and it would be a very interesting project to do some hash/power comparison between desktop CPU & GPU mining vs arm CPU's... arm boards are starting to come down in pricing for what you are getting.
Case in point, I just recently bought one of these: Odroid U3
For $65 you get a quad core 1.7GHz Cortex A-9 with a quad Mali 400... at that price point you can really start doing some interesting things when you look at the hardware costs. Take that to an extreme and put together a Beowulf Cluster and you could really have a low energy mining machine.
Topic: APU 's +Nvidia pascal impact on CPU mining cryptonite/cryptonote, primecoin,X11 (Read 2008 times)
August 29, 2014, 02:31:42 PM
August 29, 2014, 12:02:00 AM
ARM for mining cryptonite/cryptonote coins may make a lot of sense because of the low power consumption.
August 28, 2014, 11:27:21 PM
thanks!
your point is PoS is better than PoW/Cpumining? if you have almost nothing to do of course you choose the server with the lowest running costs?
i mean hypothetically an ARM and/or APU/Nividia Pascal miner, with a large cache
would be significantly more efficient in Cryptonote and CPU mining(?)...
your point is PoS is better than PoW/Cpumining? if you have almost nothing to do of course you choose the server with the lowest running costs?
i mean hypothetically an ARM and/or APU/Nividia Pascal miner, with a large cache
would be significantly more efficient in Cryptonote and CPU mining(?)...
July 16, 2014, 04:52:35 PM
billotronic
+1
Another benefit of a CPU only coin is the discouragement of hardware specific mining and the encouragement of distributing the computer load.
+1
Another benefit of a CPU only coin is the discouragement of hardware specific mining and the encouragement of distributing the computer load.
July 12, 2014, 09:17:20 AM
You are looking at it the wrong way. These low power solutions are more perfectly geared towards PoS wallets as opposed to PoW. Case in point I have a server in my house with an APU that acts as a fileserver and vm hosts. I have all my PoS wallets hosted on a secured vm that is never shut down and is connected to a battery back up. Add to that things like Pi's and other arm boards and you could have a very energy efficient mining operation for PoS. Food for thought.
July 12, 2014, 08:17:32 AM
There is no potential in CPU coins. Botnets are cheap to buy and ROI quickly on such coins.
June 11, 2014, 07:48:43 AM
What are potential impacts of general APU's + Nividia pascal on CPU mining?
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