Quote from: arbuzzinho on January 22, 2014, 10:30:20 PM

Quote from: Damnsammit on January 22, 2014, 09:45:52 PM

Quote from: sykal on January 22, 2014, 09:31:55 PM

if you don't see that you still get a significantly higher hash rate with GPU for the price of the ASIC Scrypt I don't know what to say.
Power usage savings of even 1k watts, is minimal considering the much higher hash output.

Do the math please, then really let it sink in.

I appreciate your condescension. Let me reciprocate it.

The cost of the 3MH/s model is 11190 Chinese Yuan, or $1849.19 according to the suppliers website.
That is currently $0.61/kH

Lets just say you can get 280Xs left and right for $300 because you are a fucking wicked smooth barterer. You also get 800kH/s on each card because you are a configuration specialist. So just for the cards, you are paying $0.375/kH. Lets not even factor in electricity or other components you need for your rig as we all have closets full of spare computer parts to build endless rigs. You are getting a 40% discount on hashing power with GPUs compared to an ASIC.

Thankfully, you dont have to worry about ASICs becoming more powerful and more affordable. That never happened with Bitcoin right? Thats why after ASICs came out last year, they were continually outperformed by GPUs. Oh whats that? That shit didnt happen? No fucking shit dumbass.

If there is a chip that is producing 300kH/s right now, then there will be a Scrypt ASIC chip this year that will make GPU mining ineffective for Scrypt just as last year it became ineffective for SHA256.

You can have this lesson for free. Next time you think your math is great, you should think a little more progressively and stop being short-sighted.

1. there's no scrypt chip producing 300kH/s
2. how much ram does sha256 mining need - almost 0
3. how much ram does scrypt mining need - shitload

4. is fast ram cheap? n0pe
5. can asic scrypt miners be as good as asic sha256 miners? (thousands time faster?) - N0PE

, unless you can get 1000GB (ultra fast ddr5) cheap ram
6. can u stop telling bullshits? i guss so

Scrypt ASIC may evolve in future. But the current one in the market is 2X expensive than GPUs and it consumes 66.67% power and emits 66.67% heat.

The ASIC is little better in power and heat efficiency, but it is an expensive peace of crap from an unknown Chinese vendor, I will continue to buy GPUs until a reliable vendor come up with a better ASIC with considerably more hash rate and less energy consumption.

GPUs + mobo+ ram + hd+ cpu + watercooling are still cheaper than that ASIC. In addition there is a 2nd hand market for pc components.