First experience with mining hardware

meteora797 · Mar 28, 2022

I have a customer who bought his new mining pc on internet. After a couple weeks of work 2 out of 4 video cards stopped working, when he come to me with his PC i smelled a burning smell and checking the cables I noticed that some connectors were melted. I've tested the PSU and was faulty. VGA now seem to work propely with my PSU, but its not enoght strong to power all them up, so i tested them individually. I've notice that some riser+vga combination can bring to a BSOD, but swapping riser solve the issue. I am not experienced enough on this subject, so i need some advice. What PSU i must buy to replace the faulty one? Is a good idea to replace all the rizer to prevent BSOD?
CPU: Core i5 9600k
MB: TB360-BTC PRO
4 x GPU: RTX 3060
Old PSU: Corsair HX1200

http://imgur.com/a/npcTUoq

trog100 · Mar 28, 2022

the 1200 watt psu should be plenty enough for 4 x 3060 cards.. they do need to be set properly.. you should not be running them at stock settings..

trog

meteora797 · Mar 28, 2022

Thanks for the reply!
Setting up the gpu correctly will be up to the owner. He just asked me to test the pc and get it back up and running.
Do you have any advice for the type of power supply? On another forum a user recommended me a 1200w HP server power supply with breakout board. Do you think it could be a good choice? Do you have any risers to recommend?

trog100 · Mar 28, 2022

the cards will draw a lot more power at stock than when tweaked for mining..

trog

phill · Mar 28, 2022

Make sure the riser cables are not SATA or MOLEX powered. I believe you will need the proper PCIe power cable models to connect them, which is why I believe people use the breakout boards and such for their setups.

I've only really used the SATA models myself but that was with RX 480 cards, anything more powerful would have needed the proper and better PCIe powered riser cards. Whilst they might be a little more expensive than the SATA/MOLEX models, they ultimately shouldn't fill your room with the smell and smoke that everyone hates to smell and see....

System Name	money pit..
Processor	Intel 9900K 4.8 at 1.152 core voltage minus 0.120 offset
Motherboard	Asus rog Strix Z370-F Gaming
Cooling	Dark Rock TF air cooler.. Stock vga air coolers with case side fans to help cooling..
Memory	32 gb corsair vengeance 3200
Video Card(s)	Palit Gaming Pro OC 2080TI
Storage	150 nvme boot drive partition.. 1T Sandisk sata.. 1T Transend sata.. 1T 970 evo nvme m 2..
Display(s)	27" Asus PG279Q ROG Swift 165Hrz Nvidia G-Sync, IPS.. 2560x1440..
Case	Gigabyte mid-tower.. cheap and nothing special..
Audio Device(s)	onboard sounds with stereo amp..
Power Supply	EVGA 850 watt..
Mouse	Logitech G700s
Keyboard	Logitech K270
Software	Win 10 pro..
Benchmark Scores	Firestike 29500.. timepsy 14000..

System Name	money pit..
Processor	Intel 9900K 4.8 at 1.152 core voltage minus 0.120 offset
Motherboard	Asus rog Strix Z370-F Gaming
Cooling	Dark Rock TF air cooler.. Stock vga air coolers with case side fans to help cooling..
Memory	32 gb corsair vengeance 3200
Video Card(s)	Palit Gaming Pro OC 2080TI
Storage	150 nvme boot drive partition.. 1T Sandisk sata.. 1T Transend sata.. 1T 970 evo nvme m 2..
Display(s)	27" Asus PG279Q ROG Swift 165Hrz Nvidia G-Sync, IPS.. 2560x1440..
Case	Gigabyte mid-tower.. cheap and nothing special..
Audio Device(s)	onboard sounds with stereo amp..
Power Supply	EVGA 850 watt..
Mouse	Logitech G700s
Keyboard	Logitech K270
Software	Win 10 pro..
Benchmark Scores	Firestike 29500.. timepsy 14000..

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Motherboard	Asus Zenith 2 Extreme Alpha
Cooling	Lots!! Dual GTX 560 rads with D5 pumps for each rad. One rad for each component
Memory	Viper Steel 4 x 16GB DDR4 3600MHz not sure on the timings... Probably still at 2667!! :(
Video Card(s)	Asus Strix 3090 with front and rear active full cover water blocks
Storage	I'm bound to forget something here - 250GB OS, 2 x 1TB NVME, 2 x 1TB SSD, 4TB SSD, 2 x 8TB HD etc...
Display(s)	3 x Dell 27" S2721DGFA @ 7680 x 1440P @ 144Hz or 165Hz - working on it!!
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Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	EVGA 1600W T2
Mouse	Corsair thingy
Keyboard	Razer something or other....
VR HMD	No headset yet
Software	Windows 11 OS... Not a fan!!
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