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Works out-the-box with 8 AMD & 8 nVidia GPU's..

Supporting triple power supply seems very interesting.

Wonder how much this will cost.

If anyone has news as to when this is going to be released it would be much appreciated. Will follow this thread for updates.

Unofficially, the B250 Mining Expert will go on sale in the next few weeks, with a budget-friendly price south of $150.

dont take this for granted , seen some rumors

10000% this thing is going to become price gouged to hell and there's going to be a million "doesn't work on windoze" threads and questions to Asus. Seems like a pretty sticky situation coming up.

The only thing is, nobody is going to use PCI power on these boards and the CPU will be the only big power sucker on this. Seems way more economical to hook up a big ol server PSU and use PCIe 6pins to GPUs and then through risers. Am I missing something or is this board just overkill in the power department?

- i dont think windoze people will be using it for mining... this is more pro miner grade... as electricity bill for home...will go directly north! as well as price for vids, too costly.

I wonder why it says it only supports Windows. Thats why they claim it only supports 16 graphics cards but is there any reason why linux wouldnt work on this? Its still just a B250 motherboard. Strange they would add 19 slots then tell you that you cant use them all.

This is interesting, I was wondering if it is stable?

Hi
I have this board and also have problem.
With 13x RX560 working perfect and stable. But if i try co connect powered 14 gk motherboard didnt start... (no post)
If are connected 13x powered card and one unpowered, only riser is connected, motherboard start correctly (with one slot error).
So i dont know if problem si in bios or motherboard is damaged...
have you experience with this?
i tried different slot and different card with the same result.  >:(

wow
where did you get the board from before anyone else

windows or linux?

NewEgg and Amazon have had them.  They are out right now(except for overpriced resellers).   The boards keep coming in and out of stock.  I have been able to get 3 of them over the past 3 weeks.  Keep checking and you will get some.

So far I have only created 12 gpu AMD rigs and they work great on Ethos hashing eth at 361mh around 1600 watts at the wall.

What processor are you currently running in your rigs if you don't mind me asking Smilee? I just grabbed one of these boards myself.

I run the cheapest I3's--- 6100 and 7100.  I have only tried 12 cards so I dont know how it will work with 13-19 cards.  Seems like it should work though.  BBT on youtube has been trying to get 14+ cards working with no luck so far but i think he will figure it out eventually so I keep watching.  for just reasons of size, complexity and length of usb cables....I am sticking with 12 for now.

i buy it from alza https://www.alza.co.uk/asus-b250-mining-expert-d5102462.htm
they heve more than 5 pcs in stock
Cpu is Intel Celeron G3900.
system is SMOS.
with 13 cards working perfect but with 14 powered mb didnt start....
i will try it with 13 amd and 2 nvidia cards.
rig is ready for 16 cards but 14 and more... is problem to boot.

But how do u guy solve for the psu power ? cause with 19 card assume with have all 1070's meaning we are using atleast 2000watt
 which i guess is more .. i still building more on 6-8 gpu rig


yvmen

psu power?
its easy.
The motherboard is diveded in three parts.
on board are 3x 24atx connectors and for each connector is 6 or 7 slots
see pictures http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/asus-demos-b250-mining-expert-motherboard-with-19-pci-e-slots,2.html

If it would has M.2 slot for HardDrive and 16x PCI-e slot for GPU with at least 2-slots cooling system it would be the best of the best  :). But as yet Asus engineers have a work to do something better

m.2 slot is missing, pcie 16 is there, and 2 slots cooling also...

IBM 2880 + breakout board for 100-150 euros

I got 19 working!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_mv1pd3BIA

13x 1080ti
6x p106
4gb ram
celeron g3930
2x 2400w server psus from Parallel Miner
1x 1600w evga p2 (Could do without if I really wanted to.)
12x 120mm case fans that just so happened to fit snugly in the case
Custom frame from eBay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mining-Rig-frame-19-GPU-Ethereum-Bitcoin-ASUS-B250-Mining-Expert/322780828479

Nicely done. There goes all the stuff I've been seeing telling me I need more than 4gb ram and a decent CPU for that many cards in a rig. Is it stable so far?

Your setup is very nice!
Have you overclocked? I saw the hashrate is not high, your P106 hash about 15-17Mh/s, while I overclocked it with 6 cards-rig, it's about 25.5 Mh/s.
I'm just curious about this, because I'm going to build a new rig with Asus B250 very soon.

Thanks!

Did you have any issue getting them recognized? By any chance did you try on Windows or went straight to Linux OS? Nice setup I'm about to build one soon.

Apparently to get all 19 cards working you need to add at least six P106 mining cards if running Linux. Otherwise you are limited to running 8+5 mixed AMD/Nvidia cards on Windows, or 13 of the same type of card on Linux.

https://images.anandtech.com/galleries/5795/asus-b250-mining-expert-motherboard_4_575px.png

BBT is also trying to work out the card limitations on this board.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R2OKKmCzzc

Straight to Linux. No issues really getting them recognized. Runs too slow, upgrading to G4620 and 8gb ram soon. Stable enough, got it up to 540 Mh on ETH only. Can't mine any other coins as it crashes, assuming it has to do with CPU but it's stable now.

edit: F4620 and 6gb ram wtf?

Running all 19 cards? What cards did you use to get to 540?

the biggest problem this motherboard nineteen graphics card not support Be careful when buying

Running all 19 cards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_mv1pd3BIA&lc

13x 1080ti + 6x P106 Mining Cards. (13 is current limitation on non mining cards)

Never understood these limitations of 13 all equals GPU. IMHO it should be written clearly on the box that you need to mix various GPUs, otherwise this mobo could cause a lot of headaches. (if you haven't spare ones you can have 19 GPU down at the same time)

What is the difference between 1st floor GPU temperatures and 2nd floor GPU temp? You directed airflow of 120mm fans bottom-up, thus lower GPUs heat up upper GPUs

wow 13x1080ti on that thing. really impressive! Now I want one.

This is excellent for a lot of cheap cards (1050it 1060) and a server power supply. Allows you to save on the process and other secondary components

is this actually working on just 1 motherboard? i got to see this on some tests and get some.

i would like someone to tell us what is the exact motherboard model for this setup :o

Multiple GPUs in one motherboard. This is unreal. But this could save a lot of money and space for a mining facility. Great job at ASUS coming up with this product and innovation. I am just wondering how much will it cost.

 M.2 SATA might make some sense - if there was any space on the board to PUT it.

 M.2 NVMe would eat 4 PCI-E lanes you really prefer to use for GPU slots, and is severe overkill for a mining rig.


 I DO wish they had arranged the board so that the 16-bit slot doesn't BLOCK 3 of the 1x slots if you put a standard dual-width GPU IN the slot though.
 On the other hand, it kinda makes PS management a bit easier to not have 7 GPUs AND the MB/RAM/CPU on one PS and only 6 on each of the others....


 ASUS B250 Mining Expert is the motherboard model.

 https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/B250-MINING-EXPERT/

 Mine cost me about $150 from Newegg last week.

No word on price?  Anyone thinking about it should keep in mind that there is at least the cost of the GPU’s and that is more than the average consumer can afford.  I would like a price for the motherboard when it is available, because this could be a nice way that a new miner gets started. Rather than buy a rig and trash it a month later for a brand new better rig, this could allow them to add cards over time.

Somebody tested this MB with window 10, and it could recognize 16 GPUs P106-100 and achieved very good hashrate at 25Mh/s.

https://imgur.com/a/7vJIB

Is it really worth it going for GPU's to mine, wouldnt a Baikal be better and cheaper or the new antminer x11?

I sold off all my GPU's over 2 years ago, didnt seem worth it

So .. you sold off GPU's right when GPU mining took off again ...

Yes sold off 4 AMD's 7990, got instead mining contracts in China and have since also purchased some Baikal miners.
Baikal is pretty much plug and play. The GPU's where a real pain, too much heat, enormous power consumption, noisy. It just wasn't worth it.

Selling the GPU's was super easy, I just slapped them on a local second hand app thing in Spain, they got bought up by gamers in less than 2 weeks.

I think it was the best decision back then, plus I'm super happy with the baikals I got, no hassle what so ever with them. Obviously stuck doing x11-x14, Quibit and Quark but that's why I got ETH & ZEC contracts in China.

What I do regret is paying for the mining contracts with BTC..... Grrrrr 6k ATH and looks like we might hit 10k by Xmas.

 Didn't see the "cost me about $150 from NewEgg last week" in my post?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075KFPJ6M/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

$149 on Amazon, in stock Oct 25th,

I got one, going to test it out.

In SMOS, 15 cards work fine for me. I will purchase 1 more next week to test could it be possible with 16 or not.

https://imgur.com/a/V0gyy

Btw, as one of my friend reported, the window 10 newest version 1709 could handle for 16 mining cards P106-100 in MB B250, it's quite interesting.
I will have further test with this next week as well:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2298574.0

 

bro, dat's crazy1

Received mine today.  Having problems with slow hash speed on whichever card is connected to the pcie 16x slot.

Running Rx570 and 580, only two cards so far on this rig.  Getting 24Mh/s on the pcie 1x slots, same card same riser plugged into the pcie16x hash rate drops down to below 12Mh/s.  Tried the card in different slots, same results fast in pcie1x, and slow when connected to pcie16x

Tried on both Pimp and ethOS, replaced risers, swapped power cables, same result.

 Try plugging the card directly into the 16x without a riser, since you're not using anywhere near all of the slots anyway?

 I haven't tried booting the board with no card in the 16x, that might also be an option to just ignore that slot.

I'll try that thanks

I ignored Pcie 16x too, only worked with pcie 1x with 13 cards, and all works perfect.

Thanks for the info, I'll be able to test tomorrow and will post result.

How many PSU do you use?

1 x 1200W Corsair HX1200, easily big enough for 4-5 cards.  Issue occurs even with just 1 card in the PCIe 16x

I use 1 EVGA 1300W and 1 paraller miner PSU 2400W