[ANN] PlayStation 3 - A Beast For Data Mining Purposes. Good Scrypt Coin Miner.

dE_logics

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I heard this has an Nvidia graphics chip, however the US military is using 1000s of these for parallel processing.

SpeedDemon13

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Quote from: hendo420 on December 26, 2013, 03:54:32 AM

Quote from: Leto74 on December 26, 2013, 03:49:28 AM

I don't think so.....just look at the specs !
for a cpu coin, why not...

I remember a few months ago someone was talking about making a custom rig using a bunch of old PS3 cell cpu's. Each cpu uses something like 75w which is quite efficient for the processing power.

I used to reflow ps3's all the time. I can get broken ps3's for like $20-$30 so if someone came up with an open sourced solution I could definitively make use of it.

Its a great idea but there is no way to know if it is economical without trying. lol

I think you could make one hell of a Primecoin miner out of a botched together Ps3 miner tho. lol

There is, but I forgot what user he was and forgot which posting it was.

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Quote from: Leto74 on December 26, 2013, 03:49:28 AM

I don't think so.....just look at the specs !
for a cpu coin, why not...

I remember a few months ago someone was talking about making a custom rig using a bunch of old PS3 cell cpu's. Each cpu uses something like 75w which is quite efficient for the processing power.

I used to reflow ps3's all the time. I can get broken ps3's for like $20-$30 so if someone came up with an open sourced solution I could definitively make use of it.

Its a great idea but there is no way to know if it is economical without trying. lol

I think you could make one hell of a Primecoin miner out of a botched together Ps3 miner tho. lol

Katatsuki

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38kH/s according to https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison

Leto74

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I don't think so.....just look at the specs !
for a cpu coin, why not...

DolanDuck

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Let's burn our ps4! Grin

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!!!INCAKOIN!!!

I think If someone could compile a PS3 pooler miner we could really throw some Hashing power at Litecoin Or Any other Alt coin that's a scrypt coin.

"With a clock speed of 3.2GHz, the Cell processor has a theoretical peak performance of 204.8 GFLOP/s (single precision)."

http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=160968.0

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