ASUS will sell a motherboard that can support 19 GPUs. The product is intended for cryptocurrency mining:
ASUS this week teased the new "B250 Mining Expert" which boasts all those slots because – as the name implies – its role in life is mining cryptocurrency.
The board can't do it all itself, of course. ASUS' preferred GPU is the P106, a variant of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1060), 1,280-CUDA-core, 1,506MHz affair that can surge to 1,708 MHz when required and boasts 6GB of RAM. ASUS' version is shorn of anything to do with displaying video so that it can smoke hashes to cook cryptocurrency.
Do the math: 19 GPUS, 1,280 cores apiece ... this motherboard could end up hosting 24,320 cores before you fill the Intel LGA 1511 socket with a Skylake, Kaby Lake or Coffee Lake CPU. That chip's half-dozen or so cores are hardly worth counting!
The board is also equipped to slurp three power supplies, because all those GPUs are thirsty. There's also a capacitor dedicated to each PCIe slot to make sure the juice doesn't fluctuate and upset the precious mining machines. A mining-specific BIOS that lets you manage all those GPUs rounds things out.
What do you do with this after cryptocurrency mining is dead?
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday August 24 2017, @09:43PM
According to SCE, I only average 300W, but then again my bill is half to a quarter of my neighbors', and we don't live in total-AC-land or total-frost-land, so we can have Euro-style energy usage.
I previously ranted about it being too low, and they won't let me put solar panels.