Biostar would be developing a new motherboard for mining that will support 104 graphics cards!
Biostar would be developing a new special motherboard for mining, with twenty-four PCIe x1 ports where special cards that support thirteen graphics each would be connected, making a total of 104 graphics cards!
If we already thought that special motherboards for mining with twelve and thirteen PCI ports seemed to us a real stupid, the latest from Biostar has left us speechless. Apparently the company is working on a special system for mining, which will make a fool of the twelve or thirteen PCIe ports. Specifically, it appears that Biostar is working on a system for a new motherboard that will allow its twelve PCIe x1 slots to be used to connect more than twelve graphics cards. How many more? Well we don't know, but lots more.
The company is working on its own USB riser technology, that plate where the graphics card is punctured, from which a USB 3.0 comes out and through an adapter for PCIe x1, it is connected to this port. We must bear in mind that the motherboard shown in the image is not the TB250-BTC PRO, it is a different model and even more beast. This new motherboard has three PCIe x1 ports per row, which make a total of twenty-four PCIe x1 ports and the most aberration is that each of these special risers designed to be installed in three ports simultaneously, has thirteen USB ports, so Thus, each motherboard would support a whopping 104 graphics cards.
Currently the normal thing is to use one riser per graphic card, although there are systems that allow four of these risers to be connected to a special PCIe x1 card, increasing the possibilities, but we must take into account in this field the limitation of Windows 10 to support more than six graphics, which on Biostar and ASRock boards is solved with a BIOS modification. We imagine that the ASRock motherboard will have a special BIOS and we do not even rule out that some modification for the operating system or some similar extra.
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This is already an editorial plan. At Coolmod they have the ASRock H110 PRO BTC + for € 161, which supports thirteen graphics cards. If this Biostar cost, to put a price of € 500, taking into account that for the same number of graphics cards we would need eight ASRock motherboards, we have that only on motherboards we would save about € 700, but we must also count the seven processors that we would save, the seven SSD storage units and the 14 RAM memory modules, with which the savings would be about € 2000-3000, so the profitability of a miner would go up to the beast.
What processor would be necessary to move 104 gpu? ^^
A Core i3 is more than enough. The processor just runs the system and manages everything, little else does.
I really doubt it.
This is fucking crazy, this nonsense has to pop somewhere
It's crazy if you don't know what is happening in the world. The ignorance of one is the madness of others.
I'm not understanding how fast the connections are being made, how many PCI-lines the motherboard should have since the new AMD processors now boast of having more than 60 lines and the best Intel ones barely reach 44... How fast would each card be running? What is being "processed" if it works with such slow lines, with so much latency but with powerful GPUs and video card memory? How does mining work at the hardware level? I haven't seen a single video explaining that, they all explain the advantages of bitcoin, that it is decentralized, etc. etc. (the same thing in all the videos over and over again).
We don't know how this motherboard will work, but the difference between a mining equipment and a gaming equipment is based on the work that the graphics does. In mining, the graph only performs calculations, for which a graph is better than a processor, in the case of mining, because the blocks are analyzed one by one and the graphs allow the parallelization of tasks.
The graphics cards work at their working speeds, that does not matter, the amount of information they communicate with the processor is worse, in terms of volume, let's say it like this, it is easier to handle and 16 lines are not needed, 1 is enough. What it does is analyze and validate the blocks of smart contracts.
All cryptocurrencies are decentralized. Bitcoin is mined with ASICs, special equipment, while Ethereum or Zcash are mined with a graphics card. There are many currencies and each one has its peculiarities.
Regarding the PCI lines of the processor, AMD concentrates them all in the processor and has 64, it is true, but the Skylake-X have 44 exclusive lines for the graphics cards, controlled and managed by the processor and another 24 lines in the chipset for the storage.
And how many lines does AMD have in the chipset?