Asus X99 A II for mining with 6 gpus

Mining
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Hi guys.

Does anyone know please, will this mainboard recognize 6 gpus in windows 10 x64 ?

Thank you

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It should be fine, it’s a premium board.

If you don’t already have it though that’s just overkill and expensive

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ASRock H81 Pro BTC with a couple of risers will be cheaper.

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Thank you very much… i ve that board already at home :-/

I just hope, that the higher amper electrical current does not kill it… what do you think ?

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I have an Asus X79 (older socket) premium board… It won’t die easily (if at all) believe me :slight_smile:

Just use USB powered risers to be safe.

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Thank you, well i have these one:

but do i need to power them through the molex as well? or it is not necessary. Thank you very much man

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I had that board and it is not that durable for mining. Be very careful with it or make sure you can RMA it. It would make more sense to make a gaming PC out of it than a miner to be honest. Just pick up an H81 ProBTC for $70 USD and a cheap G1820 CPU

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Plug the power supply’s Molex directly into the riser. Don’t use the flimsy SATA to Molex converter they include.

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what is when i do not power the risers at all ? the gpus have an extra cable from the supply…

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Plug the PSU’s molex directly into the riser.

You have to power the risers.

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ok… and why is it needed to power the risers as well? what could happen?

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USB Powered risers don’t work without molex power because the usb wire is data only.

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ok thank you very much… i really appreciate your help

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I’ve had (4) GPUs working but not sure if more than 4 will work, it was really finnicky to get (4) working:

40-Lane CPU-
3 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x16 (x16 or x16/x16, x8/x16/x8) *1
28-Lane CPU-
3 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x16 (x16, x16/x8, x8/x8/x8) *2
1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (x4 mode) *3
2 x PCIe 2.0 x1 (x1 mode) *3