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as part of the renovation on our new house I added this Workshop test bench

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area to the garage which has already come in handy when working on product reviews the problem is that the garages

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in Canada and Canada has winter meaning it has been so bloody cold that I can't

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do any workout here so hate the garage I

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hear you saying but that would be expensive and frankly too easy I got a

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reputation to uphold luckily I have a second problem because we often need to

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retest Hardware months or even years after it first releases I have a

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warehouse full of things like random motherboards weird crypto mining power

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supplies and gpus if only I could take

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my two problems put them together somehow I bet you can see where this is

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thing we'll be doing is establishing that a I am in fact real and B it is

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indeed cold in here so I've got this fluke thermometer and a k-type probe

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that I'm going to be taping to the chair in my test bench corner where I'll sit

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and work on like notes for product reviews or most recently troubleshooting

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the random restarting issue that I've been having with the play button PC

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that's interesting it claims that it

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warmed up like three degrees since uh we

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first started taking the temperature but if I go like this you can see it's

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dropping rapidly it's just for me standing here

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well because it's not if I'm whooshing around the air you can see it's dropping

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yeah yeah it's about it's about nine degrees in here which is honestly not

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that cold until you consider what the temperature is outside it is five

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degrees outside the garage meaning that the Delta between outside and inside is

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only about four to five degrees we had a cold snap recently where temperatures

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plunged below negative 10 degrees Celsius meaning that it was well below

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zero in here and not only unpleasant for me but also for my electronics

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particularly in my laptop the liquid crystals in the display turns to more

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like gel crystals with extremely pronounced motion blur even just moving

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the mouse around it's kind of hilarious obviously in a perfect world I would

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heat the entire space but instead I'm going to be laser focused on the area

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right around this desk and that's for a couple of reasons one it's large with

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high ceilings meaning that a lot of the energy is going to be wasted heating up

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the areas that I don't even occupy two there is currently no heating system in

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here whatsoever meaning I would have to install something from scratch finally

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three this house was not designed for

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the garage to be heated and therefore the insulation in it is absolutely

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atrocious so enter my solution heavy curtains from

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Amazon which I'm going to put up just around this corner in an attempt to kind

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of hold in some of the heat I don't know that this will work very well but what I

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do know is that I have a second k-type probe and we are going to take our

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temperature in two places at the chair which I showed you before and also kind

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of out here to see if we are actually able to maintain a temperature

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difference oh that's right the original plan was shower curtains because the

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plastic would keep the hot air from moving at all at risk of the air quality

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in there not being as good anyway the point is that they were too short they

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were only going to go to like here

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um well this seems fine right oh

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why would I take down this stuff

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yeah that's where I keep my chainsaw what it's safe oh my goodness you sound

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like people on Twitter okay I post a picture of my garage and everyone's like

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well it is the chainsaw is going to follow you chainsaw's not going to fall

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on me look ah hold on

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wait for it ah chainsaw's not falling down don't

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worry it's fine yeah come on what the

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hell how are you supposed to get this stuff out of here get a knife ah but

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that's okay because I have a perfectly organized garage meaning that I can find

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something immediately no matter what it is go ahead Brandon ask me to find

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anything here we go my Jerry rig everything that

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oh well uh oh crap

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wait I actually know the answer to that

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in my backpack upstairs that was a hard one because it wasn't actually in the

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garage we've got a couple of options here we can either go between this post

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and the wall or we can mount it to the front of the mezzanine here I guess I'm

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just not really gonna overthink this I'll just kind of go for it right

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yeah because that would keep it as close as possible nope new plan things are

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about to get janky I'm taking the L bracket off

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and I'm just gonna put it in the bottom like this yeah

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good thinking Linus that'll get it as flush as possible what was I doing on

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the ladder before Brandon this is way smarter there we go oh dang it

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dang it there we go oh dang it okay there we go

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there we go I guess I I need to put the curtain on

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it uh yeah this seems like a good idea

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hey Brandon Brandon make sure you're rolling if I die I've said it time and

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time again but you guys got to monetize that video that'll be my final gift to

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the company it's the right thing to do Brandon

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I have found a small fly in the ointment uh my chainsaw appears to be in the way

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as does my leaf blower now I know what you're thinking Brandon oh thank

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goodness he's going to take down that chainsaw but I've got another idea wait

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for it yes

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and after only minor trials and tribulations it's done

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not bad right swings open a little something like that

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and look it's even still compatible with my chainsaw storage now

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it's time for us to kick things up a notch and that is where this comes in we

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found this old mining frame kicking around from man that must have been like

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four years ago or something like that anyway from an old video we did and what

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I like about this one is that it seems like if we get a little creative we

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should be able to wall mount it because like I said I don't just want to throw

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heat into this area I want to throw Heat at my chair so I'm kind of thinking like

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here or if I can swing it maybe even at

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an angle so it's blowing down this is a perfect time to take our before we are

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exactly not really it's probably because I'm close to it okay well we're at 9.3

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and 9.4 degrees respectively inside the

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workshop and outside in the garage so what I'm going to do now

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is close it because I am expecting there

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to be a slight increase just from the approximately 200 Watts coming from me

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and Brandon combined plus actually this is probably another like 150 watts if we

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do see a change in temperature in the workshop compared to the rest of the garage while we're building up the

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mining rig that would suggest that the theory behind this is sound and I'm not

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just going to be trying to heat this entire space with a thousand or so Watts

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which would like be negligible wouldn't work at all okay let's build a computer

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shall we Brandon help me decide should I go with

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the Firestarter 5000 or this unit from our reputable brand

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Firestarter 5000.

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with the Bitcoin logos on it sorry Silverstone you're too reputable

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not enough fun now I'm sure the mining enthusiasts out

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there are going to be cringing at some of my Hardware choices but let me tell

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you something efficiency in this case not actually necessarily a benefit if I

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have a less efficient power supply that just means I'm kicking out more heat

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oh I guess I should talk about the cards that we're going to be using these are

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all examples of gpus that we're not using right now but that I will almost

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certainly need at some point in the future so I've got I think this is a

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2080 TI a 3080 now that the 40 series is

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out you're going to see a lot fewer 30 series cards in our projects and then

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I've actually got our matching pair of RTX 2080 supers which we might need if

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we ever wanted to do a retrospective on SLI or something like that so in that

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case I will come up on my ladder rip the GPU off the wall and take it into the

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office for now it Heats my garage I know

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that there are plenty of Gamers out there that could be using these gpus

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right now but the problem for us is that the cost of like selling them and then

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reacquiring them at some point in the future when we need them is extremely

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high and it's super time consuming and so we've found it's better to just store

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them I put all the gpus on before plugging in all of these little PCI

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Express Riser boards I mean yeah mining content so out of fashion now you guys

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might even forget these things basically what they are is little PCI Express to

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USB adapter so apparently USB has enough

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conductors for a PCIe by one link so

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then that goes up to this little board here that accepts a 16x GPU mining is

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not particularly bandwidth intensive over the slot and then you power this

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little board with a six pin PCIe connector unfortunately I screwed in all

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my gpus before installing these so now I get to do this the hard way I'm only

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going to plug in one of these gpus for now because even under the best

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circumstances this mining stuff tends to be a little bit flaky and the more gpus

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you run the more chance of encountering instability I do not want this thing to

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shut off because then I'll get cold oh my goodness this thing's heavy and oh

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wow this Frame is just like

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ball mounting this is going to be a challenge but I have good news check

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this out there's now a difference of 0.3 degree freeze between in here and out

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there that means the theory is sound uh

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hold on a second can this thing even take a 120 volt input I can't remember

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shoot it can't and I just plugged everything in you know what screw it

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let's take lunch and it's done switching the power supply has another benefit

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there's actually one screw hole here that aligns with the PSU so the whole

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rack is now self-contained all we need to do is see if it works this is going

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to be a lot of power I um hmm I have

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questions um

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nice uh okay we got display power USB we

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good to go whoa

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uh okay only one of these gpus is actually plugged into PCIe so far and

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you might have noticed I'm plugged into the motherboard for graphics that's why

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we needed to use a g variant of AMD's ryzen 3000 Series so it's the 3400 G

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because we want all of our dedicated gpus dedicated to mining

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now Windows isn't necessarily the best

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operating system for mining but

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um it's here how long does this benchmarking process take oh it was like

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15 or 20 minutes per card oh my God what

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uh you know what no it's it's fine basically I what I had planned to do was

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plug them in one at a time instead we're just going to plug them all in and hope

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for the best and we'll let them all do their benchmarking thing we've got another video to shoot here today anyway

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so we'll go do that while we wait obviously we want more but two of them

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are actually mining already and we're sitting at about

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975 Watts not too bad but we still have

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some problems to solve like how to put the heat exactly where I'm going to be

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sitting the idea that I have in mind as you guys know I'm something of a ceiling

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and wall mounting enthusiast ah is I want it right here and then I

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want fans that are kind of blowing the heat down what do you think Brandon

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genius or moronic

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okay these are at about 18 inches which

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is durable awesome all I have to do then is just

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drill some holes in the mining frame and put it right into the wall what could go

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wrong wait oh they're all mining now that explains why we're at 1200 watts

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man that kicks off a lot of heat exactly what we need all right

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let's shut it down and get it bolted to the wall I would never recommend

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drilling near working Hardware components

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oh how did I just break oh the drill bit oh

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there's a hole nope

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got this

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oh yeah she bit she bit

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please tell me it instead

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did we get it oh yeah that's not going anywhere and

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after only minimal troubleshooting which involved enabling 4G decoding and

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changing all of our PCIe slots to gen 2. we are up and running

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1200 watts from the wall and I gotta

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tell you guys I can feel the heat now all we need to do is let it run for a

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while long story short it didn't our

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temperature Delta is only about a degree and a half which if you guys remember is

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not that much different from just having a person in here working

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I think I know why though we've got our FLIR thermal camera going here and you

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can see that the warm zones around the

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mining rig are actually in completely

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the wrong spots a ton of our heat is kind of leaking away over here a ton of

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it's flying off over this way and we are sending some down but it's clear that

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the position of our fans is not ideal for blowing the heat down toward the

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user it's almost like thermal management is like a whole industry with Engineers

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scientists but who needs engineering when you have L brackets here's what I'm

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thinking three L brackets on the wall I bend them in the Vise and we blow the

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heat that way I had my lovely assistant help me Bend these brackets good job uh

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sure how about here I mean at this point I feel like the ship has kind of sailed

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in terms of this looking decent I like how this video it's been started out

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like kind of done

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without now this I mean how does that look

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oh crap I just ripped the screw out of the

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wall all good I'll just make a new hole no

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one will ever know except all of you people watching and it appears that I've

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put holes in my wall for nothing the grand total difference in temperature

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between the curtained area and the outside is

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one degree at best

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oh zap to block but at least there's no bugs I mean is

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it even what about here like it feels warmer okay it is warmer it's like 12

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and a half that close I think for v2 I just need to get it closer at the end of

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the day even if it's only a degree it's free real estate though right because

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we're making money mining nope we're actually losing a dollar a day but

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that's okay because as the key night among you might have noticed earlier in

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the video our ultimate plan is not to mine on it well the ultimate plan might

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to keep it at all if it's not actually going to hit the space but whatever the

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ultimate plan was to run folding at home we've got a great folding team on the

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you guys enjoyed this video why not check out a blast from the past when we

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did a series on what the heck mining is and how it works it doesn't make any

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sense at the moment but who knows maybe be the crypto Ponzi scheme will take off

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again and some new people will join the bottom of the pyramid and it'll be a Rip

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Roar in time for everyone involved