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Wait did you say AMD Opteron CPUs? Dude those are really bad. That’s back during the AM3/AM3+ era which almost caused AMD to go into bankruptcy. Those were notoriously bad and very energy inefficient CPUs. You would need to upgrade to a modern Ryzen or EPIC or Threadripper CPU to be profitable.

One of the replies suggested removing the power cord from the controller and spraying some contact cleaner on the connectors - that worked for me luckily.

You'd be better off solo mining (not in a pool) think of it like playing the lottery lol

That is an axial capacitor which is usually run parallel to the board to conserve space. They are polarized, which is why there is a thick black line on one end and a + symbol on the other. A dual axial capacitor will have one lead going in and 2 leads going out on the other side. I don't know much about the specific capacitor in the video, but my guess is that it is a 2uf 50v capacitor. The sprague tva 1301 may be a suitable replacement for what you are doing but I cannot guarantee anything. With sprague capacitors, there should be some letters such as TE or TVA followed by a number and that will be the model for it. The tva 1301 I Mentioned is designed/mostly used for amplifiers so it should work.

This worked for me and saved me $$$$$$$$$$$$$$! Thanks!

I would have tested it before sticking the screen down!

Thanks for the info, this worked for me, glad I only spent 10 bucks to fix it until I can budget a whole new system for my situation.

What is the minimum temperature required for the unit to start generating? 76 degrees? Does that meaning that anything below that temperature it wont turn on?

Interesting experiment. I was also wondering the same thing as you about how some of the old servers would perform. Also good to see someone around my age dipping their toe in crypto as I am.

Try to Mine verus

FYI, 2 day started, in test phase - R730 with 50% cpu usage 64 available /32 working, and the H/s with my current setup is : xmrig[3191]: [2024-09-12 07:55:38.128] miner speed 10s/60s/15m 14244.1 14242.1 14241.9 H/s max 14246.8 H/s

Hi sir , what's recomwnded pool for mining xmr ?

I'm going to buy a dell server

wow! this is a good idea!

Any one have a link to the part to fix it?

Very cool 🙂👍 If I may recommend the yespower algorithm with threads limited in the bat file. Its much more efficient on the older enterprise cpus🙂 If staying with RandomX, a switcher like Nicehash, Mining Rig Rentals, or Unminable will yeild much more than direct Monero mining. All the best 🙂🥂 Happy to help if needed👍

sir, a ryzen 3600 gets 7500 hashes on randomx. i tell everyone that is where to start. am4 ryzen 3600. then you can upgrade to ryzen 5900x. if thats not enough then am5. ok, your server was VERY cheap, but thats because the cpu architecture is very old and inefficient. we have a load of lga1150 motherboards (and they are very old) we mine using lga1150 xeons and they get 2000 hashes randomx. so if i was on a TOTAL budget - get lga1150 and a xeon 1226 with two sticks of ddr3 1600 - and bang thats 2100 monero hashes. also look at your power draw. an lga 1150 xeon is gonna blow you out of the water with power draw. the lga1150 xeon 1245 is interesting cos it has 8 threads BUT useless for monero cos the cpu cache is locked at 8 megs on the lga1150 xeons. however ghostrider can use those 8 threads a bit. we do use a xeon 1275 on lga1150 thats the best we are using. but go onto am4 for mining - even that is now old tech

I have the t-15. There are more wires. I followed your instructions and cut the red and blue wires. Then connected them to the potentiometer. Nothing changed. Do you have any idea if it could be any of the other wires. Two white, two black, green, orange, yellow,purple, red, and blue

Thank you so much Sir. My system was reading Hot and the generating light was flashing and my pool started turning green since no chlorine was being produced , took my cell to Pincha penny and after testing it failed. After watching this video I just tried, my system had the blue, red, orange, yellow, green and brown in addition to the 2 black and 2 white. I cut the red and blue and the generating light is solid so far so good so im waiting for the potentiometer to arrive to finish it. Just saved $800+ at least for now.

Have you ever mined Scala?

Wow it really works and somewhat easy to do . Thank you very much from Toronto Canada

Please how do I make mine use all my 12 Cores

I think a new low end laptop or mini PC with something like an N100 connected to a battery and solar panel might be an interesting experiment.

I have never turned a profit mining other when I tried some of it 12 years ago or something like that. I wish I would have saved the BTC but thought it was a waste of time. I really don't think there is much money to be made unless you can get in on the ground floor of a coin and for every coin that comes out there are 20,000 of them that fail.

Nice video. I remember when people were mining XMR on Vega 64s. Fun times! Do you plan on getting another rig to replace this one?

I did the clever surgical modification and it worked. However, my salt reads funny. Started out initially at 2700. Planned to add salt after I put up my tools and noticed it said 3500 (without adding salt). Checked again today and now it reads 4400. Hmmm. 🤔

always a risk updating bios ... especially if it bricks and you dont have the skills to program a prgrammer... long live zif :D

"OOBANTOO" doesn't exist.

What's that wallpaper animal?

exec sudo -i systemctl set-default graphical exec systemctl isolate graphical Who needs reboot? 🙃

Oh my thank YOU so very much for this!!! My husband followed your instructions and worked like a charm! We appreciate you!! Have a blessed day!

Please tell the profite or loss in the next upcoming videos

C’mon man.. you wasting your time money and power… Just buy the coin if you want it that bad

The key to Monero mining is cache per core, you ill not do well with intel Xeon or any intel. Ryzen 3900, 5900 are the best for the price.

It's pointless mining on those old servers to be honest your jus wasting your time and your electricity. Sell them all and buy one modern ryzen system and get 10-20kh i.e 10x or 20x the hashes for probably less watts.

Does it ruin the computer? Like how much will it shorten the life of my computer if I have it run all the time?

You just saved us more than 800$, I can't thank you enough! We'd like to send you a small gift from Montreal if it's ok with you

Question. When you had the "HOT" display on your screen could you push the diagnostic button and read the other settings or was it locked on HOT the entire time until you made the bypass?

I wish you were my neighbor. Thank you, sir.

am4 and ryzen 3600 , two sticks of ddr4 - thats your entry point for cpu mining. IMO. older tech just isnt worth it. you get 7khash on ryzen 3600. and then you have an upgrade path to ryzen 5900 if you want

Love the video!! Please keep posting more!

crypto mining on a cpu is never a good idea, let alone on a $50 machine. funny to see this being tried though

EPYC is the Key 😉

Hi, thanks for this really interesting video! How much power does this server need?

Probably cost more in electricity

Love these down-to-earth experiments, very informative video!

hahaha useless

Tried something similar and it wasn't worth it for me either.

Use dedicated Nodes (clustering) with ASIC or FPGA cards mate more efficient and power hungry

Worked like a charm. Circuit board size is easier to place inside unit than the larger one pictured here.