Topic: Alternate uses from mining rigs (Read 646 times)
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You could donate to Folding @ Home.
Any rig good at bitcoin mining will be equally good at Folding computations.
Any rig good at bitcoin mining will be equally good at Folding computations.
As far as I was aware, amd gpus are far behind nvidia gpus in terms of PPD (perhaps this has changed now - it's been a while since I folded).
Other than playing games on them, there are few uses. I guess you could try writing some fun opencl apps?
You could play Skyrim on it 
heating ur house? the winter is coming in the northern hemisphaere 
I imagine that there may be a number of retired mining rigs and thought it might be useful to have somewhere a list of alternate uses for the hardware, either donating time or for profit. Considering the expense of the rig as *water under the bridge*, might as well find some productive use for it.
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