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Title: can a scrypt "asic" miner using icarus boards be reprogrammed for other algo? Post by: tickershuffle on January 20, 2016, 03:39:54 AM My scrypt miner is not effecient enough to profit anymore so i was wondering if the cards inside, icarus fpga boards, can be instructed to run another algo through modifications to the cgminer software.
Thanks for any suggestions. Title: Re: can a scrypt "asic" miner using icarus boards be reprogrammed for other algo? Post by: QuintLeo on January 20, 2016, 11:38:08 AM In theory, probably yes.
In practice, most post-Scrypt algorythms seem to require more RAM than FPGAs have available. It would take modification to the FIRMWARE IN THE FPGA ITSELF, not just modification to cgminer, to do so. Title: Re: can a scrypt "asic" miner using icarus boards be reprogrammed for other algo? Post by: tickershuffle on January 22, 2016, 01:14:04 AM Thanks for your reply. Thats what i figured, but was not sure.
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