Can you run 5 GPU's on Windows 7 x64???

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Quote from: Celicular on January 16, 2014, 10:07:20 AM

I've got gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5 motherboard, which has 2 PCI X1 and 4 PCI X16 connectors,
I've got 2 ASUS 7970 MATRIX, 2 Sapphire R9 280X Vapor-X and 1 Powercolor 7970 V3 (together 5) GPUs.

No matter what I do, there's always 1/5 GPUs that gives code 43 error when I look in the device manager. First I thought that there was something wrong with one of the specified,
but now I see that every card works if there are 1-4 connected and one of them doesn't if there are all connected.

Can this be resolved or do I have to buy another motherboard?

Thanks for help

any news ? i got the same issue

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I've got gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5 motherboard, which has 2 PCI X1 and 4 PCI X16 connectors,
I've got 2 ASUS 7970 MATRIX, 2 Sapphire R9 280X Vapor-X and 1 Powercolor 7970 V3 (together 5) GPUs.

No matter what I do, there's always 1/5 GPUs that gives code 43 error when I look in the device manager. First I thought that there was something wrong with one of the specified,
but now I see that every card works if there are 1-4 connected and one of them doesn't if there are all connected.

Can this be resolved or do I have to buy another motherboard?

Thanks for help

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Hey BUD, YGPM

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I have been trying to get 6 cards (or 5) to work on my rig.

6x 7970 on an asrock H61DEL which has 1x PCI 16x and 5x PCI 1x

So far I can get cards working in every slot, BUT only if 4 cards are plugged in at any given time.

If I plug in a 5th or a 6th card, device manager shows them with a little exclamation mark.

If I try to mine I get a BSOD

I have tried the following drivers with no luck
11.x (doesnt work with 7970)
12.4 (BSOD)
12.8 (exclamations in device mgr)

Anyone had ANY luck running such a combo?

AndrewBUD

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Yeah I don't touch the CPU... I am having a hell of a time getting 5 cards working on this machine.... I have tried every possible combination.... I am going to burn a fattie and take a nap, this sucks.

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Well the 890FXA-GD70 has been known to catch fire around the VRMs due to low power phases (4+1) versus 8+2 on higher-end boards. But that's only if you were overclocking and using 125w TDP CPUs. Wink

AndrewBUD

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Wonderful.. I should record this shit,, possibly have a nice video of a mobo setting on fire....

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Quote from: AndrewBUD on September 03, 2012, 12:45:47 PM

AHHHHH this makes total sense. so the last 16x slot would be disabled...

What about having to short pins using 1x to 16x risers?

Yes, I believe that too.

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AHHHHH this makes total sense. so the last 16x slot would be disabled...

What about having to short pins using 1x to 16x risers?

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I believe the GD70 has a thing where you only end up getting to use 5 of the 6 slots, the last slot ends up being disabled.

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Can someone please tell me if I have to short any pins on this board when using 1x risers?

when running 5 single core cards which slots do you use? which slot out of the 6 would you not use?

Any issues using 1x to 16x riser in the 16x slots?

Thanks

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I am stuck....

How the hell can I do this with a 890FXA-GD70... has a total of 6 PCI-E slots...

with 3 cards on the board and 2 on risers....

Do I have to use certain slots if I am running 5 cards? Has anyone out there used 5 cards on one of these boards ?

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Quote from: segabtc on August 25, 2012, 09:53:41 PM

can only use 5 of the 6 PCI-e slots, it turns off a 1x slot if PCI 1 and PCI 3 are populated.

#@%&! where the fuck was this answer when i needed it over a year ago! Cheesy

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Quote from: segabtc on August 25, 2012, 11:01:12 PM

yeah sorry "guy" I was only referring to single GPU cards, and the added expense of buying those expensive cards! easier to plug in 4 dual cards than it is to actually get 8 cards on a single board. and ya gotta give props to anyone who takes the time to get a 8 card setup running, Win or *nix.

Use risers and its pretty easy Wink

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yeah sorry "guy" I was only referring to single GPU cards, and the added expense of buying those expensive cards! easier to plug in 4 dual cards than it is to actually get 8 cards on a single board. and ya gotta give props to anyone who takes the time to get a 8 card setup running, Win or *nix.

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Quote from: segabtc on August 25, 2012, 09:53:41 PM

yeah 8 gpu can be used at once but not many boards will ALLOW you to use 8 gpus. Got 890-gd70 and can only use 5 of the 6 PCI-e slots, it turns off a 1x slot if PCI 1 and PCI 3 are populated.

If you're going to go for 8, you're going to want 4x dual gpu cards.

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Thanks.... I'll be running 5 on each rig....

segabtc

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yeah 8 gpu can be used at once but not many boards will ALLOW you to use 8 gpus. Got 890-gd70 and can only use 5 of the 6 PCI-e slots, it turns off a 1x slot if PCI 1 and PCI 3 are populated.

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Thanks bud... Will try it later today or tomorrow..... I am being punished for drinking yesterday.....

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Quote from: AndrewBUD on August 25, 2012, 05:43:02 PM

Nice... this board has 6... curious if I could get 6 cards running on it .

x64 will do up to 8 gpu cores.

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