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what's up so I'm just blind rod with the
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tech once again today we're going to be
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taking a look at the mining capabilities
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of the brand new AMD Vega Frontier
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Edition GPU so stick around alrighty so
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here is the AMD Vega Frontier Edition
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GPU it sports 16 gigabytes of HBM to
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memory which should be really good for
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mining at least on the Fury series we've
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gotten some pretty good results out of
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the Fury Nano even which I've picked up
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and that ones doing really well with its
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4 gigabytes of HP m2 and I had high
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hopes or have high hopes for the Vega
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series or Vega Frontier Edition here for
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mining etherium however there's going to
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be some surprises along the way so stick
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around to cover a few more things though
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before we get started the Vega Frontier
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Edition comes in a nice blue and gold
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color scheme so you know throw that into
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a nice blue and gold themed mining rig
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haha just kidding probably not going to
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do that but you know throw it on a piece
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of wood get it in there and start seeing
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what we're going to hash now for power
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requirements it's going to be pretty
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hefty you're going to need to eight pin
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PCIe adapters which has max B reticle
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with the PCI rail probably about 375
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watts now it pulls more more frequently
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about 300 watts at max power load now
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with some tweaking we could get that
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down quite low just depends on you know
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what specific afterburner settings are
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going to go with in this case I did just
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stay at stock settings I did try to bump
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the memory up to about 1,000 megahertz
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to see if we could get a better hash
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rate and it supplied a little bit better
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but nothing too fantastic and then
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finally it's going to have a reference
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design cooler which is actually quite
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loud it is probably in my opinion from
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what I can tell nozr than the Titan X
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Pascal line from Nvidia or the Green
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Team which is you know I guess sort of
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expected it does seem to peak
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temperatures even just mining quite
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quickly as well pushing the fans
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eat up - on its stock curve past 80%
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closer to 100% and it gets very very
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loud while mining and at that rate it is
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staying around 78 degrees C which is
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also quite hot now we're probably at
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about 27 degrees C not 25 degrees C here
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in this room right now where the GPU is
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being tested so that's just a little bit
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of background on that but let's get to
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the hash rate the hash rate is actually
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surprisingly low it's only at about 31
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mega hash a second which means that we
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aren't really going to get great returns
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if we take this and go take a look at
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the etherium calculator we're only
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looking at about 72 dollars and 64 cents
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a month this is at the current rate of
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course etherion prices are always
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fluctuating so make sure you go take a
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look at the current rate and keep in
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mind that it could dive or increase just
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various over various times but if it was
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at this rate right now and it maintained
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this price we would be looking at a
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return of investment in about 13 months
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as the Vega frontier edition GPU runs
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about $1000 so that's going to pretty
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much cover all of the mining aetherium
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capabilities of AMD's vega frontier
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edition GPU i am curious though seeing
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they does have 16 gigabytes of HBM - if
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we did go ahead and throw this into a vm
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environment and started passing it
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through to a few different VMS if we
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could increase the I guess synthetic
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cache rate we could try to trick the
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card into dispersing maybe four
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different VMs with four gigabytes of
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vram so I am going to try that and see
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what happens because I'm curious to see
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how that would go but that's going to
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call it quits for today
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the only thing other thing I would
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mention is I did have trouble getting it
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to run in the claim or dual minor and I
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had to use each miner to really get it
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to even recognize it as a cuda device so
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not sure what's going on there's
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probably something to do with how the
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new the drivers are
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possibly I'm not positive I'll let you
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guys know in some later videos hope you
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