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Title: Other uses for a miner? Post by: jsttn on April 25, 2012, 01:47:02 PM Out of curiosity, what are some other good uses for a miner you guys have thought of. Outside of of course a gaming PC?
Title: Re: Other uses for a miner? Post by: The LT on April 25, 2012, 01:51:14 PM The CPUs and storage IO stay almost idle so you can use those rigs as graphics render-farms, hosting services, or other CPU intensive tasks...
Title: Re: Other uses for a miner? Post by: tonto on April 25, 2012, 03:15:04 PM You could do the SETI@home or the distributed.net contests. :) Or use your CPU for finding fun/cool personalized bitcoin addresses :)
Title: Re: Other uses for a miner? Post by: Red Emerald on April 25, 2012, 11:52:18 PM folding@home and projects like BOINC are probably where I will likely move my miners if I ever stop mining coins.
Title: Re: Other uses for a miner? Post by: -ck on April 26, 2012, 01:13:50 AM Extra heat in the colder months.
Title: Re: Other uses for a miner? Post by: Nefario on April 26, 2012, 01:27:06 AM Quite good at cracking passwords, you could rent out the miner to someone who wants a password cracked.
Title: Re: Other uses for a miner? Post by: Sukrim on April 29, 2012, 08:57:09 PM Most of the ideas here only work with GPU mining approaches by the way, FPGAs and especially ASICs are only useful for 1 single purpose (mining) - but are far more efficient at that.
Title: Re: Other uses for a miner? Post by: AzN1337c0d3r on April 30, 2012, 12:56:09 AM Are we talking about uses for it while you are mining? Or uses while you are not mining?
Title: Re: Other uses for a miner? Post by: BinaryMage on May 02, 2012, 12:50:57 AM Most of the ideas here only work with GPU mining approaches by the way, FPGAs and especially ASICs are only useful for 1 single purpose (mining) - but are far more efficient at that. It would require some jury-rigging, but I would assume most FPGAs made for mining could also crack SHA256-hashed passwords. I'm with RedEmerald; if Bitcoin falls apart, I'll be doing my best to crack the BOINC top 100. Title: Re: Other uses for a miner? Post by: grue on May 02, 2012, 01:02:32 AM Most of the ideas here only work with GPU mining approaches by the way, FPGAs and especially ASICs are only useful for 1 single purpose (mining) - but are far more efficient at that. It would require some jury-rigging, but I would assume most FPGAs made for mining could also crack SHA256-hashed passwords. I'm with RedEmerald; if Bitcoin falls apart, I'll be doing my best to crack the BOINC top 100. Title: Re: Other uses for a miner? Post by: BinaryMage on May 02, 2012, 01:05:11 AM Most of the ideas here only work with GPU mining approaches by the way, FPGAs and especially ASICs are only useful for 1 single purpose (mining) - but are far more efficient at that. It would require some jury-rigging, but I would assume most FPGAs made for mining could also crack SHA256-hashed passwords. I'm with RedEmerald; if Bitcoin falls apart, I'll be doing my best to crack the BOINC top 100. At least for a while, my electricity is reasonable. You must have serious skills to play Crysis 3 on multiple computers at once. ;) |