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Are those server breakout boards proprietary, like 1 type of board for 1 type of server psu, or are they pretty much universal? Parallel miner is like 90% out of stock of the PSU kits so I am interested in just getting an hp or dell gold/platinum PSU and getting a generic breakout board. Will...

Hey, just wanted to say thank you very much for answering all of my mining questions. Everything is VERY clear to me now thanks to you!

Thats very cool! Thanks for showing me! What are breakout boards used for? Cant you just connect the power supply directly to the risers/gpu's? or am I missing something? Actually maybe I will go for the server PSU's, as long as I put sound dampening material around it (without covering the...

Il probably buy the equipment when the market turns bad, so I can get it dirt cheap. I saw people trying to sell their mining motherboards for like 30 bucks a few years ago, and risers may get down to 50 bucks for 10 or 20 of them. I wont ever buy mining hardware when it is expensive, too...

When you say sata power string, you mean the cable that comes out of the power supply? No more than 2 of those connected to the riser? I have seen some risers with multiple connections. Either 2 6 pin connectors, 2 molex connectors, 1 PCIe 1 molex 1 sata, do i connect ALL of these or just 1...

In your mining rig, do you have SATA risers or MOLEX risers? I heard SATA provides less power than MOLEX and can melt if they are used with risers. Idk if this is true or not. What does your mining rig consist of?

Okay, so with Intel (thats all I would use for mining), the CPU defines the PCIe lanes I can work with. So if I have an Intel CPU that can have 16 PCIe lanes come out of it, I can absolutely install 4 GPU's in a dell optiplex system, if it has 4 PCIe 1x slots, and if I get risers (and a good 80+...

Oh, so each riser has that USB to 1x thing on it, I just take the PCIe 1x thing off, and plug the USB slots right into the card? And I can do this on the prebuilt PC, as long as I only add 1 of these? Where did you read that I may not be able to use all PCIe slots on a cheap oem board? Link...

Dont those really reduce the bandwidth of the GPU's? or not really?

Oh I will replace the PSU with a nice 80+ gold psu.

Could I just get some PCIe risers, plug them into the machine, install the GPU's in a frame, install a mining linux distro on it, and mine away, or is there anything else I need to consider? I found plenty with 3 to 5 PCIe lanes, x16 and x1, sometimes x4. Mainly from the sandy bridge to Haswell...