Looks like I will just buy the psu from them or get something local with the same outputs for it if I decided to go down the road of buying some s7s but am 50/50 again after seeing prices all over the place diff all over too and with the ever growing halving am like hmm
I think the PSU's will remain to be valuable on thiers. I think they get a LOT of extra sells off PSU's by using the 10 PCIe connectors. So as a company I think Bitmain is going to stick with it. And I could be wrong on that.
As a company it was a smart move. Kinda stinks as customer that there just are not a ton of 10 PCIe psu's in ATX without going very expensive. But server PSU's have kinda taken over anymore. I don't think you will regreat the psu as long as you have the 205+ volts to start it. The miner.... we will know more after a few weeks of seeing what difficulty does and BTC value.
Actually Bitmain says "you can use two X watts atx psu to power this no problems" so why would it void warranty? And i don't really get why you repeat all the time most ATX psu's dont come with 10 connectors.
Server psu's outside packages actually don't come with cables at all either and its not a problem. You can just get the cables or connectors you need elsewhere.
Then if you buy two ATX PSU for 70$, you will have plenty of connectors. If you go for something like an EVGA g2 1300w, well it comes with 8 PCI-e, so you will need two splitter, which you can get on this forum for 3.5$ each.
http://www.evga.com/products/Product.aspx?pn=120-G2-1300-XRIt doesn't get 93% efficiency like the Bitmain PSU at 99-100% load, but it works. (1460w~1480w~ depending your fan speed for a B8)
Did you read the post dealing with warranty? You might read it again as I think your talking about different PSU's then the ones mentioned in that post and what OP mentioned in original post.
That is the problem is it is going to void warranty which is a shame in a lot of cases. Two 750's are mentioned so 1 is not going to be able to power 2 hashing boards. So it would be mixed and voiding warranty.
I thinks it kinda get's into a mess connecting multiple. If it's in your budget I would get a decent server PSU, and use it. Chances are I don't see bitmain moving away from 10 PCIe, as it has made them money selling PSU's.
So you likely will be able to use these server PSU's more then 1 generation still. And if not can always sell after.
He mentions using 2 - 750 PSU's. If you did that you would be mixing PSU on one blade. Which is very accurate. I don't get why your looking for a issue it seems like from post not sure why.
I'm not debating that you can get cables or a EVGA 1300 is a good psu I have multiple of it and yes it is nice PSU but it's also 180 dollars on amazon. So instead of that I normally recommend server PSU's which normally are cheaper. And the bitmain PSU is a good psu I have had no issues with it either so I don't have a problem recommending it with a S7.
