Baikal Cube - Power supply

[Gunna01]

So I emailed Baikal and waiting on some additional information but they have ocnfirmed the new cubes require 6 pin power.

As a guess is one able to advise if you can get wall plug to suit or a DC barrel to 6 pin adapter?

I have asked for pin layout so I can get some made up if required and would be willing to get converted a DC Barrel wall adapter to 6 pin and ship to others if required, cost could be prohibitive though.

[not.you]

I think you just want any old PC power supply with a 6 pin PCIe connector.  If you try and get all fancy you may damage the thing.

[goen]

i dont think baikal will use pin configuration other than pc psu 6pin for pci-e
we can use computer power supply.
even old (not very old) pc psu have 6pin for vga/pci-e

[Ayers]

i think you can just plug that to your gaming computer and use your normal psu with 6 pin or 8 pin depend what you need, you can also do without a computer bu you need a bridge to connect the two pin to run the psu

[Manu84]

I just recieved my CUBE.
it comes with a 6pin to 2.5mm female DC pin adapter so you can use any 12v 10A psu..
best choice are the passive brick type psus with at least 100w.

[odize]

work with some psu certified only plug the 6 pin and work! right? if plug 6pin dont need the plug dc adapter? or both can you put the picture

[Manu84]

you only need any computer psu with a 6pin and it will work.
Im using an old atx psu with an molex - 6pin adapter right now.
it is louder than the miner itself..
not perfect

best is to get a passiv laptop,whatever.. 12V 10A 100W+ psu that you can connect with the adapter included.

[odize]

thanks for reply, what do you recommend im mining on gpu i payed anything for electricty im looking to buy a baikal , is stable the baikalminer? are profitable

[Manu84]

yes
I have a baikal mini for 3 months now and its running fine.
CUBE is even better with double mhs and bigger controlled fan.
very nice device.
actually i bought a Giant A900 just before DASH gone crazy,
but the seller on AliExpress refused shipping after the price went up.
so if you want only one Cube buy it directly from baikalminer.

profitable..
im sure it is, but i am only mining dash, which is not always the most profitable coin to mine i think.

also it is very little hashing power that i have,
but i dont want to invest so much in asics,
even they are very nice.

[odize]

ok thanks for reply again, i considerate all things you told. thanks happy mining! i will buy soon. and try to search some giant a900 in ebay

[jpoker272727]

Their website sucks, and does not work very well.

Can you guys give more info bout this CUBE, is it working well, do you have any issue using it.

Can you mine also ETH or just DASH, or which one is better or the performance is the same on both coins?

[Lujhtoshi]

Their website sucks, and does not work very well.

Can you guys give more info bout this CUBE, is it working well, do you have any issue using it.

Can you mine also ETH or just DASH, or which one is better or the performance is the same on both coins?

You can mine only : X11/X13/X14/X15/Quark/Qubit

[Gunna01]

Their website sucks, and does not work very well.

Can you guys give more info bout this CUBE, is it working well, do you have any issue using it.

Can you mine also ETH or just DASH, or which one is better or the performance is the same on both coins?

Ive got 2 going. Solid 310MH/s on each machine. Powered by a 400w PSU.

[newmz]

Their website sucks, and does not work very well.

Can you guys give more info bout this CUBE, is it working well, do you have any issue using it.

Can you mine also ETH or just DASH, or which one is better or the performance is the same on both coins?

I now have a mini and a cube, both powered off an old spare 550W atx power supply (regular computer power supply). You could buy one with 250W-300W and it should still be OK. Then you just have to short the "on" pin (green wire) to ground (black wire) and the PSU will run. Using  the 6-pin PCIe GPU plug straight into the cube and it runs fine.

I have had the Mini-miner running now for about 3-4 months and the Cube for about 72 hours on the dash P2Pool - 450mh/s. Obviously it fluctuates but the average is exactly as Baikal promised. My cube is actually at 310mh/s so better than advertised.

Really the only thing worth mining in the long term on the Baikal devices I believe is Dash. There is a quark algo coin called monetaryunit (MUE) which these devices will mine which is worth a little more at the moment but it is very new and who knows if it will even exist in a year. Dash is a big player and has been around for years and is always getting better and better. If you want solid reliable payment, point the Baikal devices at Nicehash's X11 port and they will pay you in bitocin - a cube will pay about US$9/day at the moment. So if things don't go really bad for some reason, I shgould get ROI on my Cube after about 3 months. My Mini is already in profit because I bought it just before the dash price went through the roof.

I actually use around 10 GPUs to mine Zcash, Ethereum and Monero as well but I generally trade it all back to Dash or Bitcoin.

As long as Dash stays at a good price, and these units are reliable (i.e. they don't "die" in the next month or three) I think they are the best purchases I have made in mining equipment. The hash-rate vs power consumption is just great, they aren't hot or noisy and they are small and self contained. Double thumbs up from me.

[jpoker272727]

You can mine only : X11/X13/X14/X15/Quark/Qubit

Ive got 2 going. Solid 310MH/s on each machine. Powered by a 400w PSU.

Thank you...

I now have a mini and a cube, both powered off an old spare 550W atx power supply (regular computer power supply). You could buy one with 250W-300W and it should still be OK. Then you just have to short the "on" pin (green wire) to ground (black wire) and the PSU will run. Using  the 6-pin PCIe GPU plug straight into the cube and it runs fine.

I have had the Mini-miner running now for about 3-4 months and the Cube for about 72 hours on the dash P2Pool - 450mh/s. Obviously it fluctuates but the average is exactly as Baikal promised. My cube is actually at 310mh/s so better than advertised.

Really the only thing worth mining in the long term on the Baikal devices I believe is Dash. There is a quark algo coin called monetaryunit (MUE) which these devices will mine which is worth a little more at the moment but it is very new and who knows if it will even exist in a year. Dash is a big player and has been around for years and is always getting better and better. If you want solid reliable payment, point the Baikal devices at Nicehash's X11 port and they will pay you in bitocin - a cube will pay about US$9/day at the moment. So if things don't go really bad for some reason, I shgould get ROI on my Cube after about 3 months. My Mini is already in profit because I bought it just before the dash price went through the roof.

I actually use around 10 GPUs to mine Zcash, Ethereum and Monero as well but I generally trade it all back to Dash or Bitcoin.

As long as Dash stays at a good price, and these units are reliable (i.e. they don't "die" in the next month or three) I think they are the best purchases I have made in mining equipment. The hash-rate vs power consumption is just great, they aren't hot or noisy and they are small and self contained. Double thumbs up from me.

Thank you for this detailed explanation, I was calculating if I can mine ethereum with this 300 MH/s but sadly it is just for dash.
What else I can mine with this Baikal Cube?

[couture]

Hi there,


Can you confirm that if I have just bought two baikal cubes I can just run these off the 6 pic PCIe cables from a regular computer PSU?

If so, do any PSUs have two 6pin PCIe cables? I can only find PSUs with one...

Unless the 6+2pin PCIe cable can be used with a 6pin plug adaptor as provided by baikal..?


Thankyou

[Searing]

Hi there,


Can you confirm that if I have just bought two baikal cubes I can just run these off the 6 pic PCIe cables from a regular computer PSU?

If so, do any PSUs have two 6pin PCIe cables? I can only find PSUs with one...

Unless the 6+2pin PCIe cable can be used with a 6pin plug adaptor as provided by baikal..?


Thankyou

Works on mine pci-e ONE cable plugged into a Seasonic 660 Platinum PSU. No issues. The adapter they send is for the
optional psu brick...

AS to above all my PSU's all came with 4 pci-e cables ...you just need 1 per cube

If you need cables corsair and seasonic will sell you some for cheap ....I think it is like 8 bucks or so, I've done so ONLY work on their brand though don't
mix an match between companies

anyway 75 watts not a big issue to run a couple on my seasonic 660w was what I was planning (load would be about 150w on 2 of the 4 cables I got with the beast)

[xiaoyang]

Hi there,


Can you confirm that if I have just bought two baikal cubes I can just run these off the 6 pic PCIe cables from a regular computer PSU?

If so, do any PSUs have two 6pin PCIe cables? I can only find PSUs with one...

Unless the 6+2pin PCIe cable can be used with a 6pin plug adaptor as provided by baikal..?


Thankyou

Works on mine pci-e ONE cable plugged into a Seasonic 660 Platinum PSU. No issues. The adapter they send is for the
optional psu brick...

AS to above all my PSU's all came with 4 pci-e cables ...you just need 1 per cube

If you need cables corsair and seasonic will sell you some for cheap ....I think it is like 8 bucks or so, I've done so ONLY work on their brand though don't
mix an match between companies

anyway 75 watts not a big issue to run a couple on my seasonic 660w was what I was planning (load would be about 150w on 2 of the 4 cables I got with the beast)

hi pm your email

talk it

[not.you]

Hi there,


Can you confirm that if I have just bought two baikal cubes I can just run these off the 6 pic PCIe cables from a regular computer PSU?

If so, do any PSUs have two 6pin PCIe cables? I can only find PSUs with one...

Unless the 6+2pin PCIe cable can be used with a 6pin plug adaptor as provided by baikal..?


Thankyou

6+2 means it can be used for either 6 pin or 8 pin PCIe.  Check out this video card for a clear image of both types.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/04/amd-puts-two-gpus-and-32gb-of-ram-on-its-latest-radeon-pro-duo-graphics-card/

[IOTUSA]

Their cubes don't use PCI-E connectors at all.