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  • Vepsa - Monday, November 18, 2013 - link

    I can't see anyone getting the H81 Pro BTC for BTC mining. For LTC however it might be worth it. Now if only I could afford one, a Celeron CPU 6 7950s to populate it. I'd get back into LTC mining
  • DanNeely - Monday, November 18, 2013 - link

    Is the front panel USB3 device using a hub? I only see a single USB3 cable coming out the back.

    Also, what are the two very thin wires with what appears to be tiny connectors on the end for?
  • Freakie - Monday, November 18, 2013 - link

    Yeah it looks like it is acting as a hub for the 4 USB 3.0 and SD card reader. The two small cables are the antenna for the wireless card that the whole front panal connects (near) to. If you look between PCIe slots 1 and 2 you will see the wireless card, which needs antenna for there to be any sort of acceptable signal and that's what the two small are for. Also right above the wireless card there is a USB 3.0 header (it's hard to see, but it's there)
  • Devo2007 - Monday, November 18, 2013 - link

    The tiny connectors are more than likely wireless antenna connectors. From the article:

    "a Wi-SD box to improve wireless range (also provides four front panel USB 3.0 ports and an SD card reader)"
  • dgingeri - Monday, November 18, 2013 - link

    I could see a networking use for the H81 boards.
  • agent4678 - Monday, November 18, 2013 - link

    If the ASRock Z87 Extreme11/AC board supported ECC memory it would be perfect.
  • sorten - Monday, November 18, 2013 - link

    "This week ASRock are launching"
    "ASRock Launch Z87..."

    Is ASRock a group of companies?
  • Slash3 - Monday, November 18, 2013 - link

    The distinction is a style choice. Much like data (singular) vs data (plural) and other examples of journalistic prose.

    Where sentences such as "Intel said release inquiry data, launch Widget" are acceptable, no matter how brain-stubbingly unreadable they may be.
  • IanCutress - Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - link

    It's also a location one. In the UK, where I am and where I was raised, companies are plural. But if I write it in that style, I get a large number of complaints from US readers that I 'don't do English good' and my style is not aligned for the rest of the website. Thus I try to use singular when I can and when it occurs to me, but due to the ingrained way I learned grammar, it will occasionally slip through.
  • codylee - Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - link

    "Much like data (singular)..."
    Actually datum is the singular of data if I recall correctly. Either way I noticed the plural use of company names, I'm glad to know there's a valid reason: islanders are strange. Cheers!
  • the goat - Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - link

    "Data" is plural. "Datum" is the singular form.
  • chyew81 - Monday, November 18, 2013 - link

    Can I ask how can I boot up 22 HDDs using this board? Without no staggered spin-up, don't think a normal 600W PSU would be able to spin up all the HDDs at the same time.
  • Slash3 - Monday, November 18, 2013 - link

    Unless you have about 40 GPUs lying around, you're nowhere near earning $10/day from GPU mining. This is before factoring in the negative result from having paid for the electricity to run that many. GPUs have not been profitable for quite some time - the faster and more power hungry cards simply increase the speed at which money is lost. :)
  • Flunk - Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - link

    June, some time ago was June. That's when it was no longer economically viable to GPU mine. It hasn't been reasonably profitable since April-May depending on what you pay for electricity.
  • IanCutress - Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - link

    With my cards, I can compute about 4000 MH/s on Litecoin. At today's difficulty (1320) and Price Per LTC ($9.50), that means about $28.80. Using 2500W at $0.17/kWh, this costs ~$10 in electricity a day, making overall gain at $15. Did you check today's BTC/LTC prices ? :D
  • IanCutress - Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - link

    *4000 KH/s. It is still profitable for Litecoin mining, BTC mining definitely not.
  • Uxi - Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - link

    Why oh why have they put those tiny fans on the MB. Nothing is more anoying than the high pitched wine of a worn out MB fan.
  • IanCutress - Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - link

    Things have changed in recent generations. More often than not, they do not even turn on unless your ambient temperatures are very high. At least several boards I have had in recently to test have had this feature on their MB fans.
  • Hairs_ - Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - link

    This article makes the hyper-mega RAM article look positively relevant to the average tech enthusiast.
  • Sunny129 - Tuesday, December 17, 2013 - link

    i would love to know when the H81 Pro BTC and H61 Pro BTC are due to hit store shelves, but it seems like nobody has a release date yet...and the same goes for Biostar's H81S2 and H61B mining mobos...

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