Si vous envisagez de construire une nouvelle plate-forme minière et que vous ne savez pas quelle carte mère choisir, tu es au bon endroit. In this blog post, nous allons jeter un oeil à ce que sont les meilleures cartes mères pour construire une plate-forme minière fin 2020.

Lorsque vous recherchez une carte mère minière, vous devez rechercher quelques valeurs clés:

• Quantité de connecteurs de slot PCIe
• CPU compatibilité
• Prix

Connecteurs PCIe

Très probablement, vous construirez une plate-forme minière avec au moins 6 GPU, c'est pourquoi vous avez besoin d'une carte mère avec 6 connecteurs PCIe. Les connecteurs PCIe sont l'endroit où vous connectez vos risers USB qui vous permettent d'élever les GPU au-dessus de la carte mère.

CPU compatibility

Nowadays finding a cheap older generation CPU like Celeron 3900 is quite hard. You will find a 7th and 6th generation mining motherboards like Gigabytes H110-D3A for very cheap, but you might have issues finding a compatible CPU. That is why getting an 8th or 9th generation motherboard could be cheaper than getting a 6th or 7th generation motherboard with an i3 or i5 processor.

6th and 7th Generation

These motherboards support Intel Celeron G3900-G3950 or Pentium G4400-G4620 and all the i3/i5/i7 6xxx/7xxx series. This poses an issue when the supply of these CPUs is limited and many stores do not have them available anymore.

• 19 PCIe slots
• 6th and 7th Generation support 
• Around 150€ at the time of writing

This motherboard was specially made for mining. It also provides a Unique Mining Mode inside BIOS and triple PSU power connectors. When booting, it shows which PCIe slots are working correctly and which ones are not.

ASRock H110 PRO BTC+

• 13 PCIe slots
• 6th and 7th Generation support 
• Around 70€ at the time of writing

Simply a great motherboard for its value!

Gigabyte H110-D3A

• 6 PCIe slots
• 6th and 7th Generation support 
• Around 50€ at the time of writing

An iconic motherboard by now. This was one of the first motherboards that were used for mining rigs which is still a great motherboard!

8th and 9th Generation

These motherboards support Intel Celeron G4900-G4950 or Pentium G5400-G5620 and all the i3/i5/i7 8xxx/9xxx series. These motherboards are a bit cheaper than previous chipsets, but finding a supported CPU will be a lot easier.

• 20 PCIe slots
• 8th and 9th Generation support 
• Around 170€ at the time of writing

This is a B250 Mining Experts' big brother. With up to 20 GPUs and direct USB connections instead of PCIe

MSI B360-A PRO

• 6 PCIe slots
• 8th and 9th Generation support 
• Around 85€ at the time of writing