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PCI-E lanes and limits?

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Well, what motherboard and what power supply.

You'll need at least 3 extra molex connectors, plus any 6 or 8 pin connectors that any of those cards might need.

Plus you'll need at least 3 free PCIe slots.

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Hello, i have a 6600k and a z170 mobo. I currently have attached a GTX 1060,NVME m.2 SSD and 4 Storage drives. I wanted to know if i could use this https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/391853307718 to connect up another 3 graphics cards for cryptocurrency mining (i'm a student who doesn't pay for electricity and im bored). the cards i have to connect are GT710 GT 730 and a R7770. side note: i have a 650 watt power suply will it cope aswell?

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You will make next to no money to begin with and literally burn electricity for next to no gain with those cards, and that's assuming you can even mine anything with them to begin with due to the low amount of vram.

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Well, what motherboard and what power supply.

You'll need at least 3 extra molex connectors, plus any 6 or 8 pin connectors that any of those cards might need.

Plus you'll need at least 3 free PCIe slots.

Current Network Layout:

Current Build Log/PC:

Storage Server Setup:

 

Prior Build Log/PC:

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Just now, Lurick said:

Well, what motherboard and what power supply.

You'll need at least 3 extra molex connectors, plus any 6 or 8 pin connectors that any of those cards might need.

Plus you'll need at least 3 free PCIe slots.

i have the 4 molex that ill need i have a gigabyte g1 sniper z170 mobo

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