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BIOSTAR Offers Accessory to Convert Your Gaming PC into a Professional Mining Rig

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/15/2017 08:13 AM | source: | 5 comment(s)
BIOSTAR Offers Accessory to Convert Your Gaming PC into a Professional Mining Rig

Biostar offers a Crypto Mining Card for graphics card expansion to fully convert your gaming PC to a professional cryptocurrency mining rig that can handle up to 8 graphics cards (the motherboard requires 6 PCI-e slots). 

The new BIOSTAR Crypto Mining Card allows BIOSTAR’s hot selling gaming motherboards, like RACING H170GT3, GAMING H170T, Hi-Fi H170S3H, Hi-Fi B150S1, Hi-Fi B150S1 D4, or TB150 PRO to be used for crypto mining applications and expand on its primary function as an entertainment, workstation or gaming machine.  This makes it easy to explore the growing market of cryptocurrency mining and avail of your existing gaming system. By extending support for 8 graphics cardsto the max (the motherboard requires 6 PCI-e slots), the Crypto Mining Card can return your investment on your system by giving you the flexibility to create a mining rig to generate income from mining popular cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, Ethereum or Zcash. 

The BIOSTAR Crypto Mining Card is designed for BISOTAR gaming motherboards, such as the models mentioned above and more, turning into a crypto mining base. To increase the mining profitability, this Crypto Mining Card can let mining enthusiasts set up their mining machine up to 8 slots to utilize more GPUs for more mining power.

The BIOSTAR Crypto Mining Card is exclusively compatible with select BIOSTAR motherboards. Please see list for the specific motherboards: RACING H170GT3, GAMING H170T, Hi-Fi H170S3H, Hi-Fi B150S1, Hi-Fi B150S1 D4, or TB150 PRO. 

he BIOSTAR Crypto Mining Card connects to the existing PCI-e x1 slots on supported motherboards and can connect to PCI-e risers for much more graphics card slots. This solution is perfect for people who want to have the flexibility of a gaming PC that can transition to a mining rig after or during its primary function. BIOSTAR allows its gaming and other series motherboards to utilize this expandability to create a new breed of motherboards for both entertainment and crypto mining.

 

Mining Hardware Guide

There’s a lot to consider before getting started in setting up your crypto mining machine. We highly recommend starting with AMD graphics card like the BIOSTAR RX 470 graphics card.  After which, other components are chosen and the necessary parts are ready including PCI-e riser cards and if you’ll be using around six graphics cards, we highly recommend one 80 PLUS Platinum certified 1200W power supply. The BIOSTAR motherboard for crypto mining series features dedicated two AUX power connectors for reinforced VGA power delivery for superior system stability and enhance GPU performance.



BIOSTAR Offers Accessory to Convert Your Gaming PC into a Professional Mining Rig BIOSTAR Offers Accessory to Convert Your Gaming PC into a Professional Mining Rig BIOSTAR Offers Accessory to Convert Your Gaming PC into a Professional Mining Rig




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Humanoid_1
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#5431994 Posted on: 05/15/2017 05:05 PM
I imagine gear like this would be Great for setting up a home render farm without having to buy more traditional and expensive solutions :)

tunaphish6
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#5432030 Posted on: 05/15/2017 06:29 PM
Is crypto-mining even still lucrative?

The difficulty was high enough when I started, and that was back when bitcoins were a mere $30.

And then it begs the question--why are companies selling these supposedly lucrative mining devices instead of using them themselves?

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#5432032 Posted on: 05/15/2017 06:40 PM
Doesn't mining require a Pickaxe?

RedSquirrel
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#5432061 Posted on: 05/15/2017 08:21 PM
If you want to make money from "mining", you either trade the currency and hope you don't get hacked or scammed, or you sell stuff for people to "mine" it with. You categorically do not attempt to mine it yourself, been like that for years.

The entire thing is a f**king joke anyhow, only used to launder money and monetise rather sick and depraved crimes. Not with a barge pole.

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#5432074 Posted on: 05/15/2017 09:08 PM
Bitcoin topped $1,800.00 yesterday, and there are lots of altcoins that are GPU mining oriented that bring in good money. It's certainly possible to make a living completely from cryptomining, although due to the volatility of it I feel it's best as a supplemental income (unless you have the space, time, and electricity capacity to go large scale).

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