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ASUS Teases the B250 Expert Mining Motherboard With 19 Expansion Slots

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2017/08/22 10:11:39 (permalink)
http://www.anandtech.com/show/11739/asus-announces-b250-expert-mining-motherboard-19-expansions-slots
 
Yep that's right, 19 expansion slots. If you need a mining card I suppose this might work well. Keep in mind that there are some limitations right now until new drivers/cards become available.
 


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    kougar
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    Re: ASUS Teases the B250 Expert Mining Motherboard With 19 Expansion Slots 2017/08/22 11:45:26 (permalink)
    Holy crap. 
     
    Does this mean we can all blame ASUS for the GPU shortages now? 


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    Re: ASUS Teases the B250 Expert Mining Motherboard With 19 Expansion Slots 2017/08/22 14:30:44 (permalink)
    Bad concept.
    Does even LINUX support 19 GPUs on one system?
    Does anyone even bother THINKING about the nightmare of trying to find risers with LONG ENOUGH CABLES to reach on such a monstrosity system?
    The 12/13 PCI-E slot motherboards were dumb enough, this thing is at best just for "bragging rights".
     
     I don't even want to THINK about trying to manage enough power supplies to run 19 boards in a single machine.
     

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    Re: ASUS Teases the B250 Expert Mining Motherboard With 19 Expansion Slots 2017/08/22 20:50:08 (permalink)
    um you can add riser cards to those and like get 104
     
     
    https://videocardz.com/newz/biostar-teasing-motherboard-with-104-usb-risers-support-for-mining
     
     
    same configuration of slots
    Asus B250
     
     
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    post edited by Xavier Zepherious - 2017/08/22 20:54:13


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    Re: ASUS Teases the B250 Expert Mining Motherboard With 19 Expansion Slots 2017/08/25 15:13:04 (permalink)
    QuintLeo, they discuss that in the article. AMD will be releasing a driver that allows 19 AMD gpus to work in it, at the moment only half&half NVIDIA + AMD combinations work. If you've looked at some of the hardcore miners you'll see space constraints won't be a problem either.
     
    As the article points out this allows miners to condense multiple PCs into a single PC. They can buy one motherboard, then sell off 3 motherboards, 2 CPUs, and 2 kits of RAM that they were forced to use before for mining. Nevermind the OS licenses and extra power that hardware requires. Miners using that many GPUs already have multiple PSUs hooked up to power them. 


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    Re: ASUS Teases the B250 Expert Mining Motherboard With 19 Expansion Slots 2017/08/26 16:06:40 (permalink)
    Is 32GB/Two dimms even enough? This is pretty sad layout, I only see a cash grab for the stupid builders out their.....
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    Re: ASUS Teases the B250 Expert Mining Motherboard With 19 Expansion Slots 2017/08/27 11:15:05 (permalink)
    LOL at the 3x 24-pin connectors.

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    Re: ASUS Teases the B250 Expert Mining Motherboard With 19 Expansion Slots 2017/08/27 13:24:57 (permalink)
    knightsilver
    Is 32GB/Two dimms even enough? This is pretty sad layout, I only see a cash grab for the stupid builders out their.....

     
    Why wouldn't it be? For mining that'd be overkill. It's a dual-channel platform anyway. 


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