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December 16, 2013, 03:25:58 AM |
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I'll pay $3000 USD for the Horus. Does that look reasonable? Or is it too much?
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Totscha
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December 17, 2013, 02:27:31 PM |
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I'll pay $3000 USD for the Horus. Does that look reasonable? Or is it too much?
That would be an awesome price for the Osiris (5MH), but if they don't get the hardware at ridiculously low prices you'll be paying $3000 for the Isis (1MH)  Remember, they would be dumb to sell at lower $/kHs price than GPUs if their hardware consumes 3-4x less power. Even the same ratio is a steal. Most likely it will be at least 2x as expensive as a GPU rig, but with much lower running costs... |
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Dabs
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December 18, 2013, 02:24:09 AM |
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$3000 is too expensive for 1MH that can only mine a couple of scrypt coins. It would make more sense to just buy a 2 GPU or even 4 GPU rig, even with the power costs.
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nightengale
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December 18, 2013, 03:34:42 AM |
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So... Alpha Technologies have begun their announcements... Is CryptoIndustries still for real?
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broken_pixel
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December 18, 2013, 04:46:05 AM |
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Pop, pop!!!
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GA-990FXA-UD5, 1x 7970L, 2x S1, AX1200i, RIVBE, 2x R290x, NEX1500, BTC: 1G9cQix8bMgh35MQ9wY3Rb9yNSSCtnoRmK, DGC: DFo9FcKYsutv9Vx5c5xUzkrt7VJdECZWTM, LTC: LaAN33aktPGaimN5ALL9kjHjuJekfmKfTh
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note235
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December 18, 2013, 05:01:38 AM |
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interesting times
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Jabba
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December 18, 2013, 09:55:43 AM |
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On a short range view all Coineers need to recalculate as all coin prices are dropping...
Or did I miss a coin which wasn't affected by recent crash?
Regarding the Horus: NICE!
Advantages:
- high efficency compared to GPU
- less management effort compared to common mining rigs
- performance does not kick out GPU mining hardware from start
Disadvantages:
- only few Altcoins supported
- the race for non GPU hardware has started again
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Totscha
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December 18, 2013, 10:50:55 AM |
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$3000 is too expensive for 1MH that can only mine a couple of scrypt coins. It would make more sense to just buy a 2 GPU or even 4 GPU rig, even with the power costs.
Indeed...  FPGAs are only interesting in the long run (takes longer for ROI), because of lower power cost. And since ASICs are already on the horizon the long term viability is now higly questionable. Looks like we will be jumping over FPGAs for scrypt. I would consider buying one if it was available today, but a preorder with 3 months wait time is just too much. It seems to me that Koolio and Motaboy have already come to that conclusion a long time ago, but failed to inform us. They have been silent since the start of November. They are probably looking into ASICs like all the others have done. Alpha-tech and jasinlee (Fibonacci Inc., former LTCFPGA): both abandoned plans for production using FPGA chips and started ASIC development. The coming months may prove me wrong, but i'm pretty confident about this prediction... |
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coin123123
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December 23, 2013, 04:03:16 PM |
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if this compared to gpu rigs it should cost less than equivalent mhs rig despite the power consumption because its only question of time until it mines zero coins and then gpu rigs can be sold unlike these miners which will be worthless
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cycloid
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December 25, 2013, 01:44:18 AM |
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Koolio? Sup mang whats the word you still doing this or not?
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ZKRiNG
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December 25, 2013, 01:51:46 AM |
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Looks insane expensive
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Dabs
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December 26, 2013, 01:59:54 AM |
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I'll buy 10 units please.
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RenegadeMind
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December 31, 2013, 02:28:33 PM |
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When are these shipping? Any prices yet? Looks like it's vaporware...  |
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December 31, 2013, 02:43:30 PM |
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Koolio? Sup mang whats the word you still doing this or not?
Sup mang! |
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December 31, 2013, 02:44:42 PM |
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it's a raspberry pi with some fpga's on it...
a raspberry pi is operated from an SD card with a linux distro; usually raspberian...
Why for crying out load would you create a 19" system (obviously designed for datacenters) that is trusted on an SD card operated machine?
don't get me wrong; i LOVE raspberries; but not for mining... they are sloowwwwwwwww and doing many read/write requests to an SD card makes it corrupt.
I for sure don't want to have to drive to a datacenter every day to replace SD cards....
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January 03, 2014, 01:02:43 PM |
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would a beaglebone be a suitable replacement for the Rpi?
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January 03, 2014, 08:07:34 PM |
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would a beaglebone be a suitable replacement for the Rpi?
I don't see why not. |
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January 05, 2014, 04:17:59 PM |
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When are these shipping? Any prices yet? Looks like it's vaporware... no updates for a few weeks? |
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Totscha
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January 06, 2014, 12:35:48 PM |
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When are these shipping? Any prices yet? Looks like it's vaporware... no updates for a few weeks? With no updates for 2+ months I'm calling this project dead... And since both Koolio and Motaboy don't seem to have the gems to admit it publicly I wouldn't order from them even if they resurect the project some time in the near future. |
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Coincookie
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March 12, 2014, 01:56:01 PM |
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Well it's march 12th and it seems like a dead end. I know Kramble updated his github in feb on it but it just seems to run in to all sort of problems, challenges.. Friend of mine is trying the same thing together with an FPGA specialist. They give it six months then is has to be up and running, or bust...
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