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Doh! P106 mining card + 3rd gen CPU

Brolo

Drat! I bought a Gigabyte P106 6GB from Taobao to run in my desktop with an i5-3470. Unfortunately, it won’t work as a video card with this CPU as it’s a third gen chip. Heads up to anyone who wants to buy one of these, make sure you have 4th gen or higher.

 

Oh well, it was worth a try. Only set me back a total of $138 Cdn to my door.

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Yeah I’m sure someone nearby can use it, I see they’re still not widespread in my neck of the woods.

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I kinda wish Linus hadn't made videos about these, actually using them is super finicky. And now that people are looking at them more the prices aren't even that much better than an un-gimped 1060. You can't even update the drivers.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

 

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6 minutes ago, Brolo said:

Did you buy one Bob?

Gotta quote or @ people so they see your post

 

Also I'm curious, why won't it work with 3rd gen?

I WILL find your ITX build thread, and I WILL recommend the SIlverstone Sugo SG13B

 

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7 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

Also I'm curious, why won't it work with 3rd gen?

I think it has to do with the low power consumption properties of Intel chips starting at gen 4. Windows doesn't recognize my onboard graphic (HD2500) as low power.

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Sell the CPU+MB, time to upgrade my friend!

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27 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

Sell the CPU+MB, time to upgrade my friend!

Pretty much all I've been playing lately is Planetside, and my Radeon R9 270x tends to get 80-100fps. I'm okay for the time being.

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If you still have that P106, I would be curious to know if you could use the same technique but with a second PCIe GPU ?

Because, I used that technique, a GTX 1060 6GB and a GT730, I launched games, and while it was displaying with the GT730, it was running on the 1060, and I'm running on a 3rd gen Core i5 3570, maybe this can work for you if you have a spare cheap PCIe GPU it may be worth trying

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40 minutes ago, Lysergatek said:

If you still have that P106, I would be curious to know if you could use the same technique but with a second PCIe GPU ?

Because, I used that technique, a GTX 1060 6GB and a GT730, I launched games, and while it was displaying with the GT730, it was running on the 1060, and I'm running on a 3rd gen Core i5 3570, maybe this can work for you if you have a spare cheap PCIe GPU it may be worth trying

Woah...that's awesome if it works! I have my Radeon R9 reinstalled in my comp. So you're saying I could run the P106 in my other PCIe slot and it will actually show up as a "High Performance GPU option?

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Actually, reading your post again, I realize that your second card is a GTX1060. Since mine is a P106, I'm quite doubtful that it would work with another video card that way.

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Well I don't know, but it cost nothing to try, doesn't it !

But it's true that I had 2 monitor attached to the 1060, but I think you can make it work

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On ‎2‎/‎9‎/‎2019 at 10:59 PM, Lysergatek said:

Well I don't know, but it cost nothing to try, doesn't it !

But it's true that I had 2 monitor attached to the 1060, but I think you can make it work

Confirmed, still won't work with a 3rd gen Intel CPU. Oh well, it was worth a try. I guess it's time to sell and get my $138 back. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.    :)

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Any Linus Tech members in B.C. who want this card? Let me know, otherwise I'll put it on Craigslist.

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hi bro,

 

similar situation here.

im trying to make this works using i3 3220 (3rd gen CPU) with this P106-100

 

so far im trying exact steps, however i am using windows 10 build 1809 which is different from all recommendation i can found so far.

 

i will do an attempt on windows 10 build 1803 as per what all recommendation video, etc.

 

do share me some information  if 3rd gen chip really not working with this p106-100 combination.

 

 

Thanks,
Regards,

 

Wijanarko

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On 2/19/2019 at 3:35 PM, cForce said:

hi bro,

 

similar situation here.

im trying to make this works using i3 3220 (3rd gen CPU) with this P106-100

 

so far im trying exact steps, however i am using windows 10 build 1809 which is different from all recommendation i can found so far.

 

i will do an attempt on windows 10 build 1803 as per what all recommendation video, etc.

 

do share me some information  if 3rd gen chip really not working with this p106-100 combination.

 

 

Thanks,
Regards,

 

Wijanarko

Tell me how it went, thank you

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i could successfully use it on my Laptop 3rd gen i7 with the GDCBEAST, but i had an issue, it wont go over 24fps on a 1080p Monitor.and for my laptop screen, it wont go over 45fps 1024x768.

 

The P106-100 is able to be selected as high performance GPU, but quite lousy as mentioned. the card itself maintained below 40C temperature, feeling like it wont even try to run harder. 

 

after all is 24fps..

 

 

Then i installed the P106-100 to my 3rd gen Workstation, i5 3470, the card can detect, can install drivers as intended, but there is no way to choose the card to high performance card.

 

when u try to get into the Nvidia control Panel, you will always just get the error :image.png.2fdd570d6e24c2fa3a15a4c26ab6b518.png

 

if anyone knows about any workaround this on 3rd gen, let me know. 

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I was fairly exhaustive in trying to get this to work with a 3rd gen CPU. I guess it's possible, but getting there is beyond me.

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