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July 22, 2011, 12:30:17 PM
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No you can't, graphics card can only be used with PCI Express x16 slots, and you have none left.

no.

with PCIe extenders - or a little very careful jeweler's saw work - a GPU will run just fine in any PCIe slot; even an x1.

check the mining forums, and the trade wiki for extenders:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade

+1 You can run any GPU on a PCI-E slot, I run several video cards on PCI-E x1 and x4
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July 22, 2011, 02:38:50 AM
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The MSI mobo can handle up to 4 cards. You have to use the existing PCI-e x16 slot and the three PCI-e x1 slots. You need three of thesehttps://cablesaurus.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=10&zenid=6ae347de3003210aa2eae189bdd606b6 and the space in your cabinet Smiley
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July 22, 2011, 02:23:00 AM
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No you can't, graphics card can only be used with PCI Express x16 slots, and you have none left.

no.

with PCIe extenders - or a little very careful jeweler's saw work - a GPU will run just fine in any PCIe slot; even an x1.

check the mining forums, and the trade wiki for extenders:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade
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July 22, 2011, 02:10:26 AM
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That's not true.

First of all, they can run out-of-the-box on any PCIe slot, not just 16x. Even a PCIe 1x slot will do mining just fine. You won't get as good of GAMING graphic performance by running a video card in a PCIe slot with a shorter bus, but bitcoin mining is not affected.

Also, it's rumored you can even run a bitcoin miner on a GPU in a plain old PCI slot. I've seen it discussed here on the forum, but I don't recall the details. And of course I haven't done it myself so I can't verify.
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July 21, 2011, 11:24:25 PM
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No you can't, graphics card can only be used with PCI Express x16 slots, and you have none left.
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July 21, 2011, 07:40:01 PM
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I bought a gigabyte GA-H61M-D2P-B3 motherboard and have two video cards running on it radeon hd5570 and hd5700.  They are both on the x16 slots.  i have two other pci slots.  Is it possible to add anymore video cards.  Thanks.

Specs.
1.1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16 (PCIEX16)
 * For optimum performance, if only one PCI Express graphics card is to be installed, be sure to install it in the PCIEX16 slot.
 2.1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x4 (PCIEX4)
 3.2 x PCI slots
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3774#ov

Also have a MSI P55-CD53 with a 6950 in the x16 slot.  Am I able to add any cards to this one.  Thanks.

SPECS
PCI Express 2.0 x16 1
PCI Express x1 3
PCI Slots 3

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130240







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