Can I use this just for another graphics card for gaming or is it only specifically for bitcoin mining?
845991
You can use this for adding another card, but this only supports 1x speed, you will be running a 16x card at 1x which will lower your memory bandwidth. Also, I'm not completely sure this supports SLI or CrossFire configurations with the differences in speed.
845992
I have bought 5-6 different versions of these extenders over the last 4 months, from different sellers and they ALL seem to be designed by the same people, and they ALL stink. Go USB for bitcoin(or any other type) mining. Not to mention they are USELESS for video card mining. Good Luck.
845993
I would not use for gaming because you are limiting your bus speed from 16x to 1x. I did look to see if there were 16x to 16x and I could not find any of this style, but there are powered ribbons ones you can buy. PCIE 16x to 16x Powered Flexible Riser Extender Cable with Molex (Bitcoin Mining / Gaming)Note: I did buy a powered ribbon and it did not detect my card. I have read that its 50/50 whether it will work or not.
845994
yes, you can use it for gaming as well. The graphics card will suffer only a slight degradation of performance from the use of the 1x slot.
1015147
You can use this to mine any SHA256 hash type coins. I believe that includes Litecoin.
425965
Yes though remember part of that depends on your graphics card I would think as long as your not going SLI or even if you are as long as they are not super powered cards you should be good. It's what I am running in my rig right now so I know it works fine.
1218961
No, you MUST use a pci-e slot. I'm not a gamer so I cannot respond as to whether this is adequate for gaming scenarios.
2092459
You can only do SLi if the cards are both the same and basically look at it like this. If you do SLi you are basically doubling what one card can do. SLi will not work if the cards are different.
1576828
From what I read on AMD you can. But I think you have to set the Radeon in 1st slot to be primary. And use external bridge connector for them.
1835574
Mine is running 82C under full load. I mine dogecoin with mine when I'm not gaming. This is also with an older GTX 570 right above it.
501817
I assume you're talking about use for mining, at which point it doesn't really matter which slots you use as the cards will mine as efficiently in 1x as they will in 16x so any configuration of 16 4 and 1 that totals 5 will work.
2284655
Yes, that is my understanding. I have used other add-on cards for the same purpose in the past and they have done just what you want to do. However, I was not able to use this particular card because it required a different type of slot on the motherboard that what I have, so I was not able to use or test this one. I could not even return it because by the time I to use it it was beyond the return date. Sorry I could not help more but it should do what you want.Carl
404885
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-780-ti/specificationsyes you can. i am using two overclocked 780s fine. one TI will be fine
1015149
No. This is exclusively designed for SHA256 based mining. The hardware can't process SCRYPT based coins
1286547
Yeah, you should be able to crossfire it with a different manufacturer's card as long as it's a 7970. The clock/memory speeds will be set to the same for both cards, but it should work fine.
1957290
４ｇｂhowever only 2 is utilized so what it is doing is half for storing and half for displays i think there was a video online about this however it says 4gb but it is only 2gb utilized for displays so get a second 760 or an r9 280x for multimonitor gaming if single monitor save some money and get the 2gb version and get 2 of them
349928
Depends on how may, since one miner has 2.5W at 5V, that means it consumes about 0.5A of current, so you need usb adaptor that can supply 0.5 * num_of_miners amperes (it is usually written in the description) and also it'd be good if you took one with some reserve .. say 0.5A - that way it would not run at maximum power all the time
329661
I already have a wallet and use BTCDig; So all I need is this USB to start Mining? What is a recommended fan?
1189707
Yes. To run the second card make sure you've got a 600 watt Psu and try to get one of the cables that has a molex adapter to reduce the strain on the motherboard
353820
Yes, it would be great for gaming with an additional good graphics card. EVGA makes some really nice ones for not much money.