If anyone has been following my posts, would notice a theme. I have managed to find several issues with the components of my rig. Not major, but seems to be a running theme, some products fail, or aren’t up to par (got a msi card with hynix memory which I couldn’t get to mine eth decently and is doing flux now). If you are wondering, no, won’t be doing solo mining. With my luck, it would take me a few years to find a block probably.
I went with a corsair psu since these had a good reputation (at least as a newbie) and had integrated monitoring (though hive doesn’t use, but was only 5 dollars more). I was rather disappointed when I found 2 problems with their cables.
- Shoddy assembly. As you can see in the photo, the cables came off
The length of stripped insulation might be enough, probably could have been a bit longer. Also, the connector didn’t look crimped. Happens, but besides having automatic cable building machines, they should also have some kind of QC to test them (can be a fire hazard after all)
- Probably even more annoyed than not having sigma six quality, was the design. They are running 2 cables from pin 8 on the psu end, and these go to only the first 2 pin connector on the intermediate connectors. So you get the supposedly 150W only on the first connector (because they added 2 extra grounds) and only 75W(?) on the end of the run connector (since it lacks the extra 2 cables).
Replaced the cable with aftermarket and this had the 8 cables going all along the run. Maybe give a small tug to your cables before using them?