Source Power First element to consider when looking at power supplies or PSUs is the power source, aka the plug on the wall. If you are here in the US that typically means 120V power (some people say 110V, the reality is that for most people the power that comes out of the wall will…
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Thank You, to all of the new customers we’ve seen over the last couple months. 2021 is turning out to be a great year for miners. Due to the recent sales we have run out of Intel 1151 CPUs. Like many things in our space, these are getting hard to find at a reasonable price.…
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Missing Info One area that I found little good info on when I was starting was how to power a miner with multiple PSUs. I knew from posts online and pictures that people were doing it. I could see miners with a standard ATX power supply and a server class PSU for extra 12V power…
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Background Mining creates some interesting options for motherboard design. Historically miners looked for “traditional” PC motherboards that happened to have 6 or 7 PCIe slots and allowed us to connect upto that many GPUs. In those days we needed to make sure that the motherboards BIOS would recognize that many GPUs. We also needed to…
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What is a GPU Riser Card GPU riser cards serve a critical purpose in a mining rig. They allow you to locate the GPUs away from the motherboard (MB). This allows more GPUs to connect to a motherboard and allows space between GPUs to improves airflow around the GPUs. Thus ensuring the GPUs continue to run…
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What all the fire about If you been on the r/gpumining reddit group for any amount of time you’ve probably run across their strong negative statements on using SATA plugs to power riser cards. This claim is that the SATA connector has a max of 54 Watts and that PCIe slots can consume up to 75W…
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In order to understand the power efficiency of New School Mining, it’s important to understand the basics of power in industrial spaces, including 3-phase power, Voltages and providing a basis to understand the rationale behind all of our choices. We’ll also talk a bit about how power distribution in the power grid works. With this…
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Power Infrastructure In the process of mining, it is critical to reduce power consumption and upfront costs to install the mining systems. In a typical datacenter build, nearly 60% of the cost of building a datacenter goes to electrical systems needed for power delivery. We, as miners, need to take care to reduce this expense…
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