It has 2 x 8x PCI-E, and 1 x 4x PCI-E. Question is.. are these powered? Will they run a 7950 without additional power? The board is a super micro X7DB3. The Xeon's are cheap, and I am sure I only need 1, and the ram I have laying around as needed. Will this mine?
modern gpu's get their power from power supply... so you need a big 650+watt power supply for 2-3 cards
Gotcha. I also fully understand how to make it work.
This is this weekends project. Back to the main topic.
Should I invest in badass cpu's or bare minimum for the server board? Will this board run 3 7950's? 2? If so, will it run them on its own, or do I need to power them? Trash the board or can it mine basically? I know it can run Server 08 R2 with 1.5k users like a frickin champ as I do this daily.