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Board CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware
Re: feasibility of a low price fpga solution
by
NF6X
on 21/06/2011, 03:32:42 UTC
I am a newbie in the BTC world and I was wondering what would be the feasibility of an fpga based hardware with these specs:

     900Mhashes/sec

     about 5 watt power consumption

     $1300-$1500 unit price

Hi. I'm also new to the BTC world, but I'm an electrical engineer and I've been following the threads on FPGA mining recently. I think that for that hash rate, your power target is off by about a factor of 25 and your price target is off by at least a factor of 2.

Disclaimer: I have not yet built, designed, used or measured an FPGA based mining rig. If one of the experienced FPGA miners drops in here, they may be able to provide a more accurate estimation. Maybe I'll play around with FPGA mining myself sometime, if I don't get distracted by a shiny object first. Wink