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nForce 790i ultra sli for mining?

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Hi,

 

I have a old EVGA 790i ultra sli mobo with a Q6600 laying around. https://www.evga.com/articles/389.asp
The board has 7 pci slots so I was wondering if it could be used as a mining board with 7 gpus? or will the whole thing go up in flames?

Is the bios missing any features needed for mining?

 

Thanks x

 

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Well some of those slots are pci, so your not running a gpu on those. Your limite to 5 gpus.

 

But they should work fine for mining. Might have some weird issues though with those x1 slots.

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That board does not have 7 PCIe slots. A couple are just PCI. It should theoretically work, but I would imagine the CPU would be a bottleneck. 

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