|
June 07, 2014, 03:36:26 AM |
|
S1 Miners are cheap now, and there is a reason for that.
If you go to thegenesisblock.com, click on mining, and enter the S1 stats, you will see that if you buy one now, chances are, by September/October time frame they will not pay for themselves in terms of power cost.
Meaning, that the chips and the miners, while still good now, won't be good for much longer, since they are 55nm technology. Now, you can undervolt them, like people have done here, to get a pretty good watt/Gh ratio, but that's just prolonging the inevitable.
If you're in this long term, you need to get 40nm and under technology.
That being said, getting an S1 now cheap, messing with it, learning about it, would be a good way to get some knowledge.
|