I started out with an old Dell optiplex mini, 2 pci slots, included keyboard, monitor, mouse. The seller was a miner, threw in 4 mobos, a cooling fan, and 2 midrange gpus after I told him what I was doing. What a score!
Awesome video was able buy everything u showed and some other videos of yours total cost of everything $125 total expenses including building my own open air rack ty so much
Just use a jumper to start the board and set 'resume on power loss' in the bios. You'll not short stuff by using a jumper. If you lose power or use the power supply switch it will restart on power resume
I have 4 dell, 2 are about 3-4 years old, the other two are 9 years old Optiplex 980 but for some reason I can't get any of them to work fine with 4 GPUs. 3GPU max all 4. As soon as I add the 4th it gets recognized and I can get it to start mining but after a few minutes it loses connection to one gpu and then another. Best case, it keeps mining on two, other times it just stops mining
hi I bought an Asrock b365m and bought these two splitters however it does not support more than 2GPU's. So, I wanted to understand how do you find out how many GPUs will mobo support. Thanks
Old mobos and processors are good for mining, but you need to keep an eye on power consumption. They can easily take 50-60-80-100 watts, almost one GPU's electrical budget. In windows go for the 'Low power profile', Linux is not so hungry I think. With high consumption, you can pay out slowly a new motherboard.
Going to donate my asus Maximus hero z270 for the mining rig since it has 6 pcie slots. 3x16 3x1. Glad I chose this mobo back then when I built the pc. Now idk what motherboard to buy to upgrade my pc? Any suggestions? Should I go z or x 570-590?
Look in Device manager, what does it show? Right click them go to properties and see what error is shows. If they are not even show in device manager, then swap the none working ones with the working ones to see if they show. If they do after swap, it might be the splitter or you setup running out of PCIe lanes. If that is the case you need to adjust settings in your bios. What settings?... well it depends on your board, but turn PCIe gen down to 1, and see if you have any other options... like disable iGPU, and old communication printer ports to open up lanes.
Hi, thank you, this is awesome. Do you think that I can run 8 GPUs (EVGA 3060) on this system? Asus H81M-C Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard Intel Pentium G3220 3 GHz Dual-Core Processor
No because the way the PCI lanes and resources are broken up. The max you can possibly run is 7 GPUs, but I had issues when adding an 8th GPU on H81 boards.
I have an MSI B450 Tomahawk Max mobo and the maximum I could run is 7 gpu's. Is this common? No matter what I do either in bios or with expanders, I can only attach up to 7. If I put the 8th card the mobo just wont boot up and I have to reset the bios.
Im am currently looking to get a small 2xgpu rig working on an hp dc7700 motherboard, it only supports ddr2 but it has a core 2 duo cpu, 1 full pci and 1 pcie, will it work? Thanks in advance.
Hey! how is it going?? a friend of mine happened to snipe an RTX 3060 Zotac AMP Gaming. The price was just high. just two questions if you can answer them i would very much appreciate it: - Will this card make around 48ish mh/s with the 470.05 driver?? - Do we have to make any bios mod? Do you remember that we had liquid metal on our laptops and they were overheating? Well, i just repasted as normal and temps went down. I had to deal with a very very damaged screw that i had to force with a "steel strip" so that i could use a screwdriver to take it out. On the other hand, talking about the video, all of my rig have the P35/P45 intel motherboards , using xeons, The x5460 or below + ddr3. All around 60€ all. i advice the P5QC or P5KC, they are dirt cheap, with the usb expansion card shown on the video (although they have 4 or 5 x1 pcie slots. Cheers!!
Nice gratz, and good job using older but decent hardware to get thr job done. As for your questions, first one, yes it should get near 50 Mhs with Dev driver 470.05 (if you need driver check my video description for 3060 content). Second one, no you dont need to bios mode, just dummy adapter and x16 or x8 full length PCIe slot, along with driver. Good luck and take care. I'll post a quick vid on the dummy adapter I am using.
@@SerpentXTech Hey! how are you?? My friend and I tried to put to work that RTX 3060 that i told you. It didn't work out well. The main issue is that we didn't know that you had to plug the card directly to a PCIEx x8 or x16 which is not possible on his rig. The only option seems to be to buy a full x16 pcie extender. Any idea? thanks!
Got a DELL Optiplex 3020 here but having trouble getting it to boot into HiveOS. Whenever hive loads the drivers it freezes. Also couldn't get it recognizing more than 2 gpu's whenever it would startup.
Check the bios for any security features and research that board. As far as getting more GPUs working on an old board you have to disable old comm or serial ports, but becareful or you will disable USB ports on to some boards
How it would long lasting usage, as never knew 2nd pc board did from previous owner....also it aged as well, how to choose the best one before it become dead cpu or mobo? Thanks
For a free garage find, or 2nd hand purchase you might buy one locally for only $25 or a whole computer tower for $50 - $75. If it dies after a couple years, at least it go you by until prices drop. Obviously you want to make sure it works before you buy it, but their cheap and convenient compared to a $300 mining board...
Did you were able to make your rig work usinf the green motherboard? i try a 1080 GPU un the 16 PCI but the system did not turn on, then i try without the GPU and all runs like butter, maybe a riser is necesary?
@SerpentSFX Does it matter if a motherboard/cpu is 32bit windows? I want to mine a single 8gb card but not sure if its possible with that old of setup?
Theoretically it should work, the problem is most Mining software, and utilities are coded in 64 bit. So the miner programs and tools you may normally need, might not work. However, I am super interested in your findings, and if you could get it to work. BTW some older Gen hardware will say "32 bit" but can actually run "64 bit" try a fresh install of windows using 64 bit option and see for yourself.... if not you can always reinstall.
Take a computer tower turn it on its side. Find motherboard with some PCIE slots, use the adapter in my description, grab some power supplies, PSU splitter, and turn a computer case on its side. Make a base for GPU risers to sit on, and find some GPUs to fill they system up. Check out my monthly build series videos for more details and parts list
Yeah, Yeah...the problem with his whole mining crap right now are getting the powerful GPU’s...2080 up like hens teeth unless you buy a gaming pc, strip it and sell it back with some shitty 1660 to a newbie gamer! Moral of the story....don’t waste your time...especially building a rig! It will remain bare bones forever!
I started out with an old Dell optiplex mini, 2 pci slots, included keyboard, monitor, mouse. The seller was a miner, threw in 4 mobos, a cooling fan, and 2 midrange gpus after I told him what I was doing. What a score!
Wow 😮 am going to try this
Asked my grandma for any unused old mobo and she asked me "can you buy more GPUs atm though?"
Now this is the content we need. So interesting. Thank you.
Awesome video was able buy everything u showed and some other videos of yours total cost of everything $125 total expenses including building my own open air rack ty so much
Great info! I'm running an old ABIT AB9 Pro and a Core 2 DUO on one rig!
Damn i wish there was more videos like this out there, subbed!
Love you name! Please dont kick my ass...
Undo the screws in the old case front panel and remove the old power switch. It will look just like the one you got.
Just use a jumper to start the board and set 'resume on power loss' in the bios. You'll not short stuff by using a jumper. If you lose power or use the power supply switch it will restart on power resume
What your saying is there is no specifics on motherboard, I can use the one I have and buy a GPU
Can't believe it works!
XFX rx570 8g x2
XFX nForce 780i Ultra SLI w/6gig DDR2
Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor Q9400
Is it a profitable rig? how much USD per day bro?
PCIE 2.0 doesn't work with the 3060 GPU's at the full hashrate
I have 4 dell, 2 are about 3-4 years old, the other two are 9 years old Optiplex 980 but for some reason I can't get any of them to work fine with 4 GPUs. 3GPU max all 4. As soon as I add the 4th it gets recognized and I can get it to start mining but after a few minutes it loses connection to one gpu and then another. Best case, it keeps mining on two, other times it just stops mining
hi
i have gigabyte h81m-d2 is it good for mining ??
i've 2 amd rx 470 4gigs and i can't overclock them
Can you show me how to bypass ?
Been mining with old dell sff systems and a splitter to get 5 gpus on 1 for 3 months. Never crashed once yet.
what cpu/ model dell is it?
@@branson.cz1 i5 2400
No clue what model. Not in a case anymore
hi
I bought an Asrock b365m and bought these two splitters however it does not support more than 2GPU's. So, I wanted to understand how do you find out how many GPUs will mobo support.
Thanks
Wait is there a video on the cooler master case? I have a similar case
awesome video, can you please link your video on how to resolve code 43
Great information, can you help me with information on gigabyte h410m h.. I am not able to connect second GPU to that.. tried hell lot of things..
I have two Am2+ SLI motherboards + 4 RX 570 8gb. No issues so far using Hive OS
Whats your profits with those cards?Mining Etc?
What about using a cheap SOC Motherboard like the E6010? Cost is like 40 bucks.
so is a Pentium actually good for mining? or is an i3 better
Old mobos and processors are good for mining, but you need to keep an eye on power consumption. They can easily take 50-60-80-100 watts, almost one GPU's electrical budget. In windows go for the 'Low power profile', Linux is not so hungry I think. With high consumption, you can pay out slowly a new motherboard.
Going to donate my asus Maximus hero z270 for the mining rig since it has 6 pcie slots. 3x16 3x1. Glad I chose this mobo back then when I built the pc. Now idk what motherboard to buy to upgrade my pc? Any suggestions? Should I go z or x 570-590?
Thank you for that info gonna tear some old pc’s apart lol
The problem I keep having with the splitter is the gpu's cards dont show. I can only get 2 max to show.
Look in Device manager, what does it show? Right click them go to properties and see what error is shows. If they are not even show in device manager, then swap the none working ones with the working ones to see if they show. If they do after swap, it might be the splitter or you setup running out of PCIe lanes. If that is the case you need to adjust settings in your bios. What settings?... well it depends on your board, but turn PCIe gen down to 1, and see if you have any other options... like disable iGPU, and old communication printer ports to open up lanes.
splitter costs much more than mb itself. better off buying a 7-8 slot mb
Hi, thank you, this is awesome.
Do you think that I can run 8 GPUs (EVGA 3060) on this system?
Asus H81M-C Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
Intel Pentium G3220 3 GHz Dual-Core Processor
No because the way the PCI lanes and resources are broken up. The max you can possibly run is 7 GPUs, but I had issues when adding an 8th GPU on H81 boards.
I have an MSI B450 Tomahawk Max mobo and the maximum I could run is 7 gpu's. Is this common? No matter what I do either in bios or with expanders, I can only attach up to 7. If I put the 8th card the mobo just wont boot up and I have to reset the bios.
So I can add multiple gpu to my old p8h61-m le ?
my specs are :- g41 mobo + intel e5700 LGA775 + 4gb ram + antec 550w psu
can i mine with this setup using 3060ti
Hello, have you test the mobo? Can support 5gpu
@@Mr_Chiwang yes i have tested this ... and worked fine .. only tested 1 gpu
whats going on Serpent!!!
Nm Simon, staying busy and working my rear off.. but cant complain. Glad to have a job, take care
Im am currently looking to get a small 2xgpu rig working on an hp dc7700 motherboard, it only supports ddr2 but it has a core 2 duo cpu, 1 full pci and 1 pcie, will it work? Thanks in advance.
what is your vid called where you fool windows to let you have more gpu's?
It is really old video, and quality isn't good but here you go.
ua-cam.com/video/G2y2jv2FiV0/v-deo.html
Hey! how is it going?? a friend of mine happened to snipe an RTX 3060 Zotac AMP Gaming. The price was just high. just two questions if you can answer them i would very much appreciate it:
- Will this card make around 48ish mh/s with the 470.05 driver??
- Do we have to make any bios mod?
Do you remember that we had liquid metal on our laptops and they were overheating? Well, i just repasted as normal and temps went down. I had to deal with a very very damaged screw that i had to force with a "steel strip" so that i could use a screwdriver to take it out.
On the other hand, talking about the video, all of my rig have the P35/P45 intel motherboards , using xeons, The x5460 or below + ddr3. All around 60€ all. i advice the P5QC or P5KC, they are dirt cheap, with the usb expansion card shown on the video (although they have 4 or 5 x1 pcie slots.
Cheers!!
Nice gratz, and good job using older but decent hardware to get thr job done. As for your questions, first one, yes it should get near 50 Mhs with Dev driver 470.05 (if you need driver check my video description for 3060 content). Second one, no you dont need to bios mode, just dummy adapter and x16 or x8 full length PCIe slot, along with driver. Good luck and take care. I'll post a quick vid on the dummy adapter I am using.
@@SerpentXTech Hey! how are you?? My friend and I tried to put to work that RTX 3060 that i told you. It didn't work out well. The main issue is that we didn't know that you had to plug the card directly to a PCIEx x8 or x16 which is not possible on his rig. The only option seems to be to buy a full x16 pcie extender. Any idea? thanks!
Got a DELL Optiplex 3020 here but having trouble getting it to boot into HiveOS. Whenever hive loads the drivers it freezes. Also couldn't get it recognizing more than 2 gpu's whenever it would startup.
Check the bios for any security features and research that board. As far as getting more GPUs working on an old board you have to disable old comm or serial ports, but becareful or you will disable USB ports on to some boards
How it would long lasting usage, as never knew 2nd pc board did from previous owner....also it aged as well, how to choose the best one before it become dead cpu or mobo? Thanks
For a free garage find, or 2nd hand purchase you might buy one locally for only $25 or a whole computer tower for $50 - $75. If it dies after a couple years, at least it go you by until prices drop. Obviously you want to make sure it works before you buy it, but their cheap and convenient compared to a $300 mining board...
Reply me if you are around east LA county area and need these motherboard/CPU combo, I have some of them.
Did you were able to make your rig work usinf the green motherboard? i try a 1080 GPU un the 16 PCI but the system did not turn on, then i try without the GPU and all runs like butter, maybe a riser is necesary?
Maybe, or maybe that board has issues. Try another GPU or PCIe card
@SerpentSFX Does it matter if a motherboard/cpu is 32bit windows? I want to mine a single 8gb card but not sure if its possible with that old of setup?
Theoretically it should work, the problem is most Mining software, and utilities are coded in 64 bit. So the miner programs and tools you may normally need, might not work. However, I am super interested in your findings, and if you could get it to work. BTW some older Gen hardware will say "32 bit" but can actually run "64 bit" try a fresh install of windows using 64 bit option and see for yourself.... if not you can always reinstall.
What's the cheapest rig to build for a beginner ?
Take a computer tower turn it on its side. Find motherboard with some PCIE slots, use the adapter in my description, grab some power supplies, PSU splitter, and turn a computer case on its side. Make a base for GPU risers to sit on, and find some GPUs to fill they system up. Check out my monthly build series videos for more details and parts list
@@SerpentXTech I seen on the cost of a rig video the description said 7000-8000$ is that the cheapest I'd be looking at?
Awesome 😎
like :)
Yeah, Yeah...the problem with his whole mining crap right now are getting the powerful GPU’s...2080 up like hens teeth unless you buy a gaming pc, strip it and sell it back with some shitty 1660 to a newbie gamer! Moral of the story....don’t waste your time...especially building a rig! It will remain bare bones forever!
Do you bud, I understand. Take care