It seems that Asus motherboard mining game they raise with the successor to Asus Motherboard they B250 Mining Expert with 19 Slot PCI-E. This new mining motherboard called Asus H370 Mining Master and comes with support to 20 GPU use PCIe directly via the USB connection.
The presence of a direct USB connector mounted on the motherboard to simplify connectivity with USB cable riser let go directly to the PCB and the direct connection is stronger than using card PCIe, with the possibility of termination not less than intentional, and also reduce the total number of parts in Your rig.
You may notice that in addition to the USB 3.0 connector 20 on the motherboard there is also one PCI-E x 16 slot, but this does not mean you can have a GPU 21. PCI-E x 16 slot and a USB 3.0 connector first labeled A01 and lane sharing the same PCI-E, so you can only have one of those working with the GPU, not both at the same time.
Motherboard Mining H370 Mining Master include a series of diagnostic features designed to make Your land more readily diagnosed and managed if there is a problem. Very useful is the detection of the country the GPU (available at Asus B250 Mining Expert as well), which scans the system at boot and indicates whether each port riser is empty, is connected to the graphics card is functional, or having problems.
The updated Status of the detection of GUI clearly identifying the location and status of each port along with the alphanumeric code identify it. To further simplify the troubleshooting, the Board will be sent with the same alphanumeric label to be attached to the riser card. You will be able to quickly see the label to find the GPU that is marked instead of being forced to track the path of the cable connected to the port that is affected.
Specifications Asus H370 Mining Master:
– Size: ATX, 12″ x 9.1″
– Socket: LGA 1151 for Intel 8th Gen Core, Pentium, and Celeron processors
– Memory: 2 x DIMMs (max. 32GB), DDR4 2666/2400/2133MHz, Non-ECC, unbuffered memory
– Slots: 1 x PCIe x16
– Storage: 2 x Serial ATA 6Gbps
– Networking: 1 x Intel Gigabit LAN
– GPU riser ports: 20 x PCIe over USB (vertical)
– USB ports: 6 x USB 3.1 Gen 1, 4 x USB 2.0/1.1
– Other: 1 x COM header
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An efficient mining also takes a few tweaks the UEFI consolidated in a Special Mining Mode on the motherboard. PCIe lanes set to run at a speed of Gen 1 to improve the compatibility and stability of riser card with USB, above 4 g Decoding is enabled, which is very important to support many of the graphics card, and the launch of the CSM is disabled, the allows the motherboard and graphics UEFI synchronize with each other.
Just like its predecessor, B250 Mining Expert, H370 Mining the new Master comes with a trio of main power supply connector 24-pin, so that you can connect to up to three PSU simultaneously. Each tied to the bank is separate from the riser port, allowing you to increase the number of GPU and gradually add more resources as needed.
Some motherboards require modification and special startup sequence to run on some of the PSU, but Master adapted to the task. All it takes is a power connector for PCIe on every graphics card to plugged into the power supply port on the same riser.
There has been no information about the price and availability of the motherboard, just that Asus is planning will be issued at the end of this year. But Asus H370 Mining Master will be demonstrated running at full capacity in the custom mining rig was unveiled at Computex Taipei, Taiwan in 2018 from 5-9 in June.