AB350M Pro4 can I put two Nvidia cards in?
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Topic: AB350M Pro4 can I put two Nvidia cards in?
Posted By: Spooky
Subject: AB350M Pro4 can I put two Nvidia cards in?
Date Posted: 14 Jan 2018 at 6:30pm
" rel="nofollow - Hi.
I'm looking to do some mining with two Nvidia cards. At the moment I have a MATX case with a AB350M mobo inside. If I replace this board with the AB350M Pro4 would it accept two Nvidia cards for mining?
Cheers.
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Posted By: zlobster
Date Posted: 14 Jan 2018 at 8:38pm
In theory it should work.
Bear in mind that the second PCIe slot is PCIe2.0x16 ( https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/AB350M%20Pro4/index.asp#Specification" rel="nofollow - https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/AB350M%20Pro4/index.asp#Specification )
Since mining doesn't require SLI I think you should be fine.
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Posted By: Spooky
Date Posted: 14 Jan 2018 at 9:07pm
Good spot there mate about the PCIe 2.0 slot. I've since read that PCIe 2.0 should be no bother for mining.
As long as they can both be recognised then I might roll with this board.
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Posted By: zlobster
Date Posted: 14 Jan 2018 at 9:11pm
Yes, mining is not that heavy on PCIe bandwidth.
As you said, as long as Win/Lin picks the cards, you should be fine.
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Posted By: Spooky
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2018 at 12:27am
" rel="nofollow - I've just thought I will be using this PC for day to day use and a bit of gaming. If I use the 2nd slot will it slow down the main x16 pci slot?
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Posted By: zlobster
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2018 at 12:50am
Yeah, mining with just 2 cards seems a bit... odd.
Both PCIe slots should run at their max respective speeds.
Keep one thing in mind - this mobo is advertised as CrossFire ready. Nothing is mentioned about SLI.
I'm not much of nvidia fan, so IDK if SLI requires similar PCIe slot speeds to work or not.
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1700X ZP-B1 (stock); X370 Taichi (UEFI 3.10); 16GB F4-3200C14-8GFX XMP; 256GB 960 EVO; RX 580 NITRO+ 8GB
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