How to get Cheap GPU Mining Rig Parts From Old Desktop PCs

In today's video we talk about How I have been Purchasing Old Desktop Computers, Stripping them down and repurposing their parts to build GPU Mining Rigs. Enjoy today's video on How to get Cheap GPU Mining Rig Parts From Old Desktop PCs.
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Video Chapters For Quick Reference:
00:00 Introduction
00:10 How to get Cheap GPU Mining Rig Parts From Old Desktop PCs
00:50 Previous R9 380 Mining Rig Built From Old Parts
01:10 How Much I Spent
01:20 HP Desktop Computer Tower
02:25 What Kind of Hardware is Inside the PC
03:08 Removing the Motherboard, CPU & Memory
04:50 How to OverCome 2 PCIE Slots
05:30 PCIE 1 to 4 Splitter Card Solution
06:40 Removing the Power Button
09:30 Stripping Down Old Desktop PCs for GPU Mining Parts
How to get Cheap GPU Mining Rig Parts From Old Desktop PCs
Cheap GPU Mining Rig
GPU Mining Rig Parts
Using Old Computers for Mining
Mining on Old Computers
PCI 1 to 4
PCIE Splitter 1 to 4 GPU Mining
PCIE Spliter
How to Build a Cheap GPU Mining Rig
Cheap Mining Rig
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⏺ Rog Strix B550-F Gaming Motherboard - 5 GPU Support
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⏺ HP 750w Server PowerSupply x 1
⏺ AresGame 750W Bronze ATX PowerSupply x 2
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⏺ EVGA Geforce RTX 2060 Founders Edition
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[@TheHobbyistMiner]

Is the current state of GPU Mining? What creative ideas or avenues have you done to get your hands on Cheap GPU Mining Rig Parts? What are you running currently?

[@TLands]

Optiplexs are really cheap, used ones and older series , also they have 4 slots instead of 2 and usually a i5 cpu

[@TheHobbyistMiner]

@@TLands Thats a huge win!

[@paladdin1500]

Free pc from marketplace, although they are rare these days

[@jow4video]

Hi there! Here I have an Optiplex Mobo too -7010 model. Its an I3 processor, 8Gb memory and 3 pcie slots for around 66 usd. The newer bios update is from 2014 🤣. Bummer is that the vendor didn't got the chassis fan neither the front panel connections so the post have the same "press f1 issue" as the HPs. All of it have some kind of proprietary connectors, so I'll have to do some workaround for this issue. Ty for the video THM!

[@zacrl1230]

Does the 4x usb card work with well with HiveOS?

[@DPardytyme]

Hell yea!!! This is what I've been looking for for months! Tuning in for the full build!!!

[@MiningOffice]

I did this quite a lot during the summer! Also flipped some used PCs and parts in order to reduce my initial investment in mining. Really good stuff my dude!

[@samoicebreaker5117]

Thanks! I've been looking for this kind of tutorial!

[@LeoHashCoin]

This is such an important video for people starting out, alot of good advice. Great video dude. :)

[@mymusic4U2listen2]

Great video! I learned a lot. Already experienced with PC's, but this is a whole other level! In a cool way! Thanks for lesson!

[@chazprouk]

I love how resourceful he is. He’s like The A-Team of rig building

[@TheHobbyistMiner]

haha thank you for the laugh.

[@Desertjoe789]

Love it. Love your card brackets too. I will never understand why some guys spend hundreds of dollars on octominer cases. If the whole point is to make money spending less puts more in your pocket sooner. Well done. 👍🏻

[@TheHobbyistMiner]

Great point

[@daimonde]

this feels almost tailored to a question i asked you on twitter recently, cheers man, great stuff.

[@TheHobbyistMiner]

I read all my comments on Twitter and KZbin ;)

[@daimonde]

@@TheHobbyistMiner and you replied on twitter which was much appreciated too :)

[@RSAGarage]

Awesome! My first rig was an old HP. I used the HP power supply to power the MB. I used an EVGA power supply to power a 1070 & 3060 with some risers. This is how I got my start. Now its out of control hahaha! Love the content! Keep it up!

[@joevilleneuve1524]

what kind of PSU are you using to run 2 cards, im thinking about getting 2 r9 380s since 1080s are $600, can i run both cards with a 850w or 1000w PSU?

[@nvizn2366]

One of the best and informative miner videos I've seen, recently. Even Above channels like Voskcoin, Red Panda, SonofaTech, etc, who've basically been releasing all the same content, of one another. Good content!

[@Not_James_Hernandez]

Great vid, this is exactly what I did with an old motherboard/cpu combo when I got started a while back. It was my eBay special and cost me $40 shipped, $60 for my psu, about $250 for a pair of rx 470s, then about $100 for all the other odds and ends. My only regret was not buying more rx 470s lol. Now I’m kinda capped on my power consumption at my house as I’ve grown since then. I don’t have a huge farm but Im limited on where I can draw power without having power cords run through the house or disrupting daily routines. However, I am following the grow tent build and im considering having a dedicated breaker/outlet put in my garage near where I would put my new outlet. Haven’t quite done is as I live in the south and my garage gets pretty hot.

[@mrourcanada8964]

I did the exact same thing except for I didn’t take the motherboard out of the case I just left it in there but it works awesome

[@TyroneReedJr]

Saw this yesterday, and picked up 13 old pc's the same day 😅 lol a good mix of i3s and i5s thanks!

[@jkd_exe]

Now that I have my first rig finished, I’m gonna do this with an old HP in my room. 🤔 Thanks THM!

[@HamiltonsExploration]

Good Morning Brother Hope You Have A Blessed DAy! Going To Watch And Comment From Both Channels Lol. Time To Watch An Learn Thank You For Helping Us All Out With Helpful Information

[@tonybetts467]

Very informative.. thankyou.

[@vaderwashere365]

Good video for people wanting to break out parts. However, Pro tip: there is no need to take anything out, which only provides a negligible benefit if any. Just put in your 1:4 riser adapter (s), plug all your risers and power the GPUs and risers with a separate PSU. Remember to plug a single SATA from the old PC to your multiple PSU adapter. No breaking parts or making e-waste, dealing with what is a proprietary part or power pin, save yourself 30-60 min, and some thin PC's even fit in the motherboard tray of your mining frames... so much easier.

[@baobabminer5364]

Another great idea, thanks

[@bluealiennetwork]

I reused a HP 800 SFF, w/original power supply , then added EVGA 1000w for just GPUs (3070s), works great - original 200w power supply running only motherboard is only 20watts at the wall. these computers are tanks and seem to run forever.

[@ezradavis6893]

Loved it!

[@TheHobbyistMiner]

Thank you

[@CoronaHoax-nd2rr]

you create some nice content. subbed

[@TheHobbyistMiner]

Much appreciated!

[@FinancialMechanic]

My favorite video so far. Maybe because I can relate. Hope that mobo allows more than 3 cards.

[@miked3723]

This is a fantastic video. I currently have a 7 GPU mining rig using a LGA 775 Core Duo motherboard from 2007. Using 1 to 4 PCIe adapters you can get as many GPUs on it as you can power. On ebay this mobo cpu ram combo costs under $50 and the 1 to 4 PCIe adapters are $20 each.

[@noahswarz4914]

Do you have the 1to4 on the x16? or both on x1? I can't get more than 5 to show. Are you using Windows or HiveOS. Any tips you can provide? Thanks

[@miked3723]

@@noahswarz4914 I have an adapter in the x16 and one in the x1. Running 3 cards per adapter and a single riser in the second x1 slot. Running windows on the rig. This is on an Asus mobo. Salvaged oem boards may have limited pcie lanes available.

[@noahswarz4914]

@@miked3723 hmmm, yeah I think this is a dell board, I have to give it another go. I have a T7500 workstation with 5 pciex16 slots and can't get more than two cards smh. Thanks for the reply

[@JBuckenmeyer]

Thanks for the info! I found this video because I was wondering if I could mine on my old dual core !

[@mafiaboy4925]

What bios setting Chan do we have Make ?

[@Lethargy01]

Have to watch with some of these office machines. Dell for example hasn't used the ATX standard for power in years so you're either stuck using the original PSU or adapters for the mobo. I've had mixed results with ATX 24pin to Dell 8 pin adapters, ymmv.

[@jimeluk6697]

Thank you so much Bro

[@troy2923]

You rock HM, I have been waiting for that for 2 years lol, I can do most things hardware but never went deep into Motherboard territory I'm good to go bro! just bought a cheap Dell i7-2600 3.4Ghz, 8GB RAM going to look for appropriate GPU's here in while prices are lowish, thinking Etc or flux or ...still deciding which to start with, any personal pref be sure to holler. Merge or not, I need to learn the nuts and bolts properly if I am to feel confident in the industry as a whole. 2 years in trader always watching mining, looking forward to many years of experimenting with emerging trends, who knows what direction tomorrow but one thing is certain, at 44 now, people the world over underestimated BTC 15 years ago, I imagined it today and 15 years later to be like this, we already won it's utility, then Eth, then.....!. Thanks for the Vid mate, I'll watch the other build too, Heck yeah ;) Owe ya a beer

[@CaveManMining]

This is how I started :) Very nostalgic. Great video!

[@yasirshaikh2922]

Thank u so much Sir you teach us very well, biggest like 872, fully played

[@AP_Sim]

The psu works great for running my mother board my ssd and all rig fans via 12v to a fan controller

[@paladdin1500]

My type of build :)) I prefer spending $$ on gpus, no need for fancy expensive moboscombos

[@frankschannel2642]

Take the chassie fan and use twist ties to mount it atop the CPU fan!! Works GREAT, and the fan is not only out of the way, but doubles the cooling capacity!.

[@TheHobbyistMiner]

Big Brain Thinking!

[@SmoothJamsEntertainmentRTuggle]

Great vid I have 4pc towers collecting dust, want to take my gpu’s and build a rig. Thnks

[@dreamcryptomining]

That is a good way to recycling old computer components, so they get some new life!

[@williamgallan7573]

I've done this with two rigs. Ebay mobo, cpu, cpu fan and ram bundles can go for £30 with postage.

[@franciscocarvajal7202]

Have some Dell PCs laying around. will look into to see what I can recycle.

[@jean-francoisaubin]

I go to my local dump electronic recycling containers I found lots of go stuff even gpu to old to mine but still good

[@furryp2402]

That is good. Cheap base prices

[@happyhashing8660]

Whats Going On Brother Many Blessing 😇 Thanks For The Helpful Information

[@tomasberglund186]

nice video ^^

[@casualtrips9571]

Careful. I had a old Lenovo desktop I converted into a gaming pc. The latest bios were too old to support any newer cards.

[@marito8298]

PCI 1 to 4: wow! That is very nice :D Would those work on any card? I'm planning a RX 570 set up for my 1st build (found some really cheap these past days)

[@integraguy041]

It's funny you did this video I just bought 6 hp 6300 desktop computers from my work for 10 dollars total lol each have x3 pcie slots

[@cc-.-]

Break that pwr button eh? Strong 💪🏻

[@TheHobbyistMiner]

You know it!

[@nonenone9493]

@5:10 nice!

[@TheTravelersTravels]

Great video! I tried this with an old dell optiplex, it won't run usb splitter.....at least on windows...

[@acuralee]

I’ve been building CPU’s for awhile (custom water loops mainly or building custom cases) over the past 5 years I’ve gotten a few components (i7-4790k, Asus Mark S mobo, 4x 1660 SC’s, 600 watt evga psu, and 16gb of avexir ram) since it’s only 4 gpus I have a pc tower they will fit it (Corsair 750D airflow) I’m just sort of lost when it comes to what programs and such to run and if the cpu could handle running such programs as I don’t see many people using i7-4790k’s much but the gpus all work great and haven’t really been ran much as the original build was two Galax HOF edition GTX 980’s (back when having a white pcb was hard to get lol)

[@cesarmatos4024]

Brother Excellent Video, Thanks, New Miner here building same project, any guidance in terms of installing the miner software on this and drivers will be needed? Windows or Linux?

[@automattikbeats]

I've been asking friends and inlaws for their old hp towers!

[@Daisy-wy5mn]

Definitely an option using the power supply if there is no 24-pin power on the board and you’ve got a proprietary 8 or 6 pin power on the board

[@vaderwashere365]

This for sure. With so many of these old PC's having various proprietary functions (fans, power pins, power buttons, etc.), it is so much easier to leave the PC alone and just plug in your PCI-E adapters and use another adapter to power on your separate PSU at the same time as the PC power on.

[@carlossiguenza331]

Are there any settings within the motherboard that limit the rig? Things like changing pcie gen, 4g decoding, etc?

[@OptionsIncomeTrading]

Shame we wont need motherboards since NEWEGG MAKES US PAY $400 for them in Shuffle. Great video, thanks!

[@Foresttofinish]

building a couple of cpu mining rigs from old desk tops.

[@dastardlyman]

hello! we use 4th gen intel boards or later - cos they are uefi - same with am4. if you use earlier generations they wont boot with uefi gpus cos uefi gpus EXPECT uefi bios. up to rx470/480 you are ok with non uefi. my fave boards are actually 4th gen intel cos here in the uk the e3-1245-v3 xeon is relatively cheap and its a monster on turtle, raptoreum and monero ocean. all our rigs dual mine on cpus and gpus. get an e3-1245-v3 and try it out. price per hash its maybe the best cpu. obviously ryzens are much much better but price per hash not so much

[@bluecavemen]

is there any videos on how you active the new card, gpu etc or it is a plug and play ? im not a computer person so havent mess with computers for a long long time.

[@Wigwhom86]

I use the power supplies and the hard drives sometimes. $60 I pay for each pc, they have 4 pcie slots and are ready to go once you load the os

[@TheHobbyistMiner]

Way to go!

[@JayThukral]

Hello, How did you identify how many GPUs this motherboard supports? Thanks

[@strawbot7801]

I finished my first rig looking to make a etc rig. Any cards you recommend ?

[@iamalanavery]

If the old office PC does not have a 24 pin connector do you use it to run the mobo and use another psu for everything else? What is "best" most efficient and safe?

[@ji99er79]

Hi! Thanks for all the content, You share so much of knowledge! Can I ask You for some help? I have an old HP Pro 3400, i3-2120 processor, 4gb RAM DDR3, 120 GB SSD, Win 10. It has 3 pcie x1 and 1 pcie x16 slot. Cards RTX 2060 super. When I try to connect the card via riser system won't boot. It only makes a beep noise and doesn't start. When I unplug the card from the port, the 7 boot normally. The same with a splitter, with one card it is ok, when I plug another system do not boot. I think this may be the fault of BIOS settings. The problem is that these boards have a very limited bios. Can You tell what bios settings did you use? Or maybe You have another advice?

[@BaconEggsAndHash]

Nice vid... couple questions...I have a couple old hp desktops I was thinking of using one for CPU mining and the other for GPU both ten years old...the CPU in one is AMD...I want to swap it for a Ryzen 9, can I use that motherboard? And second question for the GPU one, can I use the original CPU already in for GPU mining if it's ten years old..I think it's an Intel quad core not sure what gen

[@paulg8065]

Is there any advantage to getting a “mining” motherboard? They have a “mining mode” or “cryptocurrency mining mode”

[@DJ_Driven]

I have close to 20 old Dell 3010 computers, some 3020 , 3050 computers. Have SSD's, plenty of spare parts and Windows 10 Pro custom image can you to reimage these units. I would like to turn these into minors what GPU's would you recommend, OS and what to mine to get into the game?

[@mikehall2611]

What bios setting did you use to enable the 6th gpu? I have the same board and there's no 4g decoding option.

[@deltaalfaomega]

Question. for DDR3 motherboards, the lanes are afected due the use of some microprocessors like celerons or old semprons? i mean, can i use a sempron to manage a 4 to 6 gpus Rig?

[@EZ-ELIMZ.]

Hey buddy sorry I meant do you research what the motherboard is before buying these Dells? I ask because here in the UK, I can pick up one of these for around £70 which is much cheaper than buying individual parts like CPU RAM etc The only thing that’s putting me off is the motherboard. As an example what do you think of a Dell Vostro 260? I’m aware of the PCIe 1 to 4 splitter and have a couple i think. I’m thinking of getting one of these for my next rig build... will defo save me some cash.

[@_FERG]

If you were going to use the psu for the motherboard and cpu and all that, could you not just leave it inside the tower and pull the cables out of the side of it?

[@CretZzuCS]

Make a video about what BIOS settings you are useing !!

[@TheHobbyistMiner]

No changes from factory.

[@CretZzuCS]

@@TheHobbyistMiner ok thx bro 👍

[@ThriftStoreHacker]

I'm more of a Dell Optiplex fan. The older i7 3770 business models have 2 gpu slots.

[@impressivethings2060]

Pls tell me what model of motherboard and which card we can run on this rig???

[@FitimHajrullahuFishing]

I have hp prodesk 400 g2 I am trying to install gpu with pcie riser card but in the bios what should I change because windows does not recognize gpu when it starts

[@bucko504]

👍👍

[@RingstedHedge]

You can use the crappy psu no problem, i use them in a few with the. Server psus no problem.

[@mafiaboy4925]

Do we have to made any changes to bios?

[@puzzle3407]

What was processor bit?

[@nattyriddim9123]

Would 1660super work on HP Compaq DC 7800 tower? I need to run 2 GPU's out of it, because I can't get my msi z390-a pro with i3 9100F to work with 6 cards. Thank You.

[@danidtirkey249]

Can I use DDR3 motherboard for mining with splitter and 4-6 GPUs with 4-6 gb GPUs?

[@tylerwilson6219]

You know how that motherboard had two pcie slots, When using the pcie to four usb adpater do i need to worry about it being a pci express 16 or not, Does this matter?

[@KassyArturo]

Where do you order the r9 380 at

[@sendlocation8476]

@HOBBYIST MINER If I have 1 rig with 6x3060ti - how much ethereum would I mine? How much $usd would I make in 1 month?

[@DemeDemetre]

so, is a Pentium a good option for price? its very power efficient. mining doesn't need a very powerful CPU, right?

[@MAKING.MOTION]

Show how to install and upload gpu ! You save me from selling 3 old gaming pc they also have 600w is that good ? @the hobbyist miner

[@qwertyui90qwertyui90]

can you use those 4way splitters with the Nvidia 3060 GPU's ?

[@mafiaboy4925]

No

[@FitimHajrullahuFishing]

hp prodesk 400 g3 have 4 slots pcie can i use for 4 gpu

[@ixusus]

Do you know where can I buy the GPUs that miners sell?

[@myjpkl]

U putting your motherboard on table like that will not spoilt the board? There is no protection at the bottom

[@destinycalled]

The real question is what features do you need to look for in a motherboard that allows you to run more than 1 gpu I have a b450 f from Asus and I've tried a million ways to run 2 960s and a 2060 but it won't recognize them it won't even boot when I use one of those pci splitters and I got it to boot with the 2 960s but the 3rd card it won't do anything plus the internet says it won't but I got it to recognize 2 cards so I must be missing something

[@ivoivanov7260]

I found really cheap motherboard combo Cih61m v.1 and i3-2120 can I mine with it can you guys give me advice to buy or not

[@SajidKhan-ev4xb]

Rig ko 24*7*365 din chalu hi rakhana hai kya, ager ha to phir continue chalu rehane se koi problems aati hak kya isme

[@patsurtan7936]

Can the hp 280 g1 tower run8 gpu’s?

[@25JEjuanriver]

can you use 2 12gb graphic card to mine am old pc

[@yusufandresetiawan6059]

this pc support mining with 3060 ti?

[@XnickfurGaming]

hi sir i have ah question in our country asian were we get these low budget parts i really need gpus in real prices because to much high sellers selling gpus

[@ManipurCryptoMinining]

bro please help, i got 550 power supply, can i mine 3 card at same time with 550 power supplies, name of the three card are, gtx1660, Rx570 4gb and gtx1050ti, can this three can easily be mine with this 550 power supply, please ans

[@Crewdog77]

Help Please, i got a HP280 G1 MT (I5-4590 @3gb) and 8GB mem. running windows 10pro. I did all the registry tweaks and such, Virtural mem 1931/20000, I get a message on device manager for the EVGA 1070 card "this device cannot find enough resources that it can use" any ideas where to start looking for the fix?? thank you, love your content.

[@rockporttigger7138]

Are you also using the 4 USB OB Ports on these. Or, these too slow? Also, have you attempted to use a USB 4 or more port hub to add ports on your rigs using older MBs? TIA. HODL!

[@lawerencecohen8287]

Taking the out of the tower is too much work. I left the side of the tower off, inserted the splitter. Mine with the factory power supply has been going strong since 2017.

[@davelawson2564]

so you connect your gpu to it and no other change required ?

[@lawerencecohen8287]

@@davelawson2564 I powered my GPU's with a server power supply/breakout board. The server power supply powers the risers and the gpu's. When powering up the system turn on the server power supply first then the PC.

[@georgebell117]

I will have to google what a breakout board is but if that computers power supply fails will it also shut off power to the server power supply that you added?

[@lawerencecohen8287]

No, the server power supply will continue to work but if the computer power supply stops, mining will stop.

[@davelawson2564]

@@lawerencecohen8287 If power is maintained to motherboard connected to the rig with GPU's will mining continue ? or you need Full PC to be on all the time ?

[@tech_by_mark]

My splitter card doesn't work on my Dell vostro motherboard.... Sad

[@pioneersmokehouseschannel]

I recycle parts all the time. I pulled a 580 8gb out of the recycling bin.

[@danielgimenez4929]

only works with 3 gpu the adapter from x1 to 4 usb?

[@TheHobbyistMiner]

Nope. Works with all 4. So could support 8 total GPUS.