Mining board for gaming

[TeflonDom78]

OK, so i just picked up a very cheap asrock h81 pro R2.0 BTC mining board, i mean, VERY cheap

 

it's 1150 socket and i have a xeon chip to fit and have an rx 580 for it

 

Do you guys know of any issues i might have building a gaming rig?

[KarathKasun]

Poor BIOS/UEFI support/implementation.  Also, the x16 slot may only be wired for x1.

[porina]

There haven't really been bios updates for Haswell era boards for a long time, and it isn't an OC board either. So if you just want to throw in a cheap CPU and go, should be fine.

 

BTW I notice they're £25 on ebuyer and Amazon UK. Almost makes me think about it as a cheap compute solution.

[TeflonDom78]

7 minutes ago, KarathKasun said:

Poor BIOS/UEFI support/implementation.  Also, the x16 slot may only be wired for x1.

One of the pcie slots is 2.0 x16

[TeflonDom78]

Just now, porina said:

There haven't really been bios updates for Haswell era boards for a long time, and it isn't an OC board either. So if you just want to throw in a cheap CPU and go, should be fine.

 

BTW I notice they're £25 on ebuyer and Amazon UK. Almost makes me think about it as a cheap compute solution.

thats the board i have, its potentially going to be a 1080p medium/high system for COD and CSGO

[porina]

3 minutes ago, TeflonDom78 said:

thats the board i have, its potentially going to be a 1080p medium/high system for COD and CSGO

Get a decent CPU and I can't see any major problems with it being a value oriented solution. Did you have a CPU in mind?

 

I'm kinda curious myself as I have a spare Haswell i3 CPU and ram, so the mobo is all I need to get another system going.

 

Oh, I've also looked at the bios available for the mobo. The latest release is from 2014, was mining even a serious thing then? Beta bios from this year has microcode updates, presumably for Spectre/Meltdown.

[TeflonDom78]

I have a i7 4770 and a xeon E3 1231v3 but i'm going to use the xeon as the i7 is more saleable

 

plus the xeon is lower power draw, the board isn't exactly meant for powerful cpu's