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Servers Designed for Immersion (SDI) – An Alternate Approach
If you’ve already implemented or are considering a “white box” solution – building your own servers – or you want to truly maximize space, power and budget, then SDI may be your best choice.
Immersion cooling technology addresses the key concerns of thermal design and hardware reliability that are common with air-cooled, white box servers. Further, engineering purpose-built servers from the ground up allows more than just design them for cost and performance, but also for space and power utilization.
Key Benefits of Servers Designed for Immersion:
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Purpose-built for application
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Mix and match components without worrying about thermal design limitations and reliability
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No extraneous components, such as integrated fans, heat sinks and oversized power supplies, reduce cost and e-waste
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More power-efficient – up to 30% lower energy use vs air-cooled servers
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Maximized rack density with simplified, modular chassis that utilize much higher immersion cooling capacities
SDI are an ideal match for micro-modular, rack-based immersion cooling system and immersion-cooled, modular data centres.
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Choosing the best motherboard for your mining rig is a crucial step that some new miners tend to overlook.
Just because a motherboard’s specs meet the required amount of PCIe lanes doesn’t mean its bios settings will support mining of a multi GPU configuration. However, with the support of several manufacturers, you can now purchase motherboards designed explicitly for mining cryptocurrencies. With many different variations of mining motherboards to choose from I decided to put together this guide of which motherboards are best suited for as well as my top 4 picks of mining motherboards too date [May 2022].
Key considerations will the total power draw, cooling options [please consider liquid cooling systems - as air is a poor medium for the transfer of heat compared to water or other fluids], price of electricity and budget. In addition for the really serious players newer IMMERSIVE LIQUID TECHNOLOGIES are worth considerations for overall efficiency {fewer fans, more efficient heat transfer and consequently a lower power draw/cooler operational aspects.
Using renewable's to generate the electricity for such 'mining' operations will help make such an activity cost effective - even with the price of the various crypto currencies now being much more volatile. So the Capital Costs of such set-ups will still be a big factor.
In the end, the best motherboard for mining in 2022 can vary depending on the end-users specific needs and more importantly budget. For mining with a server case frame then one might choose BIOSTAR TB250-BTC D+ due to its no riser architecture, but for, the ASUS B250 MINING EXPERT is going to be the best option.
| Motherboard | PCIe Slots |
| 1. ASUS H370 MINING MASTER | 20 GPU |
| 2. MSI H310-F PRO | 13 GPU |
| 3. BIOSTAR TB360-BTC PRO or D (without risers) | 12 GPU |
| 4. ASUS H370 Mining Master | 20 GPU |
| 5. BIOSTAR TB250-BTC | 6 GPU |
| 6. GIGABYTE GA-H110-D3A | 6 GPU |
| 7. MSI H270-A PRO | 7 GPU |
| 8. ASUS Prime Z370-A II | 8 GPU |
| 9. ASROCK H110 Pro BTC | 13 GPU |
| 10. BIOSTAR TB250-BTC PRO | 12 GPU |
| 11. GIGABYTE B250-FinTech | 12 GPU |
| Table of the better and available Mining Motherboards. Some needing risers to connect to the GPU's | |
Best Mining Motherboards
Due to the high demand for mining motherboards most are sold out. Below is a few models that are good to build a mining rig with that are in stock now.