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CPU and GPU mining are pretty much useless at this point. ASIC mining is where it's at.
by pdog 13y ago
CPU and GPU mining are pretty much useless at this point. ASIC mining is where it's at.
- jlgreco 13y agoI thought that was true for individual mining, but aren't large pools still filled with lots of CPUs tied together with BOINC or similar? I thought I read something along those lines a few months ago (a long time ago, I know), but I'm only vaguely recalling that.
- rallison 13y agoYes, there are still lots of pools - https://www.btcguild.com/ https://www.btcguild.com/ https://mining.bitcoin.cz/ https://mining.bitcoin.cz/ etc. While CPU mining is basically useless, GPU mining is still popular and still profitable for many (given current bitcoin prices). That said, as more ASICs start coming online, GPU mining will become less and less profitable.
- TylerE 13y agoNo, not really. To give you an idea, a fast i7 mining on all cores is about 15 Mhash/sec. A single ASIC miner can be 100,000-500,000Mhash. You would literally need 20,000+ CPU miners to equal a single asic miner.
- celticninja 13y agoor 22 x i7 cpus just to match a USB ASIC doing 335Mhash/sec - they currently retail at 1BTC so anywhere between £45 and £57 - whereas 22 x i7 will be approx £5500 (at £250 a piece).