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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: smoke detector
by
deskless
on 16/01/2021, 14:32:32 UTC
Recently a cable connecting riser to PSU melted. Do people here use any smoke alarm to get notification? Any recommendations would be appreciated. Thanks

I experienced melted cables myself, but it was due to poor wiring. Are you sure you didn't accidentally use bad wiring to get that melted cable, for example poorly connected +12V?
Don't skimp on cables. Don't use a 6/8pin GPU power adapter from SATA or Molex. Even 2xMolex to PCIE isn't a smart idea.
Of course if you have a crappy PSU it only makes things even worse.

Use only dedicated 6/8pin PCIE cables and I prefer only power supplies of the top brand with enough juice.

Smoke detector alarm should be your second line of defense. Better safe than sorry, as they say.


I have been using corsair PSU to all my rigs. This rig has individual PCIE cables for each GPU and riser. Sorry but I fail to understand which cable is wrong. Thanks for your help.