Some of us would think that the mining with regular mining rigs (computers with multiple GPU's) is coming to an end, but it seems that are still hardware manufacturers that aim to minimize the cost of this equipment, thus ensuring faster cost depreciation and greater returns over the investments. ASUS just proves this and launches new hardware components with dedication to cryptocurrency miners
Though cryptocurrency trading prices have fallen in recent months, the phenomenon is far from being reached, the mining business of the virtual currencies being still profitable, especially the trading of these, speculating the increases and decreases in prices that follow in short intervals.
While this seems as a strange thing for a regular PC user, the ASUS H370 Mining Master is an unmatched motherboard for overclocking, but equipped with no less than 20 PCIe-over-USB connectors, allowing for the simultaneous installation of as many video cards. By supporting the effort of crypto "miners", the motherboard firmware allows for the diagnosis of each installed graphics accelerator, simplifying the diagnosis of any problems associated with connecting them. Of course, the physical organization and cooling of up to 20 short video cards continues to challenge the less experienced "miners," but ASUS engineers promise more features to simplify equipment management.
Relatively inexpensive, compared to the acquisition of a whole arsenal of video cards, power supplies and air conditioning, the H370 Mining Master will be available from the second half of this year at a cost of "a few" hundreds of dollars. It remains to be seen to what extent the virtual mining investment will be able to depreciate, given the tendency for a gradual decrease in interest in virtual currency transactions and, implicitly, the price at which they are valued.
Myself I have a mining rig 6X480 RX GPUs that gave me some nice returns in the beginning, but now they've started to decrease significantly. Still, there are some promising cryptos worth mining and while the price is low now hopefully it will increase in the future and make things better. Now, the new motherboards will allow me to extend the rig, add some more powerful GPU's but still keeping the cost down instead of building a new one. Hopefully this will prolong the life of the "traditional" mining rigs and will help the blockchain platforms they are running on. Keep on rolling to all out there and don't stop the work as the blockchains need miners to evolve as we all know it!