REBTECH 8GPU-MB, AMD A6-8500, 4G DDR3, 120G mSATA, 8 x USB/PCIEx
First mining motherboard whit small All-In One design and USB integrated connection to the VGAs.
+No need for USB to PCI adapters
+Integrated AMD APU whit low energy consumption
+Powered whit 12V 6 PIN socket, no need for ATX PSUs
The RebTech USB-VGA AMD Radeon RX470 8GB video card may seem like a traditional RX 470 GPU, but it is not, it is designed specifically for use for GPU mining (Ethereum in particular as a focus). These GPUs do come with a built-in PCI-E extender via USB transfer cable with direct USB connector onboard instead of a traditional PCI-E slot. They use a specific mounting plane and the lack of a traditional x16 PCI-E slot on the board allows for some clever new ways of mounting the GPUs. Even though they are apparently designed to be used for mining these video cards still do feature a single HDMI video output, so that you can connect a display. Now we would love to see similar designs with more powerful AMD GPUs as well as with Nvidia GPUS…
The RebTech 8GPU-MB mining motherboard is what is more interesting here as it offers an all-in-one solution with everything you need to setup up to 8x GPU mining rig with it. The motherboard comes with AMD A6-8500 CPU with integrated GPU, 4G DDR3 RAM, 120G MSATA SSD and features 8x USB/PCI-E extenders on board. The whole thing is similar in size and in form factor to a GPU and you can apparently mount it just like another video card in your mining configuration. What makes it even more interesting is the fact that the motherboard is powered with 12V only via a single 6-pin PCI-E power connector, again just like a video card. This means that you can go with a cheaper and more efficient server-type power supply that only outputs 12V, similar to what most popular ASIC miners go along with.
Both the RebTech Blockchain Motherboard and the Blockchain Video Cards are interesting products for miners, especially for those interested into larger scale operations as the products do offer some interesting and very useful advantages. The only thing that worries us a bit here is that although the company claims to be in the mining business since 2012 their website is just two months old…
SPECIFICATION
Form factor Mini PC, VGA dimensions
CPU/APU AMD A6-8500P FP4 SOC , Radeon R5 Embedded Graphics
15W TDP , 1.6Ghz , 1MB L2 Cache , 4 Cores
Memory 4G 1600MHz SO-DIMM DDR3 SILICONPOWER
Storage 120G mSATA M10 SILICONPOWER
Expansion slots 8 x PCIex via USB3.0 Connectors
LAN RJ45 10/100/1000 Controller
Power 12V 6PIN PCI socket
Video out HDMI 1.4
External I/O 1 x USB 2.0, 2 x USB 3.0
Power 12V 6PIN PCI socket
Dimensions L: 250mm, W: 40mm, H: 100mm
OS Support Windows® 7 32/64 bit , Windows® 8.1 64 bit
Windows® 10 64 bit , Linux Closed Source 64 bit ,
Linux Open Source 64 bit
Warranty 12 Months