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Board Hardware
Re: Custom FPGA Mining Board: X6000/X6500
by
ztex
on 21/10/2011, 12:52:07 UTC
I don't think it's fair to say that your board achieves greater MH/s or efficiency. The board design should not impact this, and both of our boards use the same FPGAs. At $/FPGA, our X6500 has you beat ($290 vs. $460). In addition, nothing is stopping an adventurous user from running your code on our board.

I partially agree.

According to your post X6500 requires 17W for 250 MH/s, that is 50% more than 8.5W per 190 MH/s. This difference could be caused by less efficient voltage regulators, but also by the FPGA design, which is of course not board dependent.

At about 200MH/s the FPGA reaches internal limits.  Power supply is critical and makes out up to 10% of performance.