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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Buy the most profitable 60Mhs A2 Farm Boy LTC miners, replace old Zesu
by
cdtbtc
on 25/08/2015, 03:46:44 UTC
The thing about the Farm Boys (which is kinda funny to say, considering I'm from Indiana) is that, even if they are 40% lighter and shipping is 40% cheaper due to the power supply not shipping with it, and even if the power supplies are 40% cheaper, which is a big assumption on my part, they still wouldn't be more profitable than the A2 Terminators because they're still less efficient, presumably because there are more fans running relative to the hashing speeds.

In case anyone wants to check my math on that...

Terminators:
830watts => 110 MH => 7.55 w/MH

Farm Boys (set of three):
1,770watts => 180 MH => 9.83 w/MH

So, at least for me, it doesn't make any sense to go with Farm Boys over Terminators, and I'd much rather just have a Terminator that ships without the power supply.

By all means, adjust the margin if you need to, but selling me a less efficient machine makes no sense in the long run.


P.S. It'd be nice if they were all easily rack-mountable ;-)