How to Mine Bitcoin on PC in 2021| Beginners Quick Start Guide | Overclocking Basics

hey guys welcome back to the hash raptor youtube channel thanks so much for watching if you are new around these parts be sure to hit that like button and hit that subscribe button i really do appreciate it today we're going to be talking about how to mine cryptocurrency and get paid in bitcoin on your home pc let's jump right in guys here we go today we are going to be talking about how to mine cryptocurrency or bitcoin using your home pc now when people say they mine bitcoin on their home pc that's a bit of a misnomer that's a little inaccurate and we'll talk about that today really what you're doing is you're mining other cryptocurrencies one of the most popular out there is ethereum and that is being converted to bitcoin with a lot of these just getting started beginner type applications that we're going to talk about here shortly so the idea that you can mine at home and earn bitcoin that is absolutely correct but you're actually mining other coins and again we'll get into that here in just a minute now before we do a deep dive on all the things i want to talk about a few things i do have a lot of experienced miners that watch this channel and this is one where you're probably just going to want to sit on the sidelines and provide some feedback for those folks that are just getting started we've had such a nice run-up in cryptocurrency earnings recently i am getting the number one question comment suggestion i'm getting is to provide some very basic information on how to get started mining now some of the most common questions i get are i want a mine at home but what is a wallet and what is a miner how do i overclock safely and how do i turn that into usd or some other local fiat currency now i will talk you through all of that today but first just to give you an idea we're going to be covering some of the minors that we're going to recommend like nice hash kudo miner and overclocking software like afterburner and one nice wallet that i do recommend is koinomi and coinbase which is sort of a bank for managing your cryptocurrency and attaching it to your bank account and converting it to usd here at least in the united states there's going to be some other options globally but we're not going to spend a lot on time on that it's mostly going to be how do i start mining and how do i start earning cryptocurrency so that being said there's a few websites i want you to bookmark that you're going to visit often and then you're going to come up with your own preferences on where you like to go maybe as alternatives to some of these suggestions that i'm going to give you so the first one is going to be coin market cap and this is where it just lists out all of the top crypto currencies you actually can keep going down the list there's quite a few as you'll learn out there but this is a good place to stop in and check what's going on you can search for cryptocurrencies and this is one that's often referenced in the mining community the second is what to mine so it's what to mine.com and by the way i will leave all of these links in the show notes you can so you can go one by one click on these and bookmark them and you'll be set and ready to go now what do mine is important because people ask me what do i need to get started and the first question i have is what kind of machine are you running on do you have a desktop gaming rig maybe you're a student that's at a university and you have free electricity or maybe you're at home and this is a productivity machine all of that's just fine we'll talk a little bit about that but those are probably your best options to get started mining is it's let's say if you have a gaming pc with a gpu inside it now i will put a little asterisks beside things like laptops real quick i do not recommend mining on laptops at all it just there's so much heat that's generated and i think you've got a better chance of damaging your laptop than actually mining anything significant now if you watch this video and you decide to take on the risk of managing your own power settings just turn them way down and really just use the laptop to learn how do i create an account with a pool how do i start mining what are minors what wallets should i use that's a great way to learn just be very very careful watch the heat watch your overclocks and keep everything turned down really really low if you're going to use a laptop which again i do not recommend so that leads us back over here to what to mine now folks are always asking how much do you earn a day well what you can do is up here at the top of what to mine are a lot of the most common gpus that are out on the market from amd and nvidia and if you click on one of these by default it's got an amd rx 480 selected and it's got three of them selected this is the number of gpus and this is the gpu that you're saying that you have so let's turn that off for now and let's say that we have for this demonstration one 1070. so a little bit older gpu but if you've got any of the newer ones let's say the 1660s or the 2000 series or maybe you've got an amd 5700 you just check that box and you're set and ready to go so for this demonstration let's say we have one 1070. so i put one in there i have to check this box and then the next thing i want to do is you'll see here this is my cost now you can leave this at 0.1 so 10 cents usd per kilowatt hour so if you know your kilowatt hour cost go ahead and drop that in here so for me i'm actually at 11 cents and if you don't just leave it at 10 that's probably a good average for those of you getting started now everything here in between these are what are called algorithms and they're most commonly associated with the coin type that you're going to mine now a lot of folks they know ethereum we talked about that back here ethereum and it has an algorithm that goes along with it which is eth often called dagger hashimoto so f hash or dagger hashimoto now this is the algorithm that your computer is trying to solve when it's mining it's handling transactions and it's solving a mathematical algorithm that you are then in turn paid out in that cryptocurrency and under each of these algorithms which again is associated with a different coin type down here we see kapow which is associated with ravencoin but let's talk about eth for simplicity's sake this is saying that with one 1070 i should be able to get about 30 mega hash per second at 130 watts and that's fairly accurate now one thing to know is depending on your gpu every gpu is different the silicon inside them is different even if you buy the exact same model as your buddy your friend you it's entirely possible you're going to get very different results by several percentage points so you may have a 1070 that really can only get 28 mega hash and your friend or your buddy may be able to get 31. so it's really about testing and finding out what your pc can do what your gpu can do and how far you're going to push it now this is probably a good point to say that you can mine with your cpu and you can mine with your gpu now i recommend just getting started start with your gpu for mining let's not mess around with the cpu and there's a couple reasons for that it is pretty simple as you'll see here in a few minutes to get started mining with your cpu but being that that's the core of your system you probably paid a fair amount for that processor and the returns aren't that fantastic anyway i don't think it's worth it so we're going to start out just learning mining with your gpu so on 11070 we've put in one we've selected that this is the estimated performance on all these different coin types or algorithms okay and we're going to hit calculate and when i do that it is going to give me the top results for how much i would make per day paid out in cryptocurrency so for example on this one card i would be paid out at about a dollar six cents a day for me where i live now if you had free electric you'd be getting paid out a dollar forty and that is for one gpu for one gpu okay now keep in mind this is just an estimate and this is if you choose to cash out your cryptocurrency daily this is the one reason why when people say how much are you making i i s i hesitate i can't really answer that because i do not sell daily i hold on to my coins so i never convert to i don't want to say never i don't convert daily to this usd equivalent okay i keep my bitcoin or whatever other cryptocurrency it is that i'm mining you can see here the estimated rewards for ethereum would be over a 24-hour period 0.0034 but that'll just give you an idea and as you get more advanced coming in here and using what to mine it'll help you understand a good way to jump around to different projects what projects are trending right now but do not use this as the end-all be-all you'll come up with your own strategies to roi or pay off your mining rig or your gpu whatever your goals are going to be so this should be a jumping off point not an end-all be-all finishing point now to get started what you need is a minor this is a piece of software that's going to run on your pc and you need a pool to mine to now we're not going to do a deep dive on miners and pools here what we are going to do is simplify that in a way that is great for people that are just getting started okay and we're going to use two pieces of software that combined a couple of things that combines the miner on your pc it manages the miner on your pc it manages the pool which is where you're mining to and it also gives you a wallet that holds your funds as you're mining and the first one that we're going to use for demonstration today actually the primary one that i'm going to recommend is nicehash and i will walk you through that now another popular one for beginners is kudo miner and this is a great really simple application to get up and get running however the reason we're not going to walk through this today one is i've used hash for quite a while i'm very comfortable with it that being said kudo miner is super simple now let me say right up front i'm going to leave a referral link in here if you use that referral link to get started let's say you give nicehash a try and you have some technical issues or it's just not your cup of tea for whatever reason i actually get better earnings off of the referrals from kudo miner here but i'm going to be 100 transparent because i want to make sure that we take care of everybody and treat everybody as good as possible here in the mining community and just point out what the fees are going to be and what it looks like so right out of the gate at the bronze level with kudo miner it's 6.5 percent now if you get mining a lot or if it's you just like their interface you can reduce these fees as you add miners to it and if you look at nice hash fees you'll see it's a standard two percent okay so if you mine to nice hash it's two percent and there's a couple other fees that you may have to pay depending on how you want to withdraw but for me personally this is one of the reasons that i also like nicehash is that i use for my banking application where i store my primary funds i use coinbase which i'll talk about here in a second and nice hash has free withdrawals to coinbase so you don't get hit with any other small fees taken out but this fee structure can all change i'll leave the links to this in the show notes so make sure you review the fees and you know you can make a decision from there on your own based on what it is that you're looking to do but like i said if you have any issues with nice hash give kudo miner a try and i'll have links to all of this in the show notes so a couple things you need to do to get started with nicehash first thing you need to create an account so you're just going to come out to nicehash.com and you're going to go to get started and once you do that it's going to take you to this screen which is going to allow you to create a new account which is pretty self-explanatory now i already have an account created so i'm not going to walk you through that but that's pretty self-explanatory i'm sure that you've created accounts on multiple websites a number of times okay now once you have your account created you're going to see the nice os dashboard and you'll also see this tab here called mining so before we get lost in any of this other stuff over here since i have some miners running i want you to click on mining and you're going to download the miner or add an asic and we're just going to download the nice hash miner now what this is going to do is it's going to install a piece of software that has all of the miners that are going to get you up and running locally on your pc it's for amd and nvidia graphics cards and it supports both intel and amd cpus now what this video does not cover is any assumption of liability so when it asks you to review the terms and agreements make sure you do all of that when it warns you about running miners and what the security risks are there be sure you read all of that because that's that's up for you to do your own research on later as you get more advanced and you start building out rigs you may want to consider nice hash os but that's definitely a bit down the road i do have some videos on that but we're not going over that today so you're going to download the nice hash miner again make sure you do your own research on all of the terms and agreements and disclosures that it gives you okay now while that's downloading another thing that you need to go get is an overclocking utility which is most common with miners and windows which is called msi afterburner now you may have this already on your machine if you're a gamer but if not i'll leave the link in the show notes below and there are different overclocking packages out there again this is the one that's probably the most common when you see overclocking videos this is what you're gonna see people using you're gonna download afterburner and again make sure you read all of the terms and agreements and make sure that you're good with all of that now while both of those are downloading i just want to point out the coinomi wallet again there's lots of different wallets that you can use to permanently store your funds and there's lots of things that you need to know about that we're just covering the very very basics in this video so i'm not going to do a deep dive on private keys or anything like that but i am asked just generically hey if you want a wallet what do you like to use i like using coinomi because it supports a lot of different coin types that when you mine those you can store them in your coinomi wallet and you can have all of that while you're on the go and it's just really really easy to get access to that there's versions for a mac for windows for android there's even one available for linux personally i use the iphone ios coinomi app and it's worked great for me for quite a while and then lastly we're not going to do a deep dive on this one either today but i am often asked how do i get my funds out so i've earned some bitcoin how do i turn that into cash now a couple things to think of let's say you've earned whether it's bitcoin or ethereum or others you there's actually stores that you can go to and spend that coin you don't have to convert that to your local fiat but if you're going to convert it to let's say usd i use coinbase i'll have the referral link below and what you can do is actually connect your coinbase account to your bank account and i've used this for several years it's it's fairly secure just make sure you read all of the terms and agreements and make sure you're good with everything that they have and when you want to withdraw from hash you can have it go straight into your coinbase account which can then be converted to usd and if you needed to and vice versa if you actually wanted to buy some cryptocurrency you can do that in coinbase as well let's talk about what you need to do next so we've got the miner downloaded we've got the overclocking afterburner software downloaded and we've got the web interface up now to connect your pc to this interface so that you can start earning some bitcoin you're going to click on this mining tab and you're going to see the mining address and if you tap on that it's going to give you the bitcoin wallet address that is associated with your nice hash account here so just tap on that and then copy that bitcoin address and by the way congratulations you now have your first bitcoin address and you say well why why do i need why do i need the coinomi wallet or why do i need coinbase couldn't i keep it here yes you could but it's not generally a best practice to keep your bitcoin or your other cryptocurrency stored long term in the pool that you're mining to typically you want to mine it and get it out of there so that's just just a suggestion so you're going to close your browser and you're going to open up the nice hash minor software that you've installed on your pc and this is assuming again that you've agreed to all of the terms that are associated with this particular miner now once you're first installing this it's going to actually ask you what your bitcoin address is it's going to give you a couple options you can use the login from the website or you can just use your bitcoin address whichever is easier for you typically i find it easier just to drop in my bitcoin address or you can click on this gear icon and you can drop in your bitcoin address there and once you do any benchmarking any mining that you do from now on will be mined to that address and you will see it pop up in the web interface you'll see all of your earnings okay so the question comes up every now and then about windows defender and whether you should run it a lot of experienced miners turn windows defender off altogether and if you're building a standalone mining rig running windows that's certainly an option but you do it at your own risk if you are using this on a gaming machine or a productivity machine you probably are going to want to leave that running so what you can do is set exceptions and you can do that manually or if you come and click on this bell you will see that there is an option within nicehash now that says add windows defender exception and if i click on more info would you like to add nice minor root folder to the windows defender exception now if you don't know what this means if you're not willing to accept the risks if you haven't read the terms and agreements with nicehash don't do this but i have so i'm going to add the exception myself now it asked me for administrative approval i gave it and now that access has been granted now you may still get some future requests from windows defender maybe when a miner updates where it downloads a new miner and you would see those over here in the plug-ins if you install one on your own maybe you do some of your own research and you decide to install one of these additional miners then you can do that from here and it may ask you if you want to allow those exceptions but that should set you up with windows defender so that you won't get any issues when you're benchmarking our mining now there's a couple additional settings i want you to hit here real quick so if you come to this gear icon and click on that i mentioned that you could input your bitcoin address here if you haven't done it during installation but you also have some other options in here as well first and foremost dark theme is a must it's really just a preference but i always love the dark theme and then the second one is your service location this one's really important so by default it may not be set to your country of origin so for default for me i believe it was europe and you want to change that to usa or whatever country that you're in and that way when you're mining the ping rate or the latency between you and the pool that you're mining to is as low as possible because once you get above 100 milliseconds it does start affecting your mining performance and usually if you can select a pool within the same country or at least close by you'll be doing pretty good now the first thing that nicehash wants to do is something called benchmarks and that's where it is trying to make you the most money possible to earn you the most cryptocurrency possible and there's a whole lot of different coins or remember what we call them algorithms that are associated with those coins that it can mine to and so what it likes to do is it wants to run a benchmark to see how good your pc performs against each of these benchmarks so it knows how to earn you the most money and that's often called profit switching now what i recommend doing before you go any further is if you're already benchmarking go ahead and stop that benchmark and let's take a look at our overclock settings so let's open up msi afterburner and let's talk about a few things in here now this is one of the most important things that we're going to do in this video and if you don't take anything else away from this video the one thing that i want you to get is to please decrease your power limit on your card okay so if you're using nvidia if you were to just grab this and slide it over to 80 or maybe even 70 percent and then hit apply if you get nothing else out of this overclocking please do that don't benchmark your rigs at 100 percent on your power limit or or above that you may use that when you're gaming you may go above that when you're gaming but please understand overclocking for mining is completely different than overclocking for gaming which is why i'm covering it in this video so that's the first thing right out of the gate now before we before we go into the other overclocks really basic that i want to teach you about let's talk about the difference between nvidia and amd now i am using an nvidia card for this video however msi afterburner will work with amd cards there is a difference though you're going to see the actual values for your core clocks your memory your voltage instead of on nvidia here you can see that it's an offset so i'm going plus 100 instead of actually increasing the absolute value by 100. so this is what's called an offset so it's a plus or minus again with amd you have the actual values in there now i'll tell you also if you've got an amd card typically that's more advanced users that are using those it requires a little bit more care a little bit more understanding on your overclock so be really really careful and just handle some of the basics when you get started here the most important thing is just turning down the power on your card so that you're not mining at 100 percent okay now that we've got our power limit taken care of since that's most important let's talk a little bit more about msi afterburner itself if i click on this gear icon here it's going to take me into the settings and there's a few things that you don't really need to understand what it means but let's just go ahead and make the changes right out of the gate here and we're going to unlock the voltage the unlock voltage control click on that unlock voltage monitoring and force constant voltage and then hit the apply button now we're going to come back in here and make another change here in a moment but for now that's all i want you to pay attention to all of this information by default if i hit this undo button right here it's going to set everything back to default and where is it getting all of this information from it's reading it from the bios of my gpu so whatever your gpu comes with out of the box this these settings are just pulling that from the bios of your gpu and as you make changes along the way here you can save it for different scenarios different profiles along the way here so maybe i'm just going to have my out of the box settings i'm going to set that to profile 1 just to show you what that looks like and then maybe you'll make some changes maybe for gaming maybe you're up here at 110 percent i'm not suggesting that but if you were to set this up and get some aggressive overclocks maybe you're at 105 percent and you would save gaming as two and then you'll make some mining changes and you could save that as five maybe and you just remember these different profiles in here and how do you want to use them so maybe when you're doing your school work or your business work you've got it set to one you apply that you're doing your gaming you make a change there you apply it you're doing your mining you apply it so there's different ways that you can handle these profiles different things you can set up in there so be aware of that and and use that just for your convenience okay so we talked about changing this power limit and taking it down so right out of the gate let's drop this down to about 70 percent it's where i like to run a lot of my gpus now another thing that you can do is let's reset this instead of actually grabbing these sliders if they start to frustrate you can actually just tap in here and change that so if i change it to 80 notice that it changed the temperature limit as well and what the temperature limit does is it creates a performance curve that determines the performance of your pc whether you're mining or gaming or whatever it is that you're doing now right out of the gate notice that we had a temperature limit of 83 degrees celsius so what i recommend is since that's what the bios has set as default 83 degrees is pretty much i mean that's that's a bit hot but that's okay let's let's leave it there let's hit this chain here to disconnect this from this and what we're doing is so we're going to say it's okay to hit 83 degrees celsius but we're not going to change this as we move our power limit down so we're going to move this let's move it for demonstration sake down to what did we say 70 percent and i'm going to apply that okay now i'm going to save this let's let's save this as five here so we've got our mining profile here and we've got our standard profile here and then maybe some gaming stuff in between now be aware that you you might say well hash raptor you know i don't want my gpu to get up to 83 degrees celsius i want it to stay you know a max of 70. that's fine more than likely you're not going to get up to 83 unless you really really push your card hard i mean it is certainly possible or maybe if you've got an older card there's something wrong with the fan or you don't have good cooling you could but the reason i recommend leaving it where it is by default is because this actually also controls the ramp up so as your gpu approaches whatever this temperature limit is it starts affecting the performance of gpu before you get there and there's an entire curve for that so i just recommend leaving that at 83 percent you could actually just start mining all right and let's see if we do that let's go ahead and hit start mining now we if you had not benchmarked it's going to begin the benchmark for the purposes of what we're doing today instead of letting it go through all these different algorithms here now if it's mining you can't turn these on or off okay and it's by default gonna have a lot of these if not all of them selected which is different algorithms along with different miners let's go ahead and turn all of these off and for again just for this demonstration to make benchmarking easy on you to make it easy to follow along let's enable dagger hashimoto on phoenix minor so that's the algorithm f hash that's associated with ethereum and the minor that nice ash is going to run is phoenix miner which currently is one of the better performing miners out there for ethereum and once you get some results it's going to store those in here but don't worry about that right now just starting out you're not going to have any so let's enable only this algorithm and if we close this out you'll see it's now there and you can see that i've already got it benchmarked and what this is going to allow us to do you can come back in here later and let it benchmark more of these but it's going to save you some time as you're walking through this tutorial here and it may try to benchmark your cpu again this is where you could allow that or disallow that i recommend turning that off especially just getting started you could play around with that later once you get comfortable with this interface but let's just let's just focus on the gpu for now now if you have something selected that you have not benchmarked just hit that start benchmark button and it's going to take a few minutes it's going to walk through and test your gpu with these settings right here it's going to test it with these settings and tell you what kind of results that you're going to get and it will populate those in here and once that's done let's come over here and we're gonna hit start mining and what it is doing is it is opening up phoenix miner here and it is actually running this is what it benchmarked in the background to see how fast your gpu is so let's organize our screen a little bit here so that we can see everything okay now notice right here you see this f speed 22.9 mega hash per second and that's because i'm using a 1070 and i've also got recording software running so i'm losing about 10 to 20 so don't don't focus on this being a max performance demonstration for my 1070 okay we're just going to see how the changes that we're making affect this performance now this is the local miner okay that's running on our pc and as it mines as shares are accepted it will show up in this mining tab at nicehash.com so you're going to come over here to mining and you're going to see your rig manager and it's going to pop up for me it's down here studio 2 is the rig that i'm mining on and this is the pool side you'll hear miners refer to this as what's called the pool side so we're looking at the website and you can see it just changed and what i was going to say is poolside don't freak out if once you locally start mining you don't if you don't see this for a couple minutes it's often going to take 30 seconds before the pool registers it and then pushes it to the web interface the website that you're looking at here sometimes it can take several minutes so don't don't freak out as long as you've got the bitcoin address in there that's associated with this account you're you're fine now if it doesn't show up after 10 or 20 minutes on whatever pool that you're mining to then you want to do some investigation to see what's going on the other thing i want to point out while we're here is poolside is not the place to get the best most accurate information of what's going on with your rig it may show you when you look at your rig what it is that you're mining and see here it says dagger hashimoto at 23 mega hash per second this is this is it's okay to get a sense of what's going on typically i use this to see am i mining or am i not mining and what am i mining but to do all of the fine tuning and to see exactly what's going on you're going to want to look at your pc and you're going to want to look at the miner itself the other thing the pool is good for the web interface here the website is when you're on the go maybe you're vacationing and you left your pc up and running for a day or two and you want to just see how is it doing is it still mining did it have any errors then you can hit this website and just make sure that the miner is up and it's still going okay so back to our ethereum mining here now keep in mind what i said even though we're mining ethereum it is going to the nicehash pool and it is being converted to bitcoin so it is going to get paid out to us in bitcoin you can see here a dollar for per day now this current profitability this is going to change quite a bit this is not exact this is an estimate of what's going on so after you mine for 24 hours you what you really want to focus on is your history and stats and that's going to show you exactly how much you've been paid out and that's where you want to start getting the sense of how much bitcoin you're earning per day just keep in mind don't freak out as this gets really high or gets really low this is going to change and it's based on the number of accepted shares that you've submitted to the pool okay now as you try to fine tune we're going to do some very very basic overclocks here very basic overclocks and to do that let's just take a look at what we've got right out of the gate here now notice we've got our fan speeds at 35 we're going to talk about adjusting that here in just a second we've got our power limit at 70 percent and we have not made any changes to our core clocks or our memory clocks and i am at 23 mega hash per second with my recording software going typically this would be about 25 26 mega hash per second on this 1070 without the recording software going before we do anything with the core clocks which you do not have to do any of this in your overclocking if you want to stop here you want to let this run for 24 hours that is fine you're you're good to go you're set you are mining and by the way congratulations you are officially up and mining and you are earning bitcoin but if you want to go a couple steps further here in your basic introduction let's talk about core clocks and our fan speeds now as we adjust these core clocks it's going to affect the performance here and you would think that by increasing the power that would also increase the performance now with some algorithms like raven coins kapow it definitely does there's a one-to-one correlation but for the most part in cryptocurrency mining it's all about efficiency what is the right power limit to get the most bang for your buck so you're not wasting electricity usually once you get to 80 and above you're really wasting electricity and you're not getting that good of return on your hash rate now where you will get a decent return is increasing these core clocks and these memory clocks and i'm just going to show you some very basic safe memory clocks to go over today now as you learn and you start watching other videos don't don't get too freaked out as you maybe start to test the limits of your gpu you might crash your machine in almost all cases that's recoverable you're really just crashing that instance and then you reboot your pc but but definitely when you're playing with over clocks do it at your own risk but just know that what you're doing is within the limits of the bios of the gpu that you've got so i mean it's it's pretty safe it's pretty safe so before we do anything else i want to talk about fan speed a lot of miners that i know they come in and they turn this auto off so what auto is doing is it is adjusting the fan speed based on the temperature and notice that my gpu it's starting to get up there above it's at 70 degrees now i don't i don't usually like my gpus getting that that warm so a lot of my friends and other miners i know they'll actually turn this off and they'll set this just maybe 70 or 80 percent and apply that and what that will do is it will start bringing this temperature down and when you did that you probably heard your pc sitting beside you you probably heard the gpu fan start spinning up because you just went from 20 to 80 and again a lot of folks i know they just set it to that they pick a number that works for them based on the settings they have and they just leave it now another thing that you could do just to take a look at is you can actually come back in here to the settings okay our settings button and if i come over here to fan and enable user defined software automatic fan control so if you left this on auto out here whatever temperature this gets at this is what the fan is going to do this is the percentage that it's going to ramp up right here and you can see at 70 70 degrees celsius is where it starts to ramp up to full and you can change this based on now and i have already changed this on previous settings but you could change this based on how aggressive that you want to be with your fan control so for example you could say at 30 degrees let's go ahead and ramp up the fan to 45 percent and at 50 degrees let's go ahead and ramp it up to 70 percent and maybe i want to be at a hundred percent down here at 60 degrees celsius or 65. so this is a way that you can control that ramp up and then once you get something that you like you may toy around with this a little bit you can hit the apply button and hit ok but like i said keep in mind and that's if you're going to use this auto button here all right most folks that i know they find a fan speed that works for them and they just turn this off manually set it and hit the apply button and they're off and running now the last thing i want to talk about is these basic core clock settings now most nvidia gpus like the one that we're doing the demonstration here with today can take 50 to 100 some of them the let's say the 10 series upwards of 200 megahertz on the core clock now the 1660 series they like to be under 100 on the core clock and really mining ethereum you could leave this at zero or even put it as a negative so if you're on a 16 series just leave this at zero if you're on a 10 series or maybe a 20 series let's do a really safe overclock here just to get your feet wet and change that to 50. and we're going to apply that now once we apply this let's keep an eye on this f speed here so we're going to go to 50 and on our memory let's do a very basic 250. now we've got both those changed let's apply it and let's see if we see an increase from 23.2 and see what happens and you can see already within a few seconds we jumped up to 23.7 24. there you go so we're already seeing the results of our overclock here and this is a very very basic very conservative overclock now as you begin testing and finding these overclocks that you like for your card when you're mining wait about 10 minutes let it mine about 10 minutes before you move on to other results so maybe get up go get a drink go do something else and then come back but let it mine for about 10 minutes and it'll settle in and you'll get a really good idea of what the changes you made what kind of results that they gave you now i'm not going to go any higher in this video if you want to take that on yourself you can do that what i recommend is just maybe step it up about 50 megahertz and apply that and go up and you can take that until your gpu crashes the screen you know it turns white and you have to reboot the gpu and you know 99 times out of 100 you're going to reboot and it's going to be all back to the standard the standard settings so we've got these basic settings in here let's save this let's save this setting as we'll call this five this is our our really basic setting so if we wanted to go back to everything being standard i just select one select that or if i want to come back to my mining settings click on this and apply it that is the basics that's what you need to know to get up and running and you should be set with afterburner be careful of the stability over 24 hour basis so you may want to let it mine for 24 hours and then come back the next day and see what it did because it may turns out that after two hours or 10 hours the rig actually started crashing and you may need to dial back your overclocks a little bit let me go ahead and head this question off you may see this effective speed 31.72 mega oh my gosh that's great but why is this speed saying 24 okay this is the pool side right here this is what the pool is saying which is good that's good that the pool is seeing that but this is your actual local mining speed here your mega hash per second now notice that phoenix miner is also reporting our power right it's at 105 watts now this is just reading using the driver from the gpu this isn't always the most accurate thing to do now if you watch some of my other videos we talk about measuring your power what's called at the wall and once you start getting really advanced on your or your overclocks and your mining and maybe as you add a second gpu and a third you're definitely going to want to know what the power at the wall is doing you're going to want to get a kilowatt meter to be able to measure that but out of the gate this is a decent way to get started now on the subject of power a very basic free utility that you could get is called tech power up gpu z and i just want to show you some very basics you can download this for free from the web and it'll give you some information that's telling about your gpu and the first thing that most miners ask about or talk about if you go into a forum is they're going to say what kind of memory type do you have and notice that this 1070 has samsung which is considered the gold standard it's considered to give you the best mining performance but you may have hynix or micron and that's just fine now the second thing you can use this for is to come over to sensors and this is going to give you all kinds of information about your gpu and what it's doing and notice right here there's got this setting it's called board power draw and it's at 107 watts now this is pulling that same information that's being reported in the minor here see it says 108 watts so if you want to get some really simple information on what's going on with your gpu check out the board power draw and that's going to give you an idea of how much power you're pulling because that's how much it's costing you in electricity and some miners that are really focused on efficiency they may ask you what is your mega hash per watt and all you do is you take this number right here your mining speed so let's say 24 and you divide it by 107 which is roughly going to be what somewhere around .24 i think anything above point two it gets you in the ball game of what you're looking for for mining so that equips you with a couple basic tools you've got msi afterburner to do your overclocks you've got gpu-z to get some additional information on your gpu and now you've got your miner that's up and running it's running phoenixminer and you are mining using nicehash os all right this video is definitely running really long but i needed to get this video out for those that are just getting started so if you know someone that's wanting to get started with a home pc feel free to send them the link to this video and this should get them up and running if there's anything i missed if there's anything i misspoke on or if you've got questions or comments please leave that in the comment section below and all of the links to this video will also be in the description below we'll leave it there for today raptors thanks so much for watching guys we'll see you in the next video 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Length: 43min 28sec (2608 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 20 2020