Yes, I’m still GPU Mining in 2022. But what about the Ethereum Merge?

hey to all you cave guys and cave gals caveman 
mining here i hope everyone is well and having   a good day on today's video we're going to catch 
you guys up on a few things my progress with the   mining farm here in the caveman garage but before 
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them out thanks guys as you guys can hear and see   we have the box fan up there running blowing the 
air out it is springtime and the temperature is   starting to rise we also have a box fan exhausting 
out the hot air blowing outside we get the box fan   here at the window exhausting the hot and warm 
air outside of the garage so we get the air   pushing and pulling from that side coming 
out here getting sucked out the window here   a little bit of uh craftsmanship 
and ingenuity with the a slice of a   cardboard box here at the window not the best 
setup in terms of you know this being clean   but it is semi-functional it is able to get the 
hot air out of the garage and that all being said   outside is an ambient temperature about 50 degrees 
fahrenheit right now so inside we have about 79   degrees fahrenheit in here and it is dry i've got 
to still work on the humidity here but yeah i mean   we've got a pretty decent setup here so we've got 
that eight card uh rig between the amd and nvidia   cards quite a mix here and then on our hanging rig 
we have the msi cards and the gigabyte cards for   uh 6600 xt and 6600 as well as the two rtx 4000 
cards so it is getting a little bit toasty in here   so we need to figure out something probably this 
summer once it starts getting hot to have a better   exhaust system or try to work on getting the 
temperature lower in here and not only do i   mention that because of the temperature rising 
up in the summer but we did get in now for radeon   msi 6600 the armor edition cards so we're going 
to get four of those cards installed up to the   farm up here and logic tells me that once we 
do that the temperature is definitely going to   rise up now the 6600s are super efficient they're 
not known to run super hot so that is a positive   but yes we are adding more wattage on we're adding 
more hash rate on more energy and naturally the   temperature is going to rise so i've already 
got some remarks from people obviously in the   past about you know don't buy graphics cards you 
know ethereum mining is going to be ending soon   the merge is coming you're crazy and most 
people would take that advice but myself i   am number one the merge is going to happen 
but it's hard to say when now there's been   some recent news out there that they put a 
test net up for ethereum that was apparently   i'd say 98 successful i believe it was called 
kiln you guys can check out the full video for   that i'll try to leave a link in the description 
or a card up there so you guys can follow the   latest updates but with all that being said i'm 
still bullish on ethereum i'm hedging or hoping   the fact that there'll be more delays now june 
is the time frame where supposedly the merge will   start and uh ethereum mining will then in turn 
be no longer so i'm hoping that gets pushed out   because these cards as of today's date have 
about 400 day-ish uh return on investment   if you're mining ethereum and then i believe 
if you go to the next coin-up which would be   uh ravencoing or flux would be the next ones 
you're going to push that out to potentially 900   days so nothing i say is financial advice just 
because i'm going out and buying cards doesn't   mean i'm telling you to go and do so do your own 
research use your gut use your brains in terms of   what you want to do to buy and make sure you are 
confident and protect yourself in your investment   the thing with these cards where they were on sale 
for 399 from like 470 us dollars so that kind of   helped influence the decision uh and getting 
that return on investment down a little bit   but we still have to kind of get through the 
whole scenario of the merge how long that's   going to take is it going to be in june or july 
august september or would it go late into the year   and potentially next year who's to say so getting 
into the plans a little bit more intimately is   i plan to add those four 6600s onto this hanging 
rig now we have two uh power supplies here that   are conjoined and that go into the motherboard 
here those is this is a bfg 1200 watt and this is   a corsair 850 watt the problem is not so much our 
ability for wattage this is plenty of wattage for   this amount of cards and adding those four msi 
6600s the problem is the ports that are coming out   of here so we're limited to just a few more pcie 
cables and i believe on this psu there's room for   one more cable coming out which yes you we can do 
some splitters this one is completely tapped out   here so uh in terms of what else that we can do we 
can't really add much maybe get one or two cards   more max even with the risers so i did order a 
1400 watt delta power supply from parallels minor   and that's coming by hopefully tuesday so the 
plan will be to kind of rebuild or reformat this   hanging rig clean it up a little bit i don't like 
the cable management i don't like the setup here   it's not very clean so we will plan to fix this 
up and get it prettier looking and more functional   and obviously have more expandability with that 
psu we don't want to forget about this test rig   here in the corner i have some potential plans 
of taking this out and making it as another rig   i'm considering to buy another king wing frame 
here and stacking up and adding more cards that   way as well i still plan to look for deals beyond 
the four cards that i just got and hopefully buy   more graphics cards but i really really want 
to be strategic and i want to get the price   as low as possible so other than micro center 
best buy newegg looking for super sales i know the   prices of graphics cards are also going down which 
is good uh we'll still look on the second hand   market if there are people out there on facebook 
that just really trying to offload their cards   and we'll we'll be able to make 
some deals off that marketplace   the other factor of this too is we have our pdu 
here that uh is is connected and uh we're pretty   much getting close to the capacity of the pdu not 
so much the circuit that we have we have a 30 amp   circuit but this is the bottleneck this is only 20 
amps so after we get the 6600s on there and maybe   a few other cards we're going to be getting close 
uh ish to that 80 percent mark on the wattage for   this particular piece of equipment so we've 
got our trusty space goats power meter here   connected up so everything that you saw those 
two rigs the test bench all that plugged in   across the way here feeding through this cable all 
the way down pulling about just over 1600 watts   uh yeah between 1500 and 1610 uh watts so 
obviously that number is going to go up   we're good in terms of the circuit but the problem 
is again the pdu i think what we'll plan to do   is get another power meter here and we'll just do 
another 30 amp circuit coming out so we have some   expandability we also have the trip lite 30 amp 
pdu here so the thought is to install that other   30 amp circuit run some more cables down here get 
that guy plugged in we'll mount it somewhere on   either on the back or underneath on the bottom 
there or have it upright not quite sure the   placement but that'll allow us more expandability 
to add more rigs there my only fear of continuing   to build in this corner is just again the heat 
issue not sure if it is wise to continue to build   at this bench area that heat even though we have 
that box fan there it just seems to get trapped   into that little cubby it's almost like a little 
cubby area in the garage and it just sits there   so we'll see what our options are guys let 
me know in the comments below based on what   you see here you've seen this garage a million 
times you see kind of what we're working with so   you know if you have any suggestions in terms of 
being able to extract more efficiently the heat   out of that corner just to fill you in also behind 
this wall is our uh hvac system it's where our   furnace is so i know uh chump change has been some 
other people who have considered uh tying in their   uh you know heat into the actual ductwork of 
their uh hvac system so i don't know if that's   a possibility if we get a grow tent here really 
not sure what the best course of action should be   but uh yeah let me know guys what you think of 
that i'm totally open for suggestions last but not   least i wanted to just give a little i don't know 
conclusion on my experience so far been mining for   over a year now it is now march i started around 
january february of 2021 it has been probably one   of the most fulfilling uh experiences that i have 
ever had uh you know this is kind of a hobby but   it's also making money i'm learning there's a 
community to it you guys are awesome so i want   to keep this going i really really do hope and i 
believe i firmly believe that even after ethereum   goes to the merge that there will be something uh 
in terms of mining you know whether it's another   coin or something pops up i just can't 
see this whole you know thing going away   after the merge coming yes things might be 
different it might take years to get a return   on investment but i think the passion is still 
there for the crypto mining community certainly   is with me i've just simply fell in love with it 
so i i've been totally fulfilled for the last year   and uh it just releases those endorphins and it 
just puts me in my happy place and with that all   being said guys i hope you enjoyed this i hope 
you look forward to seeing what i've got in store   next for the mining garage here and as always we 
will see you next time take care caveman mining

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