One psu, two systems

[sidboy55555]

Hi,
Is it possible to have a antminer powered by the 6x2 pins, and then a normal pc board by its 24 pins, 8 pins, and sata?
While it is possible to power multiable antminers with one psu, is it also possible to power a antminer and a normal pc?
Regards, sidboy55555.

[philipma1957]

Hi,
Is it possible to have a antminer powered by the 6x2 pins, and then a normal pc board by its 24 pins, 8 pins, and sata?
While it is possible to power multiable antminers with one psu, is it also possible to power a antminer and a normal pc?
Regards, sidboy55555.

Simple answer no it is too hard to do.

Complicated answer is if the miner is a low power miner. Maybe it works.

You need to never turn off the pc as the psu would not power the miner.

You need to have a modified miner such as my 1 board s9.

My 1 board s9 design as a space heater would be exactly the right gear to run.

[NotFuzzyWarm]

As long as the PSU has the power to run them both and you use ALL of the PCIe connections on the miner, sure. Does your PC have over 1.5kw of unused power reserve to feed a miner? Seems rather pointless though as the PC will always have to be on even it you are not using it.

Much easier to treat and power miners as what they are - stand alone devices.

[philipma1957]

As long as the PSU has the power to run them both and you use ALL of the PCIe connections on the miner, sure. Does your PC have over 1.5kw of unused power reserve to feed a miner? Seems rather pointless though as the PC will always have to be on even it you are not using it.

Much easier to treat and power miners as what they are - stand alone devices.

If he runs the pc mining with GPUs it could work.


I mine sidehacks R606 and 3 new pac in a hub. Along with a pair of GPUs and the cpu all off the pcs psu.

It is complex but it works.

[sidboy55555]

The pc is gonna be 24/7 on anyway, so that's not the problem, my psu is 1800w. so the psu can handle it if it comes to power. but further more, is it possible?

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Sure. All the miner cares about is good 12vdc power. It has no idea of anything else that is connected to the power source. If you can feed the needed power the miner will be happy.

Just be sure that your PSU has only a single power rail feeding the PCIe plugs. Using supplies with multiple high current 12V rails (internal power sources) is asking for trouble.

[philipma1957]

The pc is gonna be 24/7 on anyway, so that's not the problem, my psu is 1800w. so the psu can handle it if it comes to power. but further more, is it possible?

Okay a 1800 watt psu made very well can do 1400 watts non stop

So if you are going to run an s9 don’t run it at full speed.

The latest s9 has May firmware from bitmain.
It can be set to about 10th and use 900 watts
So the psu would have about 500 watts to spare.
May firmware for the s9 from bitmain is hard to roll back.

I have 2 of 22 s9 set on May firmware.  As I don’t like locked in firmware.

But in your case locking a s9 into the May firmware could be good for you.

[Artemis3]

Hi,
Is it possible to have a antminer powered by the 6x2 pins, and then a normal pc board by its 24 pins, 8 pins, and sata?
While it is possible to power multiable antminers with one psu, is it also possible to power a antminer and a normal pc?
Regards, sidboy55555.

This looks over-complicated. I don't see the point, but yeah, you just need a 12v to atx dc-dc psu...

The motherboard and satas need not just 12v but 5v and 3v, and your miner PSU isn't providing that.

Of course there are exceptions. Rather than a regular PC, you could find something that can be fed 12v, something embedded or even a laptop like thing and has its own stepdown transforming inside to feed sata etc.

Capacity wise i guess its just like an extra hashboard, assuming you aren't doing something particularly intensive there, such as gpu mining lol).

[sidboy55555]

I don't have a mining psu, I have a mining edition of a pc psu. so it worked.