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Topic: [WTB] Afordable FPGA/ASIC for testing... (Read 747 times)

sr. member
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May 20, 2013, 11:19:51 AM
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You might want to check out this thread:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2197347

Only the last three rows of the table are currently useful... but maybe it will improve as Avalon starts shipping chips, etc.

Right now I believe the earliest option is BlackArrow with arrival around July?
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At the moment don't care for speed but feel its pointless paying 10x $/MH for ASIC/FPGA compared to GPU.  For instance 7870XT costs $250 and can do 450-500MH/s.  If I'm not paying for electricity what is the point paying $1000-3000 for the same thing?  I'll look into the two you mentioned.
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If you don't care about hash speed, Black arrow (fpga) and  bit fountain (USB asic) each have something for around ~375 USD though they both are pretty low hash rate (300Mhs?).
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Is there anything out there that is at least as affordable $/MH and under $500 as GPU for a beginner to test off of Wink  Ideally would like to test off a raspberry pi.  
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