Thank you both for the information and replies.

Question for you Phil.  I know that you said Eliovp's linux build will boot up and start mining automatically, but would the image straight from the factory be able to run headless?  Basically without a monitor, keyboard or a mouse plugged into it?  Will it boot without video connected to it if you set it to auto login and throw the batch file into the startup?  Thanks.

Yes since day one I've had nothing but problems with USB risers.  I've been in Phil's camp about USB risers.  I've probably spent over 80+ hours troubleshooting rig problems that ended up being bad riser problems.  These risers also make it much easier to use server PSUs on your GPU rigs.

Phil did send me this riser with a PSU that I purchased from him.  I merely asked him which riser he uses and he was kind enough to just include this riser with my PSU.  The reason I asked Phil is because I kept having problems with my current USB risers.  I have been using the USB risers that are molex powered and they have been nothing but nightmares.  I was constantly having the system lock up on me.  Some times it would mine for hours and sometimes days but eventually it would crash on me and I would have to keep a constant eye on it.  It always seemed to crash at the most inopportune times as well.  After spending days trouble shooting drivers and switching between windows and linux.  Eventually I stumble across a post that said the USB cables that came with some risers were junk.  So I went ahead and ordered some USB cables that MarkAZ uses on his awesome systems.  After swapping out the USB cables my system was stable!  I was so happy to not have to constantly reboot the rig and lose mining time.  Everything was great.  Then I started to switch between coins going between XMR, ETH and ZEC.  The system started acting up again.  At first I though either the miner software was causing the problems but even the old stable version was locking up the machines again.  Sometimes one video card wouldn't show up at all.  Phil knows that in my situation I prefer to have the systems in a case.  That's when the posts about the Rosewill 4U case popped up.  This was a perfect solution for me so I ordered one of the cases.  In the process of moving my rig from the frame into the server case I noticed that on one of the risers the SATA to molex cable was ever so slightly melted!  That's when Phil sent me this riser.  He did not send the PCIe to SATA adapter.  I probably wouldn't use it depending on the gauge of that adapter but going direct PCIe to the riser is fantastic!  I don't have to worry about the PSU drawing too much power from the SATA or Molex connection.  I am also using the USB cable that he included and it has been running 100% no problems.  This is in my 4 card rig that I have transferred into a Rosewill L4500 case.  At first I just propped the GPU's up but I have since secured them in place with the Spotswood drop in bracket that fit like a glove.  The system has been mining XMR solid now with no crashes at all using Claymore's for over 83 hours and that's when I either shut it down to put the GPU brackets in or updated to the latest version of Claymore's.



I apologize for the lack of pictures but this USB riser has been running solid in my system for over two weeks without a single issue.  Unfortunately I have to go out and shovel snow now.

I'm finding it harder and harder to resist ordering one of these from your review and Phil's.

Those are some nice temps.  How long has the miner been running in that screen shot and what is the ambient temp?

Thanks Phil.  PM sent.

Thanks for the clarification!

I think that link you have is for the ATX model but you state that you need to EATX chassis.  Will the ATX one work?

Understood

I'll start with $5

That's pretty awesome.  So people can run this off say a Windows PC and use teamviewer or something to get remote access to them.  I mean I'm sure there's something similar for the RPi but some people are just more familiar with Windows.

Nice!  I like the idea of a single slot GPU.

Thanks for the pics Phil!

Looking forward to seeing your 460 build Phil.  You always find imaginative new ways to mine that I would never think of.

Is this the 4gb or 8gb model and are you willing to use escrow?

There's a -mport 0 option to disable the monitoring port or you can specify any other port number you want.

Funny that the S7-LN is available from Newegg but not direct on their own web page.  It is nice to see them branching out though.  Unfortunately you can't pay in BTC with 3rd party merchants on Newegg but I guess you could pay for these with a credit card now if you buy from Newegg.

Yeah sadly it's hard to justify looking at the numbers even with zero power costs.  The past two difficulty changes have been great though.

Funny I offered .3 BTC for each S7LN in one of the other threads and he called me a douche for offering that.  Now he's trying to sell them for $150 each which is about .21 BTC at the time of this posting.  Sell them as quick as you can since they're probably going to continue to decrease in value.

Totally worth it in my eyes.