Biostar198118 Motherboard Tb250-btc Core I7/i5/i3 Lga1151 B250 Ddr4 Sata Pci Express Usb Atx Retail

I had this board for a few months now and works great. I just purchase another and will not boot to bios. I sent back for a refund and purchasing another. Not going to give it a negative as these are mass produced and these things happen. So just ordered another one and did this review. As far as setup goes, well fairly simple. Just need to make a few adjustments in the bios which i had to set my pci setting from auto to Gen2 to get all the cards to work. As long as my new board works when it arrives, i will continue to buy as it is a good board to mine with and use in general even gaming if your not a overclocker.

This motherboard is not worth your time, much less the cost.I have tried for several days to get this to work with Linux but I couldn't get it to work unless I had 3 cards or less connected. Finally, I tried to install Windows and was able to do so, which is weird. But I kept on and after 10 minutes or so of using the cards the rig will reboot. I tried to use only 5 cards but same result. My power supply is more than needed.Another issue I had with this is that I couldn't boot from USB, see during boot it shuts down the USB ports for a split second but enough to interrupt any boot process.It is possible I got a bad unit but I had reached out to Biostar on may 19th (about 6 months ago) and never got a reply. I submitted another request today but am not hopeful for a reply. This product fails at it's very stated purpose and the support for this is non-existent.If you are considering this I would advise instead choosing a more mainstream company. You won't spend that much more money and the money you spend on this will not be returned to you if it ends up a lemon.I see a lot of positive reviews which means there is a game of chance here. But is it really worth the hassle over a company that will resolve any issues you have?

If you're looking for a product to put an end to the hassle associated with hooking up multiple GPUs to a mobo for the sake of crypto mining, then look no further.I fell victim to the AsRock hype and price point and didn't do enough research before purchasing a mining board.The AsRock board was full of error code 12s and difficulty running all GPUs at once. One would always be left off.Bought this and it works right out the gate. Just enter the bios, turn on mining mode, and go.Bought another just to have. Great board.

Great starter Motherboard for mining. I quickly started building my second rig after acquiring this and opted for a motherboard that supported more GPUs but this one is still in service hashing ETH day in and day out. Very nice workhorse. Just ran into a little issue that wasn't clear on the manual. When you add more than 3 GPUs, you have to turn on the "Mining" setting in BIOS otherwise the OS crashes. I was unable to find this easily and ended up discovering it by just browsing through the settings after hours of frustrating swapping risers and power cables. It should have a warning on the box.

The one I received from the non Amazon seller was not wrapped in static free bags like all of the other motherboards I have bought in my life. So I suspect it was used for a time for mining. That being said, it seems to function without any issue except that there is a limit to the mixing of video cards. With 2 Nvidia cards, I could add an AMD card and it ran just fine. But then I added a 3rd Nvidia card and it wouldn't recognize that card or the AMD card. Now I use it to run all Nvidia cards and have no issue.

I have 9 1070 g1's successfully running on this on 1 1800 watt power supply. This board is beyond amazing, it also has the m2 slot for the Memory booster Acorns. Hands down best value. I am using a PCIe 4 port usb3 card in a 1x slot to add the 3 additional cards (gen 2) Everything else including the 16x slot is running gen1.Update 2/13/2021 Board is still good, now have it running 12 cards. Great idle power consumption.

The first setup was a G4000 + 4gb corsair veangeance ddr4 2800mhz + biostar t250-btc + 5 rx580 sapphire nitro. First 24Hrs everything went well... then random restarts, I flashed BIOS with lastest version B25CFB29.BSS, but I figure out that was a memory incompatibility. Then I bought a corsair memory 4gb veangeance 2400mhz and everything works stable for 10 months, then it starts to freeze. Call Biostar support and they recommend to flash bios again. I downloaded the bios B25CF413.BSS but in the UEFI flash utility it shows that I already have the lastest version. So my last resource was flash through Windows utility (bad idea...), the motherboard stucks in 87% on the flashing progress, then died. Call Biostar support again, my RMA was approved, ship the mobo back to them... and I have 1 week waiting... I call again (be patient... you have to dial 20 times or more to have luck), and a kind women of another department pick up the phone! she said to me after asking the RMA umber, that "maybe I will have any update in the second or third week of november?! seriously?!?!? Then, I mailed to biostar and I receive this reply:"Dear BIOSTAR User,Thank you for contact with BIOSTAR.We apologize for this. In BIOSTAR RMA policy, The RMA Center needs to take with-in 10 working days to process each case. Please understand. Thank you!"If this end well I may change my comment, but for know, I dont think so Biostar... EVGA ships RMA mobo in less than 5 working days, ASUS and ASROCK too, my first Biostar RMA, and is not going very well...

Beware of seller. No contact. Nothing. Board broke after second use and Biostar said this company is not authorized to sell these boards. Amazon has no way of correcting this. Feel totally ripped off.