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Hello All,

I have a decent desktop setup-

i7 6700k
NVIDIA 970 geforce
asus z99 (the one that fits the 6700k)

and I am thinking about adding another CPU or GPU or both.

What are the requirements for scaling up my device? What should I be thinking about?

Will I be able to simply plug in the new components, turn on my PC, and everything will be integrated properly? Or will it take more work?

Thanks

Short answer is it's not that simple.

I'm not very familiar with your components but it would be very unusual to be able to just add a second processor or GPU.

Look up your motherboards specs and you should be able to find out what it can support in terms of CPU, GPU and RAM.
If you want anything in excess of the motherboards maximum supported spec then you're basically starting all over again.

Without knowing what it is you need the extra oomph for I would be considering cleaning unnecessary files and software off my hard drive, adding RAM and adding a SSD before considering different GPU's and CPU's.

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The other thing to consider is the current power supply, will it be big enough to cope with another CPU ? (assuming you can add another)

Thanks for the comments all,

Assuming my motherboard can handle two GPUs and I have enough power-

what do I need to consider from an operating system standpoint?
Do I need to connect the two GPUs somehow?
Is there a software that allows me to use the two GPUs together or will that happen automatically?

Can I ask why it is you think you need a second GPU?
Or are you just lucky enough to have cash to burn?

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z99 no such thing - i7 6700k is skylake so is the latest CPU making it a Z97 chipset and a socket 1151

what are you doing with it, 970 isn't exactly a slow GPU

How much ram do you have ? what cpu cooler do you have ? do you have a ssd as your main drive ?? what monitor and resolution are you using

money to burn ? 3 980 Ti's in sli, water cooled, 6700k will clock to 5ghz as its a K series chip

another considering is the case you are using


is this a wind up as these sort of specs are not your average machine, its more of a gamer/enthusiasts setup

I was debating bitcoin mining (or some sort of coin mining) using it, but my GPU is pretty slow relative to bit miners.

Today I learned no amount of GPU will be good enough for bitcoin though-

I am just interested in learning how scalable the machine is.

For example - is it powerful enough to host a server? a website?

I am still trying to come up with good ways to use it.

I thought about renting it out for video rendering but that hasn't come to fruition.

its a waste as a web server - bitcoin mining, unless your doing it with 4-5 asic miners you will not recoup the costs of the equipment and running costs these miners burn electric

gpu miners are dead as they cant hash enough data even if your in a mining pool

scalability you could run vm ware with 8-10 operating systems all depends what you want to do with it ?? its an ideal graphics platform for modelling, 3D cad/cam, its a more than capable gaming rig, a 970 will be able to run 4k video or at least 1440p

Have a look at Jayz2Cents and Barnacules Nerdgasm on youtube

flash22 wrote:its a waste as a web server - bitcoin mining, unless your doing it with 4-5 asic miners you will not recoup the costs of the equipment and running costs these miners burn electric

gpu miners are dead as they cant hash enough data even if your in a mining pool

scalability you could run vm ware with 8-10 operating systems all depends what you want to do with it ?? its an ideal graphics platform for modelling, 3D cad/cam, its a more than capable gaming rig, a 970 will be able to run 4k video or at least 1440p

Have a look at Jayz2Cents and Barnacules Nerdgasm on youtube

Thanks for the advice - Barnacules is extremely informative about Bitcoin. There are some GPU only coins which interest me maybe, but you're right - overall GPU mining is dead.

Another option could be data scraping and data storage. Unclear how that could be valuable for a normal person at this point.

So far I have no idea what I can do with my current beast other than play video games and try to code some java