ASUS Republic of Gamers from the United Kingdom posts a tweet showing the ASUS B250 Mining Expert motherboard that offers support for sixteen graphics cards and that would be designed, exclusively, for the mining of cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum or Zcash
Surprise on the Twitter of ASUS Republic of Gamers from the United Kingdom, who has tweeted the image of a new motherboard intended for mining and we say that it is intended for mining, for two reasons. The first is the name, ASUS B250 Mining Expert and the second, that this graphics card has support for sixteen graphics cards, to mine Ethereum and Zcash. Until now Biostar and ASRock were the ones that had offered motherboards for mining, but to this is added ASUS with a huge and special motherboard.
This motherboard we see that it has an LGA 1151 socket for Intel processors and has two DDR4 DIMM sockets for RAM models. The motherboard also has a PCIe 3.0 x16 and no less than eighteen PCIe 3.0 x1 ports. It is not the only peculiarity and it is that the motherboard has three 24-pin ATX connectors, we imagine that to feed several sets of PCIe ports (at least it seems it because of the white design that surrounds them) and to do the functions of bridging between sources. feeding, although this is not clear, because there is no data.
The motherboard dispenses with useless elements, such as bezels, an eye-catching design or improved audio. The motherboard has three molexes to power the risers in the event that they do not have power and it has four SATA ports for storage units. We do not know much more about this motherboard, since we did not know its development, it has jumped by surprise, as we say. This motherboard, we suppose that it will carry specific drivers to support all graphic cards, the sixteen that it supports and is obviously intended by and for mining. Regarding availability or price, we do not have any data.
Source: Twitter


Wow, that's a cool thing... interesting about the 3 24-pin connectors, by the way, it has 19 PCIe ports, not 16 😛