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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Building Cheap Miners : My "Secret"
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PharmEcis
on 17/04/2018, 06:33:03 UTC

If I want to do more than 8 then I will need to rewire the SAS power. I believe that is what you did. Can you provide details in how to do that?

It's pretty easy.  The SAS power connector has 10 pins.  5 commons / grounds (black).  3 12V (red) and 2 3V (yellow). 

Assuming your cards only need 1 power connector, you are talking a total of 13 power connectors if 3 cars are installed in the system and 5 are on risers.  If the GPU connectors have 2 each on 3 cables that's 6.  You'll get another two out of the SAS connector.  Leaves you short 5 power connectors unless you are going to use splitters.

I've been successful increasing density on my breakout boards by using molex powered risers that I can power three off one pcie power header.  The pcie power header has 3 + and 3 negative at 12V.  Each gets a 12v to 5v step down and then are passed to a molex plug.  In essence I've turned one of the breakout board power connectors into 3 functioning molex connectors that will drive 3 risers saving 2 of pcie power connectors.

What version of Windows are you using?

Since it's quad CPU the DL580s are running Server 2016.  However, the 4 GPU limitation I have experienced on both Server 2016 AND Win10.  The DL360s and 380s run 10 since they are only dual proc.