ASRock H110 PRO BTC+ Motherboard Has 13 PCIe Slots For Mining Enthusiasts
Right now we have a cryptocurrency mining boom and interest in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and other currencies is higher than ever. At Computex 2017 we learned that ASRock is launching a new motherboard with a mouth watering 13 PCIe slots. The ASRock H110 Pro BTC+ motherboard uses the Intel H110 chipset (6W TDP) for LGA1151 processors and should be a monster. We aren’t sure if this board comes with PCIe x1 to PCIe x16 riser cards, but we hope it does as those are getting tough to find and often some arrive DOA. If you put 13 AMD Radeon RX 480 video cards (150W TDP) into this beast you are looking at 1950W plus the board, CPU and other items that consume power. It looks like that 2200 Wattt Power supply we saw at Computex might actually be handy for boards like this. If you have 13 AMD Radeon RX 480/580 cards and have them optimized for mining with all the latest tweaks you are looking at roughly 27 MH/s per card on Ethereum mining, so a setup like that will give you roughly 350 MH/s. At current prices that will give you nearly $22,000 a year of profit$22,000 a year of profit from one board. The hard part will be finding 13 Radeon RX 400 or 500 series cards to buy to build one of these! This would make for one heck of a dedicated mining board and those mine cryptocurrencies should like it. We aren’t sure what the price will be or when it will arrive, but ASRock said it will be soon (update: first retail boards will be shipping in July 2017) . Hopefully it will arrive before the move to Proof of Stake really takes off!
Be sure to check out our article showing off the performance on over 15 GPUs when we were doing Ethereum mining to find the best GPU.
At Computex 2017 this machine was being shown off, but they only had 8 AMD Radeon RX 470 video cards in the demo unit. ASRock said that there is an 8 GPU limitation on Windows 10 on one OS install and that they are talking with AMD/Microsoft to see if that can be expanded. It looks like you’d have to run Linux to run this many cards on one system!
