CryptoCurrency Mining with GPUs *spawn*

[entity279]

With Amazon, I can confirm that it can happen that you aren't allowed to make a new order with the quantities you've not been allowed to order in the previous one.

 

[Pressure]

It’s nearly cheaper buying the Sonnet Breakaway Box with an included RX 580 than the stand-alone card ...

 

[Pressure]

It's weird to think its MSRP is $229 ...

 

[Jawed]

So much ...

... cringe

 

[Ryan Smith]

Well I keep wondering this months if any of these inflated prices gets in the pockets of AMD/nV. I'm guessing not.

That's changing. Serious operations no longer go to the board vendors. They go higher.

 

[eastmen]

Those new amd chips with vega in them might be really nice for mining

 

[Mize]

Those new amd chips with vega in them might be really nice for mining

I assume you mean either the AMD APUs or the new Intel-Vega CPUs? I think the gist is they run around the speed of a 1050 which is what ~ RX570 levels? Might be very good depending upon pricing.

 

[Anarchist4000]

So much ...

... cringe

Would have been more impressive with an Epyc and 120 GPUs.

I assume you mean either the AMD APUs or the new Intel-Vega CPUs? I think the gist is they run around the speed of a 1050 which is what ~ RX570 levels? Might be very good depending upon pricing.

I think he means the Intel chips. Without the HBM2, the Ravens would be bandwidth starved rather quickly. The Intel variant could run CPU and GPU mining combinations simultaneously, but scaling would seem difficult and then cost. Possibly a rack of NUCs? Raven APU only makes sense if a coin has a huge DAG that won't fit in conventional VRAM.

 

[Pressure]

Would have been more impressive with an Epyc and 120 GPUs.

Stop giving the miners ideas

Although 120 x RX 560 would be quite alright both in hash and power consumption, around 50 kh/s in xmr.

The reason I mention the RX 560 is because that is simply the only alternative left.

 

[Mize]

So you can find RX 560s, but where the heck are you going to find a good mining motherboard? They're all gone. That means likely only 4-5 GPUs per rig so for an 8 GPU rig you'll need 2x everything

 

[Alexko]

That's changing. Serious operations no longer go to the board vendors. They go higher.

Are you saying that big miners buy directly from AMD/NVIDIA?

 

[Anarchist4000]

So you can find RX 560s, but where the heck are you going to find a good mining motherboard? They're all gone. That means likely only 4-5 GPUs per rig so for an 8 GPU rig you'll need 2x everything

In theory an institutional miner would be using MXGPU in a blade server with a backplane. Just a question if anyone scaled a chasis that large. A single PCIe lane per card if a rather odd configuration, except for mining. May cost a bit for a pro mining operation demanding more reliability, but any company exploring block chain probably doesn't want the open GPU cable mess.

 

[eastmen]

I assume you mean either the AMD APUs or the new Intel-Vega CPUs? I think the gist is they run around the speed of a 1050 which is what ~ RX570 levels? Might be very good depending upon pricing.

either set really.

The amd APUs are $100 and $160 that's pretty cheap and can add mhash to your erthium rig

 

[Pixel]

What if gpu prices remain this high or go higher, and big business decide to put real manpower and resources into figuring out how to jailbreak Xbox One X and future console system turning the 6tflop system into a mining device. Instead of fragmented small amateur groups in their spare time tinkering with trying to break these system open, you have multimillion dollar endevours of large, very dedicated, very talented teams of software and hardware engineers dedicated to cracking the system, and turning it into a mining device.

Consoles are [often] the only high performance computing devices without [well... hardly any] retail and manufacturer markup.

 

[Mize]

I love this idea... Samsung built a miner with old cellphones. Old Xboxes would trounce phones.

 

[eastmen]

I wonder what the amazon tablets get in hash rate . They drop down to $20 or $30 bucks on some sales

 

[Putas]

If a console is cheap, the creator expects to make money on games. One can imagine Microsoft is working hard on securing XBO from mining.

 

[Ryan Smith]

Are you saying that big miners buy directly from AMD/NVIDIA?

In trying to untangle the enigma that is video card supplies, one of the stories I'm hearing is that board vendors are getting fewer GPUs, despite the fact that production hasn't been cut.

 

[entity279]

Well, my hope is that the two manufacturers will get better margins allowing them to increase their R & D buget

Whishful thinking?

 

[Anarchist4000]

I wonder what the amazon tablets get in hash rate . They drop down to $20 or $30 bucks on some sales

Just need some coin mining ASICs in Echos and they can mine while they spy on you.

In trying to untangle the enigma that is video card supplies, one of the stories I'm hearing is that board vendors are getting fewer GPUs, despite the fact that production hasn't been cut.

Do those vendors include Apple or Intel?