ASUS B250 Mining Expert

[chesatochi]

I plan to buy the ASUS B250 mining expert motherboard.

I want to know which CPU, memory, and hard disk do you recommend.

[Metroid]

cpu = depends what you will be mining, eth = celeron is enough, equihash needs a pentium minimum, memory 8gb, hard disk = ssd 120gb minimum.

[[YAZ]]

Since this board designed with a lot of PCIe slot, you need middle-end or higher LGA 1151 Processor for whatever algorithms. This is about overall performance, mid-end /hi-end Processor will handle all of your GPU's. Another thing, I agree with this:

memory 8gb, hard disk = ssd 120gb minimum.

[JKresty]

Since this board designed with a lot of PCIe slot, you need middle-end or higher LGA 1151 Processor for whatever algorithms. This is about overall performance, mid-end /hi-end Processor will handle all of your GPU's. Another thing, I agree with this:

memory 8gb, hard disk = ssd 120gb minimum.

I feel like a lot of builders miss this in there design and budget.

I for one didn't budget for the cost of 1151 cpus and am at a bit of a standstill gathering parts deciding which processor to get.

They are far more expensive then I thought.

[flip4flop]

You dont need an expensive CPU, a celeron will work just fine maybe the 4400. I have the same board and I have a i5-6500 because I had it laying around and its overkill.  4GB is fine but you could go up to 8gb if you want. No need to go over that in anyway.  The rest is up to you.  I used pretty much everything in this guide for my build to include the 120gb SSD as I run windows and also stake coins.

https://theminerhub.com/mining/building-a-mining-rig-part-2-hardware/

[starrbuck]

Celeron is crap.  Go for minimum of a Pentium.  You'll get dual core and four cores with hyperthreading.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117739

[OMALLEY-CRYPTO]

Those saying Any cheap old cpu for mining Eth with this board, how many cards have you got working?

Also you're losing sata after 9 GPU's because you have ran out of cpu lanes, you'll need to turn off un-used
usb and sound resources via bios, to go higher.  If you're using a Celeron , 10 GPU's wil probably be max resources.

1 x PS/2 keyboard (purple)
1 x PS/2 mouse (green)
1 x HDMI
1 x LAN (RJ45) port(s)
4 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 (blue) Type-A,
2 x USB 2.0
3 x Audio jack(s)

Not any old CPU will do, when going above 10 gpu's.. So, if a Pentium with 4 threads can get 10 GPU's going, then...
I'll let you work the rest out..

[swogerino]

Why not go for the i3 7100 which is about near 100 dollars mark but has a lot more power than a celeron or a pentium.

Keep in mind that for 8 or more graphic cards you need a minimum of 8gb of ram. This motherboard is a bit problematic from what I am seeing, in Windows crashed a lot of times with the g4400 cpu that my colleagues have. They bought the 39 dollars linux distro made for mining and there it is showing no problems so far.

They have 11 Amd rx 580 8gb cards sapphire.

[sigtmerchant]

The motherboard is going to manage much more cards that your average rig, where Celeron etc is enough. I'd go with cheap i5, 8-16 GB RAM and (maybe) 240 GB HDD/SSD to be able to create max size swap file.