Short video documentation of me adding a 7th GPU to my mining rig via an M2 to PCI-E Adapter/Riser. Enjoy. Like/Subscribe if you like this type of content.
Did this actually need the extra power cable my use case is not for mining but for my Nas I wanted to add it's a itx rig so only 1 PCIe slot this would allow me to run the raid card for the 8 16TB drives and the GPU for Plex.
It was just one from a private seller in my province. Had to get it shipped in from the next city. I'm sure it's just a noname Alibaba special. Here's a photo of it on my mobo: imgur.com/a/oLG3TUj I only bought it cause the 6 I ordered from eBay still aren't in. The ones I ordered from eBay are these. I'll check their functionality once they arrive: www.ebay.ca/itm/164511210173 The one I purchased locally still needs the pci to usb adapter from the typical pci riser kit. The ones I'm still waiting on, are directly M2 to USB so the riser cable can just plug in. One less small thing to potentially malfunction down the road.
Yeah correct. It's powered directly through the mobo. I believe most of them are that way, from the research I've done (mostly reading old Reddit posts lol)
Hi! Thanks in advance for your video. Question, do yo know if there is some restriction about using all the m2 AND all your PCIe? I´m worried about thinking that there is some "sharing line" that disables an m2 if you have all your PCIe already connected. Thank you very much!
So far I have not run into this issue. This rig has 7 GPUs and one M2 SSD. 6 of the GPUs are on PCI slots, and the 7th GPU is on M2 slot #1. M2 slot #2 is the SSD. So I'm currently using all PCI slots and all M2 slots. When I was building my 2nd rig, I noticed the motherboard manual said that if I used the M2 slot, that would disable SATA0. So I just used SATA1 for my 2.5" SSD on that 2nd rig. I hope this helps.
That's sort of a different issue. I'm not sure what is the current status of unlocking the 3060 hashrate. As far as I know, it needs driver 470.05, it needs to be plugged directly into the mobo, and it needs an hdmi/dp dummy plug. But I haven't experimented with the 3060 myself
@@ItsStuder Have you tried it with power? Are your other risers for your other 6 cards powered? If it were me, I'd power the riser. Even though the cards have the separate 8 pin or 6 pin PCIE power cables they still can draw up to 75W through the PCIE connection. With one or two cards that probably wouldn't be an issue, but with 7 cards it might, and unless your motherboard has an additional 12v power connector that feeds the PCIE and M2 slots, all that power plus what the CPU, Ram, and mainboard is using is flowing through the ATX power connector. So, it might be a good idea to either feel that connector with your hand or point an infrared temp gun at it and see how hot it's getting. Otherwise it may over time cause a degradation of the contact points between the connectors which might cause overheating and eventually a problem.
The riser is powered just like all the other risers. It's simply the m2/pci adapter that isn't being given additional power. From there, I'm still using a typical powered riser to connect the gpu to the m2/pci adapter. My laser temp gun doesn't show excessive heat on the m2/pci adapter
I recently purchased one of these also and I have the ASUS Prime z390 P which has 2 m.2 slots and i use sata for my ssd. Do you think this will allow me to add 2 extra gpus?
Yes I think you can add 2 extra GPUs but I'm not 100% sure. I would recommend getting some cheap M2 to PCI adapters and if it doesn't work, you're only out $3. I got 6 more M2 to PCI adapters from China for a few bucks each, now I have more than enough even if some are DOA or fail down the road.
@@kstips2891 In the bios you only have to activate AHCI so that it recognizes the m.2 and then only respect the manufacturer's settings. I remember that you could not use the SATA slot 0 or 1 if you had two m.2 connected
