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So apparently ASrock came out with a gpu that supports 6 gpus...

 

 http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/11/15/asrock-releases-motherboards-designed-to-mine-bitcoins-generate-internet-moolah/

 

so it is made to mine bitcoin but like with 6 gpus I'm guessing it means like having 6 computing cards?

 

Now I don't know much about mining bitcoin, but I know you can't put 6 gpus in SLI so can someone tell me wtf is this?

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you don't need them to work as one. they can individually do work to mine the bitcoins.

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you don't need them to work as one. they can individually do work to mine the bitcoins.

Ohh alright, that's what I though, but I saw this article on a thread on another forum from someone asking if 6way SLI is a thing so I was like wtf?

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So apparently ASrock came out with a gpu that supports 6 gpus...

Wha?

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6-way sli would be pointless unless devs caught on. You can throw up to 12 gpus in a system and have 1 be the main gpu or up to 4 of them in crossfire/sli and the rest act as tesla compute cards for bitcoins/folding. 

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Games with AMD Mantle might support 6 GPUs.

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Now I don't know much about mining bitcoin, but I know you can't put 6 gpus in SLI so can someone tell me wtf is this?

Who said it has to be in SLI?

It's no different to having a quadro and a 'gaming oriented' gpu in the same system.

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1st. Already posted in news section

2nd. It can mine/fold without SLI. SLI can support up to 4 way SLI ONLY (for now, at least)

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But PCIe 2.0 x1 heavily bottlenecks!

 

Mining doesn't depend on bandwidth as peviously stated. 

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This is pretty cool you could either get this and use your gpus to mine or you could just a a couple of USB bitcoin miners and put them on a usb hub to mine which are not bad imo. Been quite a while since I seen Parallel and Serial ports on motherboards.

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So apparently ASrock came out with a gpu that supports 6 gpus...

 

 http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/11/15/asrock-releases-motherboards-designed-to-mine-bitcoins-generate-internet-moolah/

 

so it is made to mine bitcoin but like with 6 gpus I'm guessing it means like having 6 computing cards?

 

Now I don't know much about mining bitcoin, but I know you can't put 6 gpus in SLI so can someone tell me wtf is this?

now figure out how many years itll take to make the BTC you just spent for getting BTC

 
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Multi GPU systems for computing is nothing new, we've been using it for mining and folding for years by now. ASRock are the first to specifically target a motherboard towards bitcoin mining though. They're a couple of years late though seeing as existing application specific integrated circuits are so much more efficient now.

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I was going to say, i wonder if you get the full hash rate if you have 6 of these installed http://www.butterflylabs.com/monarch/ Then I realised something interesting. Does anyone plan to power these cards... Or? Even the 1600w Lepa can't power 6... You would need two and that is just annoying

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I was going to say, i wonder if you get the full hash rate if you have 6 of these installed http://www.butterflylabs.com/monarch/ Then I realised something interesting. Does anyone plan to power these cards... Or? Even the 1600w Lepa can't power 6... You would need two and that is just annoying

 

I was thinking of the same device. These might actually go well with these boards. Problem is the costs.

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6 x GTX 7990.

12 GPU's :P

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