Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Bitmain Antminer S3 Setup [HD]

Quote from: dogie on September 08, 2014, 06:00:19 PM

Quote from: AlleyCat67 on September 08, 2014, 11:35:08 AM

Hello all.... new to this forum though I've been active in bitcoin for about 6 months.

I'm contemplating the purchase of a few of these S3 miners, and I'm just wondering if anyone has tried using this power supply to run them:

I do realize that it probably won't be sufficient to OC but seems like it should work fine at stock speed.

Any thoughts?

I haven't personally, but the real cost is finding the cabling.

Since I do have some PC/electronics experience I had planned to make the cables.... I found the connectors here:

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/9277/ele-505/FrozenCPU_ConnectRight_6-pin_Female_PCI-Express_Power_Connector_Version_1_-_UV_Brite_Orange.html?id=hkCssRPx&mv_pc=145
http://www.frozencpu.com/images/products/main/ele-505_3.jpg

If version 2 of the connector is needed that is also available.

Cables will be made using 16 ga wire, 6 to 12 inches in length (depending on PS placement in relation to miner) so as to avoid the overheating issues mentioned elsewhere on this thread.