- Asus announces B250 Mining Expert motherboard with 19 PCIe slots and triple 24-pin power connectors.
ASUS has teased their first cryptocurrency mining board, the B250 Expert Mining. It’s full of expansions slots, with 19 to be exact, to pack in the most GPUs on a single system. This large number puts it at the top of the food chain for the quantity of PCIe slots suitable for mining duties. - As of now GPU miners out there are using GPU's and Motherboard designed for Gaming and high end performance but , not meant for mining.The increased sales in GPU and High End motherboards have lured companies to produce products specially for miners out there.
- In this newly launched motherboard specially made for mining crypto currency, Asus is now teasing the first looks of this motherboard to the crazy miners out there.To support this crazy 19 Pin PCIe slots, this motherboard is equipped with triple ATX12v(24pin).
Of the 19 expansions slots, 18 are PCIe 3.0 x1, along with one full-length PCIe 3.0 x16 slot. ASUS separates the slots in three groups each with a dedicated 24-pin assigned to it for power. The top 24-pin covers slots 1-7 (includes the full-length slot), the middle header 8-13, with the last covering 14-19. There are also three Molex connectors for additional slot power. Along with separated power sources, each PCIe slot has its own dedicated capacitor to condition the voltage going to GPU.
- Once the system is setup, upon boot miners are able to see a POST UI (power on in-screen image). The image shows a top-down view of the motherboard expansion slots indicating the status of each GPU.
- There are three states; Working, Error, and None. The slots working properly show up in green, those in error are in red, while unpopulated slots are grey. This seems like a good way for miners to get a quick ‘state of the union’ upon booting the system. ASUS provided a picture showing costs savings, as well as how to properly setup graphics cards on the Mining Expert.
Some Specifications of this crazy machine:
- Memory capacity is up to 32GB DDR4 in dual-channel mode supporting speeds up to 2400 MHz.
- Storage needs are handled by the four SATA3 ports while there is a total of six USB3.1 and 4 USB 2.0 ports.
- The rear panel I/O is pretty anemic as one would expect out of a mining board, but has the basics with two PS/2 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, four USB 3.0 ports, HDMI, Intel-based LAN (I219V Gigabit), and 8 channel audio jacks driven by a Realtek ALC887 codec.
At this Point Asus has not released the pricing of this motherboard. Also Public Availability is not listed but should be expected soon.
Is this a game changer? For the mining world? we will be seeing soon.
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