Hey Everyone,
I have a rig all setup and it's been running with a 5970 without any issues for the past week. The motherboard has one PCIe x16 and three PCIe x1 slots. I bought a bunch of used equipment off of another miner, of which it included some... I think risers? Anyways.. it basically looks like a PCIe x1 extension, but he's modified the end that goes to the GPU so that it covers roughly 1/4 of the PCIe x16 that the GPU has. I tried rigging this up with another 5970 and the GPU would automatically give'er full fan speed and from what I remember the blue screen of death. Without this additional 5970 the rig runs fine. How do I properly use these risers/extensions to optimize my mining?
Side note: Im pretty sure I just fried the motherboard P5K SE. Not sure what happened... I went to go move it while powered (not in case) and it just shut off. Something may have shorted... but I've found a used P5K SE locally that should solve the problem. As of right now, I plug in the PSU and the green LED light on the mother board flashes quickly and unable to power up or boot. blah! pretty sure it's that MOBO.
Topic: Using PCIe x1 (Read 374 times)
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