BIOSTAR at COMPUTEX 2018 - Motherboards With a Focus on Mining

[Raevenlord]

At COMPUTEX 2018, we took a detour through BIOSTAR's booth to check exactly what products the company felt like showcasing to the world. The result was a look at the company's (now not so recent) focus on mining products, materialized in their TB-360-BTC Expert motherboard (an H370 motherboard with 16x PCIe 1x slots for graphics card integration via risers). The TB360-BTC+ cuts that number of PCIe 1x ports down to 7, and makes use of Intel's B360 chipset.





BIOSTAR's TB360-BTC Pro brings the number of PCIe ports up again to 11x PCIe 1x ports; and finally, the TB360-BTC D+ brings the mining apparatus to a whole new level, though it does seem like a waste of PCB space to provide so many PCIe x16 slots. It does mean users don't need to use risers and create or purchase a rack for their graphics cards; this arrangement provides for a cleaner, space-saving build, for sure. Of course, this means there is an assortment of extra power pins to feed that many graphics cards built-in on the board as well.



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[FreedomEclipse]

I like how companies still be rolling out mining hardware when mining is a craze thats in various stages of decline.... I guess you could still use them as crunchers/folders.

Alternatively I suppose you could still repurpose this as a file storage server. Just install some raid cards and you could have upto 30+ hard drives connected to it????

 

[_UV_]

Even if "home miners" with say 3-10 cards sell them and find something else to do, there are real big installations, and they will be functional for at least a year and they need spares.