I find it pretty bad how bitmain replied a few months ago that there was nothing you can do and E3 wouldn't be able to continue mining, and yet they actually made a firmware release.
So many people probably sold theirs really cheap even though they did some change and you can mine all the way until Oct 2020. Oh well, its too bad because I was wondering what the hashrate decrease would of been to find out exactly how many of these E3 they produced.
Dear Kevin Vercauteren,
Thanks for your consultation!
Sorry for your inconvenience we got the confirm from technical department
E3 miner is a 4G video card. E3 is related to eth algorithm, and DDR capacity is up to the upper limit, so E3 will not be able to continue mining.
the meaning is E3 only can mine to January 2020, then will not mine again
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