 A miner should always be thinking about Mining takes up a lot of power so you want You'd have to be very brave to try mining If you'll be going with NVIDIA, make sure you get done What's up internet? Uso ulit yung cryptocurrency So we've gotten a lot of requests in the shop for miners This video will talk about three kinds of miners Asic miner, dedicated desktop miner and on-the-side desktop mining My first piece of advice is don't build a miner I'll explain after the ad break What's up internet? Mahirap pa rin mga guha ng PC parts ngayon but that doesn't mean you can't get this shirt to remind you of what you still need Jokes aside, na toto naman we made our very first merch to not only reflect our passion for PC building but to help you teach your friends what you know through the hardware sugar PC anatomy shirt To order, go to our site or click on the link in the video description Hover over products and select t-shirts We have three designs and they come in sizes ranging from small to XL Press add to cart Select your delivery option and your payment terms We deliver anywhere in Philippines but you can save on the delivery fee by paying and picking it up in our store in Makati And if you wear it long enough baka maswertehan ka and you'll finally get the go signal from your significant other or your parents to finally get that AIO or RTX 3080 that you've been dying for The first thing to ask yourself is what will you be mining If you'll be mining Bitcoin the OG cryptocurrency which has the most name recognition then don't build a miner Any desktop computer is very inefficient to mine Bitcoin It's like if you wanted to dig a hole 5 feet deep but the only thing you had to dig with was a toothpick Ganon ka lala Yes, kahit 3090 gamitin mo Hindi pa rin siya cost efficient For BTC mining you need specialized machines They've been specifically designed to mine Bitcoin and to do nothing else You can't play games on them You can't browse with them These machines only have one purpose to mine Bitcoin You can find ASIC miners on Lazada but I don't have a personal go to seller to recommend Unfortunately, hardware sugar does not sell ASIC miners If that's something you want baka kaila mo ko sapin yung mga mayari Now if you'll be mining a different currency Let's say Ethereum That's a different story You can build a dedicated miner using desktop components Here's what you need for a cost efficient miner CPU, get the cheapest It doesn't need to be fast Basically it will only be running the OS Same goes for RAM and storage You can go cheap on those components Case A lot of professional miners just need their cards outside So no case, no enclosure This helps with airflow The neater miners have custom frames built so you can suspend the cards in the air and link them via riser cable to the mobo You will need riser cables You want as many cards as possible but you can't physically cram the GPUs onto the motherboard They need to be hanging in the air in a line Then you attach the riser cable to the GPU Then the riser cables will be the one to connect to the motherboard The cables are much thinner so there's more space They can be accommodated on the board So the GPUs are suspended either on top or on the side of the case and then the riser cables are what bridge the mobo and the GPUs For the motherboard you want one with as many PCIe slots as possible because you want to be running as many GPUs as possible on one system Manufacturers have come out with dedicated mining boards You can't get something like this which already features onboard graphics, onboard CPU and eight PCIe slots The record I think I've seen from a more well-known manufacturer is this one from Astrock with 13 PCIe slots Mining takes up a lot of power so you want the best possible PSU that you can get Back when I was mining a couple of years ago my PSU was a 1200W EVGA 80 Plus Platinum PSU Again, some brands have dedicated mining PSUs but you can also use the high-end PSUs from the usual manufacturers Finally, the core of any mining machine is composed of lots and lots of GPUs If you're going AMD the 6600XT or 6700XT are pretty good value for your money We do have a dedicated miner who's a regular customer in the shop and he's bought a lot of those two cards in particular and he's showing pretty good cost-efficient performance from them If you'll be going with NVIDIA make sure you get the non-LHR or non-low hash rate cards What's LHR? For the 3000 series NVIDIA deliberately hobbled their cards for mining That's the LHR version They put a hard cap on the speed that the cards can do for mining So LHR cards suck for mining but are still fast for everything else NVIDIA has mentioned that the 3090 will always be non-LHR but for the other 3000 series cards it's becoming more and more difficult to find non-LHR So do check before buying Of course minors are smart guys and they've already come up with workarounds So we suggest if you're starting and you want NVIDIA cards just get non-LHR Once you've established your miner then that's a time maybe pick up an LHR card or two to play around with and to see how efficient the workarounds are So yun na yun that's a dedicated desktop miner Go cheap on the CPU RAM and storage Splurge on the PSU motherboard and especially GPUs The last is a part-time miner A lot of people who buy high-end rigs for gaming and editing think na why not try kaya natin yung mining Tutal high-end na rin rig ko I might as well try to earn some money from it And it's true high-end rigs are good candidates for sideline or part-time mining because they already have the most important part of the miner a very fast GPU Assuming non-LHR if it's an invidia card Mining does create a lot of heat So if you're building a PC to be also used as a part-time miner Get one of the large cases with good air flow We recommend the fractal design torrent or the fractal design meshify too because you really want a lot of air moving through your case That GPU is going to be pumping out a lot of heat when it's mining The cases I mentioned are quite large because they do have good air flow You'd have to be very brave to try mining on a typical ITX build Aside from the case and GPU most high-end rigs will already have a good PSU which is sufficient to run the GPU So even on that front you're already covered Warning though part-time mining can be very addicting At first you start out with oh, I'll just mine when I'm not at my computer Then the next thing is oh, I'll mine even at night The next thing 24-7 you're not using your computer for gaming for editing All it's doing is mining So it's a slippery slope It's very addictive especially when you start seeing the profits come in Since money is involved spending it making it A miner should always be thinking about one thing the bottom line What's the most cost-efficient way to build and run my miner? So for capex or capital expenditures that would be your hardware What's the cheapest hardware I need to get the best miner? Your OPEX or operating expenses would be your electricity What's the least amount of voltage I can feed into my cards and still get a very good hash rate or mining speed? A lot of the art of mining is in undervolting your cards So feeding them just the right amount of electricity so you don't waste your money on energy you don't need while still generating good hash rates Mining is an expensive pursuit so do think about it and crunch the numbers before you decide to jump Thanks for watching And thank you to our top fans na affordo namin to kupuwa na to and edyok lang Thank you to Liya Magnaya Ian Meru Richard Ongkinko ITX Addict John Ruben Ocha Christian Espinosa and Raphael James Thank you for supporting the channel