Has anyone used Magma PCI expansions?

[redicarus]

http://www.magma.com

I don't know too much about hardware, but these products seem like a quick way to expand the capacity for more GPUs without buying a new rig. Can anyone vouch for the use/reliability of these products?

[m4rkiz]

http://www.magma.com

I don't know too much about hardware, but these products seem like a quick way to expand the capacity for more GPUs without buying a new rig. Can anyone vouch for the use/reliability of these products?

considering their products are targeted for servers they most likely will be ok, but price is overkill for sure

[redicarus]

no kidding. I didn't see a price tag on the site when I posted this, but from their retailers, it's obviously not cost-effective. $900~ for the cheapest set, I'd be better off with a new rig.

[DareC]

Does anyone know if something similar but (much) cheaper exists?

[Convery]

Does anyone know if something similar but (much) cheaper exists?

I feel like I should help here.. I bought a PCI 32 bit to PCIe x16 adapter on ebay for 20$ and 10$ shipping and it arrived today, and it's awesome. I don't need it right now but I'll gladly let you know it works. So ye, mining on old PCI slots :3

However it reduced my hashrate by 2Mhash, not sure if it was because of having to install a new driver or maybe latency..

Old phone camera FTL =(

[shivansps]

can you ajust your "pci latency timer" in bios???

remember that pci bandwitdh is shared on all slots... if you place anothet it will reduce the bandwidth to half.

[Convery]

can you ajust your "pci latency timer" in bios???

remember that pci bandwitdh is shared on all slots... if you place anothet it will reduce the bandwidth to half.

I think I had such an option on my other mother board, the one that I will use the card for (just tested it on my miner to check for DoA and such)..

As for bandwidth, it's faster then a PCIe x1 but never the less, GPGPU work does not need a lot of bandwidth..

[shivansps]

is not faster than x1...

pci-e x1 1.1 is 250mb/s on each direcction, 500mb effective.

PCI has a total of 133MB/s per bus. the 133mb/s is shared on all pci ports conected to that bus, so if you place another card on another PCI slot, and that slot is connected to the same bus, then is 66mb/s per card.

[kr105]

Does anyone know if something similar but (much) cheaper exists?

I feel like I should help here.. I bought a PCI 32 bit to PCIe x16 adapter on ebay for 20$ and 10$ shipping and it arrived today, and it's awesome. I don't need it right now but I'll gladly let you know it works. So ye, mining on old PCI slots :3

However it reduced my hashrate by 2Mhash, not sure if it was because of having to install a new driver or maybe latency..

Can you please give us a link for that adapter? I can't find one below $80 on eBay

[Convery]

Does anyone know if something similar but (much) cheaper exists?

I feel like I should help here.. I bought a PCI 32 bit to PCIe x16 adapter on ebay for 20$ and 10$ shipping and it arrived today, and it's awesome. I don't need it right now but I'll gladly let you know it works. So ye, mining on old PCI slots :3

However it reduced my hashrate by 2Mhash, not sure if it was because of having to install a new driver or maybe latency..

Can you please give us a link for that adapter? I can't find one below $80 on eBay

Here's the Ebay one: http://global.ebay.com/PCI-32Bit-To-PCI-Express-16x-Riser-Extender-Card/170628273176/item

Just PM the seller and I'm sure he can fix a few more :3

[nelisky]

What OS did you use? In other words, would this work on linux?

[kjj]

http://cgi.ebay.com/320693561785

[Convery]

What OS did you use? In other words, would this work on linux?

I use windows 7 x86 but as a lad asked me in a PM I'll start it in Linux (Ubuntu).

[kr105]

ty guys, this will save me some $$ on a new motherboard 

[Convery]

Ok booted up in Ubuntu via the liveCD option and everything worked flawlessly out of the box.