Colorful announces a motherboard with 8 + 1 pcie slots

This week Colorful has unveiled a uniquely designed motherboard, created especially for professional cryptocurrency mining. The motherboard is the C. J1900A-BTC Plus V20, which breaks with the motherboard models that we can currently see on the market.

Colorful announces its motherboard designed for cryptocurrency mining

Rather than conforming to any particular form factor, the C. J1900A-BTC Plus V20 breaks that mold and gives us a markedly rectangular board with a total of nine full-length PCIe slots. Eight of the slots can be used to install a graphics card, while the blue slot in the center is where the Celeron J1900 SoC is placed. The SoC itself already has a DDR3 SO-DIMM slot, a regular SATA and mSATA slot for storage, it also contains network connectivity, USB and video output.

As we can see, the motherboard only houses the PCIe slots, all other components must be added to the center card, which already comes with all the necessary connections.

This is the Intel Bay Trail processor core card

Based on the specs, the Celeron J1900 SoC is based on Intel's Bay Trail and is a quad-core processor with a base frequency of 2.00 GHz with a TDP of 10W. This would be more than enough for the task for which it is designed, as all the mining work is done by the graphics cards.

Its price and availability date were not announced at the moment, but we think they could be available in early 2018.

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