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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Splitting the PCI 6PIN/Molex power lines?
by
Bolchevickos
on 12/09/2017, 19:17:47 UTC
Hi,

I have the project to build a second mining rig. For this one I would like to use 12 RX560 with 2 GB of memory.
I was hoping to find some help and answers to a few questions I have.

For the motherboard I was planning to use the Asrock H110 Pro BTC+, I think there shouldn't be much issues to get the GPU work in Linux.
The main concern I am facing at the moment is how to power the thing. @40W/gpu, 800-1200W would be largely sufficient. I was thinking about connecting 2*600W PSU.
The problem will still be to get enough PCI 6 PIN power lines. I do not know any power supply in this range providing more than 2-3 lines. I saw there was some splitters, do you think that could do the trick? Even If I split one line into 4 others, the power draw would still be quite low into theory (<200W)? Would that work?

Similarly, would you see any issue with splitting the MOLEX?
I am very open to any other suggestions you may have.

Many thanks for your inputs,

Bolchevickos.