Quote from: Elder III on June 16, 2018, 01:23:54 AM

Quote from: philipma1957 on June 16, 2018, 12:48:01 AM

Quote from: vapourminer on June 15, 2018, 11:40:32 PM

yeah if i make roi in a year i would be happy. i know its a $3.6k USD risk. if i lose on it oh well, i will mutter a few choice curse words and carry on.

i bought it obviously hoping it can make bank but also as something to learn on, fpgas may be a big part of future mining. or not. but either way it should be a fun toy to learn with.

good luck with it.

I think these are beyond our technical capabilities at this point. I'm more hopeful for the Acorn mini fpga GPU accelerator thingies (whatever the right name is). They sound like they're more user friendly for someone with 0.5% experience with Linux, let alone actual software development.

figure if fpgas are going to be a player in mining in the future (i do think they will; they are adaptable and they can compete with most of the 90nm etc "custom asics" that have secretly been deployed for various algos) i want to get my feet wet as soon as possible as to how to get them up and running, what they need for a support system, real world numbers etc.

i also will be getting an acorn for my onda gpu rig when that comes out.

ultimately it comes down to power efficiency. acorn can (hopefully) give me a decent boost to hashes per watt with my gpus, and fpga can give a huge (hopefully) increase to hash per watt on its algos.

basically i want to stay under 1500 watts for it all. so anything that helps get more hash in that power envelope is worth looking at for me.