THELOGICALINDIAN - On Wednesday The Verge appear that ASUS had appear one of its craziest creations yet This actuality an adapted adaptation of the ASUS Mining Master motherboard which now supports up to 20 cartoon cards
Mining Innovation: 20-GPU Supported Motherboard
In accustomed cases, it would be an impossibility to fit 20 cartoon cards all assimilate one motherboard. However, ASUS has provided an avant-garde fix for this issue, acceptance for PCI-E access through USB cords. As alluded to by the name of the motherboard, H370 Mining Master, this new allotment of computer accouterments is focused on larger-scale cryptocurrency miners who seek a college akin of mining efficiency.
The advertisement of this motherboard came afterwards aftermost year’s absolution of the 19-GPU B250 Mining Master, which was a forerunner to the now adapted board. In ASUS’ columnist release, the computer accouterments behemothic stated:
ASUS B250 Mining Expert fabricated aggressive cryptocurrency hobbyist farms added attainable and industrial-scale operations added efficient. It was badly successful, with a sales aggregate that far exceeded expectations.
Seeing that the antecedent abundance of the lath did well, it makes faculty that ASUS would try to allure alike added barter through an adapted model.
In the above columnist release, ASUS additionally noted:
With the abstraction accurate in convenance and added acumen acquired on what miners need, we redefined the blueprint for a additional generation.
The H370 MM lath will acquiesce for users to affix their lath to three ability food simultaneously, to advice run 20 GPUs active at abounding burke while mining.
To advice abutment miners active rigs application this board, ASUS has created a affection alleged “GPU State Detection” which will acquiesce for the arrangement to automatically analysis for the cachet of cartoon cards acquainted into the rig. This avant-garde arrangement will acquiesce for users active ample amounts of GPUs to save time in aliment scenarios by authoritative issues easier to analyze and diagnose.
The Current Mining Climate
Despite this able release, some critics accept amorphous to agnosticism the GPU mining market, as new ASIC releases by BitMain accept threatened the adherence of the accepted cryptocurrency mining climate. Abounding associates of the cryptocurrency association accept that ASICs advance centralization, anon activity adjoin the decentralized attributes of abounding cryptocurrencies.
These new Bitmain ASICs, which run on the Equihash and EthHash POW algorithms, accept threatened accepted cryptocurrencies, Ethereum and ZCash.
ZCash and Ethereum accept continued been the best accepted GPU mineable coins, with abounding customer and automated miners axis to these cryptocurrencies as their capital choice. But the two communities surrounding these cryptocurrencies are still debating whether it will be advantageous to booty countermeasures adjoin ASIC miners.
Even if GPU-mineable bill adjudge to fork away from ASIC miners, there is no agreement that accustomed consumers will be able to access 20 GPUs to abide their H370 board. Last year’s cryptocurrency countdown saw GPUs actuality bound bought up, as miners approved their best to capitalize on the exponential access of cryptocurrency price. But alike admitting 2018 is about center over, not abundant has afflicted for the availability of cartoon cards.
ASUS still has not appear the amount for this able allotment of mining hardware, but abounding apprehend this lath to abatement about in the $300 range, as aftermost year’s mining lath ran for $250.
If you appetite to go see it in activity for yourself, go appointment ASUS at Computex 2024 in Taipei for a attending at a audience rig active the motherboard. But if you can’t accomplish it to Computex, you can apprehend for the motherboard to address in the closing bisected of this year, with ASUS acknowledging that it will be accessible for North American cryptocurrency miners in Q3.
