[05:48] <Derath-Srvr> :P
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[15:07]  * thafreak is busy mining crypto coins
[15:40] <canthus13> thafreak: are they worth anything?
[15:42]  * canthus13 has a couple of cuda-capable machines he could mine with...
[15:42] <thafreak> bitcoins are selling for $130
[15:43] <thafreak> but cuda won't get you very far...
[15:43] <thafreak> you can mine litecoins or feathercoins...or one of the other alternatives
[15:43] <thafreak> but they are only traiding for a few bucks...i think litecoins are around $2
[15:46]  * canthus13 nods.
[15:46] <canthus13> I know BTC is at the point where you need a high density FPGA rig to get anywhere.
[15:50] <thafreak> well, i mean you could use your gpu's...you'd get something...and eventually the price will probably go up
[15:50] <thafreak> there's actually these little usb devices you can get for like $30-$40 that are just as fast as some decent gpu's though
[15:50] <thafreak> and they use way less power (like a couple watts)
[15:51] <thafreak> i mean they're about as fast as the current $150-$200 gpu's...
[15:51] <canthus13> nice.
[15:52] <thafreak> yeah...and you can chain as many as you want on a powered usb hub
[15:58] <paultag> nope :)
[15:58] <paultag> you can only address up to 254 devices on USB
[15:58] <paultag> for each bus
[15:58] <paultag> since it's in the address nibble stuff
[15:59] <paultag> sorry
[15:59] <paultag> 127
[15:59] <paultag> including the hub
[16:00] <paultag> also each device introduces a lot of lag
[16:00] <paultag> since it has to be requested to send data back
[16:00] <paultag> (it's master/slave)
[16:07] <thafreak> yes, but I can put them on a raspberry pi
[16:07] <thafreak> so I can have like 6 per pi
[16:07] <thafreak> and use hardly any power
[16:07] <thafreak> well, compared to a desktop with dual radeons or something
[16:08] <thafreak> a single pi, with 6 of these usb devices would destroy a desktop with dual radeons
[16:08] <thafreak> at a fraction of the power draw
[16:09] <dzho> yeah, I don't think that's going to figure in to be a very big proportion of your power draw one way or the other
[16:10] <dzho> I mean, you're talking about running 6 or more miners full tilt, right?
[16:10] <thafreak> no...one miner with 6 asics
[16:34] <thafreak> and we're off...~335Mh/s...finally
[16:35] <belkinsa> For what?
[16:45] <thafreak> that's my current hashing power with my new fpga
[16:45] <belkinsa> I see.
[17:46] <thafreak> so...i had left my desktop running for pretty much an entire day mining bitcoin
[17:47] <thafreak> i've had this new fpga running for about an hour and earned about the same ammount