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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: PCI Riser Power Test, Results, and Recommendations
by
QuintLeo
on 28/03/2018, 21:05:29 UTC
Agree with QuintLeo. And just to add...

I have used some cheap-ish "pure Molex" risers which were making 3.3V from that 5V rail coming from "the Molex". 3.3V power line should not see much load if any. I measured it on a couple different GPUs and it was well under 1A, which is less than 0.3W.

Those cheap step-down LDO voltage regulators they put on risers still have decent efficiency at low currents. Say, 80-90% if not more. Do the math and get 0.3W - 85% = 45 mW of power loss on the riser!

1 amp at 3.3 volts would be 3.3 watts - but even at 80% conversion efficiency that would be 0.66 watts of conversion loss, not enough to worry about.