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July 29, 2013, 09:05:12 AM |
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Hello all,
I would like to give you guys some feedback on this Gigabyte Motherboard. it has: - FM2 - 1 x16 PCI-Express - 1 x8 PCI-Express - 1 x4 PCI-Express - 3 x1 PCI-Express - AMD A10-6800K processor on it.
At first, I wanted to have the 6800k as my primary display. After putting in my 4 Gigabyte 7950s into the machine with powered riser cards, and set to force IGP mode, I tried to boot up. No go. System is stuck in a BIOS Boot loop. So I take out all the cards and leave main video card with IGP. it works, add 2nd card, it works, add 3rd card, boom. stuck in BIOS Loop again.
Additionally, the PCIEX1_3 slot seems to be a dead slot on my motherboard. It could not detect any Video cards on it.
I am now currently waiting for Gigabyte to get back to me about the issues I am experiencing but in the meantime, I am currently at 4 x 7950s without APU running. I end up losing about 200 khash/s since I have to lower intensity to 17.
I have also underclocked mobo so that it uses the least power. I am on a Corsair AX1200i PSU which is maxed out right now.
I hope that Gigabyte will release a new firmware to fix some of my issues with this board.
Anyone else has this board as it would be a good 6 vid card board.
I am running BAMT with the latest ATI Catalyst drivers (for BAMT, you need to expand the freespace with Gparted [boot from another USB BAMT device to do this] and then install driver as you will run out of space.)
Still on 3.1.0 cgminer as 3.3.1 has some weird bugs in it.
Anyone else using this mobo for a mining rig? any quirks with it?
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