Acorn M.2 FPGA based GPU Accelerator - page 67.

Bohr256

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Quote from: TheronB on July 02, 2018, 08:31:58 PM

Can you clarify the MH/s increase question?
That 30 MH/s figure is per GPU or per rig? If it's the second, does it matter if there are 1, 2, 3 or four cards?

This question has been dodged many times, OP acting like Mayweather lol. Can you please straight up answer the question? No bs, thanks.

mfurman

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It is July 3. Just saying Wink

TheronB

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Can you clarify the MH/s increase question?
That 30 MH/s figure is per GPU or per rig? If it's the second, does it matter if there are 1, 2, 3 or four cards?

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Quote from: schriss on June 30, 2018, 02:38:00 AM

Can you use less than 4 ports on these? I mean lets say you just have 2-3 GPUs and want to use this PCIe raiser?

Yes I currently have one in my gaming PC. I use it to test OC's on new (for me) algorithms for stability without the risk of a whole rig going down unattended. It has run 1, 2, 3 and 4 gpu's just fine. I have been told in forums it works fine with the Linux mining OS's as long as your mobo bios is up to date and supports it.

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Filled out the survey, I am waiting on all the details like everyone else. I think I would be on board for a few if I see some nice power saving numbers. The improved hash rate is gravy to me. Would love to see optimal setups for this thing.

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Quote from: TheronB on July 01, 2018, 08:18:10 AM

Quote from: TurboShane on June 28, 2018, 03:51:39 PM

From my understandings each acorn will boost 4 gpu's 30Mh/s so two would gain you an additional 30Mh/s for a total of 60. This is for ETH and that's about it all I know if certain GPU's will gain more or less I guess we have to wait to find out. Who knows what other algo gains will be if any. But it at least looks like it will make the whole system more efficient.

I thought it was 30MH/s total regardless. 30MH/s per card up to four cards would be incredible.

I also believe that it is 30MHs total. Also, there will be no such increase for ethash (especially with GTX1080ti running with a "pill"). The savings are mostly for power, in such case. Can we please get an official clarification on this. I am mostly interested in ethash

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Quote from: TurboShane on June 28, 2018, 03:51:39 PM

From my understandings each acorn will boost 4 gpu's 30Mh/s so two would gain you an additional 30Mh/s for a total of 60. This is for ETH and that's about it all I know if certain GPU's will gain more or less I guess we have to wait to find out. Who knows what other algo gains will be if any. But it at least looks like it will make the whole system more efficient.

I thought it was 30MH/s total regardless. 30MH/s per card up to four cards would be incredible.

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Quote from: mfurman on June 30, 2018, 02:20:50 PM

Quote from: philipma1957 on June 29, 2018, 04:12:25 PM

well he did say fpga's were stealth mining. in his interview

which means some people made unreal money from sept to December 2017

my gut tells me if you don't have these already you are well behind the curve.

just like most mining gear you get it too late.

I would say in all the years I have mined 2011 to 2018

I got gpus early for the 2016-2017 runup

and I got knc early for 2013 runup.

and that was it.

I have to think bitmain will have a lot of these running very soon.

I worked with pjs 16 card (1060) build in march of 2018 and he is launching a 16 fpga build for august it will do 224000 for monero7 using fpgas and only 2500 watts.

vegas do 2000 so his build will be like 112 vegas cost 60k.

100 units up for sale. my gut is this tech is too late for us

You have a good point! I believe that we, small "hobby" miners have no future. The only game left is to hope for good luck and buy the first batch of great ASIC. I think that even Mineority wants to monopolize the FPGA miner market

Actually the whole purpose of the acorn accelerators is to try to help out the small hobby miner with a few GPUs. The FPGAs are available to anyone to purchase as well, without any minimum buy order required.

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Quote from: philipma1957 on June 29, 2018, 04:12:25 PM

well he did say fpga's were stealth mining. in his interview

which means some people made unreal money from sept to December 2017

my gut tells me if you don't have these already you are well behind the curve.

just like most mining gear you get it too late.

I would say in all the years I have mined 2011 to 2018

I got gpus early for the 2016-2017 runup

and I got knc early for 2013 runup.

and that was it.

I have to think bitmain will have a lot of these running very soon.

I worked with pjs 16 card (1060) build in march of 2018 and he is launching a 16 fpga build for august it will do 224000 for monero7 using fpgas and only 2500 watts.

vegas do 2000 so his build will be like 112 vegas cost 60k.

100 units up for sale. my gut is this tech is too late for us

You have a good point! I believe that we, small "hobby" miners have no future. The only game left is to hope for good luck and buy the first batch of great ASIC. I think that even Mineority wants to monopolize the FPGA miner market

schriss

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Can you use less than 4 ports on these? I mean lets say you just have 2-3 GPUs and want to use this PCIe raiser?

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Quote from: darkdude on June 30, 2018, 12:03:26 AM

Quote from: agarza99 on June 29, 2018, 05:09:37 PM

Quote from: deskless on June 29, 2018, 04:19:03 PM

Quote from: chilliefly on June 28, 2018, 06:31:25 AM

Please answer if you can.

1. I have 2 free M.2 slots on my mobo "Asus z270a prime" will both slots work?
2. How many GPUs can 1 device help? If you have 2 on a single mobo does it help with straight gains? or just help an additional x cards?
3. Im currently HiveOS and been using many Linux Distros, will this be supported in terms of a how to get it working on linux?
4. My current Setup i have 13 x RX 570 on a single Asus z270a prime with 2 free m.2 slots do you expect to see hash gains on all cards or just "x" amount? What would be your ideal setup in theory (if you can apply it to my setup i.e run 1 in my setup or 2)? Even if the gains are low but the power draw is significantly reduced would it be reduced on all cards? All cards are at PCIE GEN2

I totally understand it all needs to be tested etc... In just trying to understand if 1-2 cards were implemented how do cards interact.... is there a finite limit in terms of number of cards etc.

Cheers

how can you have 13 cards on a single z270a ?

pcie extender cards

cool.... Can you share the model(s) of extender cards or take a pic?

PCIE riser 4xUSB extender
https://www.amazon.com/Ubit-Extender-Bitcoin-Litecoin-Adapter-Ethereum/dp/B073W9KCFC/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1530337226&sr=8-3&keywords=pcie+riser+usb+extender&dpID=51-opCYTp1L&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

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Quote from: agarza99 on June 29, 2018, 05:09:37 PM

Quote from: deskless on June 29, 2018, 04:19:03 PM

Quote from: chilliefly on June 28, 2018, 06:31:25 AM

Please answer if you can.

1. I have 2 free M.2 slots on my mobo "Asus z270a prime" will both slots work?
2. How many GPUs can 1 device help? If you have 2 on a single mobo does it help with straight gains? or just help an additional x cards?
3. Im currently HiveOS and been using many Linux Distros, will this be supported in terms of a how to get it working on linux?
4. My current Setup i have 13 x RX 570 on a single Asus z270a prime with 2 free m.2 slots do you expect to see hash gains on all cards or just "x" amount? What would be your ideal setup in theory (if you can apply it to my setup i.e run 1 in my setup or 2)? Even if the gains are low but the power draw is significantly reduced would it be reduced on all cards? All cards are at PCIE GEN2

I totally understand it all needs to be tested etc... In just trying to understand if 1-2 cards were implemented how do cards interact.... is there a finite limit in terms of number of cards etc.

Cheers

how can you have 13 cards on a single z270a ?

pcie extender cards

cool.... Can you share the model(s) of extender cards or take a pic?

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Quote from: deskless on June 29, 2018, 04:19:03 PM

Quote from: chilliefly on June 28, 2018, 06:31:25 AM

Please answer if you can.

1. I have 2 free M.2 slots on my mobo "Asus z270a prime" will both slots work?
2. How many GPUs can 1 device help? If you have 2 on a single mobo does it help with straight gains? or just help an additional x cards?
3. Im currently HiveOS and been using many Linux Distros, will this be supported in terms of a how to get it working on linux?
4. My current Setup i have 13 x RX 570 on a single Asus z270a prime with 2 free m.2 slots do you expect to see hash gains on all cards or just "x" amount? What would be your ideal setup in theory (if you can apply it to my setup i.e run 1 in my setup or 2)? Even if the gains are low but the power draw is significantly reduced would it be reduced on all cards? All cards are at PCIE GEN2

I totally understand it all needs to be tested etc... In just trying to understand if 1-2 cards were implemented how do cards interact.... is there a finite limit in terms of number of cards etc.

Cheers

how can you have 13 cards on a single z270a ?

pcie extender cards

agarza99

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Is the Acorn just for gpu acceleration? Or can it run on its own? Maybe run multiple acorns on one of those m.2 riser cards. just a thought.

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Quote from: chilliefly on June 28, 2018, 06:31:25 AM

Please answer if you can.

1. I have 2 free M.2 slots on my mobo "Asus z270a prime" will both slots work?
2. How many GPUs can 1 device help? If you have 2 on a single mobo does it help with straight gains? or just help an additional x cards?
3. Im currently HiveOS and been using many Linux Distros, will this be supported in terms of a how to get it working on linux?
4. My current Setup i have 13 x RX 570 on a single Asus z270a prime with 2 free m.2 slots do you expect to see hash gains on all cards or just "x" amount? What would be your ideal setup in theory (if you can apply it to my setup i.e run 1 in my setup or 2)? Even if the gains are low but the power draw is significantly reduced would it be reduced on all cards? All cards are at PCIE GEN2

I totally understand it all needs to be tested etc... In just trying to understand if 1-2 cards were implemented how do cards interact.... is there a finite limit in terms of number of cards etc.

Cheers

how can you have 13 cards on a single z270a ?

philipma1957

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'The right to privacy matters'

well he did say fpga's were stealth mining. in his interview

which means some people made unreal money from sept to December 2017

my gut tells me if you don't have these already you are well behind the curve.

just like most mining gear you get it too late.

I would say in all the years I have mined 2011 to 2018

I got gpus early for the 2016-2017 runup

and I got knc early for 2013 runup.

and that was it.

I have to think bitmain will have a lot of these running very soon.

I worked with pjs 16 card (1060) build in march of 2018 and he is launching a 16 fpga build for august it will do 224000 for monero7 using fpgas and only 2500 watts.

vegas do 2000 so his build will be like 112 vegas cost 60k.

100 units up for sale. my gut is this tech is too late for us

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Call 811 before you dig

Quote from: TurboShane on June 29, 2018, 03:57:18 PM

This is the kind of information I want and I'm sure everyone else is looking for.

1) Recommended system requirements

2) Compatibility with different GPU's and Algo's

3) Hashing gains for different Algo's

4) What would be the most optimized setup for the most efficient hashing (power, hashing rate, cost) that would compliment the acorn.

Right now it looks like you would be better off just adding another GPU to the mix but if the Acorn can add hash lower power consumption and increase profits it would be a great purchase and make your mining set more sustainable.

That's what everyone is waiting for.

GPUHoarder is probably afk for a few (3-4) days. There should be news in the near future.

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This is the kind of information I want and I'm sure everyone else is looking for.

1) Recommended system requirements

2) Compatibility with different GPU's and Algo's

3) Hashing gains for different Algo's

4) What would be the most optimized setup for the most efficient hashing (power, hashing rate, cost) that would compliment the acorn.

Right now it looks like you would be better off just adding another GPU to the mix but if the Acorn can add hash lower power consumption and increase profits it would be a great purchase and make your mining set more sustainable.

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GPUHoarder interview :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7TLP3MRS8A

At one point he talks about the leverage you can get on you hashrate but also the benefit you gain from power consumption

TurboShane

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From my understandings each acorn will boost 4 gpu's 30Mh/s so two would gain you an additional 30Mh/s for a total of 60. This is for ETH and that's about it all I know if certain GPU's will gain more or less I guess we have to wait to find out. Who knows what other algo gains will be if any. But it at least looks like it will make the whole system more efficient.

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