8x RX 580 GPU Crypto Mining Rig with Asus Prime Z270-A Motherboard
GPU mining rigs with 6x video cards are so old school nowadays, people are building 7x and 8x rigs already in order to get even better mining power density for the unit of space that the rig takes. There aren't that many motherboards available that can run more than six video cards, but there are few like Asus Prime Z270-A for example. This particular motherboard has 7x PCI-E slots and two M.2 slots for SSDs that can be converted to PCI-E connectors for additional video cards.
So 7x GPUs out of the box, and adding a cheap M.2 to the PCI-Express adapter inserted to one of the two M.2 slots you can get support for an 8th card that will work. Unfortunately inserting one more adapter in the second M.2 slot does not help in actually getting 9 video cards to work with this motherboard, so the limit is maximum 8. Not that 8 video cards is bad, but 9 would’ve been even better in a single mining rig.
What you need to make sure is to enable 4G Decoding in the BIOS of the motherboard so that the operating system can properly detect and work with all 8 video cards for mining. The rig on the photos uses Windows 10 and is populated with 8x Asus RX 580 Strix video cards. Great solution for mining Ethereum (ETH) or ZCash (ZEC).
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Great looking rig mate, just wondering if you or anyone here can help me, I still have issues with my Asus RX580 Strix OC cards when running 5+ (5 Run perfect but 6 Card hash rate drops to 0 gradually) I've checked all cables connectors and even reflashed the card, On another system the card gets 29.3 stable on its own but it seems an issue with the windows 10 Drivers not sure. I've used the 16.11.5, 17.5.1 & 17.6.2 drivers that are supposed to fix this for the 6+ card compatibility. all the drivers work and recognise the 6 cards in windows 10 but one card seems to drop off to 0 every time ( the last card that is addedd)
How did you resolve this? Please give details of drivers used and software installed (OS version, GPU tweaking software etc...)
I and many others would really appreciate this info.
thanks
Ps. I'm running at 1170 & 2110 Mhz for clocking. stable with 5 cards each card achieving 29.3 Eth + Sia 450 Mh/s at 850 watts at the wall.
very good post...........!
how much does this go for?
8*200+ just for the graphics cards. Then another $500-1000 for the other components. More as the parts get nicer.
What's the hash rate?
About 310 H/s for ZEC with stock frequencies per card, about 24.x MHS for Ethereum per card. With modified BIOS you can get to about 330 H/s for ZEC at stock, 28.x MHS for Ethereum.
Is it easy to assemble a mining rig?
It is relatively easy for people that already built PCs themselves, you just need to follow some tips on what you need to get things up and running properly to get started. There could always be some unexpected issue thought...
That unexpected issues makes me worry :)
That is how you learn :)
Good point :)
Nice rig it seems the RX 580 pulls an extra power with the same hashrate of RX 480, what i really liked the fact you managed to put 8 cards in 1 mobo amazing!
Where I can find those adapters? (M.2 to PCIE).
Oh I found them. :P
where did you find them?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NGFF-to-PCI-Express-4x-slot-Adapter-M-Key-M-2-to-PCI-e-x4-interface-Riser-Card-/192015871521?hash=item2cb509ae21:g:0GcAAOSwJQdW8s4i
in my blog!
Cool👌
Nice post
Wow. I like that!!!