Barnum is outdated - it's more like "every second" now not "every minute".

 Low rig density.

 Current ASIC miners pack 1200+ watts into a case that is less than a QUARTER of the volume of most standard 4U cases, and less than a THIRD of most "shorty" 4U cases.

 I'm pretty sure the last rack-mountable designs were something BitFury or possibly the Spondoolies SP50 - and folks were moving away from the rack-mountable form factor for a couple years before THAT.

 Miners are NOT designed or intended to run in traditional data centers any more, as those data centers don't have the INFRASTRUCTURE to support the power requirement of mining.

 There have been temp sensors built into the ASIC chip on some previous designs I think - pretty sure the Spondoolies "Rockerbox" chips had on-chip sensing.

 Welcome to the effect of Quantum Mechanics on semiconductors - and the impending end of the very long run of Silicon being the primary material for use in semiconductors.

 It says a lot that both Intel AND IBM have stated "10nm is the end of the road for pure silicon", and that IBM has specifically stated they are moving to a mixed Silicon/Germanium wafer for their 7nm development work.


 I have to wonder how long even that mixed wafer stuff is going to last, and what will come after that - if ANYTHING - for semiconductors - and how long it's going to take.



 And the important question is "Can it whistle IN KEY?" - all miners can whistle.

 8-P

 Partly true - they do have some extensive contracts with IBM and AMD dating back to the "fab spinoff" days and amended/updated every so often that lock up a lot of their capacity if IBM or AMD wants that capacity.

 The contract fab model applies to whatever is "left over".

Sounds like time to find a new location to mine?

I have to wonder how unreliable your Internet connection is going to be if "the government" only provides power 12 hours a day.

 People probably won't be mining for the block fees by then - they'll probably be mining more for the transaction fees.

 Also, how much is 1 Bitcoin going to be worth by then?

 WAY too far out to predict anything - Bitcoin might have DIED by that point....

 But a little more expensive than what most of the LARGE mines in the US are paying (3 cents/KWH or a bit less).

 Heck, I'm paying close to that where I'm at right now on a SMALL BUSINESS rate - and could drop to quite a bit less if I could find an affordable and usable place in one of the 2 "next door" counties (or grow enough to get into the "large business" rate here).

 80 F is plenty cool - even Yahoo doesn't build their new data centers to go below that.

 Look up "yahoo chicken coop" on Google sometime.

10000 chips a month is a drop in the bucket - that would be ballpark 500 miners a month.

 I'd bet on these chips being intended for use in Bitmain's "AI Deep Learning" type new project, NOT in a cryptocoin miner.

 If you use risers that have the USB cable come straight out, clearance is not an issue at all.
 Right-angle risers you have to use in the "closest to the power connection" slots if you are going to use more than one riser per row. or you get cable interference that can make reliable seating of the riser "interface board" problematic.

 There should be no performance difference between the slots - try swapping your risers around to see if the issue follows the board.
 I've had issues where a "performance difference" turned out to be a marginal USB cable, and just replacing the cable with a better cable CURED the issue.

 That is narrower than the Aoris 1080 ti - forget trying to use a "2.5" or "3 slot" card in that motherboard AT ALL except in the one "end" slot, or on an "every other slot" basis.

 It's very close to, or is the same, as standard "every other slot" spacing on common motherboards - even standard 2-slot wide blower cards are going to be airflow challenged.

 ZEC via Flypool has generally been close to Nicehash on earnings, also close to ZCL (but I don't know how well the pools for that coin work), and is a lot more widely traded than most of the "higher profit" coins that pop up briefly above it on profitablty.

 I doubt that the 1050 ti uses the full 75 watts when mining Cryptonight - the 750 ti certainly didn't, it used more like 30-40 watts out of IT'S 75 watt TDP.

 But I do agree crunch the numbers on all (or at least most of the common) algorithms for a GPU before deciding if it's good, bad, or indifferent and WHAT to mine with it.

Interesting article but factually challenged.

Prime numbers are NOT at the "core of cryptography", though there has been some use of them in the past.

While I like the GIMPS project and was a long-time participant, if any distributed project has had impact on cryptocoin mining it would be the Distributed.Net project which IS a cryptography project.

Probably the same, but don't have a Strix to test with.

I would say IN THEORY it might show a hair higher if you push it to max TDP due to slightly better cooling, but can't say FOR FACT if that is the case - and if mining for efficiency the cooling isn't enough of a factor to matter on ANY of the cards I have worked with, even the Zotac Mini.

Obviously you aren't bothering to READ what I am posting.

I didn't SAY "this GPU can only address 1 GB". I said the A10 had that limitation, and that it *MIGHT* apply to the APU in the XBox One X.

One typo on DDR3 vs GDDR3 doesn't mean I don't know the difference or make me ignorant.
Are you going to try to tell me you have NEVER misstyped something?

I use capitols for emphasis - this is a VERY long standing online convention dating back at least to UseNet and PREdates the Internet as such, if you don't understand it that makes YOU the ignorant one.

GPU internal voltage tuning and control does NOT equal "undervolting", where the USER dictates to the GPU to use less voltage than it is designed to use.
Ditto "Hovis method" to make the GPU more efficient, which has actually been used on other GPUs before as well as CPUs.
Again, YOU showing ignorance not me.

I've BEEN civil - you are the one that started name-calling and being insulting for no reason.

PS4 has had LINUX on it and "been hacked" since at least 2016.
https://github.com/fail0verflow/ps4-linux
There were quite a few other postings at that time about the subject.
Do you even bother checking facts before you post anything?
Seems odd you calling ME ignorant so many times when YOUR ignorance is so repeatedly blatant.

I have NEVER SAID ANYTHING about "not worth mining on", my entire point has been "don't ASSUME RX 580 level performance" not "don't bother mining on them at all".


If you can't be bothered to READ AND UNDERSTAND what other folks type before commenting on it or understanding basic common Internet conventions, YOU are the one that should stop posting.

 50% better than the 750 ti that it replaced - and similar power usage if I remember correctly from postings folks have made about it.

 But yes, quite a few of the Ryzen CPUs can do better - abet generally at same-to-HIGHER power usage.

 EMI is a non-factor. 60 hz doesn't generate enough EMI for computer gear to notice.

 Close to a panel makes for shorter runs and slightly less IIR losses in the power feeds - it's not enough to be a big deal but it probably would save you a FEW watt-hours a month.

 MSI had one up on NewEgg for a VERY short while but it's out of stock again.
 A few others have been anounced but haven't seen them actually for sale yet even when listed.

 You forgot the mention the FREQUENT issues Poloniex has with "losing deposits" - sometimes for a few days, sometimes for weeks, sometimes for MONTHS.

 At this point I'm inclined to think that NICEHASH has a higher trust factor.


 Yes, EBWF works fine with Nicehash - point it at their equihash pool directly if you're running LINUX, do the same OR run their front end under Windows (they included EWBF a while back as an option).