Asus has just unveiled its newest upcoming motherboard aimed at cryptocurrency miners, the B250 Mining Expert.
This board supports an incredible 19 GPU's.
Although other mining motherboards exist, this motherboard is a cut above the rest with 18 PCIe 3.0 x1 slots and a physical 3.0 x16 slot.
It works with the B250 chipset and features an LGA1151 socket that supports both Intel 6th and 7th generation processors.
The board hosts up to 32GB of DDR4 RAM in dual-channel mode at an impressive speed of 2400 MHz. There are also four SATA3 ports for storage purposes.
What makes this motherboard truly unique are a series of mining tweaks. As already mentioned, the support for up to 19 graphics cards.
The actual release, or even expected release date for this motherboard has not been announced. At this point it has been more of a teaser of what is yet to come.
One thing to keep in mind with such a board, is it will not come without its challenges.
With that many GPUs in one board, there will be some challenges when building the mining rig.
Things like cable lengths, connector spacing, enough space for proper cooling and so on are not going to be typical industry standards.
The more video cards one uses in their setup, the harder it is to make things work as expected - at least the first time they set it up. After they have a clear working mining rig setup, recreating it is much easier.
At the moment this board can support eight Nvidia and eight AMD cards for a total of 16 graphic cards, however AMD drivers will be coming up with an update soon to increase support up to 11 cards, taking the total up to 19.
The board features three 24-pin PSU connectors and three 4-pin Molex connectors which supply the power it needs to keep running.
The idea behind the B250 Mining Expert motherboard is that it allows cryptocurrency miners to save money by consolidating multiple mining PCs into a single system.