ASUS reveals their B250 Expert Mining motherboard

 

ASUS has now entered the mining arena with their B250 Expert Mining motherboard, which is capable of using up to a record number of GPUs on a single board. A total of 19 GPUs can be used on this motherboard, allowing this single board to take the place of what would traditionally be three different mining systems.    

This means that only one CPU, SSD and memory DIMM is required instead of three of each, making a mining setup cheaper to create and cheaper to run.     

One of the key additions on ASUS’ B250 Mining Expert board is its ability to utilise three 24-pin power connections, allowing 3 PSUs to be directly connected to your motherboard. This allows all three PSUs to be turned on at once and minimises any unstable power delivery when your mining system boots, no jump-starting secondary PSUs or damage to components due to unstable power. 

Sadly the biggest compromise of this motherboard is a lack driver support from AMD and Nvidia for this many GPUs on a single system, with AMD and Nvidia drivers both supporting a maximum of 8 GPU each. This allows 16 (8+8) GPUs to be fitted into a single system, leaving the extra three PCIe slots on this motherboard unused, for now. 

AMD has promised a new GPU driver that will allow additional GPUs, though this driver is not expected until later this year. 

  

 

You can join the discussion on ASUS’ B250 Mining Expert motherboard on the OC3D Forums. 

  

 

ASUS has now entered the mining arena with their B250 Expert Mining motherboard, which is capable of using up to a record number of GPUs on a single board. A total of 19 GPUs can be used on this motherboard, allowing this single board to take the place of what would traditionally be three different mining systems.    

This means that only one CPU, SSD and memory DIMM is required instead of three of each, making a mining setup cheaper to create and cheaper to run.     

One of the key additions on ASUS’ B250 Mining Expert board is its ability to utilise three 24-pin power connections, allowing 3 PSUs to be directly connected to your motherboard. This allows all three PSUs to be turned on at once and minimises any unstable power delivery when your mining system boots, no jump-starting secondary PSUs or damage to components due to unstable power. 

Sadly the biggest compromise of this motherboard is a lack driver support from AMD and Nvidia for this many GPUs on a single system, with AMD and Nvidia drivers both supporting a maximum of 8 GPU each. This allows 16 (8+8) GPUs to be fitted into a single system, leaving the extra three PCIe slots on this motherboard unused, for now. 

AMD has promised a new GPU driver that will allow additional GPUs, though this driver is not expected until later this year. 

  

 

You can join the discussion on ASUS’ B250 Mining Expert motherboard on the OC3D Forums.