Quote from: philipma1957 on May 05, 2018, 02:37:53 PM

Quote from: vapourminer on May 05, 2018, 01:56:51 PM

Quote from: philipma1957 on May 05, 2018, 12:27:11 PM

GPUS with 3 year warranties have a place in a low power operation. My solar array deal with buysolar is 'free' power So the gpus would earn for as long as they last.

Does an fpga have a 36 month warranty?

not for mining use, its 30 days (or 90?) they reduced it from their standard warranty period. i believe they said you can buy extended warranties however. thier main concern was DIYers ignoring ESM precautions and abuse due to ignoring proper installation (heat, power quality, improper installation etc).

still these are industrial units with a proven reliability record, in wide use in industry (so bittmex says, and i have no reason to doubt them atm) , not bitmain trash. while i am a bit disappointing, i still would buy.

their monitoring software monitors a lot of sensors to keep it in the safe zone, which is the main reliability point imo.

This is why I bookmarked thread. I want to see how this develops.

I can see some people have technical interest in it.

I can also see why op wants 4% fee not 2% or 1.5% as he fears this won't last for him.

I respect that fear it is a healthy one. Looks like this year will be an all out attack on gpus via asics and fpgas should be fun to watch it happen.

I wouldnt say an all out attack on GPUs by FPGAs. A good portion of my work has been on FPGA accelerators that augment GPUs. GPUs still have way more memory bandwidth than FPGAs after the cache-sized blocks. I have developed some interesting FPGA coprocessor that replace inefficient GPU calculations with FPGA work but still do the memory hard loops on GPU, for overall hashrate and power gains. I expect that hardware to be ready midsummer. Remains to be seen if it will still be viable.