ASUS B250 Mining Expert MB - 19 Cards!

[mikespax]

also can't get my p106 cards over 17-18 mh

[xmonkx]

"Bits Be Trippin'
4 days ago
@asus @ASUSUSA Just got off Asus Support and they confirmed 13x is MAX on B250 Mining Expert until BIOS update in 4Q. Case ID#
N171017058"

Having the same issue. Can't get past 13 GPUs. ASUS support says that to get more than 13 we need to use mining cards. Can someone confirm this?

Thanks

I run my rig on Ubuntu 16.04.

I put 13 general purpose gpus (rx570 580, 1060 1070) on the board and it runs perfect.
However, if I put the 14th general purpose gpu, I got POST fail.

If I put 3 more mining gpus to 16 cards (13 general purpose gpus + 3 mining gpus), runs smoothly.

But I have no idea if Ubuntu supports more than 16 gpus.

[mikespax]

i got 19 running fine on nvoc

[Cereberus]

Windows with the latest updates removed cards limitation you can run 12 Amd cards and 8 Nvidia cards. Also both AMD and Nvidia released latest drivers to support this after Windows did. The problem is from the ASUS side, they need to bring a Bios update (and I hope it happens soon) as this motherboard is a big power saver, rather than buying 3 times CPU,SSD and Motherboard, you buy them only one time. Meanwhile be happy with 13 cards max until Asus release the bios update.

[rustin898]

Windows with the latest updates removed cards limitation you can run 12 Amd cards and 8 Nvidia cards. Also both AMD and Nvidia released latest drivers to support this after Windows did. The problem is from the ASUS side, they need to bring a Bios update.

at the moment  windows supports 12 AMD card , but ASUS supports 11 AMD.  correct if wrong

[TokyoG]

Hey Guys, 

My hashrates are 10% lower with this Mobo.  Anyone experiencing this?  Same GPUs on ASrock or MSI board perform better.  Any advice is appreciated.  Also, my afterburner (4.4 beta 16 & 19) is not working anymore

RX580 x 8, 8 gB ram, Intel Celeron, Windows 10 pro. 

[Fotch]

I've been fighting with one of these boards for that last few days and thought I would share my experiences as well.

First boot, the board would not post to a single RX580 in a riser. no problem, I'll plug it directly into the mobo, but.. Same deal. I fought with it for a while then shoved in a GTX950 just to see and it posted. after many reboots and GPU changes, once I changed mining mode in the bios to disabled, (also enabled the 4G to enable more the 5 cards) the rig came to life and worked with the 580s.

I had the same problem as others with the # of cards, I can run 13 Nitro+ RX580s ok but if I add a 14th, it won't post.

I also have a lower hash rate than the exact same card in a different rig, both running SMOS.

19 MHS stock
21 MHS flashed bios
OC some go to 23.5 and others go down to 18.5 (I have some with Hynix memory (most are Elpida)and I'm thinking  its those ones but haven't verified it yet)

I've also set up a 12 GPU rig with the ASRock board and had zero issues, it just worked straight out of the box. and its a lot easier to layout 12 cards in a rig than it is 18..

[thangtran3112]

Has anyone succeeded with this mobo in Windows with more than 8+ AMD gpus, please let me know what the driver that you are using in Windows. Sorry Im a newbie that i cannot find a way to install Ubuntu with this mobo, maybe because it is using UEFI secured boot, can anyone help ?

[zot57]

Are there any updates on this board? bios update from ASUS?

[davemanet]

anyone using this with SimpleMining and figure out how to get restart to work?

[djentmining]

Are there any updates on this board? bios update from ASUS?

No updates! waiting for one -_-

[djentmining]

Has anyone succeeded with this mobo in Windows with more than 8+ AMD gpus, please let me know what the driver that you are using in Windows. Sorry Im a newbie that i cannot find a way to install Ubuntu with this mobo, maybe because it is using UEFI secured boot, can anyone help ?

Got 8 1070's working now. 3 rx580's 8gb SE cards coming in this week or week after will test 8+ and post.

[flip4flop]

Running 4 cards currently with no issues, planning on adding a second power supply in the near future and then slowly but surely adding more cards to my rig. Happy to have something that worked so well out of the box!

[djentmining]

Running 4 cards currently with no issues, planning on adding a second power supply in the near future and then slowly but surely adding more cards to my rig. Happy to have something that worked so well out of the box!

Congrats!
I'm using parallelminer's REV2 Ultimate 2400Watt Power Supply holds up to 32 gpu's, got 14 gpus connected to it drawing 1738W atm amazing psu not loud been running for days no hiccups very happy with it

[zot57]

So what CPU I need for 19 cards and how much RAM?

[djentmining]

So what CPU I need for 19 cards and how much RAM?

I'm using Pentium G4400 and 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 2133MHz. running 11 cards so far.

[QuintLeo]

Has anyone succeeded with this mobo in Windows with more than 8+ AMD gpus, please let me know what the driver that you are using in Windows. Sorry Im a newbie that i cannot find a way to install Ubuntu with this mobo, maybe because it is using UEFI secured boot, can anyone help ?

 Ubuntu is NOT an issue on this motherboard - though technically I'm using the XUbuntu variant on mine.

 I do concede I "DD cloned" over my existing STANDARD working installation to the HD mine is running on, then reconfigured xorg.conf and the "startup.conf" file I use to control fan/pl/clock settings for the cards on it - and away it went!

[zot57]

@QuintLeo how much card do you have running on this board?
what cpu you have and how much ram for this board?

[QuintLeo]

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.

[Omg9500]

Hey Guys, 

My hashrates are 10% lower with this Mobo.  Anyone experiencing this?  Same GPUs on ASrock or MSI board perform better.  Any advice is appreciated.  Also, my afterburner (4.4 beta 16 & 19) is not working anymore

RX580 x 8, 8 gB ram, Intel Celeron, Windows 10 pro. 

What is your hashrate and on what algorithm? I am running 10 RX580 GPUs on an ASROCK H110 Pro BTC+ mobo and Hashrate on ETN is average 8350 h/s. afterburner also not working for me. Seems to be incompatible with drivers from 17.11 onwards. I am using TRIXX instead (sapphire).