11-24-2014, 10:24 AM
Hey all,
Having been bitten by this bug I've now finished strapping together my rig for light gaming and heavy hash cracking, comprising of:
5960x (@ 4.5ghz)
16gb DDR4 @ 3000Mhz
Asus Rampage V Xtreme
2 x 295x2's in Quadfire
4 x Samsung 120gb EVO SSD's in Raid0 (Not strictly necessary but as the drives are encrypted via AES-Twofish-Serpent it helps maintain speed)
Corsair 1500 Watt PSU
It got me thinking. The Two Radeon's don't cope so well with the loads of Hashcat, the reference AIO coolers are inadequate for the purpose and I will require custom watercooling loops in order to keep them cool during the summer. One of the benefits of this will be freeing up two PCIE Slots.
In my quest for ever increasing levels of power, Is there anything stopping me (apart from the obvious power and cooling overheads) from jamming in another pair of 295x2's? I understand they won't ever function as an 8-Way Crossfire for the majority of tasks on a PC, but as I understand Hashcat should have no problems utilizing all 4 (well, 8 I guess) GPU's?
Anyone care to comment?
Having been bitten by this bug I've now finished strapping together my rig for light gaming and heavy hash cracking, comprising of:
5960x (@ 4.5ghz)
16gb DDR4 @ 3000Mhz
Asus Rampage V Xtreme
2 x 295x2's in Quadfire
4 x Samsung 120gb EVO SSD's in Raid0 (Not strictly necessary but as the drives are encrypted via AES-Twofish-Serpent it helps maintain speed)
Corsair 1500 Watt PSU
It got me thinking. The Two Radeon's don't cope so well with the loads of Hashcat, the reference AIO coolers are inadequate for the purpose and I will require custom watercooling loops in order to keep them cool during the summer. One of the benefits of this will be freeing up two PCIE Slots.
In my quest for ever increasing levels of power, Is there anything stopping me (apart from the obvious power and cooling overheads) from jamming in another pair of 295x2's? I understand they won't ever function as an 8-Way Crossfire for the majority of tasks on a PC, but as I understand Hashcat should have no problems utilizing all 4 (well, 8 I guess) GPU's?
Anyone care to comment?