Getting this board tested... generic board - 9 slots PCI and 1 compute card that I got from Panto-tech in Alibaba.
I am too lazy to do this test in the farm because it hot as hell 35-36c - I may faint after 30 mins or so...
My nice and comfy air conditioned office is one floor below the farm.
I have to use the lowest power card available not in production with a 6pin power input.
Found 9 pieces of GPUs.... Asus Strix R7-370 x 8 and a lone R7-370 Nitro+
Really old cards these but safe enough not to power trip the whole warehouse.
I think these cards will consume more LESS than 1000w (fingers crossed) and whole rig below 5A - my workbench is connected to a 20A circuit.
Okay..... here's some findings on this board
1. Wont post with smOS USB stick
2. Planning to install Windows with 8 x GPU (dumped this idea)
3. Quick chat with Panto tech team....
- this board is designed and certified for P106 mining GPUs
- 1070 maybe just maybe depending on PL for each card.
- Windows supports 8 GPU
- Linux supports all 9 GPU slots
for 1070, 1080tis, they suggest the board like what Phil is testing so that you can juice up 4gb or more RAM and faster CPU.
I wouldn't use this board if only for P106s.
Maybe for 1070s or RX470s -- investing on boards like this is NOT worth it -- otherwise good to have and not necessary because I am not intending to win the most sexiest mining rig - main objective is get-rid of risers as much as possible, and improve density further to 7-9 cards per rig - riserless.
right now my board is rock solid running 6x 1070's on an 850 watt psu.
smos under clocked power to 95 watts per card.
I got the msi itx 1070 today and pulled the 1080 ti out put in the msi 1070 itx. this board looks good. for six with a 16gb stick of ram and the i5 6400t cpu.
waiting for more 1070's
it is not going to run 8x 1080 ti's
I will try 7x 1070's with 1 x 1080ti
I can order 10 for :
1180 boards
174 shipping
68 paypal fee
41 Alibaba ins fee
1463 so 147 a board to my house in New Jersey ,USA
so I mark it up to 155 plus shipping at cost to USA say 175 a board.
Any one want it? I need to get 10 . No rush to pay