Quote from: adaseb on March 02, 2020, 03:43:15 AM

Seems a few of these Antminer E3 are showing up on eBay already. There are even many people bidding on them.

The funny part is that the E3 wasn't much more efficient than a well-tuned GPU rig - and if you have GTX 1070ti cards it STILL isn't (gtx 1070 has lost efficiency, you either lose 10% hashrate running at 110- watts or you have to bump power up over 10% to get back to 30 - GTX 1070ti has not changed), while being less efficient than some newer-gen cards.

I am in the middle of rebuilding all of my rigs, for a few reasons.
1) I am taking posession of a new place tomorrow - in a county that does NOT have a "cryptocoin-specific" ripoff electric rate.
2) The county I am in now did NOT have an issue with Folding@Home (and by extension Curecoin), so I had swapped most of them over to Folding for the last year and change.
3) Folding income has collapsed, due to the massive influx of new folders due to COVID-19 OVERLOADING their ability to generate work units.

An interesting factoid showed up in the process.

My GTX 1070 cards (still have a bunch of them DESPITE ever Gigabyte Mini card DYING) now need at least 122 and more commonly 125-130 watts to achieve full hashrate (about 30 Mh) instead of the under-110 they used to use.
At 106 watts they're mostly around 27 Mh - not horrible, but a noticeable loss on efficiency.

My GTX 1070 ti cards are STILL happy pushing 31 Mh at 106 watts.
I am now wishing I'd bought MORE of those....

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