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. [opening music] 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. So anyways, if you guys liked the video, give
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be getting back with you. [ending music].
