Asrock Z68 Extreme 3 gen 3 compatible with 6 or 7 GPU?

[shan2026]

Hi,

I wanted to get in to mining and was wondering if my MB Asrock Z68 Extreme 3 gen 3 is compatible with 6x GPU?

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z68%20Extreme3%20Gen3/index.asp

I have 2500K and 850W power supply. Maybe I can use 6x GTX 1060 with it if MB is compatible. Will only have to buy GPUs to start mining if everything else is good enough.

thanks

[fanatic26]

I only see 4 physical ports on the motherboard that are compatible. Those other two are regular old PCI and wont work at all.

[shan2026]

I only see 4 physical ports on the motherboard that are compatible. Those other two are regular old PCI and wont work at all.

Thanks for the answer, just looked up MB specs.

"Slots
- 2 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots (PCIE2/PCIE4: single at x16 (PCIE2) / x8 (PCIE4), or dual at x8 (PCIE2) / x8 (PCIE4))
- 2 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 slots
- 2 x PCI slots
- Supports AMD Quad CrossFireX™ and CrossFireX™
- Supports NVIDIA® Quad SLI™ and SLI™

*PCIe Gen3 is supported on 3rd Generation of Intel® Core™ i5 and Core™ i7 CPUs."

So 2x PCI 2.0 and 2x PCI 3.0 will work but not old 2x PCI slots? Maybe I can start with 4x AMD quad or Nvidia Quad SLI.

Also I have 2500K and it says to use PCI express 3.0 I need 3rd gen intel processor. Is PCI 2.0 good enough?