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Looks too good to be true... so it probably is.
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I was going to order a physical copy for myself in the UK but the country field is still defaulting to US and when I click checkout it's not showing my country at all. Please fix this so I can get one ordered please!  |
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Ah well that'd definitely be enough for me to prefer a Raspberry Pi. That's just personal preference of course, but I think it's a really impressive bit of kit.
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This looks cool, but when you can buy an Atom mini ITX motherboard for $25 more.. and need an ATX supply to run the FPGAs anyway..
-rph
"$25 more" is double the price. So that's actually a lot more. As for the ATX I'm sure plenty of people have lots of cheap PSUs laying around. I know I for one would be glad to sell all my spare PSUs off for $5 or less if it means I'm rid of the things. The point is that cheap ATX power supply could power the FPGA AND motherboard. While $25 is 70% more (The model B w/ ethernet is $35) the increase is trivial compared to the cost of FPGA. Say $1/MH (likely higher). 1GH FPGA array is $1000. 5GH is $5000. $25 "more" isn't much more when it means you gain access to the larger and better developed (at least for Bitcoin) x86 architecture. Take a 5GH array. $5000 FPGA $100 PSU $100 cables, usb hubs, various parts, possibly an enclosure ----- $5200 + $35 Pi = $5235 $5200 + $60 mATX atom/VIA/sempron board + $10 RAM = $5270 The Pi system is 0.7% cheaper but requires all development to be on the ARM architecture. Personally I would pay the $35 premium to gain x86 compatibility. To each his own though. Still the Pi is interesting. That's true. If you want x86 then that's the way to go for sure. But also what's the wattage like running a mATX board? The wattage for the Pi is 1 watt. It might not be a huge difference but it's an achievement nonetheless |
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This looks cool, but when you can buy an Atom mini ITX motherboard for $25 more.. and need an ATX supply to run the FPGAs anyway..
-rph
"$25 more" is double the price. So that's actually a lot more. As for the ATX I'm sure plenty of people have lots of cheap PSUs laying around. I know I for one would be glad to sell all my spare PSUs off for $5 or less if it means I'm rid of the things. |
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Kernels will be released which are optimized for the 7xxx series whether you code them or not.
What makes you so fanatically sure of this? I'm sure the coders capable of this realize the potential benefits of an architecture-optimized kernel, and it isn't unfathomable that they would keep it to themselves. For one thing, the benefits more than likely won't be great enough to warrant keeping it to themselves. |
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The Raspberry Pi is far from what BFL are proposing to produce.
Anyway, BFL are taking preorders at the moment with nothing to show for it.
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I agree with the general consensus in this thread.
I'm definitely not going to contribute to buying you a free video card just so we can get some early stats when we can just wait for people to buy them themselves and upload their stats for free.
I think I'll put my contribution towards a video card of my own, thanks.
Who cares whether you coded DiabloMiner or not? You get donations for that separately. Why not put those towards buying the card?
So how are they going to upload stats? Using an untuned kernel on a miner that does not work on 79xx at this time? Who is going to fix the miners so they work? Without a 79xx, it surely is not going to be me. Also, how many donations do you actually think I've gotten? Its about $30 USD total over the past year. Get a job? +1. Once again, why should we pay for you to get a new video card? Kernels will be released which are optimized for the 7xxx series whether you code them or not. I'm sure you could buy one with your own money if you really wanted to support the community. |
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I agree with the general consensus in this thread.
I'm definitely not going to contribute to buying you a free video card just so we can get some early stats when we can just wait for people to buy them themselves and upload their stats for free.
I think I'll put my contribution towards a video card of my own, thanks.
Who cares whether you coded DiabloMiner or not? You get donations for that separately. Why not put those towards buying the card?
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What's the status on adding cgminer to BAMT? |
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OMG where can i sell at 15? mtgox around 4.
plz tell me!
I'll buy at 15. All I require from you sir is your bank account details and sort code.....  |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16316439 <-- link to the article. The new £16/$25 computer that runs Linux. Could these be modified to run GPUs/FPGAs off? I think FPGAs would be feasible but I'm guessing it's a no to GPUs since there's no PCI-express I assume. NOTE: The Raspberry Pi would only getwork and pass it to FPGAs/GPUs for mining. I didn't mean using a Raspberry Pi for hashing. Post your thoughts below! (PS: it plays Quake 3 Arena  ) you are tottaly right. It would only be a great controler for USB connected FPGA's. It has no pci-E. Although I have thought about clustering them and running xen on the cluster. I'm also glad they added composite video to it. Not everyone has HDMI monitors you know! How would you go about clustering these things together anyway? |
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Based on previous ARM benchmarks of similar processors, I doubt this would even hit 1 Mhash/sec. So I'm guessing no.
I didn't mean mining directly from the board. I meant connecting FPGAs/GPUs to it to do the actual mining. The Raspberry Pi would just be used to getwork and submit hashes for the connected FPGAs/GPUs. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16316439 <-- link to the article. The new £16/$25 computer that runs Linux. Could these be modified to run GPUs/FPGAs off? I think FPGAs would be feasible but I'm guessing it's a no to GPUs since there's no PCI-express I assume. NOTE: The Raspberry Pi would only getwork and pass it to FPGAs/GPUs for mining. I didn't mean using a Raspberry Pi for hashing. Post your thoughts below! (PS: it plays Quake 3 Arena )
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Good work! This looks like it's coming on nicely! I'm going to start playing it again It doesn't look like anyone is playing though. The exchanges say n/a for all the options? |
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Erm, no thanks. How about I mine on my own account and make more money and not participate in your little money-making scheme?
Prizes would have to be FAIR (e.g. 5btc to you means atleast 4.5btc in prizes...) for anyone to bother with this.
Everyone can mine for my account and when I hit 1000BTC I will give out 400BTC in prizes! Hurray!
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0.05 BTC equates to about 20 cents. Why even bother?  +1 It'll cost me more than 20 cents to call it anyway Toll free! And why not, very easy way to get some btc. I mean, it is basically a faucet. Not toll free for me! |
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0.05 BTC equates to about 20 cents. Why even bother? +1 It'll cost me more than 20 cents to call it anyway |
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It says that my 3 hour average is 5,567.55 KH/s (I WISH!) You wish your 3 hour average was 5.5MHash? It'll be because your miner has mined on eligius at some point in the last 3 hours, but not the last 15 minutes. |
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