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I had a chance to try one of these out. I plan to fill it with RX 6600 cards. I am using a single EVGA SuperNOVA G6 80Plus Gold 1000W PSU. (3x PCI-E pigtail 2x 6+2, 2x PCI-E 6+2, for a total of 8x 6+2 PCI plugs.)
This mobo is different from the Chinese BTC S37 boards, in that the power for the slots (would-be risers), is powered by four spaced molex plugs. Unfortunately, my choice of PSU only has a single strand of 4x molex, and there isn't enough cable length between the plugs to fit all four into the board. So, I've got the 2nd and 4th plugged in.
So far, got it to boot without any cards, with an i5-10400, and a single 8GB stick of DDR4-2666 (yes, it's limited to single-channel RAM, which honestly seemed like a waste of performance, if used in a DC setting instead of strictly mining.) Installed a 256GB SATA SSD onto the only SATA port (there is a SATA M.2 on board as well). Windows 10 21H2 went fine, but the onboard NIC wasn't detected out of the box, TrendNet USB to gigabit to the rescue.
Set up in location, installed one GPU, system beeped 5 times (VGA error) due to me not having a monitor connected to the onboard. (10th-Gen does that.)
Sadly, because I don't have an HDMI dummy-plug handy, remoting in with AnyDesk 7.x, showed me a 640x480 screen, that I couldn't manage to size up. It was basically unusable. That's where I left it, until I can find dummy plugs or a tiny HDMI display.
This mobo is different from the Chinese BTC S37 boards, in that the power for the slots (would-be risers), is powered by four spaced molex plugs. Unfortunately, my choice of PSU only has a single strand of 4x molex, and there isn't enough cable length between the plugs to fit all four into the board. So, I've got the 2nd and 4th plugged in.
So far, got it to boot without any cards, with an i5-10400, and a single 8GB stick of DDR4-2666 (yes, it's limited to single-channel RAM, which honestly seemed like a waste of performance, if used in a DC setting instead of strictly mining.) Installed a 256GB SATA SSD onto the only SATA port (there is a SATA M.2 on board as well). Windows 10 21H2 went fine, but the onboard NIC wasn't detected out of the box, TrendNet USB to gigabit to the rescue.
Set up in location, installed one GPU, system beeped 5 times (VGA error) due to me not having a monitor connected to the onboard. (10th-Gen does that.)
Sadly, because I don't have an HDMI dummy-plug handy, remoting in with AnyDesk 7.x, showed me a 640x480 screen, that I couldn't manage to size up. It was basically unusable. That's where I left it, until I can find dummy plugs or a tiny HDMI display.
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