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ASUS Makes Motherboard With 19 PCIe Slots

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday August 24 2017, @07:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the miner-49er dept.

takyon writes:

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?

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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday August 24 2017, @11:19PM (3 children)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday August 24 2017, @11:19PM (#558642) Journal

    you don't need some stupid fancy machine to make a cup (or a stupid special-purpose machine that makes an entire pot instead of just a cup)

    You think you need a machine to make coffee?

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  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday August 24 2017, @11:55PM (2 children)

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Thursday August 24 2017, @11:55PM (#558663)

    You think you need a machine to make coffee?

    I'm sure it can be done without it, but I'm pretty sure I've never actually seen anyone do this. They always use a machine. I've even had visiting relatives go out and buy a small coffeemaker because I didn't have one and they wanted coffee in the morning.

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @12:48AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @12:48AM (#558678)

      Just pour hot water on to coffee grounds in a filter which drips into a cup or pitcher. The coffee machine just drips real slow for you.

      • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday August 25 2017, @03:17AM

        by Gaaark (41) on Friday August 25 2017, @03:17AM (#558715) Journal

        That's what I used to do.

        Nice and strong: too strong. Seems to have pissed off my stomach. Now I can only drink it in small quantities.

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