Quote from: tictok on June 12, 2011, 12:46:35 PM

quick question regarding PS3.

I know its not the best mining hardware around by a long way.
But, does the PS3 need to be jailbroken (i.e. on an older firmware to mine??)
If I set up a webpage with the web java miner thing I've seen and pointed my PS3's browser at that wouls it still produce 21mhash per sec or whatber the quoted rate is??

Electricity is really cheap for me during the night, so am wondering if it would be worth it? My PS3 stays on most of the time anyway to record stuff from PlayTv etc...

Thanks in advance.

You need to install linux, using either OtherOS on firmware 3.15 or lower, or using custom firmware and AbestOS.

Once you have a working linux environment you compile cellminer and off you go.

There is one clear advantage to using custom firmware. No hypervisor. That means you can access the 7th SPE to increase hashrate by 3.6Mh/s and if they ever develop the driver, access the RSX. However it is unlikely you'll be able to use it for CUDA or openCL.

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