Biostar announces new RYZEN mining motherboard

[ImBleu]

Source: http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=882#overview

 

 

Lesser known motherboard manufacturer Biostar just released a new AMD AM4 based motherboard specifically for gpu mining able to support AMD and Nvidia cards mining at the same time. Featuring just 2 DDR4 dimms, 6 PCIe slots and 2x additional 12V 4pin power headers to help power your 6 cards. Seems a bit odd as they promote it on social media with the phrase "Time is money to make your ROI the most efficient" but chose to base this on Ryzen, which has no CPU in a price bracket near the Celerons, Pentiums and i3s used by most mining rigs. The cheapest Ryzen CPU, the R5 1400 comes in at $169.99, almost 3x the price of the Pentium G4400 at $59.99. No information on pricing or availability just yet for the motherboard but hopefully soon before the craze starts fading for their sake.

 

 

[Lurick]

I've got the B250 version of the board and it's a very nice board. Glad to see they have an AMD version coming out now too  

[ImBleu]

6 hours ago, Lurick said:

I've got the B250 version of the board and it's a very nice board. Glad to see they have an AMD version coming out now too  

Just seems odd as mining requires very minimal CPU power so most miners (myself included) go for Pentiums/i3s which are less than half the cost of the cheapest Ryzen CPU. It's all about return on investment, so why would you needlessly spend up to an extra $100 minimum for no gain - unless this motherboard is dirt cheap it seems like a bad move until Ryzen 3 1200s come out at hopefully near $60-$80.

[Lurick]

1 minute ago, ThatCoolBlueKidd said:

Just seems odd as mining requires very minimal CPU power so most miners (myself included) go for Pentiums/i3s which are less than half the cost of the cheapest Ryzen CPU. It's all about return on investment, so why would you needlessly spend up to an extra $100 minimum for no gain - unless this motherboard is dirt cheap it seems like a bad move until Ryzen 3 1200s come out at hopefully near $60-$80.

Agreed, I assumed it was targeted for release around the time of the Ryzen 3 chips release since it would only make sense for those chips, but I could be wrong on the release timing so who knows.

[ImBleu]

7 hours ago, huilun02 said:

Not something you'd use to start a miner from scratch, but good for those who already have a Ryzen

Unless Ryzen 3 is coming soon

Exactly - but who would have a spare $170 cpu laying around. Just seems like they should've waited a bit longer for the Ryzen 3 unless theyre releasing later in the cycle.

[imluvian]

6 minutes ago, ThatCoolBlueKidd said:

Just seems odd as mining requires very minimal CPU power so most miners (myself included) go for Pentiums/i3s which are less than half the cost of the cheapest Ryzen CPU. It's all about return on investment, so why would you needlessly spend up to an extra $100 minimum for no gain - unless this motherboard is dirt cheap it seems like a bad move until Ryzen 3 1200s come out at hopefully near $60-$80.

Care to share the specs of your mining rigs please?

[ImBleu]

7 hours ago, imluvian said:

Care to share the specs of your mining rigs please?

Both are:

 

Intel Pentium G4400

MSI Gaming X RX580 8GB (x2)

4GB Corsair LPX DDR4

AsRock H170M Pro4

Silverstone Strider 550w 80+ Bronze

 

Came up to about $750USD each and produce about $220 a month. 

[Taf the Ghost]

There are AM4 APUs already, but they're OEM only and almost wholly in China. Though I imagine the Ryzen 3 and the Raven Ridge APUs will be too late before the craze has died down.

[ImBleu]

7 hours ago, Taf the Ghost said:

There are AM4 APUs already, but they're OEM only and almost wholly in China. Though I imagine the Ryzen 3 and the Raven Ridge APUs will be too late before the craze has died down.

R3 is slated for a Q3 2017 launch so maybe not. Just have a month or so to go.

[imluvian]

1 minute ago, ThatCoolBlueKidd said:

Both are:

 

Intel Pentium G4400

MSI Gaming X RX580 8GB (x2)

4GB Corsair LPX DDR4

AsRock H170M Pro4

Silverstone Strider 550w 80+ Bronze

 

Came up to about $750USD each and produce about $220 a month. 

Tx for sharing, though RX580s are not available now

[ImBleu]

6 hours ago, imluvian said:

Tx for sharing, though RX580s are not available now

They are very available here in Hong Kong I'm planning on buying 20 to sell on ebay with markup because they're so readily available. 

[imluvian]

2 minutes ago, ThatCoolBlueKidd said:

They are very available here in Hong Kong I'm planning on buying 20 to sell on ebay with markup because they're so readily available. 

What is the average price of a mentioned RX580 in your area?

[ImBleu]

7 hours ago, imluvian said:

What is the average price of a mentioned RX580 in your area?

new they are $2000 - $2400 HKD, so $250 to $305 USD

[Narnash]

Pricing seams a bit high, maybe they target people that game if they have time and mine in idle and at night.

 

Note: this may be basicly only a placeholder price  

Edited June 26, 2017 by Narnash
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[The Benjamins]

23 minutes ago, ThatCoolBlueKidd said:

Just seems odd as mining requires very minimal CPU power so most miners (myself included) go for Pentiums/i3s which are less than half the cost of the cheapest Ryzen CPU. It's all about return on investment, so why would you needlessly spend up to an extra $100 minimum for no gain - unless this motherboard is dirt cheap it seems like a bad move until Ryzen 3 1200s come out at hopefully near $60-$80.

Nicehash calculator shows that a overclocked 1700 @ 4.0 can make $1.5/D of profit

[MyName13]

15 minutes ago, Tedny said:

DVI on bord? R3 will have iGpu ? 

Lots of am4 motherboards have video output for ryzen APUs.

[Doobeedoo]

Miners rise. Hopefully they won't eat Vega later.

[PlayStation 2]

but why

[ChineseChef]

I would have thought a mining board would have more regular sized PCI slots to fill it up with GPUs.  Whats with all the PCI express slots?

[The Benjamins]

30 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

but why

For cyptocoin mining.

They do not need PCIe speed so running 4+ GPUs at 1x is fine.

[PocketNerd]

Is it just me or does that board only have one PCI-E 3.0 slot?

So much for having 6 GPUs all running at once.

[Yoinkerman]

My ryzen chip itself makes about $1.10/day with CPU power to spare so it's not useless to have an am4 board

[The Benjamins]

1 hour ago, PocketNerd said:

Is it just me or does that board only have one PCI-E 3.0 slot?

So much for having 6 GPUs all running at once.

in BTC mining you do not need a x8 or x16 PCIe connection, x1 is good enough.

they used PCIe 1x risers to attach all the GPU's.

[PocketNerd]

2 hours ago, The Benjamins said:

in BTC mining you do not need a x8 or x16 PCIe connection, x1 is good enough.

they used PCIe 1x risers to attach all the GPU's.

Ah, I see. Carry on, then!

[Jito463]

14 hours ago, ThatCoolBlueKidd said:

R3 is slated for a Q3 2017 launch so maybe not. Just have a month or so to go.

Except Q3 could mean anywhere between July 1st and September 30th.  Given AMD's end quarter launches lately, I wouldn't be surprised if it's at least August before they launch.