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Title: question for my friend Post by: 1905 on September 15, 2012, 01:10:29 AM Ok i have a quick question. interested in purchasing multiple 7950 video cards. i have:
One PCI Express* 2.0 x 16 discrete graphics card connector Two PCI Express 2.0 x 1 connectors One PCI Conventional bus connector i was told that hooking 4 multiple 7950s on all four of these slots would not affect my hashrate. is this correct?? please advise. thk u Title: Re: question for my friend Post by: AndrewBUD on September 15, 2012, 01:12:29 AM Possibly.. It depends on your board.. Some board cannot occupy all of the PCI lanes at the same time..... you may only be able to run 2 or 3 cards total on that board...
Title: Re: question for my friend Post by: 1905 on September 15, 2012, 01:14:09 AM ok assuming that the board would allow all slots to be occupied would this be true?
Title: Re: question for my friend Post by: AndrewBUD on September 15, 2012, 01:16:10 AM Well yes, you do not lose any hashing power by using a 1x slot.... On one of my rigs I have a single 5850 on a Riser (extender) and it's on a Pci-e x1 slot hashing the same as the same card directly plugged in to the 16x slot...
Title: Re: question for my friend Post by: 1905 on September 15, 2012, 01:18:49 AM ok i apologize my friend is stubborn. can u verify that using a pcie 3.0 card on a 2.0 board is also not going to affect hash rate. as well can u verify that using a pcie 3.0 on a pci slot with an adapter also does not affect hash rate.
Title: Re: question for my friend Post by: AndrewBUD on September 15, 2012, 01:19:34 AM Nop.. Not that I know of.. I had a couple 7950's and they can fine on a MSI GD70 board...
Title: Re: question for my friend Post by: 1905 on September 15, 2012, 01:21:05 AM lol k he wants to know if his hash rate will improve if he actually has a pcie 3.0 slot.... lol
Title: Re: question for my friend Post by: AndrewBUD on September 15, 2012, 01:23:54 AM not that I know of.. sorry....
Title: Re: question for my friend Post by: thepwnorbpwnd on September 15, 2012, 09:27:55 AM You're hash rate won't improve if you use a 3.0 board. The bandwidth to use a miner is so small you can use a 1.0 board with 1x and you'd get the same as a 3.0 x16 slot.(don't quote me on it, I'm half cut and am too lazy to research more than what my knowledge says. xD )
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