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Re: Happy New Years! Seventh alt coin thread!
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jimmykl
on 26/01/2018, 15:23:01 UTC
Quote from: timeshifter on January 26, 2018, 01:04:53 PM
Quote from: deadsix on January 26, 2018, 11:06:06 AM
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C.B250A-BTC PLUS V20

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/59124/colorfuls-new-mining-motherboard-8-pcie-x16-slots/index.html

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mining-Motherboard-COLORFUL-8-Graphics-Card-LGA1151-C-B250A-BTC-PLUS-Miner-board-/263446587536?_trksid=p2385738.m4383.l4275.c10

https://en.colorful.cn/contents/251/621.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/MoneroMining/comments/7081vb/thoughts_on_this_motherboard_colorful_cb250abtc/
Can someone explain how all those 16 PCIe power connectors on that board are used?



The connectors on the short end are power inputs and the connectors on the long end are outputs??


You got it figured.
So if you're powering a GTX 1080 Ti that uses 250 watts and power is supplied by 2x 8 pin PCIe power connectors, you'd feed the power to the board on the short side.  That single lead would give the board the bus power it needs and then the power for the cards would route through the board out the long side connector to a double headed PCIe power lead to the top of the GPU?

I can see how cabling and wire management would be neat and clean.  BUT, seems like you'd be pushing a ton of watts through the board as a result.

Maybe run the cards direct from the PSU not through the board? If it's like the clone mobos then you can run the pcie to the board with splitters because they're just powering the pcie slots etc.