Mining motherboard - Onda B250 BTC-D8P - Anyone tried ?

[bouldou]

Hello guys,

I discovered a chinese motherboard, made specially for mining

The motherboard is named "Onda B250 BTC-D8P", and has 12*PCIe onbard. 8 of them are full size, so you don't need risers to make it work

I have lots of difficulties to find some information about this motherboard, and nothing here : does anyone have tried this motherboard ?

Buy here : https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/2017-New-12-PCIE-Motherboard-Manufacturer_60699584995.html?spm=a2700.details.maylikever.9.4dc4ffe5MQkqOz

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Seems very interesting

[ATCkit]

Check out this thread. A few guys have already built rigs with it and like it:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2138550.msg25225604#msg25225604

philipmain 1957 may have some available.

[bouldou]

Thanks for the tips, seems really interesting ! Quite strange no one talks about it here

Does any buyer have feedback to share here ?

[jimmykl]

Thanks for the tips, seems really interesting ! Quite strange no one talks about it here

Does any buyer have feedback to share here ?

See the thread mentioned above, lots of testing and talk about it (and similar boards earlier in the thread too)

[Oakey22]

i am looking to import them to the UK and was wondering who would be interested in them. I have heard great things of them and the best bit is they do not require risers.

[jmigdlc99]

Sweet. That would be a nice board for my next build. Just noticed tho that it no longer includes the built in CPU or the mobile laptop RAM compatibility. The previous version ONDA1800 had those features. I wonder why they dropped it and went with a regular CPU and DDR4 RAM.

Too bad you can't order just 1 piece because the minimum is 10 and you still have to bid. Anyone want to do a group buy? Lol

[Oakey22]

Sweet. That would be a nice board for my next build. Just noticed tho that it no longer includes the built in CPU or the mobile laptop RAM compatibility. The previous version ONDA1800 had those features. I wonder why they dropped it and went with a regular CPU and DDR4 RAM.

Too bad you can't order just 1 piece because the minimum is 10 and you still have to bid. Anyone want to do a group buy? Lol

They do the CPU and Ram on the 8 gpu version not the 12

[cryptocoinfarmer]

Good looking motherboard but the price can be cheaper.

[l1xx]

can u tell a reliable sourse to buy this and the 8GPU version?

[bouldou]

can u tell a reliable sourse to buy this and the 8GPU version?

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There's a few feedback in the thread mentioned above, but not enough in my taste

Someone to post a full review here ?

[QuintLeo]

IMO the biggest issue with the board is the spacing of the slots makes cooling marginal on higher-powered cards.

[bouldou]

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[philipma1957]

the board is solid

I purchased 1 sample then 10 then another 10

so 21 boards 1 dud

and I believe the buyer forced a ddr3 stick into it first then the correct ddr4

there are more then one build with it on my thread  and here is my youtube on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLtnz9ip3o8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feXukc1d39Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjIG9oebnW0

the seller allowed paypal.

about 180usd for 1 sample

about 1430usd for a 10 pack

here it is with extra fan cooling
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2138550.msg26678847#msg26678847

[fraggyb_]

i am looking to import them to the UK and was wondering who would be interested in them. I have heard great things of them and the best bit is they do not require risers.

I would be interested in one at least, I saw this board a few days ago in some video and I think they are a great idea.  I was looking around to see where I could get one from.  If you end up stocking them, let me know!

[cryptominersg]

the board is solid

I purchased 1 sample then 10 then another 10

so 21 boards 1 dud

and I believe the buyer forced a ddr3 stick into it first then the correct ddr4

there are more then one build with it on my thread  and here is my youtube on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLtnz9ip3o8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feXukc1d39Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjIG9oebnW0

the seller allowed paypal.

about 180usd for 1 sample

about 1430usd for a 10 pack

here it is with extra fan cooling
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2138550.msg26678847#msg26678847

Hi philipma1957,

I just bought 3 Onda B250 BTC-D8P and tried using it for simple mining os but it keeps hanging, I also tried it on ethos and kept getting kernel panic errors once I tried to install more than 1 gpu.

Could you advice me on your bios settings for this board and what I should do as I now have 36 rx580 8gb gpus and 3 of those boards that I am still unable to mine. Thanks, I have also dropped you an email, really hope you can help me on this, would love to talk to you and hopefully you can share with me your knowledge on these boards. Would really appreciate it. Thanks

[m.vina]

Hi philipma1957,

I just bought 3 Onda B250 BTC-D8P and tried using it for simple mining os but it keeps hanging, I also tried it on ethos and kept getting kernel panic errors once I tried to install more than 1 gpu.

Could you advice me on your bios settings for this board and what I should do as I now have 36 rx580 8gb gpus and 3 of those boards that I am still unable to mine. Thanks, I have also dropped you an email, really hope you can help me on this, would love to talk to you and hopefully you can share with me your knowledge on these boards. Would really appreciate it. Thanks

I'm not philipma but have you considered using win10 build 1709? it can support 12 AMD GPUs now without problem.

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Am I missing something or am I only seeing 8 PCIE slots instead of 12? Checked the link aliexpress webpage too but still can't see 12.

Hi philipma, would you happen to have 1 more ONDA lying around? I'm interested in buying one from you.

[philipma1957]

the board is solid

I purchased 1 sample then 10 then another 10

so 21 boards 1 dud

and I believe the buyer forced a ddr3 stick into it first then the correct ddr4

there are more then one build with it on my thread  and here is my youtube on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLtnz9ip3o8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feXukc1d39Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjIG9oebnW0

the seller allowed paypal.

about 180usd for 1 sample

about 1430usd for a 10 pack

here it is with extra fan cooling
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2138550.msg26678847#msg26678847

Hi philipma1957,

I just bought 3 Onda B250 BTC-D8P and tried using it for simple mining os but it keeps hanging, I also tried it on ethos and kept getting kernel panic errors once I tried to install more than 1 gpu.

Could you advice me on your bios settings for this board and what I should do as I now have 36 rx580 8gb gpus and 3 of those boards that I am still unable to mine. Thanks, I have also dropped you an email, really hope you can help me on this, would love to talk to you and hopefully you can share with me your knowledge on these boards. Would really appreciate it. Thanks

All my boards use nvidia cards  and smos for nvidia

unfortunately I have no boards using AMD cards and I no longer use amd cards to mine as they suck for the most part due to issues like yours.  In fact  the one guy that setup  amd cards on our thread had more problens with his board then anyone else.

I have used all of mine or sold them and have 0 spares.  it has 8  full slots  and 4 slots for risers

if you want access to all  8 full slots and the 4 risers you need to use shorter cards  like the zotac  1070 mini

[motoprose]

Since these boards are so cheap compared to the brand named ones.
I would guess they don't have wifi capabilities built in.

Which motherboards have this available to them for adding 8+ gPUs?

[philipma1957]

so finally got my onda b250 in today and excited to get it working. plug everything in and get ready to be wowed and...... nothing. No LAN lights, no output on HDMI, usb seems to have power but can't tell if working. tried plugging cards into slots and using HDMI on card but nothing. PLEASE HELP!!!!!

for first start  do you know how to short  mobo pins? or use this

https://www.amazon.com/Electop-Power-Button-Computer-Switch/dp/B01LMZZFWO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1515199592


also   did you plug in an atx psu  with

the 3 sata and the 3 molex connected

[nelgovsky]

I'm sorry for my English.
Phil, can you show photos of your rig with GPUs and wires?
I don't understand what 6 power sockets do in this board and how to supply the board by psu without 24pin socket.
Thank you.