Biostar Motherboard TB250-BTC PRO Core i7/i5/i3 LGA1151 Intel B250 DDR4 Supports 6 AMD and 6 NVIDIA Graphics Cards

July 28, 2017: I've had this board running with 8 GTX 1070 cards for about a week with no problems. I made sure to enable mining mode in the BIOS and limit all the speeds to Gen 2. I haven't been able to get the onboard video working. After many attempts to play with the settings for it, I finally disabled it. It's not really required, anyway. The infinitesimal performance hit from plugging the monitor into one of the GPUs isn't noticeable. I'll be adding 4 more cards shortly, probably RX 580 this time due to availability and price. If there are any problems, I'll update the review. Right now, I'm loving the ability to run this many cards without having to use M.2 adapters or PCI splitters. I only wish this board was developed sooner! Update Jan 18, 2018: I had no problems getting all 12 cards running in Windows 10 Pro. I used 8 NVIDIA and 4 AMD cards and had them all recognized, overclocked and stable. I did have to run multiple mining software instances, each designated to a group of the cards due to a seeming 10-GPU limit in Claymore Dual Miner. For the sake of simplicity, I now have this mobo running with 6 NVIDIA 1070 and 4 AMD RX 580 cards. All are mining ETH simultaneously through a single instance of Claymore. As for the BIOS settings, all I did was enable mining mode and then adjust all the PCIe speeds to Gen 2 and set the auto-quiet mode for the CPU fan. The newest BIOS update seems to have helped with some video issues when entering the BIOS. Initial install of Windows is always done, by me, with a single card inserted directly into the board without a riser. It seems to work better, in my experience. After the driver is installed (and the Windows Auto Update on drivers is disabled) I'll plug them all in via risers. Windows takes a long while to recognize each card and does so one at a time, flickering the screen over and over. Make sure you install the Blockchain driver for the AMD cards and not the mainstream one. One last bit of advice: The fewer programs you install into Windows, the more stable it runs. Do not install the RGB control apps from the various manufacturers. They caused my performance to drop. Also, make sure you look up how to change Windows Update to follow the Business path rather than the regular consumer one. You can even delay "feature" updates for up to 6 months on Pro. It helps.

works good. I have 10 cards in one (8 - 1060, and 2 Vega 56) and 8 1080TI cards in the other. no faults. Manual isn't great, and online documentation is poor - but if you know your way around PCs you can figure it out. You have to change onboard video to IGFX instead of auto if you want the display to stay with onboard. I matched my boards to a Pentium G4560 CPU because it is about the cheapest CPU with hyperthreading. I don't think the cheapest Intel Celerons very well support 8 1080TI's mining. My cousin tried that route and his CPU is at 80-90%, while my Pentium is at 50% load.

Unit was bad from the get-go. I simply could NOT get it to load a OS. Tried multiple BIOS, several different GPUs (GTX 1070, 570, 460, 210), SSD, HDD, but got nothing. Could get into BIOS, but OS installer MIGHT come up once, attempt an install, and never see the drive again past BIOS. Clearing CMOS (even a full 12 hour sit with jumper in place, no connected PSU, and battery pulled did NOTHING to help). Eventually returned it and went with the competing ASRock board. That booted up first shot, installed OS, and ran like a charm. Will NOT buy Biostar again (I've had other boards from them before and they worked as expected, but just low range boards). Also, will NOT buy a motherboard from Amazon again. As mobo's do NOT come sealed in the box, no way to tell if you got a used/returned board, which I suspect was my case. (I got the ASRock from the 'egg)

I have to say that Biostar TB250 BTC PRO 12GPU motherboard is a rockstar for mining. Bios setting are so easy installation is straight forward I can say this is a motherboard for mining. I ve been running for a while I had no issues what so ever. Everything is so smooth and without any issue, thank you Biostar I will get more motherboards from you.

This board can be a nightmare to setup, but it does in fact run 12 GPUs. I don't recommend running this board with Windows because it was a huge pain to get it to recognize 8 GPUs of the same manufacturer. If you must use Windows, go 6 Nvidia and 6 AMD. Then, you might have to run two miners simultaneously that target different GPUs, depending on what miner you use. With ethos (Ubuntu based linux), I had zero issues getting it to recognize 12 Nvidia GPUs -- and not all the same model either. You can mix 1050, 1060, 1070 and it doesn't care. Keep in mind, powering 12 GPUs safely is a challenge. I don't think it is a good idea to connect more than 2 GPUs to the same wire. So if you are 100% sure you want to run Linux, and your power supplies have enough ports, then this is a good board. I think I'll be sticking to 6 GPU rigs in the future though. You don't really come out that far ahead cost-wise with this board because you have to spend more on the power supplies.

I used this motherboard one month, it stopped working with no reason, after I contacted Customer support, they sent me a replacement without any hassle. I would not hesitate to buy these again based on product support.

I was able to connect all 8 of my Nvidia cards to this motherboard. After reading some reviews, I opted out of upgrading the BIOS on the board. Glad I listened. Zero issues so far.

Mine was working OK but did not last a month. Had 4 vega64 in it and about 3 weeks in we powered it down and upon turning it back on the bord mad a sizzling pop sound and then filled the room with smoke. The damage was behind the USB ports that did not have anything plugged in under the heat sink on the chips set just left of the processor. I would go with the Asus 19gpu since the price is the same and they are a more well know reputable company and it also has 3 onbored 24 pin psu connections so you do not need to Jimmy psu's together. The hole atx mounting patten could also use a few standard holes to fully support the bored for pluging in the molex ext power with out deforming the mobo.

the manual was informative and easy to understand setting bios is mostly common sense. if you have a bad overclock just power off unplug and jump the CMOS pins to reset bios. works good with windows 11 pro

I like it it's currently being used as a gaming machine

La tengo con 11 GPU’s AMD al momento. Trabajando 24/7 minando ETH. Volvería a comprar otra.

good for starter but difficult to find compatible processor and ram

The decide I received was faulty. The boot device options on the motherboard were not getting detected. I had to return the product as there was no option for replacement.