Colorful shows off custom C.J1900A-BTC PLUS V20 mining motherboard

Cryptocurrency mining is a large enough target market that some hardware makers are making custom designs specifically for miners. An example of this is the new Colorful C.J1900A-BTC PLUS V20 motherboard, this product has a unique form factor and is designed for makeshift racks.

This motherboard is basically one large PCB with very little recognizable components, it really has just the bare essentials. It has nine PCI Express x16 slots and is designed to accommodate up to eight video card without the use of PCIe risers.

What makes this board interesting is the blue slot in the middle. Colorful moved most of the components of the motherboard to a PCIe card. You can view this card below, it contains an Intel Celeron J1900 SoC, a DDR4 SODIMM memory slot, a SATA 6Gbps and mSATA 6Gbps slot for storage, and some basic I/O like two USB 2.0 ports, dual Gigabit Ethernet, and one HDMI display output.

The riser draws power from a 4-pin ATX input. The main PCB has eight 6-pin PCIe power inputs, which wire out to 6-pin PCIe outputs near each black slot. This is more of a cable-management feature, smaller (20 cm long) male-to-male 6-pin PCIe cables connect the outputs to the graphics cards.

Really interesting hardware that will probably never make it out of Asia.





Via: TPU