Quote from: nullama on Today at 12:08:21 AM

Also, something important specially for a newbie, the Apollo is ready to go in one single unit, and you can easily attach more if you want to. You just connect it to your computer, power it and you're ready to mine. The Compac Fs are great, but you need to tinker a bit more with them, get proper USB hubs that give you at least 2.4A per port, get proper fans and make sure they're running, tweak parameters for each stick, etc. Also for 7 sticks you'll probably need 2 USB hubs, so that's two power connections instead of one for the Apollo, etc. It's just more difficult to scale with the sticks.

Factor in the costs of the USB hubs and fans and you're looking at an extra Compac F in price to pay for.

Also, that's a lot of daisy chaining to do on a computer. Don't you think that would mess with kernel drivers a little and maybe cause a panic [Of course, never try this on Windows, as the OS will go up in flames before such a configuration is deployed at full speed].