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Buying a mining motherboard for...not mining...

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I'm putting together a budget build for...lulz (blame my addiction to building PCs). Mining motherboards are damn cheap but is it reliable for use cases outside its intent?

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The only thing that differentiates a mining board from a regular one is that it probably has worse VRMs and stuff to handle a powerful CPU (and overclock it) and the PCIe slots are split into a bunch of 1x, not a couple 16x and 8x.

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As a budget build I don't intend to get an overclockable CPU (I'm targeting a used i5 7500 right now) and I only need a single PCI-e x16 slot for a GPU. I noticed all the x1 slots that are meant as breakouts for PCI-e x16 daughter boards for mining but I won't be using those for anything other than maybe a wifi card.

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they work but tend to lack a few features you may want, like auto overclocking(just advanced boosting) or even in some cases lack basics such as a proper boot priority.

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