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July 14, 2017, 07:18:05 PM
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Why? Brand new 6 card setup for ~$165:

ASRock H81 PRO BTC R2.0 - $80

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157724

Intel Celeron G1840 Processor - BX80646G1840 - $54

https://www.amazon.com/Intel-Celeron-G1840-Processor-BX80646G1840/dp/B00J2LIE9C

CORSAIR Vengeance 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 - $33

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145346

Thanks! I picked up the last one from Newegg Smiley I wonder will it work with power-less simple risers...

It's $169
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July 14, 2017, 07:40:28 PM
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Everybody here is giving bad advice.

Yes there are motherboards like the ASRock BTC Pro or the Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5 which can easily use 6 GPUs however you can't find those motherboards anywhere at decent prices. Trust me i've tried.

Most of these old AM3 motherboards which are almost half a decade old are selling more above MSRP even. At that stage you are better off just buying some newer modern motherboards which might be easier to resell in the future.

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July 15, 2017, 01:30:06 AM
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You are clueless or a troll. As I said in my response, the board has been and still is available on Newegg NEW for $80.


 When I clicked the link right before my reply asking about WHERE it was available, it showed the board as "OUT OF STOCK".

 That's WHY I replied as I did.

 When I clicked the link JUST NOW, it showed the board at $129.

 And you call ME clueless.


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July 15, 2017, 02:51:58 AM
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You are clueless or a troll. As I said in my response, the board has been and still is available on Newegg NEW for $80.


 When I clicked the link right before my reply asking about WHERE it was available, it showed the board as "OUT OF STOCK".

 That's WHY I replied as I did.

 When I clicked the link JUST NOW, it showed the board at $129.

 And you call ME clueless.



The Asrock H81 are still in stock for $80. The Biostar mining boards are also $10 cheaper than before and in stock.

ASRock H81 PRO BTC R2.0 - $80

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157724

BIOSTAR TB85 - $75

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138436

BIOSTAR TB250-BTC - $85

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138449
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July 15, 2017, 03:13:10 AM
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You are clueless or a troll. As I said in my response, the board has been and still is available on Newegg NEW for $80.


 When I clicked the link right before my reply asking about WHERE it was available, it showed the board as "OUT OF STOCK".

 That's WHY I replied as I did.

 When I clicked the link JUST NOW, it showed the board at $129.

 And you call ME clueless.



The Asrock H81 are still in stock for $80. The Biostar mining boards are also $10 cheaper than before and in stock.

ASRock H81 PRO BTC R2.0 - $80

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157724

BIOSTAR TB85 - $75

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138436

BIOSTAR TB250-BTC - $85

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138449

That's pretty cheap, even when I buy in bulk, my supplier from Hong Kong is more expensive.
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July 15, 2017, 12:15:34 PM
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ASRock has put out some more recent "mining" targeted boards, but I don't pay much attention to them as I don't build riser rigs and couldn't care less how many PCI-E 1x slots a board has.
Just a curiosity: by "I don't build riser rigs" do you mean you only connect gpus to full pci-e x16 (at least electrycally) slots?
So do you only get 2-3 gpus per rig / motherboard?
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July 16, 2017, 08:18:52 AM
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You are clueless or a troll. As I said in my response, the board has been and still is available on Newegg NEW for $80.


 When I clicked the link right before my reply asking about WHERE it was available, it showed the board as "OUT OF STOCK".

 That's WHY I replied as I did.

 When I clicked the link JUST NOW, it showed the board at $129.

 And you call ME clueless.



The Asrock H81 are still in stock for $80.

ASRock H81 PRO BTC R2.0 - $80

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157724


 Did you even bother LOOKING at that link?

 The H81 link YOU POSTED is showing the board at $129, NOT $80.

 Just like during my LAST reply.

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July 16, 2017, 08:27:30 AM
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ASRock has put out some more recent "mining" targeted boards, but I don't pay much attention to them as I don't build riser rigs and couldn't care less how many PCI-E 1x slots a board has.
Just a curiosity: by "I don't build riser rigs" do you mean you only connect gpus to full pci-e x16 (at least electrycally) slots?
So do you only get 2-3 gpus per rig / motherboard?

 Yes, 3 GPUs per rig - 2 full length cards, and some sort of "short" card to let the middle card have at least ONE fan mostly clear to get some cooling to it, using the *physical* 16-bit PCI-E slots (which are usually 1 x 16, 1 x 8, and 1 x 4 electrically on most lower-cost motherboards but sometimes are 16/4/4 and often time that 16 electrically slot has to share PCI-E lanes with the second slot making the board 8/8/4 electrically in practice).

 The actual price difference between a pair of 3 card rigs and a 6-card riser rig ends up not being a lot - no cost of risers, can get away with 2 PS that are a lot lower wattage and *usually* ends up being the same to a hair less then the 1 big PS for a 6-card rig (or you end up using a 2 PS setup with the same PS I'd be using) - and in some cases you have to get "creative" to get enough power connectors to POWER the risers, which adds some cost.
 Keep in mind that for MOST mining rigs the majority of the cost is the GPUs themselves.

 I do concede that a 6-card rig WILL usually cost a little less than a pair of 3 card rigs - but it's not all that big of a difference as a percentage, especially for those of us running NVidia rigs (or folks paying the recent GOUGE pricing on RX-series AMD cards), and I find the non-riser rigs tend to be more reliable.




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July 17, 2017, 09:56:32 PM
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You are clueless or a troll. As I said in my response, the board has been and still is available on Newegg NEW for $80.


 When I clicked the link right before my reply asking about WHERE it was available, it showed the board as "OUT OF STOCK".

 That's WHY I replied as I did.

 When I clicked the link JUST NOW, it showed the board at $129.

 And you call ME clueless.



The Asrock H81 are still in stock for $80.

ASRock H81 PRO BTC R2.0 - $80

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157724


 Did you even bother LOOKING at that link?

 The H81 link YOU POSTED is showing the board at $129, NOT $80.

 Just like during my LAST reply.


Back in stock troll:

ASRock H81 PRO BTC R2.0 - $80

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157724

BIOSTAR TB85 - $75

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138436

BIOSTAR TB250-BTC - $85

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138449
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July 17, 2017, 11:26:56 PM
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Not sure on availability, but Gigabyte just announced a H110 based mining board - 1 PCI-E 16x slot, 5 PCI-E 1x slot, supposed to be $70.

Ars Technica had a review of it.


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