Question about ASIC Miners

[RomZ]

Have any that use a reasonably low level of power actually been made and shipped to someone who's using it to mine, or is it all a huge scam?

[Gabi]

Hundreds of Avalon ASICs have been shipped and are being used 

[RomZ]

where could i find stats on these devices, like their power usage and how comparable it is to running a pc?

[Wed]

Check this out: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

[RomZ]

ok so its a significant power draw, i wonder how long it'll be until you have units that can run off usb power or something similar

[Wed]

ok so its a significant power draw, i wonder how long it'll be until you have units that can run off usb power or something similar

do you mean something like this?



It is called Block Erupter Sapphire, 300 Mhashes/s

[Gabi]

ok so its a significant power draw, i wonder how long it'll be until you have units that can run off usb power or something similar

Soon!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=195004.0

[RomZ]

heh not a scam like all the rest? 300MH/s isnt that great compared to avalon units in the 65+GH/s range though...

i guess if they were cheap enough filling all free usb ports on pc would make it worthwhile

[Gabi]

heh not a scam like all the rest? 300MH/s isnt that great compared to avalon units in the 65+GH/s range though...

i guess if they were cheap enough filling all free usb ports on pc would make it worthwhile

low level of power

[RomZ]

yeah but probably not worth it given the cost, and the hashing power from regular vid card being higher as posted on last page of that thread