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I've been mining mostly zcash for a month now with my 2 rx 480s in my gaming pc... I wanted to make build a dedicated 6 gpu one with the rx 570s when they come out, the motherboard I have for it has 5 x pcie x16 slots and a pcie x1 slot

Should I use one x16 to x16 molex powered riser and five x1 to x16 sata powered risers still?

Wrong section, please move this to alt coin mining. It should work pretty well but it might not work with your mobo. What model is it?

It's a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5... simply using it because I already have one lying about so don't have to buy another one

You need x1 to x16 raisers for only x1 pcie , if you have x16 pcie then you can mount your cards directly without raisers , i dont like using raisers anyway....lots of problem , and if they are bad quality it can cause hardware damage to the gpu

well apart from there isn't space for 5 x rx 570s on the motherboard cause each will be dual slot I'm guessing, so risers are a must

There is no need for x16 to x16 powered risers.
The 1x to x16 will do just fine even on the x16 slot

hi, personal experience here, you can use 6 x 1x to x16 risers, there is no reason to use the big x16 to x16, the x1 can be plugged in the x16 slot, the only downside is if you control remotely your rig, you can have some lag with teamviewer, but if you control it directly with a monitor this problem don't appear, you will be fine

Cool cool, well if the smaller ones are fine then i'll just do the original plan and get 1 16x for the display card and 5 1x for the rest- the price difference was only £1 anyway for the bigger one...  ;D