Important of Gen2 on gigabyte motherboard

[Bitbtc8]

I just want to share my experience on here for people who might be new to crypto mining, I spent hours on trying to find what could be wrong with a motherboard day ago, if you are using a gigabyte motherboard or planning to don't waste time here are what I noticed will be a challenge for you

1. Without changing gen to gen 2 you will have problem

Imagine loading up windows and everything start acting weird once you connect more than on GPU on board, crashes and lagging here and there, the fix is gen 2 activation

2. You using a new model GPU like RTX series? They can start getting abnormally hot for no reason if you use the two pcie 16x slot which was meant for SLI/Crossfire, the fix is still the gen 2 and if you have 3070ti make sure another 3070ti goes into the second SLI/Crossfire slot, don't insert gtx card in one and RTX card in the other

This could sound weird as it was to me buy gen 2 solves my problem, mind you I have other motherboards that are presently mining with none of this issues, this is my first rodeo that's why I decide to share, who knows? Might help someone

[sxemini]

I just want to share my experience on here for people who might be new to crypto mining, I spent hours on trying to find what could be wrong with a motherboard day ago, if you are using a gigabyte motherboard or planning to don't waste time here are what I noticed will be a challenge for you

1. Without changing gen to gen 2 you will have problem

Imagine loading up windows and everything start acting weird once you connect more than on GPU on board, crashes and lagging here and there, the fix is gen 2 activation

2. You using a new model GPU like RTX series? They can start getting abnormally hot for no reason if you use the two pcie 16x slot which was meant for SLI/Crossfire, the fix is still the gen 2 and if you have 3070ti make sure another 3070ti goes into the second SLI/Crossfire slot, don't insert gtx card in one and RTX card in the other

This could sound weird as it was to me buy gen 2 solves my problem, mind you I have other motherboards that are presently mining with none of this issues, this is my first rodeo that's why I decide to share, who knows? Might help someone

I don´t understand why people change the pcie to gen1. This is not needed, in any case. You can always stay on the highest pcie generation. And this has nothing to do with gigabyte mainboard. You using an very old mainboard and that is the problem.
SLI is not supported by the rtx cards, so it don´t care what slot you are using.

[swogerino]

I don't know to what Gigabyte motherboard you are referring to but it must really old one.I have mined even with a Gen4 dual core processor Gigabyte motherboard without any problems a couple of years ago using different miners and all had no problems.
Also the new mining motherboards of Gigabyte from what I have seen are some of the best out there considering price/performance.

[Bravehash]

I just want to share my experience on here for people who might be new to crypto mining, I spent hours on trying to find what could be wrong with a motherboard day ago, if you are using a gigabyte motherboard or planning to don't waste time here are what I noticed will be a challenge for you

1. Without changing gen to gen 2 you will have problem

Imagine loading up windows and everything start acting weird once you connect more than on GPU on board, crashes and lagging here and there, the fix is gen 2 activation

2. You using a new model GPU like RTX series? They can start getting abnormally hot for no reason if you use the two pcie 16x slot which was meant for SLI/Crossfire, the fix is still the gen 2 and if you have 3070ti make sure another 3070ti goes into the second SLI/Crossfire slot, don't insert gtx card in one and RTX card in the other

This could sound weird as it was to me buy gen 2 solves my problem, mind you I have other motherboards that are presently mining with none of this issues, this is my first rodeo that's why I decide to share, who knows? Might help someone

I don´t understand why people change the pcie to gen1. This is not needed, in any case. You can always stay on the highest pcie generation. And this has nothing to do with gigabyte mainboard. You using an very old mainboard and that is the problem.
SLI is not supported by the rtx cards, so it don´t care what slot you are using.

You ain't seen nothing yet, I have a gigabyte motherboard that requires you to change settings in BIOS to gen 2 before the motherboard will function well, meaning you will be able to use other pcie x1 slots and the memory bandwidth will work better too, that's why I said you ain't seen yet, the gen that OP is talking about is not generation of CPU like i5 2nd gen or 3rd gen, he is refering to Gen in BIOS settings

[Gunday_07]

Actually it depends on the motherboard, it works on some old motherboards and it doesn't on others, what Gen 2 config you talking about is the one in bios settings not generation of CPU right? Be more specific next time



👆 Is that what you talking about? Yea this makes GPUs works better in most cases, it could set memory errors right if you have more than one GPU plugged into a motherboard

[uneps]

I don't know to what Gigabyte motherboard you are referring to but it must really old one.I have mined even with a Gen4 dual core processor Gigabyte motherboard without any problems a couple of years ago using different miners and all had no problems.
Also the new mining motherboards of Gigabyte from what I have seen are some of the best out there considering price/performance.

I also don't know the advantages of Gigabyte gen 2 motherboards. Are there any advantages. So he called the second gen Gigabyte motherboards very important in mining. I also use a Gigabyte gen 4 motherboard. But there are no problems in mining.

[Gorosden]

I don't know to what Gigabyte motherboard you are referring to but it must really old one.I have mined even with a Gen4 dual core processor Gigabyte motherboard without any problems a couple of years ago using different miners and all had no problems.
Also the new mining motherboards of Gigabyte from what I have seen are some of the best out there considering price/performance.

I also don't know the advantages of Gigabyte gen 2 motherboards. Are there any advantages. So he called the second gen Gigabyte motherboards very important in mining. I also use a Gigabyte gen 4 motherboard. But there are no problems in mining.

People are misunderstanding the original post, gen 2 is available in most motherboard apart from OEM motherboards, original post isn't pointing at 2nd gen CPUs like i3 2100 or i5 2320 it's talking about the BIOS to unlock better memory buffering for all pcie slots on the motherboard..

Have you ever seen whereby only three pcie x1 slots will work out of 5 you have on a motherboard? It's because the gen in bios isn't set to gen 2....😂😂😂