Fullzero,
Just curious if you would recommend the Z270-A over the ASUS PRIME H270-PLUS now? Any advantages to the extra dollars when going for a 6x or 7x rig (1070s of course in my case)? Thanks for the help as usual. Not much to do other than sift through details while waiting on risers.
Also, is anyone running CPU coolers (Arctic Freezer i32 or similar) on their rig or are stock heatsinks the norm even with CPU mining? I never see them mentioned.
They are both good mobos; the main reason is that I can't find any m2 adapters in stock from any seller in the US. Without an m2 adapter the ASUS PRIME H270-PLUS can only use 6x GPUs.
I always consider the $/hash of an entire rig. Using more cards without needing to use a more expensive PSU lowers the $/hash of the rig.
The stock Intel heatsink should be good for the level of CPU mining you would be doing on the side with nvOC (this is nothing like full out CPU mining; and even then: the stock heatsink would probably be ok unless you are using 8+ threads at max intensity)