that was exactly what i did, for fun, when the eth diff dropped shortly during august.
for some reason I couldn’t actually get the 8th card to be recognized by ubuntu so i left it after spending a day of downtime and accepted a 7 card rig instead of a potential 8 card rig.
that was my downtime, spending the day installing and uninstalling drivers… it was the weirdest thing ever… but anyhow… at least i got it to work do let me know if you get around to installing it and getting it to work… i might consider getting one more now that i know your based in china and could get it to me quicker then the last one i ordered
Digitmint, which operating system + drivers do you use?
I am trying to connect 6 pci-e splitters/switches(3-way) for 18 amd gpus, but no way yet.
On ubuntu 14.04 + fglrx i can connect 8-9 cards (7970-280x) and on ubuntu 16.04 +amdgpu driver only 7 cards (480 8gb).
Digit,
Am excited about your rig config. Cool, initiative, want to learn, from your rig, which OS and mining software are you using to drive this setup, any special landmine and or note, to take note of? Am in a place where power is not an issue too, so am in the same bracket with you.
UPDATING the rig a little here, instead of drop down rack, upsidedown mount with one attached, cards connected via pcie splitter because apparently the normal plugging in your risers to the pcie slots on the board doesn’t work anymore after a long time of frustration I gave up on making the other pcie slots work and settled for five cards on this one board running windows 10 Claymore 9.1.
Mobo BIOS have limitation due to PCIE resources (12 GPU max on server class motherboards that costs $100’s. Cheap mobo from $50 to $400 only allow for 7 or 8 GPU max) Remove 8 GPU limit on OpenCL driver - AMD Community
GPU drivers have limitations
Regular Windows (non Enterprise) have limitations