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Title: Cheapest proper motherboard that can drive 3-4 R9 280X's? Post by: Extornia on November 28, 2013, 11:17:42 AM Well whats the cheapest mobo that could do it? Any with enough pciex1's will work? I only need it to be itnel.
Title: Re: Cheapest proper motherboard that can drive 3-4 R9 280X's? Post by: philipma1957 on November 28, 2013, 12:27:09 PM WAIT for link
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B005G2U6HY/ref=sr_1_1_olp?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1385641707&sr=1-1&keywords=evga+motherboard+z68&condition=used I had one of these ran 4 hd7970's for a year mining for btc Title: Re: Cheapest proper motherboard that can drive 3-4 R9 280X's? Post by: LupinS on November 28, 2013, 01:21:49 PM This will do the trick: GA-H61M-S2V-B3
Title: Re: Cheapest proper motherboard that can drive 3-4 R9 280X's? Post by: Extornia on November 28, 2013, 01:56:09 PM So the GA-H61M-S2V-B3 with powered risers will do fine? x16-x16 unpowered, x1-x16 all powered?
Title: Re: Cheapest proper motherboard that can drive 3-4 R9 280X's? Post by: LupinS on November 28, 2013, 07:42:47 PM So the GA-H61M-S2V-B3 with powered risers will do fine? x16-x16 unpowered, x1-x16 all powered? Yes, it works for me a wile now. Title: Re: Cheapest proper motherboard that can drive 3-4 R9 280X's? Post by: Zemou on November 28, 2013, 08:27:42 PM The cheapest MB with 3 or 4 PCIe you can find will do the work.
Just use powered risers. Bought a Gigabyte (970-DS3) on the second hand market for 50$. It's mining fine for 3 months. |