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Title: What would have been the best pc you could have purchased back in 2008 ? Post by: Ivano56 on December 25, 2023, 12:22:41 PM Hello everyone sorry for the strange question,we are a couple of friends wondering what would have been the best mining pc obtainable back in 2008 in order to gain the best performance in mining bitcoints from the beginnin in jan 2009 and for the next following 3 years.We appreciate anyone who will help us in finding out what is the answer to our question and we wish merry christmas to everyone!thanks
Title: Re: What would have been the best pc you could have purchased back in 2008 ? Post by: Ambatman on December 25, 2023, 12:52:06 PM This is something that can be easily found on Google
Just search for the pc with the best processing power with low electrical cost/usage around 2008. Title: Re: What would have been the best pc you could have purchased back in 2008 ? Post by: Ivano56 on December 25, 2023, 12:56:08 PM This is something that can be easily found on Google Just search for the pc with the best processing power with low electrical cost/usage around 2008. Thanks for your input however we couldn find it on google therefore we posted here our question... hopefully we will have someone knowing it cheers! Title: Re: What would have been the best pc you could have purchased back in 2008 ? Post by: stompix on December 25, 2023, 01:05:50 PM Hello everyone sorry for the strange question,we are a couple of friends wondering what would have been the best mining pc obtainable back in 2008 in order to gain the best performance in mining bitcoints from the beginnin in jan 2009 and for the next following 3 years.We appreciate anyone who will help us in finding out what is the answer to our question and we wish merry christmas to everyone!thanks It's actually a tricky question, you could go for this list: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Non-specialized_hardware_comparison Remember it's not just hashes per second but also price per hash, so best is not always the fastest. That aside getting the best CPU would actually be less of an advantage than being the first one to write the code to mine with a gpu! Title: Re: What would have been the best pc you could have purchased back in 2008 ? Post by: Ambatman on December 25, 2023, 01:20:59 PM Thanks for your input however we couldn find it on google therefore we posted here our question... hopefully we will have someone knowing it cheers! You can check it out. In their list i would lean towards HP HDX18 for its processing power. Title: Re: What would have been the best pc you could have purchased back in 2008 ? Post by: Ivano56 on December 25, 2023, 01:26:59 PM Thanks for your input however we couldn find it on google therefore we posted here our question... hopefully we will have someone knowing it cheers! You can check it out. In their list i would lean towards HP HDX18 for its processing power. Useful informations in order to entertain which laptos where to most powerfull in 2009 however not really helping me with what I've asked Title: Re: What would have been the best pc you could have purchased back in 2008 ? Post by: hugeblack on December 27, 2023, 09:49:03 AM Most of the discussions related to Bitcoin in the early days are here. All you need to do is scraping data from mining boards[1][2][3] and then analyze the names of the hardware and devices that were mentioned during 2010 to 2013.
[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=40.7320 [2] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=76.5800 [3] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=14.5720 |