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Title: gigabyte motherboard question Post by: mu50stang on July 22, 2011, 12:40:01 AM I bought a gigabyte GA-H61M-D2P-B3 motherboard and have two video cards running on it radeon hd5570 and hd5700. They are both on the x16 slots. i have two other pci slots. Is it possible to add anymore video cards. Thanks.
Specs. 1.1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16 (PCIEX16) * For optimum performance, if only one PCI Express graphics card is to be installed, be sure to install it in the PCIEX16 slot. 2.1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x4 (PCIEX4) 3.2 x PCI slots http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3774#ov Also have a MSI P55-CD53 with a 6950 in the x16 slot. Am I able to add any cards to this one. Thanks. SPECS PCI Express 2.0 x16 1 PCI Express x1 3 PCI Slots 3 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130240 Title: Re: gigabyte motherboard question Post by: Viera on July 22, 2011, 04:24:25 AM No you can't, graphics card can only be used with PCI Express x16 slots, and you have none left.
Title: Re: gigabyte motherboard question Post by: nafai on July 22, 2011, 07:10:26 AM That's not true.
First of all, they can run out-of-the-box on any PCIe slot, not just 16x. Even a PCIe 1x slot will do mining just fine. You won't get as good of GAMING graphic performance by running a video card in a PCIe slot with a shorter bus, but bitcoin mining is not affected. Also, it's rumored you can even run a bitcoin miner on a GPU in a plain old PCI slot. I've seen it discussed here on the forum, but I don't recall the details. And of course I haven't done it myself so I can't verify. Title: Re: gigabyte motherboard question Post by: Jaime Frontero on July 22, 2011, 07:23:00 AM No you can't, graphics card can only be used with PCI Express x16 slots, and you have none left. no. with PCIe extenders - or a little very careful jeweler's saw work - a GPU will run just fine in any PCIe slot; even an x1. check the mining forums, and the trade wiki for extenders: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade Title: Re: gigabyte motherboard question Post by: Cidsor on July 22, 2011, 07:38:50 AM The MSI mobo can handle up to 4 cards. You have to use the existing PCI-e x16 slot and the three PCI-e x1 slots. You need three of thesehttps://cablesaurus.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=10&zenid=6ae347de3003210aa2eae189bdd606b6 (https://cablesaurus.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=10&zenid=6ae347de3003210aa2eae189bdd606b6) and the space in your cabinet :)
Title: Re: gigabyte motherboard question Post by: goxed on July 22, 2011, 02:50:22 PM https://i.imgur.com/zXbe5.jpg
I used this http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320717538179&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT and this http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180670518754&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT Title: Re: gigabyte motherboard question Post by: Morebitcoinsplease on July 22, 2011, 05:30:17 PM No you can't, graphics card can only be used with PCI Express x16 slots, and you have none left. no. with PCIe extenders - or a little very careful jeweler's saw work - a GPU will run just fine in any PCIe slot; even an x1. check the mining forums, and the trade wiki for extenders: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade +1 You can run any GPU on a PCI-E slot, I run several video cards on PCI-E x1 and x4 Title: Re: gigabyte motherboard question Post by: mu50stang on July 27, 2011, 02:53:11 PM Is this all I need to make this work. Thanks.
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