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Title: Mining Motherboard Question Post by: RJMcSherry on July 01, 2013, 04:44:47 PM I am trying to consolidate my mining operation and found an old motherboard lying around my place...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813136152 Expansion Slots PCI Express x16 - 2 PCI Express x4 - 1 PCI Express x1 - 1 PCI Slots - 2 Can I use a PCI express x4 to x16 cable and a PCI express x1 to x16 cable to get a total of four graphics cards on this motherboard? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813136152 Title: Re: Mining Motherboard Question Post by: agaric on July 01, 2013, 05:09:19 PM The best MB should have 4 pci-e slots in my opinion
Title: Re: Mining Motherboard Question Post by: icyak on July 01, 2013, 05:20:59 PM I am trying to consolidate my mining operation and found an old motherboard lying around my place... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813136152 Expansion Slots PCI Express x16 - 2 PCI Express x4 - 1 PCI Express x1 - 1 PCI Slots - 2 Can I use a PCI express x4 to x16 cable and a PCI express x1 to x16 cable to get a total of four graphics cards on this motherboard? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813136152 sure you can, but maybe you need to use powered risers insted of normal riser from cablesaurus or dx.com Title: Re: Mining Motherboard Question Post by: RJMcSherry on July 01, 2013, 05:40:09 PM Right, I was thinking they should definitely be powered risers. Thanks! Are there any other blatant issues that might be of concern with this board that I am overlooking??
Title: Re: Mining Motherboard Question Post by: RJMcSherry on July 01, 2013, 06:25:10 PM Bump?
Title: Re: Mining Motherboard Question Post by: NickBack1951 on July 01, 2013, 06:57:59 PM I am trying to consolidate my mining operation and found an old motherboard lying around my place... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813136152 Expansion Slots PCI Express x16 - 2 PCI Express x4 - 1 PCI Express x1 - 1 PCI Slots - 2 Can I use a PCI express x4 to x16 cable and a PCI express x1 to x16 cable to get a total of four graphics cards on this motherboard? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813136152 It is doesn't matter which slot do you use! x1, x4 or x16 - same result! Title: Re: Mining Motherboard Question Post by: RJMcSherry on July 01, 2013, 07:01:12 PM I am trying to consolidate my mining operation and found an old motherboard lying around my place... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813136152 Expansion Slots PCI Express x16 - 2 PCI Express x4 - 1 PCI Express x1 - 1 PCI Slots - 2 Can I use a PCI express x4 to x16 cable and a PCI express x1 to x16 cable to get a total of four graphics cards on this motherboard? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813136152 It is doesn't matter which slot do you use! x1, x4 or x16 - same result! They will all have enough bandwidth to produce optimum hashing capability? Title: Re: Mining Motherboard Question Post by: dalegod on July 01, 2013, 08:16:56 PM I'm fairly confident that the bandwidth of the PCIe interface is not important for mining. I am currently using a PCIe x1 to x16 riser in each of my two miners and have not had any problems. The other cards are on x16 to x16 risers and all seems to be well. I have not done thorough testing though, and I have not been able to get GPUs running on both of the two x1 PCIe slots on each board.
In theory your board should work just fine, but I have no experience with it. Worth a try as you found it laying around! Title: Re: Mining Motherboard Question Post by: RJMcSherry on July 01, 2013, 09:17:43 PM I'm fairly confident that the bandwidth of the PCIe interface is not important for mining. I am currently using a PCIe x1 to x16 riser in each of my two miners and have not had any problems. The other cards are on x16 to x16 risers and all seems to be well. I have not done thorough testing though, and I have not been able to get GPUs running on both of the two x1 PCIe slots on each board. In theory your board should work just fine, but I have no experience with it. Worth a try as you found it laying around! I'm going to try using x1 to x16 molex risers and hopefully will be able to get them both to work. |