ASUS B250 Mining Expert MB - 19 Cards!

[PdeW]

Right now, due to infrastructure limitations, I'm only running 6 cards on it.
CPU is a G4400, 8 GB ram

 I'm not sure why I went with the 4400, I'm thinking "it was on sale at the time" most likely.

 I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with the thing longer-term, keep bouncing between "lots of 1070 ti" and "lower count of 1080 ti" options.

I also run 6 AMD cards on this mobo on Xubuntu. It is stable. Problem is when I add card no 7 (I have 10 rx470's)  Xubuntu won't boot up. It gets stuck half-way through. Would know whether anyone else had this problem and how to overcome it. I would very much like to be able to mine with all ten. Tried many different mobo settings without any success. CPU G3090 with 4GB ram. More than enough power supply. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[davemanet]

Anyone here using SimpleMining?  Does your reset work?  Anytime my system resets I have to manually power it off and on to get mining working, very annoying.

[maxmad]

is this mb really so good?

is is sold out on almost every European store.
or it is called back due to faults and we will wait for the next batch?

[Moondoggie]

Anybody know where to find stock of this in Aus?

[zot57]

BIOS update is out since 15th of December can someone please verify do 19 gpu's now working? Windows or SMOS?
https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/B250-MINING-EXPERT/HelpDesk_BIOS/

[Manojdaran]

Updated the December Bios. Currently on 9 x 1070. With ETHminer, the stability is toooo bad. Hashrates fluctuating from 300 to 250 [Example]. Could not afford to lose 50 hashes at all. With Equihash, around 3.75K Sols not much hiccups comparatively better. Waiting for more 1070's this weekend, will update once done.

[Permonik]

Updated the December Bios. Currently on 9 x 1070. With ETHminer, the stability is toooo bad. Hashrates fluctuating from 300 to 250 [Example]. Could not afford to lose 50 hashes at all. With Equihash, around 3.75K Sols not much hiccups comparatively better. Waiting for more 1070's this weekend, will update once done.

Hi, so the eth unstability is caused by this bios? Before that it was ok?

[Manojdaran]

No, it was worse in the previous bios too.

[djentmining]

Updated the December Bios. Currently on 9 x 1070. With ETHminer, the stability is toooo bad. Hashrates fluctuating from 300 to 250 [Example]. Could not afford to lose 50 hashes at all. With Equihash, around 3.75K Sols not much hiccups comparatively better. Waiting for more 1070's this weekend, will update once done.

Thanks for info was gonna update today luckly i checked here before doing anything >.>

Cheers

[minkuluk]

Anyone here using SimpleMining?  Does your reset work?  Anytime my system resets I have to manually power it off and on to get mining working, very annoying.

i have the same problem.. it wasn't the os issue, it was the motheboard.. i have tried simplemining and hiveos, it not gonna work by restarting the rig, you have to power it off completely to get mining working.. i'm using the wifi smart socket for the solution..

[mikespax]

I got $100 for whoever can get me mining NeoScrypt on 19 cards.

[bmartin44]

Is it very hard to setup at this 19 cards mobo?

[QuintLeo]

From what I've seen the last few weeks when I've looked, availability on this motherboard has gotten DIFFICULT and a lot of price gouging is going on.

 Seems like ASUS didn't expect it to be as popular as it has gotten.

[Regulater]

Has anyone been able to get this motherboard working to 19 gpu without needing mining cards. Looking at purchasing this motherboard and using 19 1060's but cant decide if its worth it if the motherboard isnt working properly.

[djentmining]

From what I've seen the last few weeks when I've looked, availability on this motherboard has gotten DIFFICULT and a lot of price gouging is going on.

 Seems like ASUS didn't expect it to be as popular as it has gotten.

Yeah crazy prices lately!

[djentmining]

Has anyone been able to get this motherboard working to 19 gpu without needing mining cards. Looking at purchasing this motherboard and using 19 1060's but cant decide if its worth it if the motherboard isnt working properly.

Unfortunately as per B250 manual you require 8x P106 Mining cards + 11x AMD cards for 19 cards to work. Hopefully they release new bios to make 19 cards work with any amd nvidia.

[wtfonly16]

5 more days asus has left to honor their q4 decemburr promise

[QuintLeo]

Has anyone been able to get this motherboard working to 19 gpu without needing mining cards. Looking at purchasing this motherboard and using 19 1060's but cant decide if its worth it if the motherboard isnt working properly.

Unfortunately as per B250 manual you require 8x P106 Mining cards + 11x AMD cards for 19 cards to work. Hopefully they release new bios to make 19 cards work with any amd nvidia.

13 regular and 6 mining-specific if you mix AMD and Nvidia mining cards, per the manual - though I have no clue why you can't do 8 of each.

I am uncertain if any of the BIOS upgrades changed those limits, and have no CLUE why there would be any difference in the interface of a "mining-specific card" that would allow them to be used in higher quantities than "regular" cards.
VERY odd that.

[Permonik]

5 more days asus has left to honor their q4 decemburr promise

Hi, this date was promised by AMD to Asus. By now, there is not problem with bios or something, but with the AMD drivers.
And AMD told Asus that they will remove gpus limit...

[wtfonly16]

the gpu limit is asus... not amd.

the board will not POST with more then 13 non mining cards.
do you even own one of the boards? dont spread nonsense around here like that.