mining using old motherboard(s)

[Ciprian2030]

hello everyone,

I am looking forward for some hardware recommandations.

I have a board MSI H61 M P20 G3 socket 1155 which seems similars with as rock h61 pro btc, excepting it has only 1x PCIe x16 and 1 PCI port which I am using with an adapter for gigabit lan (I have high speed network and onboard only 100mbps). I already have 2x4gb ddr3 1333 dual channel and an i5 3570k installed, and a back-up of G2030 3ghz cpu & SSD.

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/H61M-P20-G3/Specification

I also have an old motherboard ASUS A8N-E socket 939 with 4gb ddr3 and AMD Opteron 2.2 ghz, but this is better equipped

1 x PCIe x16
1 x PCIe x4
2 x PCIe x1
3 x PCI

https://www.cnet.com/products/asus-a8n-e-nforce4-socket-939-atx-motherboard/specs/

I am planning a mining rig with 4-6 gpu, should I buy a pci expander for MSI H61 or use ASUS A8N-E with at least 4 ports PCIe x1 ?

Thank you in advance!.

[VRobb]

This: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=383627.0

[Ciprian2030]

where should (I) move it ?

many thanks

[NotFuzzyWarm]

where should (I) move it ?
many thanks

To here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=160.0 which is part of the altcoin mining area

[siegep]

Succesfully using am2 gigabyte ga-m57sli-s4 rigs for 5 cards. Totally stable with 4gb ddr2, old cpus and 1060/570 cards.

[bigjee]

Gigabyte EP45-UD3P.

Running 5x1070s for an average of 2500 sol/s.