Title: Power Supplies and Current Miners: Starting a Reference List Post by: surfariver on January 02, 2015, 06:44:24 PM Hello,
Based on a short off topic exchange, it looks like there is some confusion about the best ways to hook up some of the current generation miners to popular power supplies. I'll be happy to edit this post as people provide information to provide a place to find this information quickly. Please don't limit it to what I've got here, feel free to add other miners and other PSUs, as well as helping me fill in the info correctly here. Also, most of my experience came on BFL and S1s, so please correct me if I've mistated something. Antminer S5 CX750M - Will power 1 miner, connect the 2 - 8 pin split cables to the ports labeled "6+2 PCI-E & 4 + 4 CPU" and to the 4 - 6 pin ports on the miner EVGA 1300W SuperNova G2 Silverstone 1500 LEPA 1600 Spondoolies SP20 CX750M - Need two PSUs to power 1 miner, connect the 2 - 8 pin split cables to the ports labeled "6+2 PCI-E & 4 + 4 CPU" and to the 4 - 6 pin ports on the miner ( ? ) EVGA 1300W SuperNova G2 Silverstone 1500 - Will power 1 minter, connect 4 - 8 pin cables to the 4 - 6 pin ports on the miner LEPA 1600 - Will power 1 minter, connect 4 - 8 pin cables to the 4 - 6 pin ports on the miner Antminer S3 CX750M - Will power 2 miners, connect the 2 - 8 pin split cables to the ports labeled "6+2 PCI-E & 4 + 4 CPU" and to the 2 - 6 pin ports on each miner. One cable per miner ( ? ) EVGA EVGA 1300W SuperNova G2 - Will power 3 miners, connect 6 - 8 pin cables to 2 - 6 pin ports per miner. Two cables per miner Silverstone 1500 LEPA 1600 Title: Re: Power Supplies and Current Miners: Starting a Reference List Post by: Blazed on January 02, 2015, 07:14:57 PM Silverstone 1500 runs an SP20 fine @ 1.6TH same with the LEPA 1600
Title: Re: Power Supplies and Current Miners: Starting a Reference List Post by: surfariver on January 02, 2015, 07:23:31 PM With both are you going 2 - 8 pin split cables to the 4 ports on the SP20 or are you using 4 ports on the PSUs? What are the ports on the PSUs labeled?
Title: Re: Power Supplies and Current Miners: Starting a Reference List Post by: padrino on January 02, 2015, 08:55:48 PM With both are you going 2 - 8 pin split cables to the 4 ports on the SP20 or are you using 4 ports on the PSUs? What are the ports on the PSUs labeled? Any of the higher end PSUs like those mentioned will have at least 4 cables so you can run dedicated cables from the PSU to the SP20, the 1200W+ Lepa, Silverstone, Corsair, Cooler Master, EVGA, etc. all have 4 or 6 PCIe connectors... Biggest thing to pay attention with any ATX PSU and miners is the rail configuration, that perhaps is a good conversation as it applies to any miner where one might be looking for a PSU... Title: Re: Power Supplies and Current Miners: Starting a Reference List Post by: IITravel01 on January 02, 2015, 10:10:45 PM I'm running 3 S3+'s with one EVGA 1300 G2 (had some extra PCIe cables from other EVGA power supplies so have all 3 S3's connected to 4 PCI cables (2 x 2 x 6).
Title: Re: Power Supplies and Current Miners: Starting a Reference List Post by: philipma1957 on January 03, 2015, 12:01:04 AM Hello, I do not think the cx750m will safely power an s-5 running above freq 325. but I am not sure. it only has 2 cables each with 2 plugs. Based on a short off topic exchange, it looks like there is some confusion about the best ways to hook up some of the current generation miners to popular power supplies. I'll be happy to edit this post as people provide information to provide a place to find this information quickly. Please don't limit it to what I've got here, feel free to add other miners and other PSUs, as well as helping me fill in the info correctly here. Also, most of my experience came on BFL and S1s, so please correct me if I've mistated something. Antminer S5 CX750M - Will power 1 miner, connect the 2 - 8 pin split cables to the ports labeled "6+2 PCI-E & 4 + 4 CPU" and to the 4 - 6 pin ports on the miner ( ? ) EVGA 1300W SuperNova G2 Spondoolies SP20 CX750M - Need two PSUs to power 1 miner, connect the 2 - 8 pin split cables to the ports labeled "6+2 PCI-E & 4 + 4 CPU" and to the 4 - 6 pin ports on the miner ( ? ) EVGA 1300W SuperNova G2 Antminer S3 CX750M - Will power 2 miners, connect the 2 - 8 pin split cables to the ports labeled "6+2 PCI-E & 4 + 4 CPU" and to the 2 - 6 pin ports on each miner. One cable per miner ( ? ) EVGA 1300W SuperNova G2 so you are asking the cable to do 300 watts if you do freq 350. So I guess the best way to know has anyone run a cx750m with 2 s-3's set at freq 225 that would be 1 cable for each s-3 using the 2 plugs one in each board. two s-3's at freq 225 pull about 720 watts so if you can do that the cx750m could certainly run 1 s-5. Title: Re: Power Supplies and Current Miners: Starting a Reference List Post by: Blazed on January 03, 2015, 12:52:14 AM With both are you going 2 - 8 pin split cables to the 4 ports on the SP20 or are you using 4 ports on the PSUs? What are the ports on the PSUs labeled? Any of the higher end PSUs like those mentioned will have at least 4 cables so you can run dedicated cables from the PSU to the SP20, the 1200W+ Lepa, Silverstone, Corsair, Cooler Master, EVGA, etc. all have 4 or 6 PCIe connectors... Biggest thing to pay attention with any ATX PSU and miners is the rail configuration, that perhaps is a good conversation as it applies to any miner where one might be looking for a PSU... Right...you have to watch rails for sure. I was sure to use 1 rail per pci-e on the SP20 so each rail only had a decent load. I know a lot of people dislike the multi rail PSUs, but I have never had issues with them on GPU or ASIC rigs. Title: Re: Power Supplies and Current Miners: Starting a Reference List Post by: surfariver on January 04, 2015, 05:09:14 PM Thank you for all the info. I've updated it per what people have added. Anything else?
Title: Re: Power Supplies and Current Miners: Starting a Reference List Post by: Azmodeus on January 04, 2015, 05:33:13 PM I power 16 overclocked Ant S3's with 8 EVGA SuperNova G1's. They are gold rated, modular, come with enough cables to power all 8 ports on two S3's, and come with their own plug that snaps on to the motherboard cable so you don't have to shove paperclips in the holes to run it without a motherboard. One of the best you can buy IMO. Had them running for 5 or 6 months straight now with not one issue.
Title: Re: Power Supplies and Current Miners: Starting a Reference List Post by: dogie on January 04, 2015, 05:37:11 PM I do not think the cx750m will safely power an s-5 running above freq 325. but I am not sure. it only has 2 cables each with 2 plugs. so you are asking the cable to do 300 watts if you do freq 350. So I guess the best way to know has anyone run a cx750m with 2 s-3's set at freq 225 that would be 1 cable for each s-3 using the 2 plugs one in each board. two s-3's at freq 225 pull about 720 watts so if you can do that the cx750m could certainly run 1 s-5. The 750 will, I've got one on it now. They're exceptionally solid little things, even if it is 18AWG. Please don't quote his OP content though, even if he updates it now, you're fragment will remain in the quote. Title: Re: Power Supplies and Current Miners: Starting a Reference List Post by: surfariver on January 06, 2015, 10:46:52 PM Updated for the 750.
Which wattage for the EVGA G1? |