bump for a great use case

How would that work with only 3 x16 slots 8/8/4 and 4 x1 slots (which to my understanding are useless for the acorn)?


Also, what is everyone else intending to use for a mobo? I can't seem to find any affordable options with more than 3 x16 slots and 2 M2 slots, one of which is usually in the way of a x16 slot.

So is it going live at 3AM in a little over 2 hours from now? Post says AM, counter on website is counting to 3PM utc

Yea dude there is already a Ravencoin/RVN

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3238497.0

Yeah I'm aware its not all that popular outside of the gpu mining community after all it is fairly new and isn't on any major exchanges yet. I was mainly looking to get opinions on it from non-miners who are familiar with the project. Always good to get an outside perspective as those mining it are more inclined to be biased towards it, myself included.

Just wanted to see what everyone thought of this coin. It is pretty big in the mining community but I don't see much talk of it outside that (1 result searching alt discussion and alt speculation).

Way too expensive

Perhaps compare -100 or -150 to +0? Seems it would give a good idea on how much core clock effects the hash rate.

Thanks for the testing, it has been very helpful.

Anyway you could do more testing in regards to overclock (specificially TDP and core clock)?

Edit: missed the part you wanted a pc for regular use.

That's how I started, you can really just build any pc with a good gpu for this. CPU, mem, and ram doesn't really matter. If you want to game you'll want to atleast get a decent cpu and 8gb ram. You could even get a case/mb that will fit 2 gpu's if you want so you can add second card later, but if you plan to go beyond 2 you're probably best off just building a dedicated rig.



If you're willing to spend a little of money and want to go beyond cpu mining, you could build the barebones rig (PSU, MB, CPU, HDD, mem, risers, etc) and just add a pair of cards rather than 6 or more. Then if you want to continue all you have to do is just add cards as you can afford/want to. I'd just recommend getting a motherboard that will support at least 5 cards. For PSU you could start with a 750 and then add another 750 if you expand, i'd just look for one with at least 4 vga cables (EVGA 750 g1/g2/g3/p2 fits the bill). You can probably get everything but gpu's for $400-500 depending on part selection if you go this route, maybe even less.

Beware its addictive, i went from 1 card to 18 cards in 4 months lol

I own a ledger, though most newer coins are not supported (bitcoin private and ravencoin for example).

 Why do you say to upgrade the hdd and what do you mean by provides offline signatures?

Is it really better to copy a copy of the wallet downloaded from a potentially infected computer/thumb drive to the offline pc than just go online to download directly from github?

So I have an old laptop I want to dedicate to store coins that are not compatible with hardware wallets. The wifi card takes about 30 seconds to unhook, so the plan is get my wallets setup and leave the laptop offline until I want to sell/trade. I know this isn't the absolute most secure way but feel it is a good compromise of convenience and security (especially compared to just storing in wallet on gaming pc). Was wondering if anyone else is doing this and if so how they went about it as well as had a few questions.

1. Ubuntu or windows 7/10? I know there's a lot less malware out there for linux though I like the ability of windows to do full disk encryption and am also more familiar with windows.

2. Should I connect to the internet to update OS/download wallets after installing the OS and then go offline to setup wallets and backup private keys or should I get the wallets setup (transferred on thumb drive from potentially unsecure computer) and keys backed up before the laptop is ever connected to the internet and then go about updating the OS?