Hello All!
I am looking at buying some hardware at the moment and when looking for advice online everyone is recommending the Antminer7 due to its efficiency (mining potential Vs power draw). I really do not care about the power draw as we will not be paying the power bill, it is billed under a different financial area. Would this change the recommendation, I would have thought there was some kind of 19" rack mounted server style solution?
Thanks very much
So another 'free' power guy.
Free power is good. But more to the game then free power.
1) How much juice do you have? 10 kwatts or 100kwatts or 200kwatts.
2) How much room do you have? 1000 square feet? 2000 square feet?
3) does noise matter?
4) this gear runs hot how do you cool it?
if your 'free' power limit is low 10kwatts would be low.
30 S-3's would run with 10kwatts slight down clock you get 400gh each with about 12th max hash
16 S-5's would run with 10 kwatts no down clock you get 1100gh each with about 17.6th max hash
6 S-7's would run with 10 kwatts with a little over clock you get 4800gh each with about 28.8th max hash
30 s-3's used = 1800 you need 10 bitmain psus' = 1400 total 3200net 30eth cables and a switch 12th hash
16 s-5's used = 2400 you need 8 bitmain psus' = 1120 total 3512net 16 eth cables and a switch 17.6th hash
6 s-7's new = 3000 you need 6 bitmain psus' = 840 total 3840net 6 eth cables and a switch 28.8th hash
So a 10kwatt setup from start is 3400 to 4000 usd
and s-7's look best to me if you are starting at the beginning