I have been mining on WP and a few other places for 'bout 7-8 months , now that X13 is also gone and X11 profit barely surpasses electric bills, I stopped mining. Is there anyone else who thinks doing the same or has done the same ? I do not know if there is an alternative to make a profit w/o using ASICS.

Thanks Rick. I got your PM. However, let me reply back in here which may be I could be helpful to others as well.  As you said I attached the dummy plug to the GPU which is connected via riser. Right after that the system (Windows 7 x64) recognized it and stable while during normal usage.  However, after a few seconds starting the cgminer, the ATI driver would crash. I tried several versions of AMD drivers, from 12.1 to 14.3beta. Same issues over and over again. Then I gave a chance to the Linux based BAMT (v 1.5 with Catalsyt 14.1). BAMT recognized all the cards from the very beginning. And never crashed once. Although, for some unknown reason my 3rd card fried..But I know that it worked for a few hours. I heard good things about BAMT but the only reason I did not use BAMT before was that I had a wireless adapter which did not have a Linux driver, and I was unsuccessful to emulate the windows drivers under BAMT by using Ndiswrapper.

Bottom line, try dummy plugs if your system does not recognize 3rd GPU with riser, plug somehow makes it stable, and if possible use BAMT.

Hi Rick,

I got one of your powered risers from Amazon. However there is a problem it seems. I have 3 GPUs:

1x Sapphire 7950
1x MSI 7870
1x PC 7850
ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0
and 2 PSUs 600+430 (80% eff. both)

When I connect any of the 2 GPUs on 16x slots directly to the MB, and 3rd GPU with your riser to a 1x slot 2 things happen:

a) windows start screen appear and after that the display is stuck there.
b) or 3 GPUs are recognized, when installing the AMD driver system crashes, everytime it does that even if I do a clean uninstal/reinstall.

-First thing you might ask, yes, I put your riser on a x16 slot with 1 GPU only, it works just fine. But of course that;s not what I want.
-I installed several versions of AMD driver. Did not work.
-I did the jumping the pins of 1x slot on the motherboard trick..Did not work.
-I tried the other 1x slot..Did not work.
-I reinstalled the Windows 7 and repeated AMD installations...Frustration and about to give up. Sell the cards and return the riser...oh boy.