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Title: Is this a Bitcoin mining rig? Post by: rpgman1 on April 14, 2013, 05:28:42 PM I stumbled across an article on Bitcoin today, clicked on the link to the article, and clicked on another link to a BTC mining rig being sold in China. Is this (http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.19.cjikZd&id=14590459436) suppose to be a FPGA or ASIC? Looking at the pics, it does seem to mine BTC.
Title: Re: Is this a Bitcoin mining rig? Post by: tbcoin on April 14, 2013, 05:38:31 PM Says third generation, then FPGA
Title: Re: Is this a Bitcoin mining rig? Post by: Isokivi on April 14, 2013, 05:41:53 PM Fpga, most likeley four spartans per board and two boards stacked asfar as I can tell.
Title: Re: Is this a Bitcoin mining rig? Post by: ionux on April 14, 2013, 05:45:57 PM Yep, according to Google Translate, it's an FPGA. :)
Title: Re: Is this a Bitcoin mining rig? Post by: crazyearner on April 14, 2013, 05:49:17 PM Already spoke to them they are FPGA that are 1 to 2GH depending on how configured and wil lcost you $1,999 as spoke to their support.
Title: Re: Is this a Bitcoin mining rig? Post by: rpgman1 on April 14, 2013, 06:10:50 PM Thanks. With BTC prices lower, I thought FPGA and ASIC would drop. Guess that didn't happen. Still people are looking around for powerful BTC mining rigs and ASICs are still scarce.
Title: Re: Is this a Bitcoin mining rig? Post by: Luckybit on April 15, 2013, 09:41:10 AM If we buy that how long before it's obsolete?
Title: Re: Is this a Bitcoin mining rig? Post by: goxed on April 15, 2013, 10:13:44 AM Looks like these spartan 6 hash at 350 MH/s, looks like the HDL code is somehow optimized.
Title: Re: Is this a Bitcoin mining rig? Post by: ionux on April 16, 2013, 01:26:41 AM If we buy that how long before it's obsolete? It will never be obsolete per se. FPGA's can be reconfigured to work on other jobs, so they could be resold or repurposed. |