First Rig - has anyone run 19 GPU's on the new ASUS b250?

[fazzy23]

Hi guys, Im late for work so I will keep this quick.

I have been planning to buy one of the new ASUS B250 mining expert boards.

My only hang up is some reports of these boards not handling all cards properly, and that some of the boards MUST be the p106 mining type.
these gpus are very expensive and I can get a good deal on a different 1080 gpu.
My question is if anyone has experience with these boards, and are they worth buying, and more importantly, can I fill it up with any cards over time?

Many Thanks

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[BitcoinBlaster51]

Hey,

Surprised to see that nobody has responded here. I have just reached a maximum of 14 GPUs all of them are GTX 1070s. I know how the manual recommends a certain combination of GPUs but those cards will become obsolete soon.

I have contacted Asus and it seems a workaround is utilizing a CPU which can support more PCIe lanes. I could be wrong since there may be a motherboard limitation although I am not certain of this. I also came here to BitcoinTalk to see if anyone else had addressed the same concern about this motherboard but have not found anything as of yet.

I will try using a newer processor to see if this allows me to use more than 14 GPUs. If you have discovered any information regarding this since you posted, I'd be glad to know!

[WanderingPhilospher]

A few years back, I had 18 GPUs running off of one of these motherboards.
It was a split rig, 15 Nvidia cards and 3 AMD cards.
I had a cheaper CPU, one of the G series.

I never had issues with it. Other than a billion wires going every where.

I broke it down a few months later to reconfigure, because now I only have a max of 10 cards per rig/mobo. Easier to manage IMO/preference.

Who knows, maybe these mobos are like the once silicon valley lottery with GPU memory. Some cards with the same exact specs outperform others of same spec and allowed higher clocks.

[VRExpress]

Possibly but too much wiring here and there will make the rig looks ugly, I prefer splitting the graphic cards in two separate motherboards just to get less headaches with wiring

[batsonxl]

If it is your 1st rig then dont try so many. Add 1 or 2 then keep adding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN1BAnkzNyU
this guy built many rigs watch some videos.

[FP91G]

I will write my thoughts.
Now you definitely shouldn't buy this motherboard in order to install 14 GTX1080 video cards on it.
I would prefer to do 2 mining farms with 7 video cards, but it will be a very hot farm too.
14 graphics cards GTX1080 together with the farm will consume 3 kilowatts per hour, this will require a special socket