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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com
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DeathAndTaxes
on 11/10/2013, 16:19:29 UTC
There's a very valid reason why you don't just turn off your computer by yanking the plug out of the wall socket - and flipping the PSU switch is the equivalent of doing that.  Do that to your desktop computer a few times and see how well it runs as a result...

Yeah I have turned PC off GPU rigs at the switch a couple thousand times.  It is a non-issue.  There is a reason open frame GPU miners used power supplies with a physical power switch on back.  The theory that it powering off highly regulated UL listed ATX power supply destroyed connected equipment doesn't hold water.

There are ~300 million PC in the US.  If yanking the power would blow up a motherboard 1% of the time and the average PC experiences 3 blackouts a year then you would be talking something on the order of 9 million destroyed PC every single year.   Say average PC is $500.  We are talking about a half a billion dollars.   If it genuinely was a problem then PC mother boards (and GPU and other hardware) would come with circuit breakers or at least a $0.20 quick burn fuse.  Of course they don't ... because it isn't a problem.