Quote from: markm on December 28, 2013, 11:08:08 AM

Do you seriously prefer all the heat and hassle of GPUs to the nice cute little USB mining dongles?

USB dongles could let scrypt mining spread to the masses without fear that a bunch of password crackers with banks of GPUs will PWN the coins; instead they will have to blow a fraction of the cost of a GPU on a specialised cute little munchkin miner.

What is so awful about that?

GPUs are a pain to deal with. Little USB munchkin miners are way the heck less hassle and heat and space and motherboards and so on.

-MarkM-

i would prefer that if they weren't overpriced and under a pre-order label

Quote from: Mortimer452 on December 28, 2013, 11:14:51 AM

The specs and pricing on ASIC scrypt miners that have been released so far don't look very promising.

Significantly less power consumption than GPU's at the same rate, but pricing is only slightly cheaper than just building your own GPU mining rig.

Plus, we are 10-12 months away from shipment probably . . . who knows, by that time, building a GPU rig might be even cheaper. I'm sure AMD is absolutely loving the rate and price at which they are selling out on every GPU they manufacture right now. I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised if they make a move to make GPU mining more affordable to keep on top of this market.

if amd really want to do it, they can probably makes a gpu with 20mh/s Cheesy