ASRock uses 12 PS5 for cryptocurrency mining in its new server

The manufacturer ASRock is certainly one of those who winks more at miners, also offering several dedicated products in its BTC + line. However, the company also offers complete mining rigs to sell to its customers. Among these, as reported by the well-known leaker Komachi on Twitter, we find a real server for cryptocurrency mining, sold at a price of 13,499 euros and able to offer a hashrate of 610 MH / s.



Photo Credit: Bolha.com The most striking feature of the product, generically referred to as "ASRock Mining Rig Barebone 610 Mh / s 12x AMD BC-250", is the use, as the name implies, of 12 AMD BC-250 APU, which are supposed to be offsets from PS5's “Oberon” APU. In the past, AMD had tried to reuse defective APUs (with GPU disabled) in the AMD 4700S desktop kit and apparently found another way to put them back on the market.




Photo Credit: Bolha.com In terms of efficiency, we recall that an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 is capable of delivering about 120 MH / s with a consumption of 300W; therefore, to equalize the performance of this ASRock mining rig you would need at least five specimens, without considering the other components. Considering the current average price of an RTX 3090, going for the ASRock system might not be a bad idea.