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January 22, 2017, 03:23:50 PM |
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Hey everyone, I'm on the verge of building some additional miners (hopefully) and decided to do some research, hoping to gather from the experience of other builders, this time I have a selection Motherboards I've been checking out and wanted to see what do you guys think, and if there is any other one I should be checking out. I want the best reliability and an affordable price, in that order. This is what I've gathered so far:
Biostar: Have heard their hardware isn't the best from a very experienced builder (he has been inactive for some years now, things might have changed), and from my experience I currently have a client's H61 board that lasted 1 year of very light use and now just won't boot up (seems like a bios issue, no whines or heating or signs of a physical failure of any sort).
Asrock: Have used some of their hardware and the quality seems fine, my current PC has been working since 2012 with a 990FX Extreme 4 and it's now become a miner, no issues at all, power/reset buttons on the board, led code display, love this one. I Made my first miner with a H97 Anniversary and it worked just fine for several months after I sorted some riser compatibility issues, eventually changed the miner over to a MSI Z97 Gaming 5 to add a 7th GPU, and when I got the parts for a new build... The H97 board now seems to be dead (tried 2 of every possible part, PSU, mem, CPU, it's definitely the board), again, no physical signs, the bios was updated during the riser mess and worked fine, no idea what happened there. Regarding the BTC Pro, I've read both good and bad things of the 1st version, and have a couple friends running them with no issues so far.
MSI: I'll just share my info, the Z97 Gaming 5 is a rather expensive pick (mine was $130, if they can be had for $80 I'll surely jump on this one). This board is on another level compared to the rest I've mentioned so far except the Extreme 4, led code display, 7 PCIe slots, just throw Win 10 and you'll have 0 issues, no reg mods, no hassles. I've been running this one for a couple months already with 7 Polaris GPUs (470 and 480 mix) and I haven't had a single problem so far.
Bonus question: Which board would you recommend for 5 PCIe - 5 GPUs?
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