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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: SolidCoin v2.0 features new hashing algorithm, faster on CPUs
by
CoinHunter
on 17/09/2011, 07:40:53 UTC
Interesting, bringing back the cpu mining. Wonder how my OC'd 3.9ghz 1090T will do?

Quite well since that's up there with the fastest. I haven't quite benchmarked the new algorithm extensively (because it's not completely optimized yet) but it's about 1000 times more intensive than the last method on CPU. And the changes should make GPUs not a viable option for some time. It's utilizing SHA256 and one of the new SHA-3 candidates "BLAKE" along with some other features which the CPU is better at handling than GPU.