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Topic: ASUS B250 Mining Expert MB - 19 Cards! - page 15. (Read 31122 times)

newbie
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March 03, 2018, 07:11:22 AM
I dont use molex

13 amd radeon 570
2x evga g2 1600w (gpu + risers powered directly from vga slots on psu)
Pentium g4560
4gb ram
Win 10

Currently hashing 30.2 mh/s on each gpu.
Power draw from the wall: 1520W 220V

OC directly in claymore
Clocks/volt 1150/0850 2150/0850

2 more rigs coming up this weekend.
It is very stable. Mining for a week without issues.
full member
Activity: 728
Merit: 115
March 03, 2018, 06:44:35 AM
If you use powered risers, you don't need to use the MOLEX at all. Then there is no question of "which PS should be attached to which MOLEX" on the MB.
Does that mean either using powered risers and no MOLEX, or passive risers with MOLEX will lead to the same result?

(I don't have that board, just curious)

It should be like that, look at this asus build, not even one picture with molex pluged in.




http://edgeup.asus.com/2017/b250-mining-expert-motherboard-19-pcie-blockchain-beast/






full member
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March 03, 2018, 03:55:22 AM
If you use powered risers, you don't need to use the MOLEX at all. Then there is no question of "which PS should be attached to which MOLEX" on the MB.
Does that mean either using powered risers and no MOLEX, or passive risers with MOLEX will lead to the same result?

(I don't have that board, just curious)
full member
Activity: 728
Merit: 115
March 03, 2018, 03:11:41 AM
The molex were the issue. I had to plug them all in. Thanks for your help



What cards do you have on your rig.
Its strange because even the Asus on their test bench didn't use molex because of powered risers.
newbie
Activity: 38
Merit: 0
March 03, 2018, 01:41:45 AM
I've had much better luck with the previous BIOS update and not the latest.  I had some performance issues on the latest and quickly reverted back.
jr. member
Activity: 234
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March 03, 2018, 01:06:38 AM
FYI
I Fixed It!!! Smiley
Reinstalled Invidia driver & reboot.
Then - DAG Error 11
Increased virtual memory from 16 to 32
RX580's seem slow, I will have to look into OC Bios

One glitch I've noticed - Win10 - When 2nd bank of GPU's is used - When I try to click on the Window/Start Button nothing happens.  I have to right click and choose an option from that menu.  Wish I new Linux.  But I barely know Windows. Angry

My rig 1 B250 Asus ME board has this same glitch when you click on windows/start button too. This rig has 6 AMD cards on it and 2 Nvidia.
hero member
Activity: 2114
Merit: 562
March 03, 2018, 12:59:45 AM
I had also a problem with this mobo, after my bios update I was not able to save the bios settings, it always back to cpu instead of pcie, it's annoying!
jr. member
Activity: 234
Merit: 2
March 03, 2018, 12:47:31 AM
So after some more reading, I'm now rather considering the Gigabyte B250 instead of the Asus B250 Mining Expert, because shared PCIe lanes are just no good idea.

So what's the catch to be running more than 12 GPUs on the Asus B250? You have to be running GPUs from Asus for the remaining 7 slots, right? If doing it with 12 x GeForce 1070 + 7 x Asus, can it be really running stable?

Running 13 radeon 570. No problemo. Havent tried with 14.
For the last 6 u need mining cards.

My rig 2 is running 10 Nvidia Cards but will show red on the 11th card if added.  Im running windows 10 pro updated to 1709.  Bios is up to date.  8gb (4gb in each slot).  Runs flawlessly with 10 cards and its a set it and forget rig until you stick that 11th card in then it will not see it in device manager.  So i obviously didnt follow the owners manual about mixing in AMD cards (I only own 8 AMD cards and they are on a nother B250 m/b).  Has anyone else had this no 11th card recognize problem?
newbie
Activity: 38
Merit: 0
March 02, 2018, 10:10:01 PM
Glad you got it!

Also, double-check the instructions but if I remember correctly you have to have the same power supply plugged into all three (or at least the groups you're using).  I saw somewhere someone was trying different psu's in each or something.  Can't remember, but worth confirming in the instruction manual.
newbie
Activity: 38
Merit: 0
March 02, 2018, 09:23:52 PM
I have built my first rig using Nividia 1060 GPU's. SMOS Ubuntu USB stick.
So far I've installed 3 GPU's but when I boot it only shows the first one as green and the other two are red. The fan comes on for the first GPU but not the the other two. PSU is working and I'm powering the GPU's and risers from a 1200W corsair.
It is mining on one GPU right now. I've tried to adopt everything I have read on this thread and updated the BIOS. The BIOS has also been updated to the latest from Asus.

Any ideas why it only recognizes and powers one GPU?


Check your cables.  Sounds like either the usb cable isn't running from the PCIe slot to the riser, the riser isn't powered, or the card isn't powered.  Also, make sure you're starting from group 1 of the PCIe slots.  My first B250 wouldn't boot if I didn't have the 4pin molex plugged in for each group even if I had the risers powered separately - so check the instructions on that, but you might have to plug it in as well.
legendary
Activity: 1498
Merit: 1030
March 02, 2018, 03:14:09 PM
If you use powered risers, you don't need to use the MOLEX at all.
Then there is no question of "which PS should be attached to which MOLEX" on the MB.

sr. member
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Xtreme Monster
March 02, 2018, 02:21:39 AM
I would not experiment, if you can avoid that kind of stuff just go with school examples.
It should work because two PSU should be on same voltage potential but you never know what could happen if one PSU fails.
 

Not voltage potential, its called same power phase, if not then everything burns.
full member
Activity: 728
Merit: 115
March 02, 2018, 02:11:41 AM
Case:

Can I connect psu to port1 on mb and give power to gpu and riser that "belongs" to port 2 on mb?


I would not experiment, if you can avoid that kind of stuff just go with school examples.
It should work because two PSU should be on same voltage potential but you never know what could happen if one PSU fails.
 
newbie
Activity: 38
Merit: 0
March 01, 2018, 10:56:01 AM
Case:

Can I connect psu to port1 on mb and give power to gpu and riser that "belongs" to port 2 on mb?

I have two PSU's connected to my B250.  The first has the CPU line ran to the board. It also has a molex running to the first set of PCIe slots and if I remember correctly, you are supposed to use the same PSU for all three of the molex slots by the PCIe slots - I'm using the same PSU 1 for that.   Then I have a second PSU that is plugged into the #2 PSU slot on the board and runs to gpu's not connected to the first psu.
newbie
Activity: 312
Merit: 0
March 01, 2018, 05:18:22 AM
Case:

Can I connect psu to port1 on mb and give power to gpu and riser that "belongs" to port 2 on mb?
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February 28, 2018, 04:33:30 AM
Running 13 radeon 570. No problemo. Havent tried with 14.For the last 6 u need mining cards.
You mean the ASUS Mining P106, right? Without digging deep, what's the difference with that one so that it can run on shared PCIe lanes?
newbie
Activity: 312
Merit: 0
February 28, 2018, 04:27:43 AM
So after some more reading, I'm now rather considering the Gigabyte B250 instead of the Asus B250 Mining Expert, because shared PCIe lanes are just no good idea.

So what's the catch to be running more than 12 GPUs on the Asus B250? You have to be running GPUs from Asus for the remaining 7 slots, right? If doing it with 12 x GeForce 1070 + 7 x Asus, can it be really running stable?

Running 13 radeon 570. No problemo. Havent tried with 14.
For the last 6 u need mining cards.
full member
Activity: 238
Merit: 100
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February 28, 2018, 04:20:33 AM
So after some more reading, I'm now rather considering the Gigabyte B250 instead of the Asus B250 Mining Expert, because shared PCIe lanes are just no good idea.

So what's the catch to be running more than 12 GPUs on the Asus B250? You have to be running GPUs from Asus for the remaining 7 slots, right? If doing it with 12 x GeForce 1070 + 7 x Asus, can it be really running stable?
newbie
Activity: 5
Merit: 0
February 27, 2018, 06:03:41 PM
FYI
I Fixed It!!! Smiley
Reinstalled Invidia driver & reboot.
Then - DAG Error 11
Increased virtual memory from 16 to 32
RX580's seem slow, I will have to look into OC Bios

One glitch I've noticed - Win10 - When 2nd bank of GPU's is used - When I try to click on the Window/Start Button nothing happens.  I have to right click and choose an option from that menu.  Wish I new Linux.  But I barely know Windows. Angry
newbie
Activity: 5
Merit: 0
February 27, 2018, 05:03:55 PM
I have this board and was running 6 gtx1070's with claymore.  Decided to add more GPU's.  I am running Win10.  I was told I could only run 8 invidia & 8 AMD.  So I purchased 3 RX580's.  Now the Bios sees all the GPU's but Windows only recognizes 5 of the 1070's.  Any help would be appreciated.
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