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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => X99 Motherboards => Topic started by: sedor on April 29, 2016, 03:47:34 pm

Title: Multi-GPU setup / get past the 5 cards limit
Post by: sedor on April 29, 2016, 03:47:34 pm

Hi,

I am trying to set up a multi-GPU system, my current setup has 5 cards running - I want to add another card, but when I install it I get the "PCI Out Of Resources" message.

What I am looking for is a way to get more free resources, can this be done? Is there a "advanced" menu at the BIOS where I can disable unused features?

OR! Is there a Gigabyte motherboard (perfect would be of course a 2011-3, because I have the CPU for that socket) which can handle more then 5 GPUs?

My current board is a "GA X-99 Gaming 5", GPUs are all NVIDIA/Maxwell-Generation.

Title: Re: Multi-GPU setup / get past the 5 cards limit
Post by: dmdilks on May 02, 2016, 12:33:06 pm

I'm just asking how do you have 5 GPU's on that board when there is only 4 PCI-E slots? None of the X99 have 5 slots.

http://www.gigabyte.com/MicroSite/372/images/models.html

Title: Re: Multi-GPU setup / get past the 5 cards limit
Post by: sedor on May 02, 2016, 01:37:14 pm

I am using a "GPU Cluster" for that reason: http://amfeltec.com/products/gpu-oriented-cluster/

Title: Re: Multi-GPU setup / get past the 5 cards limit
Post by: dmdilks on May 02, 2016, 07:59:47 pm

This is the only board that I could find that will do what you want. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157538

Title: Re: Multi-GPU setup / get past the 5 cards limit
Post by: sedor on May 03, 2016, 03:26:14 pm

Thanks for your suggestion, I've seen that board too - to be honest I am not so tempted in getting a ASUS/ASRock board, as I had some bad experiences with them in the past.

I hoped (and still do hope) that I can get this done by tweaking some BIOS settings, or... if it really isn't doable by getting a Gigabyte board (waiting for the new X99 boards to arrive - there is also one with 5 PCIe slots, maybe...).