@Claymore

Since upgrading from 10.6 to 11.3 (and now 11.4) my hawaii rigs are having hash rate drops every so often. About 5-7% drop lasting for around 2 minutes before going back to normal for about 10-15 minutes before it happens again. Any idea what might be going on?

Why would someone use your miner VS Claymore? I'm not touching the link with a 10 foot pole, but come on man... Try to sell your miner a little harder.

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Anyone having issues with 11.3 and Hawaii GPUs? Every 10-15 minutes my rigs will lose 5-7% speed for about 2-3 minutes, and then they go back to normal. This happens continually, on all my Hawaii based rigs. Never saw this issue with 10.6 that I just upgraded from.

The efficiency gain is way to high to be anything but an ASIC. It's for sure an ASIC.

I don't believe it can even get anywhere near ROI. All the important coins it can mine will switch to an incompatible algorithm, and if a coin doesn't (let's say electroneum) it'll get destroyed difficulty wise and be complete shit to mine.

Alright folks. Here's the nitty gritty.

Baikal has had these ASICs for a while now, mining away at monero and CN algo coins for themselves behind closed doors making MASSIVE profits. Now that Monero (and other CN based coins) have announced that they will be changing algorithms to combat these ASICs, rendering these ASICs useless, baikal realized that they could no longer milk the proverbial cryptonight cow for much longer.

What are they to do with their soon to be useless chunks of aluminium and copper? Dump them on uninformed customers, of course! The fact that these ship out pretty much immediately supports this; the product has existed for a long time now... They just need to be blasted with an air compressor, packaged in a box, and dumped on uninformed buyers.

Don't be a sucker. Don't let greed motivate you. If you buy this, all you're doing is bailing baikal out of getting the door slammed shut on them by coin devs who want to prevent Chinese centralization.

You've been warned.

I didn't mean dead on arrival in the literal "product is broken and needs to be repaired" sense. The coins that this ASIC is meant to mine are changing the mathematics that need to be processed, and unlike a general processor, an ASIC can't be adapted. It can only do the one thing it was made to do. You literally couldn't ask any mining ASIC what 2+2 is, it wouldn't be able to answer you.

Trivial or not, it won't make sense financially since Monero will be modifying the algorithm every 6 months. It's not feasible to make an ASIC for that.

No, you won't be able to. You can't reprogram an Application Specific Integrated Circuit. If it were an FPGA, then yes, they could potentially make it work with a new algo.

Hopefully they won't. But the uninformed masses never cease to amaze me. This thing is dead on arrival. I'd love to see baikal lose millions with this ASIC due to all the major coins switching algos (Monero and IPBC confirmed so far) but they've probably already made their investment back by mining with these for a few months before announcing them, unfortunately.

It'll be useless with V7 in ~15 days, and if baikal could circumvent that with a firmware update (hint: they can't) you can be sure Monero devs wouldn't wait 6 months before updating the algo again.

Pretty scummy to claim this can mine monero. But I guess these guys need to move their useless stock onto the uninformed.

Don't waste your money, folks. This thing is an expensive door stopper. Monero and IPBC are switching algos rendering this brick unable to mine them, and I imagine and hope every other healthy cryptonight coin will do the same.

Some people will undoubtedly fall for this door stopper, but I doubt baikal will make their investment back on sales alone. Chances are they've been mining with this behind closed doors long enough to already have paid their investment back, though.

So happy to see this thing dead on arrival.. XMR + IPBC switching algos, with hopefully other CN coins to follow. Fuck you, baikal.  

Thankfully this wont be compatible with Monero real soon thanks to the upcoming anti ASIC algo modification, and subsequent algo mods every 6 months.

Big props to Monero's dev team for keeping the coin decentralized. Makes me happy to know that baikal spent millions developing this and all it'll be able to mine are worthless shit coins.

No need to test anything, just look at what kind of service is installed and it's amperage. You can bring an electrician and not reveal that it's for a mining operation, you know? He doesn't give a fuck why he's there, as long as he's getting paid.

Cool, GLWS. 

Interesting, will give it a try when I have time.

Goes it support all AMD generations? Tahiti, Hawaii, Fiji, etc?