Finally,
My riser cables arrived, plugged all 6 R9 280x cards into H81 pro btc board and they just would not play together nicely. All cards in rig are 3gb Gigabyte R9280x windforce 3 (GV-R9280XOC-3GD-GA)
In device manager, Yellow exclamation mark next to 1 or 2 varying. Only picking up 4 or 5 cards varying.
Have tried powered risers, non-powered risers, power plugged into the 2 molex SLI / Crossfire points on board just about every CCC available, drivers direct from Gigabyte etc
After trying numerous different drivers, complete re install of win 8.1 64bit and still not partying together I tried something a little different.
When installing the drivers manually that came with windows, there was an option of hardware detected HD7900 series or R9 280x, I chose to install the HD7900 series and the OS then picked up on all 6 cards, no yellow exclamation mark next to any. All cards working and hashing over 700kh each.
I know its not exactly correct setup but it's working, as the R9 280x is a rebadged HD7900 series I guess the bios or firmware is telling the board they are 7900s. They are all working and partying together nicely so it will do for me until the correct bios updates and drivers are released.
So now I have all 8 of my R9 280Xs running and providing total hash rates of 56000kh/s.
Hope this might be of help to anyone else having issues with the H81pro BTC board, my power config is 2 x corsair AX1200i's
:1 powering board and 2 cards with powered riser cables x1, power NOT plugged into molex SLI/Crossfire sockets on MBoard
:1 powering 4 cards all cards using powered riser cables x1, power NOT plugged into molex SLI/Crossfire sockets on MBoard
Win 8.1, using cgminer 3.7.2
Windows drivers HD7900 series on 6 all cards.
I13, W256, g2, thread concurrency 8192, gpu clock 1100, mem 1500, voltage1200, autofan. Best card is hashing 766 and worst 698 monitor display card. All rest in-between. Temps from 67c -83c open air mining rig.
Desktop running 2 x R9 280xs (XFX R9280x TFDF) win 8.1 64bit, Drivers CCC 13.2 hashing at 700-710 each
I 13, g2, thread concurrency 8192, gpu 1020, mem 1500, powertune +20, autofan. temps 67-84 in closed desktop.
When rig first went on rejects upto 37% but overnight it has settled back down to follow pool average reject rate.
Location UK.
Hope this might help someone.
Happy mining,
Axco.
fuck windows.
get your self a linux box.
http://www.smos-linux.org/