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Title: [WTB] Afordable FPGA/ASIC for testing... Post by: ewitte on May 20, 2013, 01:59:51 PM Is there anything out there that is at least as affordable $/MH and under $500 as GPU for a beginner to test off of ;) Ideally would like to test off a raspberry pi.
Title: Re: [WTB] Afordable FPGA/ASIC for testing... Post by: jspielberg on May 20, 2013, 02:07:28 PM If you don't care about hash speed, Black arrow (fpga) and bit fountain (USB asic) each have something for around ~375 USD though they both are pretty low hash rate (300Mhs?).
Title: Re: [WTB] Afordable FPGA/ASIC for testing... Post by: ewitte on May 20, 2013, 02:17:17 PM At the moment don't care for speed but feel its pointless paying 10x $/MH for ASIC/FPGA compared to GPU. For instance 7870XT costs $250 and can do 450-500MH/s. If I'm not paying for electricity what is the point paying $1000-3000 for the same thing? I'll look into the two you mentioned.
Title: Re: [WTB] Afordable FPGA/ASIC for testing... Post by: jspielberg on May 20, 2013, 04:19:51 PM You might want to check out this thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=209750.msg2197347#msg2197347 Only the last three rows of the table are currently useful... but maybe it will improve as Avalon starts shipping chips, etc. Right now I believe the earliest option is BlackArrow with arrival around July? |