mixing GTX 1060 and 1070

[silverbu11et]

Hello miners,

I have a couple of quick questions which I'm hoping one of you could answer. I would be very grateful as it could save me some $$.

I have a Zotac amp ed gtx 1060 6GB in my rig at home and it's performing decently as of now. I had built this system mostly for heavy editing work on AE etc and has a 32 GB memory and an SSD with a intel 5820k. Now I want to extend this system by adding GPU's so I can mine better.

My questions are:

1. Can I add two more 1070's to this along with my 1060?
2. Gigabyte - GA-X99P-SLI ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard supports 4 way SLI but I'm reading that the 5820k will support maximum 3 way. Am i right?
3. In case I add 2 more GPU's will my 750w psu be enough?
4. This seems foolish but what the hell, can I mix up AMD and Nvidia cards? lol

Please excuse my ignorance, I did try searching for this but could not find any relevant information. Thanks in advance for your time and I'm excited to a part of this vibrant community.

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[bathrobehero]

Hello miners,

I have a couple of quick questions which I'm hoping one of you could answer. I would be very grateful as it could save me some $$.

I have a Zotac amp ed gtx 1060 6GB in my rig at home and it's performing decently as of now. I had built this system mostly for heavy editing work on AE etc and has a 32 GB memory and an SSD with a intel 5820k. Now I want to extend this system by adding GPU's so I can mine better.

My questions are:

1. Can I add two more 1070's to this along with my 1060?
2. Gigabyte - GA-X99P-SLI ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard supports 4 way SLI but I'm reading that the 5820k will support maximum 3 way. Am i right?
3. In case I add 2 more GPU's will my 750w psu be enough?
4. This seems foolish but what the hell, can I mix up AMD and Nvidia cards? lol

Please excuse my ignorance, I did try searching for this but could not find any relevant information. Thanks in advance for your time and I'm excited to a part of this vibrant community.

1. Sure, but I'd suggest getting some powered USB risers so that you can put the cards further (if you can) from each other so they don't boil each other.
2. I have no idea about that specific motherboard but it should be fine. With risers each card only uses 1x PCI-E lane, but even without risers you don't need SLI to mine, in fact you should always disable it when you're mining.
3. AFAIK that 1060 has a maximum of 120W consumption and most aftermarket 1070s have 180 watts. 120+180+180+140(CPU)+60(other parts) = 680 watts if you're pushing everything to the maximum which you're not going to do so you should be fine with a single 750 watt PSU.
4. Sure you can.

[silverbu11et]

Thanks bathrobehero for the quick response.

So you are saying I can go with 1070's to extend my system along with the 1060 I already have? almost 100% of the dual or triple gpu systems I see on the net use identical cards. I hope there aren't any conflicts of any nature after I buy the parts. Although I've been building PC's for long, I've never built a multi gpu system, hence the confusion. Similarly mixing AMD and Nvidia together seems shocking to me but awesome if possible.

The thing about the 5820k is that it can support only 3 way sli(according to googlefu) but will it support 4 cards if not using sli?

sorry for being a pest, just wanna make sure I have everyting clarified before I drop some money on the parts. Thanks again!

[PanneKopp]

Even though I do not recommend mixing different cards in one RIG,
I won´t mind mixing GTX-1060-6 with GTX-1070 (because of same architecture).

Please keep in mind 2 give the the individual optimasations via afterburner.

[silverbu11et]

I see. so I'll pick up two 1070's and report back when I have everything figured out or if I run into issues. Thanks!