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Asus is preparing a new card for miners. The card is named Mining-P106-6G.

ASUS P106-6G card has Nvidia P106-100 GPU which made only for mining not for games. The GPU Boost clock 1708 Mhz and Base clock 1506 Mhz.

ASUS Mining-P106-6G 6GB GDDR5 192 bit video memory and the momery clock is 8008 Mhz.

Source: http://www.pcfrm.com/asus-mining-p106-6g-coming-soon/

http://www.pcfrm.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/ASUS-Mining-P106-6G-Input.jpg

Please find the datasheet for NVIDIA Mining SKU; final naming is “MINING-P106-6G”
Product detail and condition:
PRICE: 226 USD
-Warranty: 3 months
-Packing: bulk pack, MOQ=10
-All I/O port removed

226$ with same performance of gtx 1060 with only 3 month of warranty and no secondary market to resell it. No good deal.

Boost: 1847 MHz/ Base: 1620 MHz in OC Mode < gtx 1060

I think that is a photoshopped picture. Look on the PCB-side of the dual-slot plate where the DVI connector should be. You can see what looks like the other side of a DVI connector.

Yeah its not a good price. They are probably thinking the retail 1060 will be out of stock everywhere and people will have no choice and buy that.

all the fudding about mining gpus when they look rubbish in comparison to normal gx cards.

More fakenews on bitcointalk?

Yeah and its funny to see how many newbies believe it hehe

It's as real as a rumor gets and I agree these things aren't a good deal IMO -- this could be a huge flop if they offer no better performance, what's the point?

and a 3 month warranty that only saves $25 in cost?

There is also GTX1080 versions of these cards coming, these below are based on 1060.

https://videocardz.com/70254/asus-colorful-and-msi-showcase-their-mining-graphics-cards


https://cdn.videocardz.com/1/2017/06/ASUS-GP106-100-Mining-GPU-3-850x1102.jpg

Could be useful for miners, given they sell spare parts for the cards.

The only thing that makes sense to me is that the card manufacturers are repurposing production yield fallout, cosmetically defective or repaired cards. To incentivize this card, it would have to sell for $100 or mine at like at 60 Mh/s @ 50 watts.

$226 is a bit high, but the card SHOULD save 20-30% on power usage at the same clocks vs a consumer version.
It should also run COOLER - which implies it will likely last longer than a consumer card in mining usage.

 If they got it under $200 it would get significant attention from the mining community.


 That 1080 based card though is rumored to be aimed at the $350 range - given it would ALSO see significant power usage reduction and cooler running, THAT is going to get some interest *if* the price is close.



 I suspect they're going to be available to small folks, if only through certain "large" dealers buying them in bulk for resale.
 I could easily see ZoomHash selling them, for one example (and using a bunch more in their own farm(s) in WA).

Give it up man. These cards are not real. Either you're trying to scam us or someone is trying to scam you. Good luck.

Fake news.

There's no mention of this card anywhere but in rumors.

There's no info on it outside rumor websites and most definitely not on Asus website. If you google this card the very first page appearing is bitcointalk ;)

Even if the rumor is true this card makes no sense.

Low resell value, can't use it for gaming, same price of 1060.

More info here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1959942.0

Here everyone, refer to this second fake thread i made, don't believe me? check out this fake blog post. Still don't believe me? check out these pictures i photoshopped. Still don't believe me? well a random chinese guy said he had them and that i'm gonna be rich.

Exactly the same I thought, this cards look like they are dumping refurbished cards with artifacts or other video errors. But as pointed the price makes no sense as it has almost no resale value outside of the mining market.

Here is the "ZOTAC P106-100 Product Introduction Sheet 0.1": http://imgur.com/a/xtxWY (http://imgur.com/a/xtxWY)

I received the same brochure from two independent hardware suppliers.

If you just received these brochures how come they say "copyright 2015" at the bottom? also why is there a hyperlink in what is supposed to be a brochure? This is fake boys.

NO. NOT FAKE.
You are going to see them in 2-3 weeks.

you say 2-3 weeks, some say next week, truth is these numbers are all made up because this is a hoax

Given how many of the rumors cite June 19 for release date, we should know for sure Real Soon Now.

This product is not a natural industry product, please making sure that customers will not report to NVIDIA.


Somebody explain this to me?

https://imgur.com/a/P7TA6

Saw this in a group chat this morning.
Same chip but made by Colorfly.
Looks legit.

3 months warranty?

No resale value?

No thanks  :D

dont understand how can be some people like idiots

3m warranty? Somethings is fishy here...

it's fake news ;)

3 months warranty is absolutely illegal in most of the world regardless :)

Which doesn't stop Bitmain and other mining ASIC makers from selling miners with a 3 month OR LESS warranty to customers worldwide.

You're buying the product in China and having it shipped to wherever.
You're not buying it in Europe or US, but from Europe or US.

https://gameolo.com/shop/%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B0%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%9A/graphic-card/vga-colorful/colorful-p106-100

I think I found the first to buy!
In Bangkok!

about 289$

also the Biostar 12pci mobo has the info online now.
http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=884

I don't get the excitement over a card that performance wise is roughly equivalent to a 1060, but with only a 3 month warranty and virtually zero resale value.  Sounds like a pretty terrible deal to me.

A 1060 does between 18 to 23 mhash.
If you OC alot you could get more but that is not stable with 6+ cards.

This 1060 is cheaper and does 30mhash out of the box!
What is there not to like?

 the 1080 version does 60mhash!

where did you see 30 or 50+ for 104-100?????

I think the same, resale its a good option for our GPUs update

usually asus will build good quality and the price will be higher than other competitor, i think i will buy HIS or maybe powercolor

What about a cooling gpu,where is it or this is like?

They are listing it with this image in CZ.
https://i.imgur.com/DxfDe8c.jpg

 The 60 mh/s quotes for the P104-100 are VERY unlikely to be lived up to or prove to be close to accurate.
 The GTX 1080 that card is based on doesn't even manage 30 Mh/s (more commonly 24-26 ballpark), as the GDDR 5x memory it uses has seriously worse latency than GDDR 5 as used in the 1070 (which only manages right around 30 Mh/s in most cases, rarely as high as 32 if you get lucky in the silicon sweepstakes on you memory ability to overclock lots).
 
 Even the GTX 1080ti with a TON more cores than the 1080 only manages mid-30s ballpark.

 I flat out do NOT believe the P104-100 will be capable of even 40 Mh/s on ETH, and would be amazed if it managed 45 - even if it moved to GDDR 5 instead of 5X it's STILL not likely to manage 40.

 On the other hand, nobody sane tries to mine ETH on a GTX 1080 or GTX 1080ti - they mine ZEC and it's derivatives, skein-based coins, groetsl-based coins, libr and derivatives, and such.
 The P104-100 should be very nice for mining THOSE coins.


 The one BIG advantage of these cards will be power efficiency - no video circuitry, the video-specific parts of the GPU chip probably disabled either on the chip or in the BIOS (similar to what TheStilt did with his line of R9 290(x) modded BIOS from Litecoin mining days that reduced the power draw on those cards a LOT), I suspect that the minining-specific versions will see 20-30% less power draw at the same clocks vs the consumer versions.

 They may gain SOME hashrate via BIOS mods to improve memory latency (AKA "strapping" as used on the RX series), but I suspect those gains will be less than 20% and might not manage 10%.

 None of the rumors I've seen so far mention HIS or PowerColor, but I would not be shocked if one or both of those jump on this bandwagon.

every article you can find says60mhash for 1080 version.

Wait and see..

scam sites full of crap, all of them

That should be released already and with a better price range, at the moment they hit the market, those won't be profitable for any coin anymore, besides, different from a PC GPU where you have other funcionalities, this will became a paper weight in a lightning speed.

These cards will be shipping any time in the next week or 2, I work for a PC components distributor and prices ive seen you quote are pretty accurate based on my cost prices from AIC's plus VAT and warranty of 90 days.

it seems diffuculty will be raise so much higher when these cards sold.

And you joined this website to say this?

There's no mining card coming, and if they do, nobody'll buy them, easy as that.

Looks like.

They are coming, you can already preorder them on legit sites, like this one in RO:
http://www.pcgarage.ro/placi-video-mining/msi/geforce-gtx-1060-miner-edition-6gb-ddr5-192-bit-100pcs
The price is damn high though @ $340 and 100pcs minimum order.
US price will most likely be around $220.

Damn looks like they are really real. Cant beleive I have to find it out just where I live. ;D
Yeah nvidia didnt confirmed it but that doesnt mean they will not take the opportunity to make mining cards for such a huge demand...
Like what do they have to do? Modify the card a little bit and they get a gold mine.

GPU mining profit ratios already down as i type this. Will GPU mining last much longer when this card is released? Lol

Interesting to see that the warranty is much longer on that Romanian site (which I know is a legit business). I wonder if the extended warranty is due to Romania being part of the EU and having a legal requirement of a longer warranty or if they will five 1-2 years warranty everywhere?

We're not in a position to order 100, so it won't help us any, but having big farms gulp these up will hopefully allow the market to not be drained completely dry of GPUs for gamers and smaller miners.

Apparently,  as some were noting, specified mining hardware has join the race. Here is a WORKING sample of a miner (panda like) with nvidia mining cards in it along goes the spec and hash speed:
https://3dnews.ru/954059  under the topic is url to some china site...with some interesting posts to my opinion.

 180 Mh/s on ETH isn't all that impressive for 8 x 1060 (22.5 Mh/s each) - but it's in line with the existing GTX 1060 consumer cards, so probably just the "mobile" version of those cards being used rather than a mining-specific card - NVidia variation on the Pandaminer.

Guys, here is the official link  8)

https://www.asus.com/Graphics-Cards/MINING-P106-6G/ (https://www.asus.com/Graphics-Cards/MINING-P106-6G/)

This looks good..

ASUS has announced 2 mining cards. An AMD (RX470 4GB) and an nVidia (GTX1060 6GB)

ASUS official site:
https://www.asus.com/Graphics-Cards/MINING-Series-Products/

Also BioStar has officially included the 12GPU motherboard on their website...

http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=884

Difficulty to the MOON!!!! ;-)

The 470 option was not well thought out - they used SLOW MEMORY on the thing.
It better be REAL LOW COST if they want to get any market for it at all.
Not sure on the 106 option - have to see what it actually sells for and how it actually performs (30something percent better hashrate vs cards in the "same segment" is meaningless, especially if they are including the 3GB 1060 as "same segment).

Hardly, I joined as im curious about making some money just like everyone through mining.   I saw this post and was willing to confirm the unconfirmed gossip.

So cool! Cant wait to test these babies!

Wow, this motherboard looks awesome...12 GPU support, this is a lot of power for one rig only, amazing!

I see the older BioStar MOBO is already on sale for 150USD , "only supporting 6 GPU".

Here are the mining cards in there full glory - not that impressive!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9deSVpjm1Kk&t=1s

Yes, not worth the money.

Well if the shortage continues, it wouldn't be such a bad deal. The question is: would you rather wait possible months before getting your hands on a few mining GPUs and miss out on mining a bit, or go for dedicated GPUs with worthless resell value that you will likely have ROIed by then.

The choice isn't that easy.

Supposedly, the 7 MSI 570 I ordered beginning of June should arrive mid-july...no idea if this means a large restock.

As i wrote in other threads, it is not months! In Europe, there was restocking 2-3 days ago. i Bought 3 rx 570 sapp nitro + for 215$ brand new from top seller.

Is there ANYWHERE in Europe where we can get these (AMD or Nvidia) ? Or is there actually ANYWHERE in Europe where we can get any type of rx 470/480/570/580 at a decent price ? That shortage is getting ridiculous.

I agree. The price is also too high.

Quite disappointing from the P106-6G results I've seen. I was hoping there'd be some sort of custom bios for the AIB partners with faster timings--especially at this MSRP.

 Based on early benchmarks on real cards, these alleged hashrates are being shown to be fake news.

 So far the "mining specific" cards are pretty much matching the consumer-grade cards on hashrate.

 On the plus side, if optimised for it, they SHOULD use less power then the consumer cards, and they DO seem to be selling for quite a bit less than the current "gouge" pricing - when you can find the cards in stock.

That's not a good deal at all. I paid $215 for an Asus gtx 1060 earlier this month, not a cut down mining one.

Try finding ANY GTX 1060 at $300 or less TODAY.

 "Earlier this month" pricing hadn't started skyrocketing yet, especially if it was the first week or even the second week of June.

I ve 6 x Asus P106-6g . I m getting 153 mh with OC on Claymore Dual for Nvidia. I m happy with these cards. Next week I ll get 6 x P106-6g also. I paid 255 USD+ tax for each one one month ago and now the prices going up. Near 300 USD

400 usd in Russia and 2 months of warranty  ;D line and one-month salary

Funny is, these cards usually last around 3 months or so hehe and by then there will be no warranty for you, so you stupid miners will never get your money back and in the end will be all for nothing hehe, eth at this price is a steal since difficulty is just so bloody high and in few weeks will be worse, difficulty will double and maybe triple hehe, you trolls never learn hehe, if i were you i would buy eth no stop

I bought P106s In my country, u can not find cards easily and electricty is sooooo expansive. Thats why I bought. If I want to find cards, I can buy them from another counntries and late and warranty is nothing for me . Global warranty is not included . Mining is not just ETH. Sooo ? If you were me what u shold do? Waiting for cards, paying more electricty or when your cards are broken going abroad ?

 I've never had a card last that short of a time on mining - 3 YEARS is a lot closer to the norm, and on the low side for the cards I've HAD that long to date.

That is what they did for the 1070ti now that it is known they were going to be using these chip cores for another card but didn't want to and just to save money created this ti version instead.

i got mine for only $239 used from bitbitminer.com