going to buy a few of asus prime h270 plus 6x pcie slot + 2 x M.2 and will this mobo work?
https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/PRIME-H270-PLUS/there is 2 m.2 slot as well can we run 8 GPU on this?
Also i have one rig running nvOC on sandisk ultra usb 3 stick 16gb all seems running well, one issue i have is the boot takes almost 1 min. compare to simplemining its big difference. any idea how can i improve the boot up time?
maybe a 32gb faster usb sticks?
I won't have more m2 adapters until the weekend. I haven't tested any h270 mobos yet, not sure if they will be able to do 8 GPUs with adapters. If that is your intent: I would make sure you use at least G4560 cpus. I will order one of these tomorrow for testing.
Boot time was never something I was considering; I'm not sure why you would need to reboot your rig at all. SmOS boots quickly because it is running in console mode (x is not loaded). If there is enough interest I can make a console image, but when you consider the frequency of needing to boot your rig, I think there are more useful improvements I can make first.
ok, will get G4560 on the h270 if it works i have many (40 1060 3GB) on its way.
regarding reboot im not sure because i saw how SMos works id there is GPU freezes it send force reboot command to reboot the rig. i have experience some GPU freezes the whole ubuntu it did not reboot at all requires a hard reset. not a biggie anyway i have ppl monitoring the farm 15/24 a day.
thx for your great effort puttin into all this nvOS. cant wait for ur update on the h270 boards, hopefully 8GPUs is possible.