Does the Pentium G4560 have enough pcie lanes to support 2 graphics cards? NOT SLI

[OldSammywammy]

I want to mine on one card, but have the system be responsive.  Since on NiceHash you can select hardware individually, I was wondering if I could have a secondary GPU for web browsing and other productivity tasks?

[ARikozuM]

Yes, it does. They will run x8/x8 and [the] mining [card] doesn't use much of the bandwidth PCIe can offer. 

 

As Kavawuvi mentions, the PCIe slot may only be x4 electrical with a x16 physical slot. 

[Oshino Shinobu]

Yes, the G4560 has 16 PCIe lanes, so you can run two cards in 8x mode no issue. 

[79wjd]

6 minutes ago, OldSammywammy said:

a secondary GPU for web browsing and other productivity tasks?

If it's light productivity work then you could also use the iGPU and mine on the second GPU too.

[SnowyMus]

5 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

Yes, it does. They will run x8/x8 and [the] mining [card] doesn't use much of the bandwidth PCIe can offer. 

2 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Yes, the G4560 has 16 PCIe lanes, so you can run two cards in 8x mode no issue. 

This will depend on the board you use, however. If you get a non-Z board, you will find that only one PCIe slot actually uses lanes from the CPU, while the other uses chipset lanes. Thus x16/x4.

[SnowyMus]

Just now, L.Lawliet said:

It doesnt matter for mining.

I know. Those lanes would really only matter when you work with things like textures, which would actually need the high bandwidth.

 

I merely stated my point as people were saying it would run in x8/x8, which that's only true if you're using a Z170 or Z270 board - something that would be unlikely in a mining rig.

[OldSammywammy]

I have an MSI B250m Pro-VDH motherboard, if that helps.

[Streetguru]

38 minutes ago, OldSammywammy said:

I want to mine on one card, but have the system be responsive

Not worth it, you also won't make anything mining on a single GPU. Why would you want part of your power supply on 100% load all day? That's why people use secondary machines for this.