ASRock announced today that they’re releasing a motherboard that is specifically targeted at GPU miners. Although ASRock is marketing it as a “bitcoin mining” motherboard, it’ll likely prove far more interesting to scypt-based coin miners (litecoin, etc), as bitcoin mining is now pretty much the realm of ASIC-based hardware.
The H81 Pro BTC has 6 PCIe slots, which means it will support a maximum of six GPUs. The remarkable feature is the inclusion of two molex power connectors on the motherboard, which should prevent the need for powered risers entirely.
It’ll be interesting to see how the board is priced.
you’re going to need a bigger boat….
this board is garbage.. Just hooked it up and it doesn’t even detect all the cards.. two out of six cards detected a few restarts and driver reintalls and it fluctuates the detection to 5 then 3 etc.. The sata3 ports dont even work im running on sata2 ports with my SSD.. Stick to MSI if you want a legit board.
My setup:;
G3220 3.0ghz LGA1150
ASCrap H81 HTC Noob
1x LEPA 1600w PSU
1x LEPA 1250w PSU
1 Add2PSU adapter
3x R9 280x
3x R9 290x
8GB Ram
Force 3 128GB SSD
I fried 3 290s on this mobo. I’m also a newb. Thanks asrock. I’ll never buy anything from your company again.