Ruh roh
Still ho hum integer, but...
The power use is so damn efficient it doesn't matter
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Savyg wrote:Depends how many cards/machines you feel like running I suppose. With some of those crazy ass rigs I doubt they care that much about power efficiency over performance.
Waco wrote:Power efficiency is EVERYTHING.
Savyg wrote:Waco wrote:Power efficiency is EVERYTHING.
Is it? Powers pretty bloody cheap here. Equipment costs, space for needing 3x the cards...that doesn't seem like a fantastic tradeoff to me.
I'm no miner but talk is cheap, and I'm not convinced.
Deanjo wrote:Savyg wrote:Waco wrote:Power efficiency is EVERYTHING.
Is it? Powers pretty bloody cheap here. Equipment costs, space for needing 3x the cards...that doesn't seem like a fantastic tradeoff to me.
I'm no miner but talk is cheap, and I'm not convinced.
Consider this, you can get 5-6 GTX 750 Ti for the going price of a 790x, get better performance overall (about 2x the performance of a 790x with 6 cards), and you can get away with far cheaper power supplies (a 400-500 watt should suffice for running a 3 card setup) and get double bang for your buck on power costs.
Gandolf wrote:Keep in mind the 790x isn't the only card being sold for this. The hd7950 is still the sweet spot. It gets over 600 hash rate can be found around 400 dollars. So with that you can get much higher rates per mining system than you could with the Nvidia chips.
Deanjo wrote:Gandolf wrote:Keep in mind the 790x isn't the only card being sold for this. The hd7950 is still the sweet spot. It gets over 600 hash rate can be found around 400 dollars. So with that you can get much higher rates per mining system than you could with the Nvidia chips.
You still would be better off with two 750Ti's judging by the graphs above.
Gandolf wrote:Nope. Since most people mine with multiple set ups not a single or dual card system. they get a motherboard that can handle 6 cards and run that.
And to match 6 hd7950s in a single board set up.
Which would have 1 cpu 1 motherboard and 2 PSUS. 1 stick of ram
you would need 15 of the 750tis.
Which would require 3 motherboards 3 cpus, around 5 psus, 3 memory sticks.