hey to all you cave guys and cave gals caveman
mining here hope everyone is well and having a good day on today's video we are going to be
rebuilding our hanging rig here going to be taking everything down off the workbench grabbing the
whole rack putting it here down on our table we've got the four amd radeon rx 6600s
that we're going to place on there we've got a couple of cables here and in that
box there is a new 1400 watt delta power supply with an x16 uh zsx psu and breakout board so
we're gonna get that all set up for you guys in just a moment first order of business is
we're going to power this machine down in hive os and then we are going to just one by one unplug
each of the cards get the power supplies unplugged and take down some of these cards from the
hanging rig all right we've got to shut these power supplies down let's go ahead
in the back snip that one off snip that one off kill the power to the motherboard
now we're going to start unplugging cables all right guys so we've got the hanging rig down
off the workbench here on our little table it's going to be a little bit easier for me to get
in there start pulling cables pulling up those power supplies getting our new psu in there
and start to organize everything nice and clean all right one thing to mention here is we have
the four in one pcie usb adapter for the risers to connect into so this motherboard is
limited in terms of space for the pcie cables so we're going to use this guy here and
get a few more spots so the goal is going to be nine total cards on this rig here and it being
in hive os we should be okay obviously we'll test everything out to make sure it actually does work
all right so slight problem here is the uh 24 pin connector is super lodged into the motherboard
so i'm going to try my best to gingerly get it out without snapping the housing on
the 24 pin connector or just snapping the motherboard in half so we'll see how that goes
all right so we got that 24 pin connector out and we're going to put this one right back
in because we are going to be leveraging this bfg 1200 watt power supply just to simply
power the motherboard and then our delta power supply will be used to power all of the
gpus we'll get those running strictly off of that power supply so let's get this guy in
there and then we'll move on to the next step just making a game time decision here some of the
risers that are on this are really old they're from amazon.com kind of the first generation and
these are the three or four uh capacitor risers so i have some new six capacitor risers with
the cool little led indicators on there so i'm probably going to swap these out and put a couple
on this rig just to kind of have a new feel to it all right take a look at the difference
there we have now taken out the single 850 corsair psu wiped out some of the cables the pcie
cables and uh taken some of the cards off because i would like to order these nicely to arrange
them nicely as we stack them up so we get the four 6600s there we've got the rx 4000 rtx 4000 rather
cards in the back there i'm gonna leave this guy here because it's just uh not enough clearance on
the top shelf for this long uh three card 6600 xt and uh yeah we'll get the new power supply up
mounted up here connected into that power supply into the motherboard and we'll start to piece
this thing together all right cool so we have our amp version of the x16 breakout board
awesome love the quality from parallel miners got our bundle of pcie cables that are
going to run from the breakout board into the cards and the risers all right take a
look at that we got the 1400 watt platinum delta power supply and the breakout board here staged
up we are conjoining this 1200 watt bfg uh atx psu in with the molex connector into the four pin
connector that'll allow us to control the power from one source which will be nice if we just shut
the rig off and turn it back on they'll both come up together next order of business is in boxing
and taking out each one of these rx 6600s and what we will do is a quick magic trick at the snap of
a finger i'm going to make these boxes disappear and you will see the rx 6600 stacked up right here
in three two one look at that guys we've got the four rx 6600s here stacked up nicely these
are the armor edition cards a very minimalist look lightweight small compact love it so the
plan will be to get these guys on the risers on the hanging clips all right we've reached
another milestone here on the rebuild and all of the cards are up in their respective spots nice
uniformity we'll do a 360 walk around the rig here all that we need to do is get the risers connected
up and i'm just thinking if i should have probably plugged those in before i snap them up on here
but we'll figure it out i'm not going to stress about that and then we are going to do some cable
management get all the cables and the splitters up to the risers and the cards all right guys so
like magic we have everything plugged up here all nine cards nine gpus two rtx four 000 cards
we've got four rx 6600 msi armor edition we've got two msi mech edition rx 6600 and a
rx 6600 xt eagle edition we've got our psu server power supply here conjoined into
our atx power supply so we're going to go ahead and kick on the power here for the first time
and let's see what we get got all blue lights here no sparks no noise i hear some fan doing
something somewhere and i'm not sure where that sound is coming from but we will find out in a
moment we've got the network and power plugged up here so let's see if we can get this thing to
boot up in hive os and see what we got going on all right it's getting pretty late here guys we
have an issue where we're not getting any video posting up it did flash for a moment in hive
os but it didn't show all the cards so clearly something is going on somewhere my suspicion is
something power related or with a riser uh not connecting in so we're gonna try a few things well
today is in fact our part two of our hanging rig video here as you guys know in the last video we
were reconstructing and adding four cards on here and starting to neaten things up unfortunately
here's the bad news we actually ended up frying somehow not sure how we did it if it touched some
metal or something got bopped or scraped but this asus z97 motherboard no longer posts we don't
get any video output there is power that goes through it there is indicator lights to show that
the power works the fan spins gpu spins but no video output a little disappointed unfortunately
we had to go and purchase a new motherboard so we got the asus prime z590v and the cool thing about
this motherboard is it has eight slots uh for pcie directly on the motherboard so we should be
good to go with our hanging gpus theoretically did a quick test we get power we get a post we
get video output on the video on the motherboard next step is now to start plugging in the pcie
riser connections into the motherboard and then seeing if we can get hive os to boot and cards
to start showing up so let's see what we get all right boys and girls so after many many
hours of troubleshooting we ran into some issues and this is just uh i guess a noob
move on my part is we had these m.2 pcie risers uh plugged into the motherboard adapters
rather and apparently there was an issue with us plugging in to the first lane or first
slot closest to the cpu one guy a yellow jacket on my twitter saw the picture and he said try not
to plug that in we couldn't get the eight cards to boot so we ended up using the four by one
splitters into the x-16 lanes and we got all eight cards to boot we also even plugged
in uh one in the regular x8 lane there uh our ninth card here so we actually have instead
of eight cards we've got nine cards here on this hanging rig everything is functional everything
is mining now in hive os beautifully hashing away so what we're gonna do next is my wife is gonna
kill me but this garage here is an absolute mess i've been at this for a couple days just uh
you know since i basically bought those four rx 6600s let's button everything
up i'm gonna get this hanging rig back up on the bench uh clean up some of the mess
here on the floor take the busted motherboard out we're going to use the dell motherboard that we
have on the ground here and put back our test bench so that is the order of business get all
the cables all the boxes everything nice and neat and uh we'll do that in a flash in three
two one all right take a look at that everything is nice and clean just like magic no
more mess no more table no more wires we have our rigs nice and clean up here nice and neat all
organized look at this beautiful hanging rig now not the best cable management but i didn't
have that much time but i am pleased with it everything is functional organized have my test
bench back up and running so now we can test some lhr stuff and some other stuff coming up
on that to allow us to expand on the cards i believe we can squeeze out one or two more
cards on this motherboard from what i was reading so that's a potential the only caveat
or potential issue i mentioned this in the past is we are just about uh at the capacity or
80 capacity of our pdu uh here so this is a 20 amp maximum capacity which 20 amps when you
convert that to watts is about 2 400 watts let's go ahead behind the tractor here and take a look
at our trusty space coats power meter and i'm going to show you guys here sorry for whacking
myself here on the wall but we're at 21.73 up to 77.
So just over just slightly over the 80 percent uh rule mark there so
theoretically that is a 30 amp circuit but the bottleneck is not the circuit or not the
cable running through it's the pdu at 20 amps so i don't think we can add any more cards to that
particular pdu obviously we could get another pdu there we would be fine but i do like that pdu
i have another one there 30 amp pdu so if we're going to do any more expansion or buy any more
cards we're going to run a separate pdu gonna have another cable running through and we're gonna have
another meter there with its own dedicated 30 amp circuit so that'll allow us to expand out a little
bit more so that is pretty much the plan as of now but i'm pretty content with the setup we added
hash rate on we'll get a little bit more in depth we'll dive into hive os i'm sure later this week
and show you guys some specs and specifics about now how much hash rate we are pulling for ethereum
this video is just to show you the logistics of actually expanding and adding the four cards
and now essentially rebuilding that hanging rig so everything happened pretty much according to
plan other than us frying the asus motherboard which is on the shelf here i think we can
salvage that processor that's in there and the memory chip but yeah this thing is is toast
it's going to go to the motherboard graveyard i do have another motherboard here with i
think a core dual processor with one or two pcie slots so that's also a potential some type
of expansion but we'll we'll play it by ear i'm not going to rush into anything i'm just
going to kind of enjoy the setup and ride the wave at this point so i just want to again
thank you guys for joining me on this journey and uh if you have any suggestions comments
critiques or something you like let me know and as always thanks for joining me we'll see you
guys on the next video caveman mining take care
