Colorful has developed an exotic motherboard for Ethereum and Zcash mining, which does not meet any motherboard standard and has eight PCIe 3.0 x16 ports.

It is clear that cryptocurrencies are here to stay and are becoming popular, as is their mining. As you well know, currently the best coins to mine with GPUs are Ethereum and Zcash, although there are other options such as LBRY or Signatum that are being mined for their potential, while Bitcoin is mined exclusively with ASIC. For mining with GPUs, special motherboards are being developed by the largest manufacturers, such as ASUS, ASRock or Biostar, but Colorful did not want to miss this occasion.

The motherboard developed by Colorful is atypical and rare and has been christened Colorful C.B250A-BTC PLUS V20. We say that it is rare, because it does not have a PCIe 3.0 x16 port and the rest PCIe 2.0 x1, but rather it has a PCIe 3.0 x16 port and seven PCIe 3.0 x16 ports that work in x1 mode, something that we had not seen so far. The outlier section is that it does not meet any motherboard standard, it is a 485mm long and 195mm wide motherboard, therefore we have a random format motherboard and stick around.

This eccentric motherboard has sixteen PCIe 6-pin connectors directly on the motherboard, we imagine that to feed the graphics cards, although it is not fully understood what they look like there. This motherboard only supports one module from [amazon_textlink asin = 'B00J8E8ZLK' text = 'RAM memory' template = 'ProductLink' store = 'hardwa028-21 ′ marketplace =' ES 'link_id =' ce86a833-9792-11e7-8079-d5c23f79db72 ′] Type SO-DIMM DDR4 2400MHz, a SATA port and an M.2 port, it has an LGA 1151 socket and on the I / O panel, to call it somehow, we have two USB 3.0 ports, an HDMI output and a connector Gigabit Ethernet, period. We may be looking at the rarest motherboard for mining and possibly the least successful.

Source: TPU