Do I need a backplane for this miner if I only plan to use one?
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You do not need a backplane to run this card. The backplane only provides a distribution method for one HP server power supply to run 10 blades. A single blade can be wired up through the green connector on the top using any 12 volt roughly 100 watt power supply.
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No, you only need a power supply and network cable. I used a 130w for mine. Powers fine.
371097
No. Using one of these is perfectly fine. Some advise: I don't consider these profitable. With increasing difficulty you would be lucky to make enough to cover the $200 initial investment in one year. I just sold one of these on ebay for $150. I would not value them more than $25 with the difficulty trend. If you are looking to make a real investment I would purchase a larger miner or go the scrypt route and snach up some AMD cards.
2229088
Absolutely! Running 33 asicminer eruptors and 1 butterfly labs jalapeño with no problems! Make sure you get a power supply that can handle 49 eruptors
1847230
I wish I knew. I couldn't afford more than one. I do know that I was NOT able to put a 2nd card in to move the number of monitors to 8 total. My mother board would allow me to put more than 1 card in if the second card was not this vision tek card. My point being it wasn't a limitation of the motherboard.
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Hi, Yes you can. I believe you can backplane and backplane again.Hope this helps. I run 3 spindals, 2 solid state hybrids, and 2 solidstates. Have a good oneJim
1943084
no it doesnt need one, it uses the power straight from the pci express slot.
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you probably need 2. for me i use it as standalone.. backup in case something happen to the computer and also to play a cd in case someone give me a disk to play. I uses the numark ns6
869184
I believe only two at a time are supported, however I was not able to use this card. It comes with a Low Profile front but could not connect any cable to the sata port as it was to close to the case cover. (so not really low profile useable)
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No the windows enviroment will not pick up both as windows server will you would be better off buying a single processor board and going that route with a 12 core if trying to use for a game console
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With this kit I was able to install a 2nd hardrive in the lower drive bay kit. it's worth the price, on the ifixit site it was 70.00. Both drives are up and running and you should be able to do the install with instructions from ifixit. Good luck if you need more assistance contact me here on amazon
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No, these blades are older than the cubes. They work as stand-alone units. They have a their own web-interface, and use the deprecated get-work protocol so you will need to download and install a stratum mining proxy on a separate machine if you want to use a mining pool such as Slush's. You will also need to wire them to a power supply or buy a backplane and compatible HP hot swappable PSU.
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You are asking the wrong guy, I only know when it worked it would run 9 asic USB miners because it has external power source 5 amp
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You can do either. But this card requires both available power adapters so take note that power consumption will be high with this card and higher running both
812394
Assuming your machine is newish and has a PCIe slot, you shouldn't have any issue.
329658
Not at all, I have an old laptop that runs BFG miner. You will be able to even game if you want while running these.
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Yep they will, however I was using a Raspberry Pi with mine and I was using Mine Peon for my program. But you can still use these miners with whatever mining program you're using say it be cgminer.
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Yes. I use a single instance of cgminer v3.9 with multiple USB blocks that include antminer u1s, bpmc red furys, and block eruptors.
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You can't use both so just install one at a time and choose whichever seems better to you. HTH