I purchased the above to replace a Gigabyte z170-ud5 th which had fussy pcie slots thinking it would simplify things, how wrong I was. The board has some nice ideas but it feels like betaware bios software rushed out before being ready to compete with Biostar/Asrock
Issue 1 - memory slots cheap looking and very tight fitting
Issue 2 - Will only boot with one slot populated with 8GB Corsair 3200MHz, filling both slots and it won't even attempt to boot, thought it was dead, removing second stick of RAM resolves issue, worked fine in old mobo
Issue 3 - Turning Mining Bios off or setting RAM memory settings manually causes POST to repetidly to fail, only way to POST is to set optimize defaults which also re-enables mining mode
Issue 4 - refuses to recognise more than 1 GPU on usb 3 risers (VOO7s)
Issue 5 - Manual very basic, even online is poor, the embedded QR codes in manual reference wrong motherboard sub-manuals
Issue 6 - No onboard error codes displayed, you need old world speaker beep codes, took me a day without pluging pcie mobo tester to find out it didn't like my RAM
Good points
1- supports 19 slots
2- usefull pre-diagnostic display of pcie slots in bios splash screen when booting, wont tell you what error is if any though
3 - can support 3 psu coonections if they work?- I have evo 1300w and 650w which appear to be working (fan spinning, card lighting up)
4 - could be 15% faster with single card when used with this mobo as opposed to old z170 board, could be chance?
So beta AMD drivers and what feels like beta bios software on motherboard = not good combination.
May have to send it back which is a shame since I wanted so much to like it.
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Fingers and both legs and arms crossed.
Tonight's the night!
no matter what u should always be able to populate all DIMM slots
higher spec RAM also should have no issues at lower speeds
my 3200 runs a crazy low latency at 2400 stable
all in all these mobos are very interesting with the on board multiple PSU support
and the caps for each pcie slot
i would RMA or exchange first
mining bios wont use dual channel memory so thats not the problem
the only problem he will have is he cannot, possibly, run that particular ram at its rated speed, possibly
until a particular code that works with that chip is built into the bios
This compatibility question is far more complex than you think (working or not)...
It's a common case, that a module works alone, but not working with another module, or just in dimm1, but not in dimm2 etc.
Biostar BTC+ Pro should be here today. I opted for this one instead as I want to minimize downtime and by getting another Asus Mining Expert (which will take again 5 days to get here, unless I pay ridiculous expedited shipping fee) I am putting my faith again that it's going to be from a good batch.
Didn't wanna risk another one and just ordered Biostar BTC+ Pro. Pretty tricky to setup but i'm out mining with 8 GPUs in no time.
And by that I mean after 25 minutes of BIOS fiddling.
I found no issues.
Working on Win10Pro64. Trying install Linux on my Rig to avoid limit 8 GPU Nvidia...
I got SimpleMining OS working fine with Asrock H110 BTC Pro but with Asus B250 it is not recognised as a bootable media any ideas ?
2 PSU, Master is 1275W and Slave is 1200W
will add more 2 GPU RX580 once receive more USB Raiser (delay on Mail)
Now I am learning how to do overclock
- 11 GTX 1070
- 2 GTX 1080Ti
I haven't had a single issue. Only drawback is that in order to get the extra 6 GPUs working, those need to be mining specific cards not standard cards which is a shame.
- 6x Asus GTX 1060
- 6x Asus P-106
On Windows all 12 were overclocked yielding 24MHs (on different motherboards). Overclocking is easy on Windows using MSI Afterburner. Same like you I am using Linux Ubuntu 16.04 but I still did not understand how to overclock the Nvidia GeForce GTX1060 on Linux. Already tried with nvidia-smi, nvidia-settings, etc, but noway... do you know about a good link I could use as a guide?all i found just shit
no exact material to learn just general talk
On bios boot settings I can see drives, but cannot boot.
Any thoughts?