Title: Mining rig with server boards, Post by: aliitp2 on February 26, 2021, 11:02:45 PM i have a couple of server motherboards been sitting around for a while, this is my first mining rig and id like some help getting it to work...
both boards have 2x CPUs (each) and lots of RAM (which i wont need for mining i know...) I will probably be filling up the PCI-E Slots with 3060 Ti and 3070 (for now) using risers which i purchased from gpurisers.com i am pretty sure the boards wont detect the cards immediately as am reading a lot that BIOS settings need to be done to support many GPUs on a single motherboards, So what settings i will need to do for those boards or any other Intel motherboards in general ?... need help to get started, thanks... Title: Re: Mining rig with server boards, Post by: FireBallex on February 27, 2021, 07:17:24 AM You heard wrong, there are some motherboards that won't be needing any BIOS mod or updates to detect all graphics cards onboard, I have two separate rigs here that I don't even look into it's BIOS name at all because it detect all 6 cards with no issue
Title: Re: Mining rig with server boards, Post by: aliitp2 on February 28, 2021, 03:37:32 PM You heard wrong, there are some motherboards that won't be needing any BIOS mod or updates to detect all graphics cards onboard, I have two separate rigs here that I don't even look into it's BIOS name at all because it detect all 6 cards with no issue I do hope am wrong and ur right! But I started with my asus x99 deluxe, crappy board if u ask me ! Couldn't get more than 1x gpu (1080 ti) to run on it, adding my other 3060 ti (even one) will make the screen go black once in windows ! Some pcie slots on that board won't even allow os to boot ! Bad start if u ask me !... Title: Re: Mining rig with server boards, Post by: batsonxl on February 28, 2021, 04:51:39 PM You heard wrong, there are some motherboards that won't be needing any BIOS mod or updates to detect all graphics cards onboard, I have two separate rigs here that I don't even look into it's BIOS name at all because it detect all 6 cards with no issue I do hope am wrong and ur right! But I started with my asus x99 deluxe, crappy board if u ask me ! Couldn't get more than 1x gpu (1080 ti) to run on it, adding my other 3060 ti (even one) will make the screen go black once in windows ! Some pcie slots on that board won't even allow os to boot ! Bad start if u ask me !... About server boards i think you will need both cpu installed otherwise some pcie lanes may not detect (im not sure so search it) Title: Re: Mining rig with server boards, Post by: aliitp2 on February 28, 2021, 10:14:22 PM You heard wrong, there are some motherboards that won't be needing any BIOS mod or updates to detect all graphics cards onboard, I have two separate rigs here that I don't even look into it's BIOS name at all because it detect all 6 cards with no issue I do hope am wrong and ur right! But I started with my asus x99 deluxe, crappy board if u ask me ! Couldn't get more than 1x gpu (1080 ti) to run on it, adding my other 3060 ti (even one) will make the screen go black once in windows ! Some pcie slots on that board won't even allow os to boot ! Bad start if u ask me !... About server boards i think you will need both cpu installed otherwise some pcie lanes may not detect (im not sure so search it) r u having 4 GPUs on risers ? and YES i have both CPUs installed on the server board :) Title: Re: Mining rig with server boards, Post by: batsonxl on March 01, 2021, 05:14:58 AM You heard wrong, there are some motherboards that won't be needing any BIOS mod or updates to detect all graphics cards onboard, I have two separate rigs here that I don't even look into it's BIOS name at all because it detect all 6 cards with no issue I do hope am wrong and ur right! But I started with my asus x99 deluxe, crappy board if u ask me ! Couldn't get more than 1x gpu (1080 ti) to run on it, adding my other 3060 ti (even one) will make the screen go black once in windows ! Some pcie slots on that board won't even allow os to boot ! Bad start if u ask me !... About server boards i think you will need both cpu installed otherwise some pcie lanes may not detect (im not sure so search it) r u having 4 GPUs on risers ? and YES i have both CPUs installed on the server board :) Title: Re: Mining rig with server boards, Post by: aliitp2 on March 04, 2021, 01:25:06 AM You heard wrong, there are some motherboards that won't be needing any BIOS mod or updates to detect all graphics cards onboard, I have two separate rigs here that I don't even look into it's BIOS name at all because it detect all 6 cards with no issue I do hope am wrong and ur right! But I started with my asus x99 deluxe, crappy board if u ask me ! Couldn't get more than 1x gpu (1080 ti) to run on it, adding my other 3060 ti (even one) will make the screen go black once in windows ! Some pcie slots on that board won't even allow os to boot ! Bad start if u ask me !... About server boards i think you will need both cpu installed otherwise some pcie lanes may not detect (im not sure so search it) r u having 4 GPUs on risers ? and YES i have both CPUs installed on the server board :) do you think if my crappy x99 board just wont support more than 2 GPUs, do you think using one of these can be a good work around to trick the board to add mroe GPUs ?... https://www.amazon.ae/dp/B07CSQDHBV?psc=1&pf_rd_p=61979bca-5bc7-4f08-b7f8-874f271df9b3&pf_rd_r=VDB2F9G58VAY4SAP8QNF&pd_rd_wg=S76NO&pd_rd_i=B07CSQDHBV&pd_rd_w=nv9c0&pd_rd_r=e6de7eb0-f4cc-4951-8573-c91c6be70d3a&ref_=pd_luc_rh_ci_mcx_mr_huc_d_01_01_t_img_lh kind of a worse case scenario if am STUCK with this board for a while... thanks, Title: Re: Mining rig with server boards, Post by: miner29 on March 04, 2021, 02:16:58 AM You heard wrong, there are some motherboards that won't be needing any BIOS mod or updates to detect all graphics cards onboard, I have two separate rigs here that I don't even look into it's BIOS name at all because it detect all 6 cards with no issue I do hope am wrong and ur right! But I started with my asus x99 deluxe, crappy board if u ask me ! Couldn't get more than 1x gpu (1080 ti) to run on it, adding my other 3060 ti (even one) will make the screen go black once in windows ! Some pcie slots on that board won't even allow os to boot ! Bad start if u ask me !... About server boards i think you will need both cpu installed otherwise some pcie lanes may not detect (im not sure so search it) r u having 4 GPUs on risers ? and YES i have both CPUs installed on the server board :) do you think if my crappy x99 board just wont support more than 2 GPUs, do you think using one of these can be a good work around to trick the board to add mroe GPUs ?... https://www.amazon.ae/dp/B07CSQDHBV?psc=1&pf_rd_p=61979bca-5bc7-4f08-b7f8-874f271df9b3&pf_rd_r=VDB2F9G58VAY4SAP8QNF&pd_rd_wg=S76NO&pd_rd_i=B07CSQDHBV&pd_rd_w=nv9c0&pd_rd_r=e6de7eb0-f4cc-4951-8573-c91c6be70d3a&ref_=pd_luc_rh_ci_mcx_mr_huc_d_01_01_t_img_lh kind of a worse case scenario if am STUCK with this board for a while... thanks, They work. Can probably only run one in the system. But that would get you 4-5 gpus instead of 2. Title: Re: Mining rig with server boards, Post by: aliitp2 on March 16, 2021, 06:45:39 PM You heard wrong, there are some motherboards that won't be needing any BIOS mod or updates to detect all graphics cards onboard, I have two separate rigs here that I don't even look into it's BIOS name at all because it detect all 6 cards with no issue I do hope am wrong and ur right! But I started with my asus x99 deluxe, crappy board if u ask me ! Couldn't get more than 1x gpu (1080 ti) to run on it, adding my other 3060 ti (even one) will make the screen go black once in windows ! Some pcie slots on that board won't even allow os to boot ! Bad start if u ask me !... About server boards i think you will need both cpu installed otherwise some pcie lanes may not detect (im not sure so search it) r u having 4 GPUs on risers ? and YES i have both CPUs installed on the server board :) thanks a lot for all ur advise guys finally this rig is up and this is the utube video am sharing with you :) https://youtu.be/cmQDMLm5ayw enojy, thanks, do you think if my crappy x99 board just wont support more than 2 GPUs, do you think using one of these can be a good work around to trick the board to add mroe GPUs ?... https://www.amazon.ae/dp/B07CSQDHBV?psc=1&pf_rd_p=61979bca-5bc7-4f08-b7f8-874f271df9b3&pf_rd_r=VDB2F9G58VAY4SAP8QNF&pd_rd_wg=S76NO&pd_rd_i=B07CSQDHBV&pd_rd_w=nv9c0&pd_rd_r=e6de7eb0-f4cc-4951-8573-c91c6be70d3a&ref_=pd_luc_rh_ci_mcx_mr_huc_d_01_01_t_img_lh kind of a worse case scenario if am STUCK with this board for a while... thanks, They work. Can probably only run one in the system. But that would get you 4-5 gpus instead of 2. |