Anyone have an experience with MSI Gaming Intel B250 LGA 1151,
I can get it to recognize 4 GPUS, but thats it. On it's viewer in the Bios is see's the others as plugged in, but in Windows I can't get them to be recognized.
Its chipset problem, that MBO was not made to support more than 4 GPUs. Sell it and buy AsRock PRO BTC or something...
The only reason I bought this is the ASRock and all the others meant for this are always out of stock.
Anyone have an experience with MSI Gaming Intel B250 LGA 1151,
I can get it to recognize 4 GPUS, but thats it. On it's viewer in the Bios is see's the others as plugged in, but in Windows I can't get them to be recognized.
Its chipset problem, that MBO was not made to support more than 4 GPUs. Sell it and buy AsRock PRO BTC or something...
Its probably very similar to the MSI Gaming 5 mobo. I have 7 GPU's running on it with no issue.
1. Go into BIOS and set PCI-e to Gen 1
2. Set PCI-e to 8x/4x/4x
3. Set Latency to 96 or one higher latency than that
4. Disable all unneeded settings like Audio, etc. (These all use PCIe lanes)
5. One GPU must be directly on Mobo. I used a passive 16x ribbon cable for this
6. The other 6 cards are on Active Risers
7. Running Windows 10
So the mobo you have is probably similar so you have to split up the PCIe slot resources up in BIOS. The problem is the processor only has 16 lanes to share that means a single slot so how manufacturers get around the processor limitation is they do a time sharing between all PCIe slots. If you have a single 16x default time share it takes too long for it to share it with the smaller 4x slots on the mobo. Splitting it up to 8x/4x/4x means it shares 3 PCIe slots at same time.
You will need to use -gsm 1 at least for that many GPU's on a system.
Is there a specific setting for the 8/4/4? The only 3 settings for PCI are the Generation, Latency, and 4g Decoding. My Bios might not have a setting like you're talking about.
I bought this board from Amazon, so I can easily return it if needed, I've just gone through a couple boards trying to get a 6 card rig working. I have a Kaby-Lake CPU and DDR4 ram to use, so it limits be quite a bit on what I can go with.
If someone knows another Mobo that works pretty much plug n play with 6+ Gpus that works with a Kaby-Lake, let me know and I might just return this one.