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Guru3D.com » News » Some photos of that fascinating ASUS H370 Mining Master with 20 USB Ports

Some photos of that fascinating ASUS H370 Mining Master with 20 USB Ports

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 06/07/2018 07:14 PM | source: | 9 comment(s)
Some photos of that fascinating ASUS H370 Mining Master with 20 USB Ports

Remember that weird looking ASUS H370 Mining Master motherboard announced a couple of weeks ago? It's on display at Computex and I haz got some photos. Despite its functionality, this just tickles my hardware senses as it can utilize 20 GPUs Over USB with PCIe riser.

The H370 Mining Master increases density with support for up to 20 graphics cards, simplifies connectivity by letting USB riser cables plug directly into the PCB, and reduces downtime by making problems easier to diagnose.  Mining is a numbers game; it’s only worthwhile if the value of the cryptocurrency you generate exceeds the cost of producing it. Increasing the number of graphics cards per node is a great way to stack the deck in your favor. This allows you to allocate more of your hardware and power budget to the GPUs that create wealth rather than motherboards, CPUs, and other system components that act as the supporting cast.

 

With 12 Radeon RX 470 and eight NVIDIA P104 cards tied to a single motherboard, an ASUS  test rig highlights how much horsepower can be harnessed by the H370 Mining Master. The graphics cards are mounted in a special rack built just for this machine by their partners at Cooler Master. Spacing out the cards gives the GPU coolers room to breathe, which is vital when the underlying chips run continuously at full tilt. PCIe risers make configurations like this possible by connecting each graphics card to the motherboard with a length of flexible cable. 

 

 

Crunching crypto blocks doesn’t require a lot of interface bandwidth, so each card can get by with a PCIe x1 link routed over USB 3.1 Gen 1 wiring. The risers responsible are typically made up of three pieces: the x16 slot that hosts the graphics card, the x1 card that plugs into the motherboard, and the USB cable that connects them. The H370 Mining Master simplifies this chain by replacing its predecessor’s x1 slots with banks of vertical PCIe-over-USB ports that let riser cables plug right into the motherboard.

 

Specifications
H370 Mining Master Motherboard
Size ATX, 12”x9.1”
Socket LGA 1151 for Intel 8th Gen Core / Pentium / Celeron processors
Memory 2 x DIMMs (max. 32GB)
DDR4 2666 / 2400 / 2133 MHz 
Non-ECC, unbuffered memory
PCIe 1 x PCIe x16 slot
Storage 2 x Serial ATA 6.0 Gb/s connectors
Networking 1 x Intel® Gigabit LAN
USB GPU Riser Ports 20 x Vertical USB ports over PCIe
USB Ports 6 x USB 3.1 Gen 1, 4 x USB 2.0 / 1.1 ports
Other Ports 1 x COM header

 

The vertical USB ports are made specifically for riser cards. They’re fed by PCI Express lanes in the Intel H370 chipset, so they’re incompatible with ASIC mining modules that require a true USB connection. We built this board to master the art of mining with GPUs, whose general-purpose computing prowess can chew through new algorithms long before purpose-built silicon is announced, let alone available. One graphics card can also sit in the available x16 slot on the motherboard, but installing it there disables the first riser port, so the maximum is still 20 cards total.



Some photos of that fascinating ASUS H370 Mining Master with 20 USB Ports Some photos of that fascinating ASUS H370 Mining Master with 20 USB Ports Some photos of that fascinating ASUS H370 Mining Master with 20 USB Ports




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gerardfraser
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#5554563 Posted on: 06/07/2018 08:37 PM
That board is amazing.

Kaarme
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#5554609 Posted on: 06/07/2018 11:01 PM
So, if I understood correctly, those vertical ports aren't in fact USB3 ports, they are PCIe slots that have been mutilated into the shape of a USB3 port, but are in no way compatible with the USB standard? So, you couldn't take this mobo and attach to it 26 external USB3 HDDs for a really weird NAS.

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#5554620 Posted on: 06/07/2018 11:49 PM
Dont see much point in this at this stage. ASICs are proving far more cost effective. Bitmain is releasing the B3 eth miner capable of 180mh/s for $800 in July. Hopefully GPU mining will be a thing of the past within next year or so.

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#5554621 Posted on: 06/07/2018 11:49 PM
Correct, it's common for mining systems to attach GPUs in this way using risers such as this https://www.scan.co.uk/products/scanfx-1x-to-16x-pci-e-power-riser-card-extension-via-usb-30-sata-power-and-6-pin-pcie-connection-cr

USB3 cables are just a cheap and convenient cable to use for the job. It's in no way a USB port.

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#5554727 Posted on: 06/08/2018 10:03 AM
i think the point of gpu mining is that you can still sell them of other purposes ( their original one ! ) once they are no more mining profitable.

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