There still no stable riser can provide PCIE 1.0 x8, not to mention PCIE 3.0.
And the normal motherboard can only provide PCIE 3.0 x8 *2.
Maybe a GPU miner have 2 GPU on motherboard, and other card just like old method, can gain more profit and possible?
- i have full pcie x16 riser in my pc (original Lian-Li)
- full atx mb (actualy "ANY" mb) has x16 and there are some, that have more than that (its in board pcie lines ... so you can have mb with 2* x16 pcie + usb3 + etc ....my mb has 24pcie lines and its nothing super extreme)
- i dont think this method will work ... i think that "AI miners" are for total use of whole system and there will be no room for anything else ... so your cpu will lose in power vs XY gpus (1 for AI, rest for common mining) ... yes you can improve power of cpu for something like 8cores+8ht which "can handle both processes" but WHY??? the price of this cpu is absurd and if we dont know income per card per day, its investment as hell
I think the site is pretty clear about the income per card. The requirements are not that extreme. I'm not an AI or research expert but I have quite a bit of experience running Folding@Home for Curecoin. In that instance each GPU would take up a whole CPU core and lower PCIE bandwidth equaled lower performance. I don't think its unreasonable for this site to require basic specs that you would find a in a data center. You can get an older Xeon cpu and mobo for dirt cheap on ebay. This service is essentially renting your machine out as a cloud server. Their aim isn't someone running 8 cards on a shitty Chinese motherboard from Alibaba with a celeron embedded chip.