New to bitcoin mining hardware. HeLP!

[ninjapug]

My motherboard has 2 PCI E X16 Slots about 2 years ago. According to my vendor, he said that if i put in two Graphic cards, One will run at X16 and the other will run at x8.

Will this affect my mining speed.

Im planning to buy a new rig with the below motherboard and plan to put 4 Graphic cards on it. Is this suitable if i put 4 HD 5870.

Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128499&Tpk=Gigabyte%20Z68X-UD7-B3

[SomeoneWeird]

My motherboard has 2 PCI E X16 Slots about 2 years ago. According to my vendor, he said that if i put in two Graphic cards, One will run at X16 and the other will run at x8.

Will this affect my mining speed.

Im planning to buy a new rig with the below motherboard and plan to put 4 Graphic cards on it. Is this suitable if i put 4 HD 5870.

Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128499&Tpk=Gigabyte%20Z68X-UD7-B3

You can run gpu's for mining at x1 if you want.

[Rob P.]

It would only affect your gaming performance, mining doesn't care about x1, x8, x16.

[Atlanta.SteveA]

If you look around at the people who use extenders to keep their GPU's cool, most of them are only using the PCI-e x1 ribbons. It doesn't require much bandwidth to the card to mine.