New Mac Pro mining speculation - page 2.

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Quote from: Operatr on June 12, 2013, 11:23:48 AM

Quote from: SlyFoxy12 on June 10, 2013, 03:33:15 PM

Quote from: danieldaniel on June 10, 2013, 03:04:59 PM

GPU mining is over, though. With all the ASIC's coming out, it'll be more or less useless.

Depends to what level, if the thing does say 1000MH/s it's not bad as long as your not paying for electricity, if you were at a company that has a few of them it's even better, OS X I've found is very easy to run a miner on and find it to be stable.

There is no way in hell it would ever reach that kind of performance...

It is stated these will feature nVidia graphics, which are not known for good hashing performance anyway even with CUDA.

Mac is probably one of the worst things you could use for mining purposes. At current difficulties you need dedicated rigs to even make it worth your while.

Where did you hear nVidia? It's shipping with AMD GPU's... says so right on Apple.com

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lol from what I hear, Mac Pros have horrible cooling.

Don't burn your GPU out Tongue

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Quote from: Operatr on June 12, 2013, 11:23:48 AM

It is stated these will feature nVidia graphics, which are not known for good hashing performance anyway even with CUDA.

LOLWUT ?! Dude, the new Mac Pros are going to ship with Dual AMD Firepro W9000's. Combined hashing capability of 1GHs is not an unreasonable estimation.

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By the time these come out, even if they hit the 1 GH/s you assume they might, you'll only get about 0.01 BTC a day from them at best. And that will continue to drop as difficulty increases. That's only about a dollar a day. Definitely not worth it.

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Quote from: SlyFoxy12 on June 10, 2013, 03:33:15 PM

Quote from: danieldaniel on June 10, 2013, 03:04:59 PM

GPU mining is over, though. With all the ASIC's coming out, it'll be more or less useless.

Depends to what level, if the thing does say 1000MH/s it's not bad as long as your not paying for electricity, if you were at a company that has a few of them it's even better, OS X I've found is very easy to run a miner on and find it to be stable.

There is no way in hell it would ever reach that kind of performance...

It is stated these will feature nVidia graphics, which are not known for good hashing performance anyway even with CUDA.

Mac is probably one of the worst things you could use for mining purposes. At current difficulties you need dedicated rigs to even make it worth your while.

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hmm, looks like an ashtray from here:

http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/

Anyway, bitcoin mining with an Apple is a little like coal mining in $500 designer jeans. Sure you can, but you'll come off looking like an idiot.

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Quote from: SlyFoxy12 on June 10, 2013, 03:33:15 PM

Quote from: danieldaniel on June 10, 2013, 03:04:59 PM

GPU mining is over, though. With all the ASIC's coming out, it'll be more or less useless.

Depends to what level, if the thing does say 1000MH/s it's not bad as long as your not paying for electricity, if you were at a company that has a few of them it's even better, OS X I've found is very easy to run a miner on and find it to be stable.

>>>1000MH/s it's not bad as long as your not paying for electricity<<<

Or if you're paying to heat your place electrically, and then only in the winter.

All those watts being turned into BTUs may slightly lower your heating bill but they'll be costly during AC season.

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Quote from: danieldaniel on June 10, 2013, 03:04:59 PM

GPU mining is over, though. With all the ASIC's coming out, it'll be more or less useless.

Depends to what level, if the thing does say 1000MH/s it's not bad as long as your not paying for electricity, if you were at a company that has a few of them it's even better, OS X I've found is very easy to run a miner on and find it to be stable.

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GPU mining is over, though. With all the ASIC's coming out, it'll be more or less useless.

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Quote from: SlyFoxy12 on June 10, 2013, 01:17:14 PM

I'm sure will not be worth the price tag, plus firepros have always been quite weak for mining, don't know why particularly.

That's a pretty decent assumption, but maybe for users who want a Mac Pro for other reasons, it could also double as a high-performance (and possibly quite power-efficient) mining machine.

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I'm sure will not be worth the price tag, plus firepros have always been quite weak for mining, don't know why particularly.

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Let's wait and see.
It will not be available for a while

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For those watching the WWDC keynote... the new Mac Pro has dual GPUs. (I forget the rest of the details, but they highlighted OpenCL support.) How suitable do you suppose this would be for desktop mining?

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