Divided into three parts for slots and power headers, optimized for multi-GPU environments

ASUS announced that it will be launching the ASUS B250 MINING EXPERT, a motherboard dedicated to cryptocurrency mining with 19 PCIe (PCI Express) expansion slots, the largest number for a single motherboard.

ASUS’s B250 MINING EXPERT motherboard for cryptocurrency mining supports up to eight AMD and NVIDIA-based graphics card drivers for multi-GPU setups. This allows you to build a mining environment with up to 16 graphics cards when using AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards.

Designed based on the Intel B250 chipset that supports Intel's 6th generation Skylake and 7th generation Kaby Lake processors, this product has three ATX 12V (24-pin) power connectors for stable operation and support for 19 PCIe slots, and is designed to build a stable multi-GPU environment by dividing the PCIe slots and power header area into three zones.

It also provides an intuitive UI that allows you to easily check if there are any problems with the PCIe slots on your motherboard for mining purposes. It has a PCIe Slot State Detection function that tells you which PCIe slot a problematic graphics card is connected to, and it provides a BIOS that is configured to match a motherboard for cryptocurrency mining.

The ASUS B250 MINING EXPERT supports up to 32GB of 2400MHz DDR4 memory, a total of six USB 3.1 ports and four USB 3.0 ports. It provides four SATA3 ports, offering wide expandability, and the six-phase Digi+ VRM power supply supports stable operation.

The development philosophy of ASUS B250 MINING EXPERT is 'ROI maximization'. The higher the cost of obtaining 1MH, the more mining fees users have to pay, but B250 MINING EXPERT can save users up to $1.83USD (compared to a motherboard with 6 graphics cards connected) to obtain 1MH.
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The ASUS B250 MINING EXPERT's 19 PCIe slots consist of 18 PCIe 3.0 x1 and 1 PCIe 3.0 x16. In order to provide stable power to all of the PCIe slots, the slots are divided into three groups and managed. Of the three 24-pin power connectors installed on the product, the top-most connector 1 supplies power to PCIe slots 1 to 7, the middle connector supplies power to slots 8 to 13, and the bottom connector supplies power to slots 14 to 19.

The sole PCIe 3.0 x16 slot is handled by the top connector. Additionally, a total of three Molex connectors are installed to provide sufficient power to each individual slot, and a dedicated capacitor installed in each slot stably controls the voltage supported by the GPU.

An ASUS representative said, “Compared to existing 12-slot and 6-slot mining boards from other companies, the B250 MINING Expert product is expected to bring great cost savings to users when building or operating a mining system.”