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Re: Motherboard of choice for 6 or more GPU's
by
usao
on 27/02/2014, 17:07:52 UTC
I have 6 cards per rig, 3 of them on powered risers... two rigs... 3 Seasonic 1250 Watt gold power supplies.  Each power supply powers 4 cards.

I have the Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5 and the MSI 990FXA-GD80 and they both can handle 6 GPU's I believe (still waiting on 1x risers to arrive).  It looked like they had been out for awhile so I didnt know if there was anything better on the market that most people were using or not.

Newbie question...
You have at least one PSU supplying PCIE 12V to 2 different rigs at the same time?
From my understanding, all the PSU's need to have GND tied together so that the 12V is not floating in a different spot between them. You wouldn't want to have a significant potential difference between any of the 12V legs or that could fry somthing (from my understanding).
I have spare PCIE power from a G1600, but didn't want to connect it to a second rig because I was worried about this.

Can you confirm how the 3 PSUs are shared on the 2 rigs? Thanks