Power Supplies and Current Miners: Starting a Reference List

[surfariver]

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

[Blazed]

Silverstone 1500 runs an SP20 fine @ 1.6TH same with the LEPA 1600

[surfariver]

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?

[padrino]

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...

[IITravel01]

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).

[philipma1957]

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

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

 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.

[Blazed]

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.

[surfariver]

Thank you for all the info.  I've updated it per what people have added.  Anything else?

[Azmodeus]

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.

[dogie]

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.

[surfariver]

Updated for the 750.

Which wattage for the EVGA G1?