Bitcoin Mining Motherboards?

[JaZoN_XD]

I'm not really into mining, but I see that there are a couple of very cheap ATX motherboards on the market that advertise that they are for mining because they have one PCI-E 16X slot and then the rest are 1X slots, like this. I understand (or maybe I'm wrong) that you can use a GPU on a 1X slot if you use a riser for 1X to 16X slot, but since natively, it was a 1X slot to begin with and GPUs like AMD R9s and nVIDIA GTXs need at least a 4X and 8X, respectively to run, how does this work?Is running a GPU on all of the PCI-E slots possible or is this all false advertisement? 

[Tedster]

Okay. With AMD and Nvidia cards, you need at least 4x per card for Crossfire and 8x per card for SLI respectively. However, if you're mining, there's no need to use either technology because the cards aren't working together the same way as if they were rendering a scene.

[JaZoN_XD]

Okay. With AMD and Nvidia cards, you need at least 4x per card for Crossfire and 8x per card for SLI respectively. However, if you're mining, there's no need to use either technology because the cards aren't working together the same way as if they were rendering a scene.

So they are not in SLI or CorssfireX? If so, what is the minimum slot required? Isn't still something like the 4X and 8X for AMD and nVIDIA respectively?

[Tedster]

So they are not in SLI or CorssfireX? If so, what is the minimum slot required? Isn't still something like the 4X and 8X for AMD and nVIDIA respectively?

They can use x1, because they're mainly doing processing and don't need much bandwidth.

[spwath]

They can use x1, because they're mainly doing processing and don't need much bandwidth.

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[monaka25]

 @JaZoN_ First, you shouldn't mine bitcoin with standard computing hardware. However, there is some cryptocurrencies that use computing hardware, such as ziftrcoin(What I mine!) But for motherboards, if you are mining ziftrcoin or something like that like that. Also, graphics cards will work in any pci-E slot, It's a matter of bandwith. The bandwith isn't important when mining, only when gaming. Linus even has a really old video in which he puts a x16 card in a x1 slot.