Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Bitmain Antminer S5 Setup [HD]
Your guides are amazing. Briefly, I'm a guy that just wants computers to work. Bitcoin mining sounded amazing and for sure out of my reach. By looking at machines, then your reviews and setup guides, I learned. Enough to get bold and order some S1's. I actually unboxed machines, paperclipped PSUs, bought extra cables, booted and configured and mined. In addition to losing some money, it was honestly a big confidence booster. Without your guides - clear and concise - I would likely have never tried. So... guides are awesome.... thank you.... you owe me about $2k for getting me into mining. BTC is fine on that. 
What I'd love to see in guides is what I'm asking here... which PSU is best for the application. Not blowing the miner up, not causing a fire, using plenty of power, and doing it efficiently as reasonably possible. That would require you not only testing miners, but testing them with 101 different PSU's and PSU configs. Likely not possible. I will take the survey and the BTC you owe me, thanks!
Back to my question, again Single power over 750 sounds reasonable and doable. Would it make sense to DOUBLE 750s so they aren't overworked/ready for overclocking?
If so, wouldn't double 600w PSUs do the same job as the 750s?
Thanks so much!
What I'd love to see in guides is what I'm asking here... which PSU is best for the application. Not blowing the miner up, not causing a fire, using plenty of power, and doing it efficiently as reasonably possible. That would require you not only testing miners, but testing them with 101 different PSU's and PSU configs. Likely not possible. I will take the survey and the BTC you owe me, thanks!
Back to my question, again
Single power over 750 sounds reasonable and doable. Would it make sense to DOUBLE 750s so they aren't overworked/ready for overclocking?If so, wouldn't double 600w PSUs do the same job as the 750s?
Thanks so much!
I actually do do that with the PSUs, but they're in the "what you need" links. I used to almost always recommend the CX750M, but as power per unit has crept up then I usually recommend the RM1000. Both of these are the stablest, safest PSUs with a strong warranty behind them.
There would be no reason to run 2x 600s / 750s for 1x S5. PSUs are more efficient between roughly 50% and 80% of their max capacity, so running 2 at 250W each would be quite an under utilisation.