None at all. I was just saying that if wanted to mine at two different pools
at the same time by running two separate threads on each GPU (one to Ypool
and one to Beeeeer) then ODD number is just fine. If you wanted to devote
GPU's to the both pools and have an ODD number of GPUs then obviously you'll
have one extra card to either pool..... UNLESS you split that one ODD card with
two threads with each thread going to a different pool. It's just configurations
and honestly I'm not sure if there are gains at ALL to be made by mine both
simultaneously. Technically you would be mining against yourself since everyone
is searching for the same "next block" (unless they are sneakily doing the 51%+
flaw) but at least you're guaranteed some share time instead of loosing all your
share time if the block is not found. In a perfect world if only two pools existed
then you'd be getting shares for each block found.... but....... :-) :-)

again, just thinking out loud! no flames please!

Quote from: kskwerl on February 13, 2014, 06:39:32 pm

Whats the problem with running an ODD number of GPUs?

running 6 gpu on one motherboard is very easy to burn your ATX connector on mother board since each pcie slot will draw 75w from motherboard. if you want to put more than 4 cards on same motherboard ,you need to use powered riser for pcie

Quote from: Darkbane on February 13, 2014, 04:49:31 am

So tinkering around with clpts... I was wondering... can you run six gpu's on windows, since everyone says its almost impossible without heavy modifications to windows and/or the drivers...

since I see a lot of fuss over people being able to run five with difficulty, and so many have to use some weird trick or tip to get six to work... so I ran to a friends, borrowed two video cards, and now I have an answer!

yes you can run six gpu's on windows 8.1 64bit...

I didn't need to do anything fancy for windows... hooked up to the risers and turned it on... came up right away...

Now I should mention, it was more challenging to get the BIOS to recognize all six cards, than windows... I had to disable several things in the BIOS, change all the pcie 16x slots to pcie 1x... and of course disable the onboard graphics (which I actually had been using since it was nice to mine full bore on the cards and use the onboard for daily work with no flickering).

my friend just called and asked when I'll have the cards back, I wish this was like borrowing a garden hose and he'd forget... he doesn't want to go all night without full mining, the sickness we all share!

I think the reason this was so easy, they were all the same GPU chipset, the pitcairn, a mix of 270 and 270X cards... I now wish I had a 7th one to test and see if I could get all seven to work together at once... I think this is the reason I love coin mining, its just one big hobby to tinker around with things and see what you can do.