ASRock H110 Pro BTC+ for music production, gaming and then mining.

[Equinox23]

                    I have been looking for an amd mining mobo but all are sold out. My main work computer broke down, so I'm waiting until January or February when there's restock to build a new one with the new Zen 3 architecture and the new RX600 amd series. In the mean time I need a computer for work, but I don't want to spend the same amount I'd spend in a new gen computer and get lower specs with just months ahead of restock and then throw it in the closet.

                    So I want to buy a ASRock H110 Pro BTC+, place in it a i7-7700 Processor or equivalent that will work with the mobo, get in it a decent gpu, 32 ram, ssd's and do my work on it. I work in music production, video editing, 3d modeling, design, etc. I'll game on it too. Then in January or February when there's restock of Zen 3 and amd Big Navi throw in a couple more gpus in the Asrock mobo, and put that computer to mine, with the gpu's and cpu, and build myself a new gen computer for work. Will that mobo perform satisfactory? Is there a flaw in my plan? Can you guys give me a better configuration with another mobo that's easy to find for what I want to do?

[rdluffy]

There's nothing wrong with your plan if you want to have a PC right now, wait a little, then keep this PC-rig only mining and build a better PC to work

But first, what's the config of your PC that is broken?
You can use some hardware that is good, or you entire PC is broken?

With ASRock H110 Pro BTC+ you will be fine, there's dual channel, USB 3.1, support 32Gb ram and even M.2 Socket, so I think you won't miss anything
I'm not familar with music production and don't know if you need something special from motherboard, but I think you use external devices to do your work right?

And be sure to buy a good PSU to hold your future rig, because new cards will be very power consuming

[Equinox23]

                  Thanks rdluffy. I'm not that familiar with mining mobo's. The computer that had a failure it's a laptop and if I want to fix it I have to replace the whole board. So it's a no no.

                   I try to maintain all the projects and files I'm currently working on inside my PC and the backups and projects on hold on external HDD's to lower the latency, so I think the ASRock H110 Pro BTC+ will work pretty good. I'm also so exited to get a mining rig going in a couple of months.

                   Anyone with experience with this board? I've been looking at the manuals, dedicated pages, and the page of the mobo on the manufacturers page, and I don't seem to find what gpu's and what combination of same manufacturers gpu's work.

                  For example, in the 5xNvidia 8xAmd setup if I can use different models of Nvidia and Amd cards, and which ones. For example 5xAmd Radeon Pro 450 and 3xRX550 and then 3xrtx2060 and 1x1080 and 1x1060 or just one of each gpu model. And while it says it can run 13 AMD cards explicitly it's not so clear if it can run 13 Nvidia cards. There's only a hint in the manufacturers page next to the miner software's used for every setup.

                  I guess I'll be switching this board to Linux once I start mining.

[cudapop]

I had to use one of my Asrock Pro Btc+ boards for non-mining uses a year ago because I needed a spare PC to run a Bytom wallet/node on. So I took one of my mining rigs (which had a Pro Btc+ board and was running on Ubuntu), left it with just 4 gpus, installed the Bytom wallet/node, and set it to run the node sync once a day (with the daily sync taking maybe like a half hour to run iirc). After about 2 weeks the mobo died, wouldn't even POST anymore (all the other components were fine when transferred to another board).

Just speculating, but maybe the Pro Btc+ board has a VRM design which doesn't like having a CPU loaded heavily. Never had a problem with that particular mobo until I used it to do a CPU heavy load (ie. the wallet/node software), prior to that it ran fine as just a mining rig for over a year.

[Equinox23]

I had to use one of my Asrock Pro Btc+ boards for non-mining uses a year ago because I needed a spare PC to run a Bytom wallet/node on. So I took one of my mining rigs (which had a Pro Btc+ board and was running on Ubuntu), left it with just 4 gpus, installed the Bytom wallet/node, and set it to run the node sync once a day (with the daily sync taking maybe like a half hour to run iirc). After about 2 weeks the mobo died, wouldn't even POST anymore (all the other components were fine when transferred to another board).

Just speculating, but maybe the Pro Btc+ board has a VRM design which doesn't like having a CPU loaded heavily. Never had a problem with that particular mobo until I used it to do a CPU heavy load (ie. the wallet/node software), prior to that it ran fine as just a mining rig for over a year.

Thanks for sharing. I'll take precautions.

Do you happen to know how the mobo "accepts" the gpu's and which ones work with it? (Accept as if I can connect for example in one of each slot different models of the same brand, Nvidia Amd). I've been looking for that info and so far have found none. I know the config mentioned in my earlier post that's on the manufacturers page but that's it. 

[batsonxl]

im not sure how good will be h110 with 7700cpu. h110 will be better choice gettin 6100-6500 and 7100-7500 cpu.
it happened to me. i sold my working pc then i was without pc for 2 month then i used my mining rig with 6gpu i have same mobo h110 but gigabyte and g4400 cpu on it. i used for autocad and revit photoshop mining same time and it did good job so it is up to you getting 7700.
but now it looks really good make new pc on ryzen 5000series with rx6000 gpu, dont know when we will be lucky to get one of those.personaly i would never choose 7700cpu for H110.good luck

[DrG]

I don't think the H110 power delivery is really up for a powerful CPU, let alone CPU mining which is going to pushing the boards' VRMs to the limit. You should consider a Z series board. Plenty of them such as the Gigabyte Gaming series had decent VRMs and could tolerate a decent overclock/undervolt. The 7700 isn't really going to mine well, especially in a world with Threadrippers absolutely destroying everything. For a productivity platform a Z series board is great for work and can mine quite well - I have 7 Gigabyte Z170 boards mining 6-7 cards each, three with an uptime over a year.

[nsummy]

I currently have this mobo: https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/PRIME-Z270-A/  with a i7-7700k processor sitting in it (and 32 gb ram).  I would probably be willing to sell it if you are interested. I had originally bought it for mining as it has 7 PCIe slots.  Personally I would steer clear of those mining specific motherboards unless you already own a significant amount of cards.

[geo25]

I have this motherboard new in the box.