Topic: Data Center Mining Garage and Man Mining Cave ( PART 2 !!!!!!!!) - page 34. (Read 106695 times)

yes yes, custom cables for nhan's prototypes! as soon as I get most of the supplies I need I will post up some pic's of the cables after making some

The goal is to just use 1 PCI slot per PICO PSU.  So you can easily power 4 rigs no issues using splitter cables.  1 6pin cable split to power both the GPU and the 6pin  riser.  It's going to be DAMN SEXY and SO CLEAN.  Please with the longer cablings, you can do very funky designs.   Finksy just got back from Vaca.  He's going to send me a bunch of stuff for the many different prototypes.  The possibility is endless and so is the POWER!  FORGET 1KW, 1300 or even EVGA 1600 limitations!!!  4-4500W!!!   RIDICULOUS POWER and READY for any GPU u want to throw at it.   All my 4KW is tied up so I'm waiting for more from Finksy and a ton of PICOs to do many different designs.


P.S Cryptowatcher will be my main man for Custom cabling.  It will be known as MY CRYPTO CABLES!!  I can see him filling in our community needs for custom cablings.  Will see what he can come up with for my Prototypes.  Very excited with everyone's contribution to my project.

Wow that sounds great. So are we just waiting for Finsky/hawkfish to work together and offer these to the community here so we can buy them?

Also, how many plugs from the server PSU do you need for the mobo connector and CPU spot on the mobo? Curious how many rigs you can power with 1 of the 4kw psus using this new pico method.

I will show step by step on that.  Here is short idea.

OLD WAY
Baby ATX PSU (Crap efficiency and reliability)  powers risers and MB.  Bulky, cheap but not cheap enough and if you go really cheap (Below $45-50), it's more headache then it's worth.  More wires and a big ATX PSU behind your rig blocking flow and your acccessibility to the GPUs. 

PICO OLD Way
Expensive and the built in CPU connector is too short to reach our mining Rig CPU connection.  You need to use bulky AC adapter which makes it more expensive and more connections and things to plug in and hide. $40-60 each!  Too much money

*********PICO NEW WAY***************
Powered completely by Server PSU via 6 pin direct to soldered PICO connection or via 2.5MM Barrel connector.  It would also split to power the CPU connections.  The PICO PSU comes with at least 1 molex and 1 SATA connection so you can power SSD, etc.  98% of your power will come from the SERVER PSU.  Even if you got a crappy Pico, if it dies.  It's a cheap $20-25 replacement.  The PICO PSU is tiny and the size of the motherboard connector head.  You won't see it.  The server PSU cable can go up to 48" easily.  Using PCI powered risers and splitters, you reduce all the SATA, MOLEX, MB cable clutters.  Also no ATX PSU in the rear of the rig.  So better airflow.  I will have lots of examples later but look at my previous examples on the Ebay PICO I bought.

Yun9999,

Can you explain how in the future we would be able to use the 4kw server PSU to power the entire computer? Or is that not what you want from finsky? I guess I don't really know what PICO is. I would love to be able to get PSUs for cheaper with nice efficiency ratings

The same PSU, I've been discussing.  2 x IBM 2KW PSU Finksy sells plus his 4KW board.  
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ibm-dps-4kw-psu-dual-dps-2000bb-breakout-boards-and-packages-1308296

It also work with the IBM DPS2500W PSU too making it over 4500W.  Many of the large miners use it as they had it from the Bitcoin mining.  You pair this Beast with the PICOs you get many Beauties.  More to come on that.  Waiting on PICOs, PSU and FANs from Finksy.

Which PSU are you using?

@  onefinecoin  - Still considered Domestic as it's still all at home.  Only hosting I do is for a friend at cost as he's the one that show me Eth mining.  =)

@ darkshaddows - Dell and HP 42U Racks.  

@ m1n1ngP4d4w4n -  Thanks...........just getting warm up bud.  Got more crazier / sexier prototypes coming out of my lab in a few weeks

@ takagari - Open Air if you can easily modified structures like my Shed, warehouse, etc.  Cheapest, fast to deploy and if you can mod structure, it's not hard to control heat.  This style is due to limited control of what I can do for heat removal.  Lots more work but I also want clean no cable mess and sexiness.  =)

I think for a large scale deployment like he is doing this is the best way to do it since you can better control the direction of heat

Do you guys use the cheaper open air racks or the pricey fancy racks for those?

he is using various brand server racks but there all 42U server racks, which can fit about 9 to 10 of the 4u server cases

Looking great there yun, keep up the good work 

Hi,

what exact is the model of server rack that you are using?

Also, are you throwing the hot air up the rack? or from the front?

Thanks

WOW !! am I seeing 250+ cards in that small pic ??!!?? I dont think you should call yourself a domestic miner anymore

Watching this thread, I wish to make my own thread entitled "Data Center Mining Mecca and Bat Cave (er man cave)

Alas... I need to win the lottery.....I figure a 10 million $$$ power ball win would about do it

Damn, would I go nuts. I also could move down south where it is warm and the 3-4c kwh electric roams free (kinda)

Toys, I need more toys...but at 13c kwh summer rate in Minnesota.....this boat has sailed (home miner wise) ..the stuff in the data hall is next I guess

pretty, pretty toys on this thread however (envy..must stop envy....grrrrrrr)

WOW!!!

Its hard enough with my current 33 rigs in the warehouse..... I cant imagine how you will handle these many rigs.

Racking them up so neatly like this will surely create some structure and control the environmentals.

I hope I can complete my first rack soon and be as bad-ass as your setup.

Meanwhile mine-on!

hey yall should check out the z170gt6 pretty much same board as the gt7. right now on new egg it comes with a free 240gb m.2 ssd for 189.99
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138441&cm_re=biostar-_-13-138-441-_-Product
gt6 has same amount of pci express slots as the gt7 motherboard

I have like 20 1k-1375 lep, suprnova and roswill pSUs already sitting around waiting to be RMAED , I dont think i will be buying those 4k Deals anytime soon , not really adding that much for hash with summer electricity rates and heat just around the corrner.
I will RMA this lot as spared and backups for now.

If finsky or somomne comes up with a platinum rated solution uing those 4k bundles that can power, the PC-E slots, risers and motherboard and CPU in one nice complete package I would probbaly buy one to play with but for now
I'm fine with a 5-6 GPU rigs.

5 Rx480s on 1k Platinum PSU or 6 RX 470s on 1k Platinum PSUs, when i get back the lepa and Suprnova RMAs i could do six 480s on those 1375 and 1200 watt PSU's

Its hard enough for me to manage 30 rigs not sure how you guys do it lol , I'm not building anymore for a while until i play with SRR to help me manage more machines

yes 7 cards are detected , you have to set gen 2 on all the PCI-E slots and also GEN-2 on the other page where you set the Max TLUD to 3.5

like i said i have no way to power 7 rx 470s constitently, i let it start up mining eth/pascal and the PSU powered its self down which indicates too much of an initial power draw
once i disabled one card in the device manager i can mine with six cards fine.  I'm also in the process of re-installing the OS from scratch on this board running updates overnight
to see if its a quicker fix to the issues i had earlier.

**edit **
yeah a clean install , all six cards worked as normal at full speed.  Seems like even DDU could not clear some driver setting saved by MSI afterburner.
Never seen that before , but at least we know it was nothing to do with the board.

I only have six , mostly got them for resale purposes on ebay but i like these boards , I even like the packaging box.  I think i will keep them as spares

Soooo very happy the MB's work!  Saved a ton and ready for a full rack's worth of expansion now.  

This 4k is moving from 390s to Vega .