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Nvidia Is About To Steal The Cryptocurrency Mining Crown From AMD

Jokester said:
Yeah looking at my recent cost I spent about £400 odd for a 6 card, 1kW base unit, before the cost of GPUs is added.
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but its not just that its physical space that has a cost
10rigs suddenly having to be 30rigs, 100 having to be 300
this is why the smaller cards are not popular for miners

if nvidia brings in a card thats twice the price but also twice the hash using the same power/hash then yeh i can see them being bought up
but these just make no sense
 
ubersonic said:
ASIC's don't matter for GPU mining, the reason people mine Scrypt today is because SHA256 ASIC's made GPU mining SHA256 unviable. If ASICs make GPU mining Scrypt unviable then GPU miners will move onto new coins that Scrypt ASIC's cannot do like Vertcoin/Panda/etc.

ASICs hashing the hell out of Scrypt won't mean ASIC owners make megabucks it just means the difficulty on Scrypt coins will moon like SHA256 coins.
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Wishful thinking
 
Mei said:
but its not just that its physical space that has a cost
10rigs suddenly having to be 30rigs, 100 having to be 300
this is why the smaller cards are not popular for miners
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The difference is though that the smaller card rigs take up less space as the cards can be much closer due to lower heat. Another difference is if you are looking at 10-100 rig setups then the lower power lower heat rigs are much easier to both power and cool, costs soon spiral when your paying for three phase supplys and air con installation/servicing.


imginy said:
Wishful thinking
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It's not wishful thinking it's the facts.

When SHA256 ASICs made SHA256 GPU mining unviable GPU miners moved onto the ASIC resistant Scrypt algorithm, if that eventually becomes unviable then the are already a new generation of coins designed to be ASIC proof, GPU miners will simply move to these.
 
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ubersonic said:
The difference is though that the smaller card rigs take up less space as the cards can be much closer due to lower heat. Another difference is if you are looking at 10-100 rig setups then the lower power lower heat rigs are much easier to both power and cool, costs soon spiral when your paying for three phase supplys and air con installation/servicing.


It's not wishful thinking it's the facts.

When SHA256 ASICs made SHA256 GPU mining unviable GPU miners moved onto the ASIC resistant Scrypt algorithm, if that eventually becomes unviable then the are already a new generation of coins designed to be ASIC proof, GPU miners will simply move to these.
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Asics are already shipping first batches out.

The asic proof coins you talk of use adaptive nfactor which will make them resistant to gpus as well.
 
ubersonic said:
The difference is though that the smaller card rigs take up less space as the cards can be much closer due to lower heat. Another difference is if you are looking at 10-100 rig setups then the lower power lower heat rigs are much easier to both power and cool, costs soon spiral when your paying for three phase supplys and air con installation/servicing.




It's not wishful thinking it's the facts.

When SHA256 ASICs made SHA256 GPU mining unviable GPU miners moved onto the ASIC resistant Scrypt algorithm, if that eventually becomes unviable then the are already a new generation of coins designed to be ASIC proof, GPU miners will simply move to these.
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The market can only sustain so many coins, it's already saturated, the whole thing is about to implode and a lot of guys are gonna be stuck with a load of b&q crates and 290s
 
ubersonic said:
The difference is though that the smaller card rigs take up less space as the cards can be much closer due to lower heat. Another difference is if you are looking at 10-100 rig setups then the lower power lower heat rigs are much easier to both power and cool, costs soon spiral when your paying for three phase supplys and air con installation/servicing.




It's not wishful thinking it's the facts.

When SHA256 ASICs made SHA256 GPU mining unviable GPU miners moved onto the ASIC resistant Scrypt algorithm, if that eventually becomes unviable then the are already a new generation of coins designed to be ASIC proof, GPU miners will simply move to these.
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you are talking about saving a few inches of space on something that takes up 3 times the space
this thread is insane lol
lets see how many 750ti farms there will be :)
 
Wonder how many peeps homes have been raided for drugs due to energy company noting the extra power being used or police copters seen the heat on thermal camera lol.


AMD Mining Farm:

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Edit : After a few months of running, GPU's or PSU's go pop :

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I think people are getting confused.. The article in the OP wasn't suggesting people run out and buy GTX 750Ti's for mining.. It was showing how efficient the new Maxwell architecture is..

Based on what I’m seeing with the 750 Ti, Nvidia is poised to embarrass AMD in the performance-per-watt race
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When Nvidia’s high-end Maxwell cards drop later this year (possibly by late March), they’re going to meet or surpass the hashrates currently possible from AMD, consume less power, and do so while staying cooler and quieter.
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It has extraordinary performance per watt. What they are saying is when the bigger Maxwell cards launch later on they have a chance to steal the mining performance lead from AMD..

Have to wander if people actually read the articles attached to the posts :D
 
Boom, unless I have misread something, these 750Ti's are more profitable mining than other GPU's. 300 of these would consume far less power and would mine slower but the power to profit ratio is greater. Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong but from PCper's article, that is how I am reading it.
 
Gregster said:
Boom, unless I have misread something, these 750Ti's are more profitable mining than other GPU's. 300 of these would consume far less power and would mine slower but the power to profit ratio is greater. Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong but from PCper's article, that is how I am reading it.
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Yeah so when the bigger Maxwell cards appear that have the same increased performance per watt arch and on 20nm, they will not only be great for gaming / compute but excellent mining cards as well.

No one needs to run out and buy a few GTX 750ti's if they are already mining with a decent AMD setup, but when the higher end Maxwell cards appear, it will be a viable option. Something that Nvidia haven't offered before up until Maxwell..
 
I thought graphics cards were made for playing games right, that's the point to them isn't it, it's like a comedy show reading the fanboys against each other.
 
Gregster said:
It is something I have considered a few times now Pete. I would buy a whole new system but the market crashing and difficulty keeps stopping me.
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Yeah, it's a bit of a minefield...

Still, the 750Ti looks like a promising start for Nv. Hopefully the more powerful cards along the line will make it a bit more worthwhile and practical than buying a crapload of these.

Spook187 said:
I thought graphics cards were made for playing games right, that's the point to them isn't it, it's like a comedy show reading the fanboys against each other.
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It is possible to use them for both ;)
 
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