Everybody seems to forget the PSU needs for this evel miner.
If you need 2 x 2880 Watt breakout boards around 340$ and 42 PCI cables for around 126$ and then last 2 x IBM Blader sever PSU of around 90-100$ for a refurb. So total you have to add around 660$ pr unit to just get this beast up running!
Thats a hughe cut in earnings....
If you use the same amount of Breakout boards, cables and Blade psu`s for an S5 setup, you are able to run 8 S5´s for the same amount of money, giving 9.6TH.
If someone can explain to me why this should be a better deal, please explain, since I cant see it :-o
Just to clarify, for 2x complete 2880W PSU's to power 1x S5+ (with an extra 2000+W in power leftover...) this would be your cost:
2x Breakout boards - $140
19x PCIe cables (2 per hashboard is more than adequate + 1 for controller) - $47.5
2x refurb PSU's - $140 (can occasionally be found for less online)
So that gives
$327.50 + shipping, which would run no more than $45 to the US.
More efficiently would be to run 2x S5+ on 3x PSU's (And still have 1800+W of additional power for other miners):
3x breakout boards - $210
38x PCIe cables - $95
3x refurb PSU's - $210 (can occasionally be found for less online)
Brings it to
$515 + shipping, or
$257.50 per miner. All you would need in addition to the above would be C19 cable to whatever plug you are planning on using. On top of that, you can still run 2 or 3 S5's on the leftover power from these PSU's if you lay them out correctly.
These are my prices for North America, J4bberwock has similar prices for EU orders. Both options are still cheaper than using 3 of Bitmain's PSU's.
P.S. Sloopy, as usual you are too kind, the words are much appreciated.
