estimates of around 2000 hash on Equihash from WhatToMine.
We see people advertising their units at 2200, 2250 with no physical proof, no pictures of
their actual hashrates, let alone live video.
And, on the comments for a lot of these sale pages, we notice people are complaining that
they're only getting 2100 hash at most, so the advertised rates are really not what people
are seeing and we kinda wanna break down that barrier a bit and show you guys that it really
is possible to get these high hashrates.
You just gotta know what you're doing.
Alright, so we got our unit ramped up now.
It's starting to mine and right here we're seeing we got about 2147 hash.
Now that is a little bit on the low side right now.
I've got things cranked down a little bit, so you can hear me better.
We don't have the fans running full speed, but I'm gonna dive in and show you how we
ship'em out and what you can really push these things to.
So as I said, we're sitting here at 2147 and all we're gonna do is we have the power usage
is very low right now.
We do ship them out a little bit below their highest capable specs just so you people out
there that aren't very tech savvy, you're gonna have a wide margin for error if you
wanna get in there and start fiddling with things.
You can really do that without risk of overpowering your unit.
So, on average, I usually mine right around 220, so we'll give this a crank and we're
gonna just enter that in, save our settings, and just put in our command for the overclock.
Alright, so we've got our overclock set in here.
It's ramping those up.
Now when you receive your unit, it will be set at a mid-line area, but we will include
a list of commands, you're basic functions that you need to know to be able to run the
miner itself.
It is command line based, but it's very simple.
At most ,you're looking at about five to ten commands that you'll actually need to know
to run this unit.
So, now that I have the overclocks in, we're actually gonna go in here and we're gonna
show the miner, so you could actually see the shares coming in live.
So as you see here, we've got our shares coming through.
We are officially mining some Zcash and now we've got that little jump-up from 2147 to
2230, so we're sitting right around that 2250 that most other people are selling their unit
at, but nobody is actually seeing those hashrates when they get them there.
So, just for a point of perspective, we're gonna dive in here one more time and these
units can take a whole lot of power.
We have them optimized for the best split between power and hash rate, but if you're
one of those people that really just wants to crank those numbers and get as much as
you can out of this unit, it's completely possible and we'll give you a little eye on
what that looks like.
Set these overclocks in.
It will take a minute to ramp up because we're adding on another 180 Watts to the unit, which
once again is still well within our safety limits, but with that little bit of extra
power, we can really give the unit and extra kick and I can just about guarantee you, you're
not gonna be seeing these numbers from any other miner on the market right now.
Let's pull this up again, so we can see our shares come in once more as we crank it up.
So as you can see, we've gone from a low of around 200 Watts and we're jumping right around
to 280, nearly 300 Watts here for this next section.
Now, with that much power, you are gonna get a little bit more drain, but when you look
at the WhatToMine profit ratio, even though you will be paying a little bit more in power,
the gains that you get from this jump-up are significant enough that it's going to outweigh
that increase in power usage.
As you can see here, we're not sitting at 2367, almost 2400, which is 20% over what
WhatToMine is estimating us at and WhatToMine even estimates the actual earning capabilities
above the stock settings for a 1080 Ti.
There we go, 2385.
So as I said, nearly 20% over the WhatToMine estimates.
It's going to make a huge difference in your mining profitability on these units.
Alright, so I just want to show you guys really just how simple it is to swap over to a different
currency, a different algorithm.
So we've been mining Zcash.
I just swapped the miner off.
We're gonna switch over to Vertcoin on the Lyra2 Revision2 algorithm.
So once again, you're just gonna open your configuration file here and, as I mentioned
before, it's simple as just adding in these hash symbols.
So you're gonna come through, add them back to Zcash since we don't wanna be mining that
anymore and we're gonna come over here to Vertcoin and just remove them.
That's it.
We're ready to go.
And we'll come over here, set the miner back up, let it get going and something to mention
is, when I do my Lyra2 Revision2 currencies, I do like to use Mining Pool Hub.
My reasoning for that is they have multiple currencies that are set up that you could
mine from their pool base and with Lyra2 Revision2, a lot of the revision pools out there require
a user name and password, so I figured out that it was really a lot easier just to make
the Mining Pool Hub account, have that user name and password, so now whether you're mining
Mona or Vert, it doesn't matter.
You can use the same username, same password.
The only thing you have to change is the wallet key itself.
Now, obviously I had everything set up for mine already.
We ship it out set up for Mining Pool Hub, so all you have to do is go create your account,
set it in there and once again, you're ready to go.
Alright, so we got it up and going.
We're hashing away.
Take a look and see our submitted shares.
Make sure everything is coming through.
Everything is good, so as I said, we're looking here, about 204.4 hash, which is just about
12 hash per second over what WhatToMine is seeing.
Now, that is a little bit lower of an increase.
It's about 6% compared to what they're seeing, but the Lyra2 Revision2 algorithm is tuned
very differently and you have to keep in mind that we're working off a much smaller ratio,
so with Zcash and Equihash we're looking at 2000+.
We're working with 200 hash because it functions at a different speed on a different algorithm,
so there is gonna be variance in how much further you can push it.
Now, once again, I am doing this right at the baseline middle power, running about 235
Watts per card.
We can once again pump that up to 275, even as high as 290 if we wanted and we can get
that up to around 210 hash, but the Lyra2 algorithm does tend to run the cards a little
bit hotter, so I like to keep this one at a nice mid-line and the earning differences
is only about 1 to 2 hash per card.
Alright, so you guys have had a look at some of the miners that we are selling here over
at the Crypto Playhouse and bear in mind, we're not just selling them.
We mine on them ourselves.
This is how we've earned a lot of our crypto holdings at this point and we've got something
really interesting coming up soon.
I mentioned it on one of the prior videos, but there was the recent Bitcoin fork and
as we all know, Segwit2x was a complete boff and they decided not to go with that, but
Bitcoin Gold is still on the horizon.
Now, it's not live yet, but we are gonna dive in and I'm gonna show you guys how we're gonna
mine a little bit of Bitcoin Gold on GPU's and for us in the crypto mining world, it's
real exciting to see something like a Bitcoin fork on GPU's.
It's gonna be a whole new game changer with this happening.
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