CoinTerra Engineering Update: TerraMiner IV Hashing Live

[turtle83]

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[miahallen]

Which is why I mentioned GPUs, which use similar levels (on the high end)  

the same thing.. no gpu runs at the wattage that a hashfast or cointerra asic is going to run at  these things are using hundreds of watts 24/7, and not peaky like a graphics card.  and yet again, no graphics card has as many asics on it, nor as much power requirement as a high end bitcoin miner.  the sheer amount of power that these things will draw compared to a graphics card - significantly more power required.   this isn't just take a graphics card power circuit and multiply by four.  its not that easy.

Actually, the most difficult part of building a reliable VRM is dealing with transitions...so according to what you just stated, ASICs would be easier since they fluctuate less....however, I disagree, I think ASICs power will fluctuate a lot as we know that hashing is a very volatile activity.

Plenty of GPUs run at around 250W TDP...thats about the same as the ASICs in the CoinTerra box...I've owned and overclocked many of them.  I have a little idea of what I'm talking about 

I've traveled the world overclocking competitively...these pictures are from a North American championship I won in 2009...

http://s161.photobucket.com/user/miahallen/slideshow/GOOC2009

I've actually won two NA championships and a world championship 

[aerobatic]

Which is why I mentioned GPUs, which use similar levels (on the high end)  

the same thing.. no gpu runs at the wattage that a hashfast or cointerra asic is going to run at  these things are using hundreds of watts 24/7, and not peaky like a graphics card.  and yet again, no graphics card has as many asics on it, nor as much power requirement as a high end bitcoin miner.  the sheer amount of power that these things will draw compared to a graphics card - significantly more power required.   this isn't just take a graphics card power circuit and multiply by four.  its not that easy.

Actually, the most difficult part of building a reliable VRM is dealing with transitions...so according to what you just stated, ASICs would be easier since they fluctuate less....however, I disagree, I think ASICs power will fluctuate a lot as we know that hashing is a very volatile activity.

Plenty of GPUs run at around 250W TDP...thats about the same as the ASICs in the CoinTerra box...I've owned and overclocked many of them.  I have a little idea of what I'm talking about 

I've traveled the world overclocking competitively...these pictures are from a North American championship I won in 2009...

http://s161.photobucket.com/user/miahallen/slideshow/GOOC2009

I've actually won two NA championships and a world championship 

with your skill set you should be working for one of these bitcoin mining asic companies !

[miahallen]

LOL, thanks, I've thought about it, but I'm not an engineer 

In the first picture in that slideshow, the guy wearing the black shirt on the right is Francois Piednoel, one of the lead CPU architects for Intel.  We had some good conversations about CPU design back in the day

[DPoS]

LOL, thanks, I've thought about it, but I'm not an engineer 

a lot of 'engineers' aren't engineers either

[DubFX]

Looks nice! 

[miahallen]

LOL, thanks, I've thought about it, but I'm not an engineer 

a lot of 'engineers' aren't engineers either

QFT     

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I've traveled the world overclocking competitively...these pictures are from a North American championship I won in 2009...

http://s161.photoBTCucket.com/user/miahallen/slideshow/GOOC2009

I've actually won two NA championships and a world championship 


That is awesome miahallen!! Great stuff!

I would like to see you working on the cutting edge ASIC/Scrypt miners too!

(are you?!)