Much thanks for the bump in the right direction! Now I got some thing to try. From what I've read, I can most likely pull it off... Hours of Googling did not lead me to this. THANK YOU

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Did you have trouble getting your R9 290s running stable? I have nothing but trouble with 4x even with the latest drivers. BAMT won't go into Xorg with more than 1 card and Windows crashes as soon as I get to 3. 280x's work fine...

Where are you guys getting these fantastic aluminum frames?

Use the same resistors you would use for making a dummy plug. They are a perfect firm fit to stick far down in the hole. Get your mind out of the gutter. Available at radioshack.

I didn't misunderstand. I've been waiting over 10 weeks since it was shipped, which took a month from the time of order. I would say I've been pretty patient considering its been 3 months since I placed the order. I don't think anything is coming.

I'm running 2x rigs with 6x GPUs per on this same board. Works fine, but i can't get the 7th working or I get video errors when the Xorg tries to start. Possible driver issue (R9 290s and R9 280Xs)? Other than that the board is a champ, but yet it requires shorting of anything other than a 16x->16x riser, so that means USB risers require shorting in all ports. I'd avoid the first 1x as it seems to be the most problematic.

Just so you guys are aware, a lot of these cards seem to be shipping with low amounts of thermal compound on the chip. Out of 13 I've so far had to replace the compound on 2. So if you see a card running with really high temps compared to the rest with 100% fan and lower than normal hashrates, then I'd check it. Perhaps the thermal compound is just burning out from heavy use but I constantly monitor them and one was brand new out the package. Also noticed a high amount of dust trapped in the heatsink, so be sure to blow that out if you're in a dusty area.

I feel I've been scammed. My last post was deleted by fluffypony. Apparently if you wait over 45 days then paypal wont let you dispute the charge. Well it's been 3 months and I see no product. I am call my credit card company right now. Don't fall for this scam.

I think by the time that these land the new generation of ASICs will be out.

Same boat as everyone else. Waiting about 2 months for 2 orders since mid December.

ADL mismatch is a bug in cgminer 3.7.2 for the R9 290(x). New sgminer 4.0.0 has bugfixes to fix it!

I tried moving my mem clocks up to 1500 but ended up putting back to 1350. I read on LTCtalk that 1250 is better. Will be trying when I have a chance. Right now I get 880 with 1000/1350. I want to see 900-950 stable.

Okay, I've been able to successfully get BAMT up with 6 cards on the Fatal1ty Killer mobo. As soon as I add the 7th, Xorg won't start and it crashes on boot. Just letting you guys know. Stick to 6 or less with this board.

I've found a super easy way to short the 1x presence pins. Take a 68 ohm resister (same thing you use to make dummy plugs) and use that to short the 2 slots in the bus. No more trying to cut down wires. No more bending before they fully insert. It works instantly. Hope I save someone here countless hours.

I've found a super easy way to short the 1x presence pins. Take a 68 ohm resister (same thing you use to make dummy plugs) and use that to short the 2 slots in the bus. No more trying to cut down wires. No more bending before they fully insert. It works instantly. Hope I save someone here countless hours.

I currently have 5x plugged in on risers on 2 identical rigs. Going to expand this to 7x when I get a chance. Sometimes the presence pin shorts are shotty and you just gotta redo it, or you got bad risers. Could be a whole host of stuff.

Okay so I figured I'd let everyone here know, sgminer 4.0.0 (cgminer 3.7.2 fork) has added support for a comma-seperated gpu-threads value. This should make it possible to run diff model cards all from the same instance of sgminer. This script is obsolete (sorry OP). Sgminer is scrypt only BTW. Also included in this great fork is many fixes to make the R9 290s stable! Fantastic stuff.

Holy shit, that's ridiculous. They don't have some sort of printed postage system?

I'm not using this specific board, but I am using a board that provides extra molex connector which supplements the PCI-E lanes. It is also ASRock brand, but higher quality. I am running 5x R9 280x per board. I use all powered risers and the extra molex on the board. Did your comment apply only to the specific board that was on topic or all with PCI-E supplement molex? I've been successfully running 2x rigs (clones) this same way for almost 3 months now with no issues...

From what I understand, molex connectors generally provide around 75w of power per connector. 75w spread over 5-7 PCI-E lanes is not much for a power hungry GPU. Now 75w extra per card (via riser) is a good solution to get the card the power it needs. I don't think it would fry it. It's not going to pull anymore power than the GPU is asking it for. Generally PCI-E lanes are burnt out when you don't use powered risers because the card is trying to pull more power through the bus then the bus is designed to handle. This is why you supplement on the riser itself. Just because the power is available doesn't mean the GPU is using it. This is given the exception of a power surge, in which case the power is forcefully pushed into the circuit and therefore the hardware that is not designed to handle so much current which ends up frying it.

I suppose it all depends on how many GPUs you intend on running off the board what you would need to do. Personally I would always use powered risers for all GPUs.

Maybe? But why would you risk frying your expensive hardware over 50 bucks in risers (at most)?