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Title: PCI-E mess Post by: MZZM on June 05, 2011, 09:07:06 PM I read a lot of forum, and gonna build my first rig. And just to make sure want to ask. Is that possible to buy mobo with one PCI-E x 16 and with expanders make 4 pcie slots, so I can plug 4 cards. And as I understand it is not important what bandwith got pci-e for mining, so expande PCI-E x 1 should be ok for mining?
Title: Re: PCI-E mess Post by: M4v3R on June 05, 2011, 09:09:33 PM Yes. You can use x1 slots if you have expanders. It will work just fine (for mining).
Title: Re: PCI-E mess Post by: datguywhowanders on June 05, 2011, 09:12:29 PM Where does one acquire these expanders?
Title: Re: PCI-E mess Post by: rhuian on June 05, 2011, 09:17:56 PM Right here:
https://cablesaurus.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=10&zenid=47c6e3266649159c76fc0aa2e46d5e2b (https://cablesaurus.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=10&zenid=47c6e3266649159c76fc0aa2e46d5e2b) Title: Re: PCI-E mess Post by: Chris Acheson on June 05, 2011, 09:26:35 PM Where does one acquire these expanders? I have some extras that I'm selling for a bit under Cablesaurus' prices: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10927.0 Title: Re: PCI-E mess Post by: grue on June 05, 2011, 09:28:25 PM or you can buy them on ebay for $4, and cut them yourself.
Title: Re: PCI-E mess Post by: teknohog on June 05, 2011, 09:32:18 PM It seems a lot of posters are misunderstanding the question. While 1x slots with extenders are fine for mining, you cannot make a number of 1x slots from one 16x slot.
Title: Re: PCI-E mess Post by: datguywhowanders on June 05, 2011, 09:54:39 PM Oh I got the idea right... I have two extra, currently empty, x1 slots on my motherboard...
@rhuian: I checked your post and clicked on the link, but the site said no items were found. Did you already finish selling off all of them? Title: Re: PCI-E mess Post by: MZZM on June 05, 2011, 10:10:00 PM It seems a lot of posters are misunderstanding the question. While 1x slots with extenders are fine for mining, you cannot make a number of 1x slots from one 16x slot. Are you sure? Because I though this thing http://www.logicsupply.com/images/photos/adapters/DualPCI-BM_big.jpg will allow me to do it. Or only one slot on this raiser will work? Title: Re: PCI-E mess Post by: Genrobo on June 05, 2011, 10:16:09 PM It seems a lot of posters are misunderstanding the question. While 1x slots with extenders are fine for mining, you cannot make a number of 1x slots from one 16x slot. Are you sure? Because I though this thing http://www.logicsupply.com/images/photos/adapters/DualPCI-BM_big.jpg will allow me to do it. Or only one slot on this raiser will work? That's a regular PCI slot... Title: Re: PCI-E mess Post by: Chris Acheson on June 06, 2011, 01:34:34 AM or you can buy them on ebay for $4, and cut them yourself. Then you have to wait 3 weeks for shipping from China. Not worth it if you're trying to get more mining capacity on line as soon as possible. |