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Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.10.2 now supports 12 cards in Windows 10 for Compute:
Radeon Software now supports compute workloads for up to 12 installed Radeon RX 400, Radeon RX 500 or Radeon RX Vega series graphics products on Windows®10 Fall Creator System configurations.
It's also supposed to have the Beta BlockChain driver DAG fix applied!!!
The Biostar TB250BTC-Pro supports 12 Graphics cards
http://www.biostar-usa.com/app/en-us/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=884
Newegg had a sale on RX580 today - Sapphire Nitro + 8GB for $280.
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202280&cm_re=RX580_nitro_+-_-14-202-280-_-Product
I decided to take the jump.
I bought 8GB of RAM, I have an SSD laying around. I picked up a Pentium G4650 from Microcenter for $57. (cheapest dual core hyperthreaded chip in the Intel socket 1151 lineup --- I don't think a Celeron would cut it for 12 cards??? maybe - not worth risking it to save $20 bucks on the CPU)
I'll record the project in this post:
Price to performance seems to be pretty high here: if 30MH/s per card (+ dual mining) and 12 cards then should be about 360MH/s ETH (+ dual mining) at a total rig price of right at $4k.
Power draw I'm unsure of at this time - but there is a custom bios by anorak himself for this card - so crossing my fingers it's exceptionally low power draw (<130watt per card) and nice hash rate (~30MH/s + dual mining) -- per his typical!
https://anorak.tech/c/downloads/sapphire
Now to figure out how to power this!?!?! Those cards each need an 8pin and a 6pin, and the risers will each need a six pin.
So I'll need
12, 8 pin pci-e
and
24 6 pin pci-e
= 36 PCI-E cables!!!!!!
That's a lot of darn power splitter adapters on a single power supply. So probably better to daisey chain multiple smaller PSU's or one small PSU for the motherboard and a server PSU with a breakout board for all the cards.
Any specific suggestions for power?
Radeon Software now supports compute workloads for up to 12 installed Radeon RX 400, Radeon RX 500 or Radeon RX Vega series graphics products on Windows®10 Fall Creator System configurations.
It's also supposed to have the Beta BlockChain driver DAG fix applied!!!
The Biostar TB250BTC-Pro supports 12 Graphics cards
http://www.biostar-usa.com/app/en-us/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=884
Newegg had a sale on RX580 today - Sapphire Nitro + 8GB for $280.
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202280&cm_re=RX580_nitro_+-_-14-202-280-_-Product
I decided to take the jump.
I bought 8GB of RAM, I have an SSD laying around. I picked up a Pentium G4650 from Microcenter for $57. (cheapest dual core hyperthreaded chip in the Intel socket 1151 lineup --- I don't think a Celeron would cut it for 12 cards??? maybe - not worth risking it to save $20 bucks on the CPU)
I'll record the project in this post:
Price to performance seems to be pretty high here: if 30MH/s per card (+ dual mining) and 12 cards then should be about 360MH/s ETH (+ dual mining) at a total rig price of right at $4k.
Power draw I'm unsure of at this time - but there is a custom bios by anorak himself for this card - so crossing my fingers it's exceptionally low power draw (<130watt per card) and nice hash rate (~30MH/s + dual mining) -- per his typical!
https://anorak.tech/c/downloads/sapphire
Now to figure out how to power this!?!?! Those cards each need an 8pin and a 6pin, and the risers will each need a six pin.
So I'll need
12, 8 pin pci-e
and
24 6 pin pci-e
= 36 PCI-E cables!!!!!!
That's a lot of darn power splitter adapters on a single power supply. So probably better to daisey chain multiple smaller PSU's or one small PSU for the motherboard and a server PSU with a breakout board for all the cards.
Any specific suggestions for power?
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