Best GPU for Asus P5Q Mainboard

[m4L]

Hey guys,

I want to upgrade my old pc in order to be able to mine with it as well.
It has a Asus P5Q Mainboard - is there any GPU I could possible use to mine with that setup or do I need a complete new setup?

Thanks in advance

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[Dzeronimo]

You can mine with that motherboard but you can connect up to 3 graphics cards (it has 3 PCIe slots) so it won't we a big rig and profitability will not be very good because CPU and memory power consumption is the same if you use one, two or 6 GPUs. Also, the fact that it has 3 PCIe slots doesn't guaranty that you will be able to use all of them for mining. Maybe BIOS will make some problem. I have an old GA motherboard with 4 PCIe slots but I can mine only with two GPUs. It won't work with 3 or more.

[swogerino]

Hey guys,

I want to upgrade my old pc in order to be able to mine with it as well.
It has a Asus P5Q Mainboard - is there any GPU I could possible use to mine with that setup or do I need a complete new setup?

Thanks in advance

You will have some trouble here running many GPU-s mainly because of the limitation of DDR2 Ram which the max frequency can run is 1200mhz. Also get ready for some blue screen of deaths if you try to put more than 2 GPU-s on that kind of motherboard. Some friends of mine which work in a PC shop tried to mine with an old HP board with DDR2 Ram and ended with a lot of blue screen of deaths.

It has 3 PCIE slots but you have to try them to see if you can ran them all because at the ASUS website doesn't says anything for those PCIE slots. You can however run a GPU up to Rx 480 8GB I have tried myself with DDR2 ram old HP board , but maybe you can be lucky and run up to Rx 580 for mining.

[m4L]

So if I would go for just one RX 480 8GB that would work? Maybe 2?

[swogerino]

So if I would go for just one RX 480 8GB that would work? Maybe 2?

I can tell you with 100% assurance that one Rx 480 GB will work fine on an old HP board with DDR2 Ram and should be the same on your ASUS board. You can also try with 2 cards and that is the max I would try on such board with that amount of Ram and lga 775 (as an IT I can tell you that lga stand for land grid array which I learned in CompTIA certification and is the way Intel numbers their processors) with 775 being one of the slowest Intel release so going with three cards in your motherboard is a lost cause in my opinion.

But if you can borrow a third card just to try , you can do it, you can always experiment, as experimenting costs nothing.

[DrX]

I got Asus P5Q pro with 5x7970 working fine (win7 + gpu patch and 4gb ram)

So P5Q should easily run 3xRX480.

[Dzeronimo]

Don't forget that number of GPUs also depend on how powerful is your PSU. If you need to buy new GPUs and new PSU, maybe you can buy new MB+CPU, to avoid problems ans use more GPUs at the same time.

[maXonja]

Some socket 775 motherboards work fine with more GPU's, some are having serious problems

Last year I was using Intel DP965LT and 2x Asus P5B motherboards for mining
Intel board was working with 4x RX470 with no problems but on Asus boards I had a problem with recognizing memory
With 2 GPU's boards were working with all 4 gigs of ram (2x2), with 3 cards they recognized only 3 gigs, and with 4 cards only 2 gigs

No one can tell you for sure what's going to happen with P5Q unless someone used this board and knows for sure

[arielbit]

Hey guys,

I want to upgrade my old pc in order to be able to mine with it as well.
It has a Asus P5Q Mainboard - is there any GPU I could possible use to mine with that setup or do I need a complete new setup?

Thanks in advance

You will have some trouble here running many GPU-s mainly because of the limitation of DDR2 Ram which the max frequency can run is 1200mhz. Also get ready for some blue screen of deaths if you try to put more than 2 GPU-s on that kind of motherboard. Some friends of mine which work in a PC shop tried to mine with an old HP board with DDR2 Ram and ended with a lot of blue screen of deaths.

It has 3 PCIE slots but you have to try them to see if you can ran them all because at the ASUS website doesn't says anything for those PCIE slots. You can however run a GPU up to Rx 480 8GB I have tried myself with DDR2 ram old HP board , but maybe you can be lucky and run up to Rx 580 for mining.

P5Q chipset is P45....I got an older motherboard with a chipset of P35 with 4x 1080ti...that board is working for me since 2013..that's 5 years....and i bought it as a surplus/second hand.

It is ddr2 by the way..