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Re: GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread
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philipma1957
on 23/05/2019, 03:05:18 UTC
When running on a Win10 machine I do get about 100Gh higher but the second I use the machine for anything else it drops back by quite a bit.  I like running them off the Raspberry even if it is a little slower.  The Pi's work well and use less power.  With the great GS hub it makes everything very streamlined.  I did just pickup a Pi "HAT" that has a hardwired network connection that may help (though I think it is still on the USB bus so it may not make any difference).  Here is the HAT that first the Pi nicely: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CQ11TCJ
Of course the Pi Zero's are so cheap it was worth the experiment ($5 if you happen to be near a Micro Center in the US).

Anyway, a few hundred Gh for such a lower amount of power seems worth it to me.  With that said I do get the desire to squeeze as many hash as possible out of these little boxes!

My win 10 is one of a few.

I don’t knock rasp pi,s but sometimes a Newegg refurbished i5 win 10 is for sale.

I got an older hp with an i5 4560 eight gb ram .