Hi all,
I've not been around on the scene much this past year, so I've been catching up on the current news and trends.
I'm glad to see the ASIC's dream is almost realized
that make much more sense that churning through ATI cards...
So I've been checking the suppliers out... and unlike the GPU wars... this is heating up a little more on the design front than I've ever imagined it would.
I've looked through the main options and it seems to me that technical / power wise... the BFL SC single comes out tops ( please don't flame me if im wrong... im still switching from card based thoughts to self contained units
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So i need some opinions from you more experienced guys and gals:
Does anyone have like an up to date comparison table for pwr Vs. GH/s on the respective competitors like this?
http://organofcorti.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/92-asic-choices-update-2nd-november.htmlI could imagine some sort of league table.. fantasy football style going with these guys now
and seeing who trumps who and who can make that all important come back. It does seem that there have been a few teething issues, and for those of us who are less technical than the designers themselves would benefit from some ASIC comentator on the upcoming ASIC race
I really like the idea of having the coffee cup warmers... on a few powered USB hubs being controlled by my Raspberry PI's, does anyone have any thermal details on these puppies? I can't imaging max 5v really pushing the heat out.. maybe long term the would bu nothing like a 400w psu would do.
Also.. can anyone answer why the other ASIC designers are spec'ing such high power supplies on their offerings? is this to cater for future cluster scaling ?
Cheers
Rock