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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Acorn M.2 FPGA based GPU Accelerator
by
gamegenie
on 20/04/2019, 19:17:06 UTC
On another note, I sent one of my Acorns to be RMA'ed, so I'm down to just one 215+.  I asked them for some VRM heatsinks too.
I discovered something really interesting with running one Acorn. 

There is definitely some inadvertent GPU boosting happening when I'm running one 215+ mining, but not boost to GPU mining, but boost to GPU gaming performance.   

I recently got around to running 3DMark tests on my Threadripper/CrossFire VEGA workstation and I am shocked to discover my scores are higher when I leave the AcornMiner running mining Tribus.   No BS.

:proof:
Here is my Fire Strike score on my Workstation with the 1 Acorn on M.2 not mining.   
https://www.3dmark.com/fs/19112415

Here is my Fire Strike score on my Workstation while the single Acorn on 1 M.2 is mining Denarius Tribus.
https://www.3dmark.com/fs/19113997

See how it went up over 100+ points, that's some kind of enhancer as one would think running any crypto-mining in the background while benchmarking would produce negative affects.