Interesting cryptomining motherboard - potentially useful for volunteer computing

[kowalabearhugs]

The motherboard has 8 full size 16x PCIe slots and an integrated Intel Celeron 3855U. The processor is likely under-powered for many projects, but Primegrid PPS-Sieve or Milkyway@Home might be doable?

More at https://octominer.com/

This originally came to my attention through /r/BOINC : https://www.reddit.com/r/BOINC/comments/873bxn/multigpu_motherboard_for_boincseti/

 

[Ken g6]

One major problem: It comes with a 2-core 2-thread Skylake soldered on.

Second major problem: Skylake, like most consumer Intel systems, only has 20 PCIe channels total available.