Re: Building my first mining rig, need some help regarding risers/connectors
13 GPU rig is very serious setup for the first rig. Did you really already spend more than 5k euro for the hardware but didn't collect enough info about all parts? Anyway you can control risers by touch the wires of risers. If they hot than don't use them (wires too thin)
dont worry i didnt order anything yet, thats why im asking over here
On the ASRock H110 Pro BTC+ I use an EVGA 1600 W T2 (9 PCI-E ports) for the motherboard, all the risers and 4 RX 580s's together with a 1000 W P2 (6 PCI-E ports) and 850 W G2 (4 PCI-E ports) for the rest of the cards. I connect two 6-pin risers to the 1600 W T2 on each PCI-E cable, or 3 if it has a pigtail. I connect one GPU per PCI-E cable using the the 8-pin + 6-pin pigtail cables or with an 8-pin to 6+2 splitter cable.
Looking at your setup, youre using even more than my 3300W in total, do you think an upgrade is necessary?
I could power all the risers on my 1300W G2 doing it the same way you did, by connecting 2 risers per pcie cable, with the 6 pcie ports on the 1300W G2 that would leave me with needing to connect 3 on a pigtail otherwise i can only power 12 of the 13 risers. However this would mean that i cant connect any gpu on that psu since im out of pci-e ports (right?)
Would you recommend getting the same setup of PSUs youre using?
I hope this isn't too much babysitting to ask for, but could you point me towards a better solution including which and what amount of additional cables i need to get?
