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Quote from: Wipeout2097 on February 15, 2014, 02:57:02 PM

Christian, please -- and this isn't completely related with coin mining -- if you have direct contact with Nvidia and Maxwell chip has indeed an ARM CPU, tell them to add an USB interface (or supply a separate USB hub that links to the first few PCI-e pins) and allow standalone operation. No motherboard, no Intel/AMD CPUs, no 4gb system RAM, no Windows. Just plug the PSU PCI-e power pins and the card boots ARM Linux from a connect usb pendrive

I'd like to add a bit to this request. Could we also see a parallel port added to the video card. If i'm going to run Linux, I'm going to need to print.

Ethernet port would be logical as well, so I can connect to the internet.

Maybe a few sata ports, so I can connect storage harddrives too. If this is going to run an OS, it should allow me the ability to have decent storage, at a decent speed. Sata is way faster than usb, even usb3.

And lastly audio output. Both digital and analog.

Get lost. In this thread and forum, we're not talking about "videocards" but mining devices.

Except you're talking about a video card. Last I checked, we were mining with cudaminer on....video cards. Maxwell is the architecture of a GPU, on a video card. Nvidia don't make mining devices. They make video cards.

My post was a joke, so calm down. You're asking Nvidia to turn their *gasp* video card into a standalone computer. I found it funny you were requesting a company add USB ports to a *gasp* video card.

No, cudaminer runs on more than videocards, for example the Tesla supercomputing PCI-e cards.

Read this thread a few pages back! Nvidia is interested in feedback from coin miners.

This, it's a valid request...it would turn them into scrypt-jane asics :p
I'd buy 999999999 of em.

It seems to me that what we would really like from NVIDIA is something like this:

Single-board computer with room for e.g. 8 CUDA processors, a central ARM (?) CPU with a suitable amount of memory, a basic upgradable BIOS allowing external communication through USB and SATA for example and with enough functions to allow a basic Linux to run, physical layout allowing serious cooling.

A seriously competitive price point.

A socket structure allowing upgrading? This could be a dedicated ASIC-killer based on interchangeable algorithm-specific CUDA units. I can see a lot of money in this (stops writing and phones patent lawyer).