or you can buy them on ebay for $4, and cut them yourself.
Then you have to wait 3 weeks for shipping from China. Not worth it if you're trying to get more mining capacity on line as soon as possible.
Topic: PCI-E mess (Read 1557 times)
Then you have to wait 3 weeks for shipping from China. Not worth it if you're trying to get more mining capacity on line as soon as possible.
It seems a lot of posters are misunderstanding the question. While 1x slots with extenders are fine for mining, you cannot make a number of 1x slots from one 16x slot.
Are you sure? Because I though this thing http://www.logicsupply.com/images/photos/adapters/DualPCI-BM_big.jpg will allow me to do it. Or only one slot on this raiser will work?
That's a regular PCI slot...
It seems a lot of posters are misunderstanding the question. While 1x slots with extenders are fine for mining, you cannot make a number of 1x slots from one 16x slot.
Are you sure? Because I though this thing http://www.logicsupply.com/images/photos/adapters/DualPCI-BM_big.jpg will allow me to do it. Or only one slot on this raiser will work?
Oh I got the idea right... I have two extra, currently empty, x1 slots on my motherboard...
@rhuian: I checked your post and clicked on the link, but the site said no items were found. Did you already finish selling off all of them?
@rhuian: I checked your post and clicked on the link, but the site said no items were found. Did you already finish selling off all of them?
It seems a lot of posters are misunderstanding the question. While 1x slots with extenders are fine for mining, you cannot make a number of 1x slots from one 16x slot.
or you can buy them on ebay for $4, and cut them yourself.
Where does one acquire these expanders?
I have some extras that I'm selling for a bit under Cablesaurus' prices: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10927.0
Where does one acquire these expanders?
Yes. You can use x1 slots if you have expanders. It will work just fine (for mining).
I read a lot of forum, and gonna build my first rig. And just to make sure want to ask. Is that possible to buy mobo with one PCI-E x 16 and with expanders make 4 pcie slots, so I can plug 4 cards. And as I understand it is not important what bandwith got pci-e for mining, so expande PCI-E x 1 should be ok for mining?
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