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I was wondering what the best motherboard for mining is, as I want to expand my mining farm. I want to know which motherboard will take the most GPU's  without shorting PCIE pins. Please provide detailed answers. Thanks!

Mining with GPUs (for profit) is no longer an option since the introduction of ASIC based miners. In the scrypt world, you can still mine with GPUs (for now), but ASIC scrypt is on the way and will be here likely in early fall or winter. 

Check the alt/mining board for motherboard/gpu options for scrypt-based coin mining: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=160.0

Maybe Scrypt-Adaptive-Nfactor ? Vertcoin ?

I used only Asrock motherboards. Extreme 3 and 4 work well with 4 GPUs. But now you can purchase the Asrock BTC series which are made for mining. Those can handle 5 even 6 GPUs at once if you manage to set them up correctly in Windows 8.

Is there an AMD equivalent to Asrock BTC series? Is there another company that makes something similar to Asrock BTC series? I like the two molex power connectors for the PCI-Express.

Asrock BTC series mobos are good

Thanks for the replies. I want to get some GPU's because you can use them for many other things than mining. I feel that the risk is much lower buying GPU's than buying ASIC's.