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i7-4790k Overclocking

Motherboard: Asus Maximus VII Hero
Cooling: H100i
 
My predefined limits.
Voltage Limit: 1.3v
Temp Limit: 80C
Whichever comes first.

No BCLK Adjustments. I didn't want to fiddle with anything but the multiplier and voltage.
All adjustments made in BIOS.
Voltage in manual mode and changed to adaptive mode after stable overclock is reached and tested.

Must pass all tests to be stable.
Final stress test is 1 hour of Aida64 - There is no reason to torture your CPU for 72 hours with Prime95. It is a super unrealistic workload and is not even validated for Haswell CPU's. I read that you could damage your CPU by doing this.
Stress Tests:
OCCT - 5 minutes
PovRay Multithreaded Benchmark
Intel Extreme Tuning Utility - 5 minutes
Aida64 (CPU, FPU, Cache) - 5 minutes
 
Overclocking Table
1) 40x100.0 @ 1.000v || Result: STABLE
2) 41x100.0 @ 1.000v || Result: Crashed on Login
3) 41x100.0 @ 1.025v || Result: Crashed after 20 sec of OCCT
4) 41x100.0 @ 1.050v || Result: STABLE
5) 42x100.0 @ 1.050v || Result: Crashed after 10 sec of OCCT
6) 42x100.0 @ 1.075v || Result: STABLE
7) 43x100.0 @ 1.075v || Result: Crashed after 10 sec of OCCT
8) 43x100.0 @ 1.100v || Result: Crashed after 4 min of OCCT
9) 43x100.0 @ 1.110v || Result: STABLE
10) 44x100.0 @ 1.110v || Result: Crashed after 5 sec of OCCT
11) 44x100.0 @ 1.125v || Result: Crashed after 5 sec of OCCT
12) 44x100.0 @ 1.150v || Result: STABLE
13) 45x100.0 @ 1.150v || Result: Crashed after 5 sec of OCCT
14) 45x100.0 @ 1.175v || Result: Crashed after 10 sec of OCCT
15) 45x100.0 @ 1.200v || Result: STABLE
16) 46x100.0 @ 1.200v || Result: Crashed after 5 sec of OCCT
17) 46x100.0 @ 1.225v || Result: Crashed after 5 sec of OCCT
18) 46x100.0 @ 1.250v || Result: STABLE
19) 47x100.0 @ 1.275v || Result: Crashed after 90 sec of OCCT
20) 47x100.0 @ 1.285v || Result: Crashed after 5 sec of OCCT
21) 47x100.0 @ 1.295v || Result: STABLE - Comfort Level Reached

Dialing In Voltage
1) 47x100.0 @ 1.290v || Result: Crashed after 2 min of OCCT
2) 47x100.0 @ 1.291v || Result: STABLE - Overclock Complete - Passed 1 hour of Aida64

Final Results
i7-4790k @ 4.7Ghz @ 1.291v @ 75C

Cinebench R15 CPU Score: 937
 
Some interesting things to note here are the voltages at 4.4Ghz. I was able to achieve 0.1v less than the stock turbo voltage, which is surprising. If you were just trying to under-volt, you could achieve about 10C lower temperatures at stock turbo with 1.150v if your chip is decent. Intel was very conservative with their stock voltages it seems.
I made a graph of my voltages and you can sort of extrapolate to see what the voltage for a certain multiplier might be. Multiplier is X-axis, CPU voltage is Y-axis. https://www.desmos.com/calculator/jjgnmdh6ew

i7-4790k Overclocking

Motherboard: Asus Maximus VII Hero
Cooling: H100i
 
My predefined limits.
Voltage Limit: 1.3v
Temp Limit: 80C
Whichever comes first.

No BCLK Adjustments. I didn't want to fiddle with anything but the multiplier and voltage.
All adjustments made in BIOS.
Voltage in manual mode and changed to adaptive mode after stable overclock is reached and tested.

Must pass all tests to be stable.
Final stress test is 1 hour of Aida64 - There is no reason to torture your CPU for 72 hours with Prime95. It is a super unrealistic workload and is not even validated for Haswell CPU's. I read that you could damage your CPU by doing this.
Stress Tests:
OCCT - 5 minutes
PovRay Multithreaded Benchmark
Intel Extreme Tuning Utility - 5 minutes
Aida64 (CPU, FPU, Cache) - 5 minutes
 
Overclocking Table
1) 40x100.0 @ 1.000v || Result: STABLE
2) 41x100.0 @ 1.000v || Result: Crashed on Login
3) 41x100.0 @ 1.025v || Result: Crashed after 20 sec of OCCT
4) 41x100.0 @ 1.050v || Result: STABLE
5) 42x100.0 @ 1.050v || Result: Crashed after 10 sec of OCCT
6) 42x100.0 @ 1.075v || Result: STABLE
7) 43x100.0 @ 1.075v || Result: Crashed after 10 sec of OCCT
8) 43x100.0 @ 1.100v || Result: Crashed after 4 min of OCCT
9) 43x100.0 @ 1.110v || Result: STABLE
10) 44x100.0 @ 1.110v || Result: Crashed after 5 sec of OCCT
11) 44x100.0 @ 1.125v || Result: Crashed after 5 sec of OCCT
12) 44x100.0 @ 1.150v || Result: STABLE
13) 45x100.0 @ 1.150v || Result: Crashed after 5 sec of OCCT
14) 45x100.0 @ 1.175v || Result: Crashed after 10 sec of OCCT
15) 45x100.0 @ 1.200v || Result: STABLE
16) 46x100.0 @ 1.200v || Result: Crashed after 5 sec of OCCT
17) 46x100.0 @ 1.225v || Result: Crashed after 5 sec of OCCT
18) 46x100.0 @ 1.250v || Result: STABLE
19) 47x100.0 @ 1.275v || Result: Crashed after 90 sec of OCCT
20) 47x100.0 @ 1.285v || Result: Crashed after 5 sec of OCCT
21) 47x100.0 @ 1.295v || Result: STABLE - Comfort Level Reached

Dialing In Voltage
1) 47x100.0 @ 1.290v || Result: Crashed after 2 min of OCCT
2) 47x100.0 @ 1.291v || Result: STABLE - Overclock Complete - Passed 1 hour of Aida64

Final Results
i7-4790k @ 4.7Ghz @ 1.291v @ 75C

Cinebench R15 CPU Score: 937
 
Some interesting things to note here are the voltages at 4.4Ghz. I was able to achieve 0.1v less than the stock turbo voltage, which is surprising. If you were just trying to under-volt, you could achieve about 10C lower temperatures at stock turbo with 1.150v if your chip is decent. Intel was very conservative with their stock voltages it seems.
I made a graph of my voltages and you can sort of extrapolate to see what the voltage for a certain multiplier might be. Multiplier is X-axis, CPU voltage is Y-axis. https://www.desmos.com/calculator/jjgnmdh6ew

@ionbasa
Thank you so much for providing information about the issues I have been having and helping me sort everything out. I have good news, it turns out that when I updated the BIOS, there are apparently bad voltage settings for this particular CPU on this BIOS. I searched online for the stock voltage for the FX-8350, and found it to be 1.375v. When I was stress testing and getting errors, I found that the voltage was around 1.28v, which was causing the CPU to provide bad data causing the GPU driver to crash. I have manually set the voltage on the CPU to 1.375v and set the chip at stock clocks (4.0GHz) and ran prime95 and all aida64 tests, and lo and behold, no errors! Thank you again for all your help and support!

@ionbasa
Thank you so much for providing information about the issues I have been having and helping me sort everything out. I have good news, it turns out that when I updated the BIOS, there are apparently bad voltage settings for this particular CPU on this BIOS. I searched online for the stock voltage for the FX-8350, and found it to be 1.375v. When I was stress testing and getting errors, I found that the voltage was around 1.28v, which was causing the CPU to provide bad data causing the GPU driver to crash. I have manually set the voltage on the CPU to 1.375v and set the chip at stock clocks (4.0GHz) and ran prime95 and all aida64 tests, and lo and behold, no errors! Thank you again for all your help and support!

Oh. I did not think to do that. I didn't think it would be an issue. Thank you for telling me though. I also knew that the windows memory diagnostics were inadequate from reading forum posts about it, I just wanted to try and rule out as much stuff as I could as fast as I could.
Best of both worlds? Lol.

Not relevant. Please stay on topic, and please post something useful.

Actually, Windows Memory Diagnostics isn't recommended as it only does one pass, and some have reported issues with the tool. I still highly urge you to try Memtest86++ as well.
 
I would also like to point out that the AMD drivers should have been uninstalled with the AMD GPU still installed, only after the AMD drivers are uninstalled should you power off your pc and then switch GPUs and install the correct Nvidia driver version.
 
If the clean install does not help, then you are going to have to manually remove some drivers.

8350? 
With my experience they usually require a higher load line calibration setting.
 
Are you overclocking?
 
Also since you are getting bsods there should be minidump files located under "%systemroot%\minidump"
If you can copy them to a temporary folder on your desktop, zip the folder an attach it to your post here in the thread and I can take a look at it.

The first BSOD was caused by the GPU driver, uninstall all old drivers, and during the re-install of the latest non-beta driver make sure to select "clean install"

 
The second BSOD didn't get 'caught' by the system, so I suspect a memory issue. Do you know how to run a memory test with Memtest86++?
Here is a tutorial: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/105647-ram-test-memtest86.html
 
Try at least 6 hours and see if it finds any issues.
 
Also in case you want to see the bug-check output:

Windows 7 Kernel Version 7601 (Service Pack 1) MP (8 procs) Free x64Product: WinNt, suite: TerminalServer SingleUserTS PersonalBuilt by: 7601.18247.amd64fre.win7sp1_gdr.130828-1532Machine Name:Kernel base = 0xfffff800`03213000 PsLoadedModuleList = 0xfffff800`034566d0Debug session time: Tue Jan 7 23:35:49.549 2014 (UTC - 5:00)System Uptime: 0 days 5:01:24.875******************************************************************************** ** Bugcheck Analysis ** ********************************************************************************VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE (116)Attempt to reset the display driver and recover from timeout failed.Arguments:Arg1: fffffa800af60290, Optional pointer to internal TDR recovery context (TDR_RECOVERY_CONTEXT).Arg2: fffff88004057d88, The pointer into responsible device driver module (e.g. owner tag).Arg3: 0000000000000000, Optional error code (NTSTATUS) of the last failed operation.Arg4: 000000000000000d, Optional internal context dependent data.Debugging Details:------------------TRIAGER: Could not open triage file : e:\dump_analysis\program\triage\modclass.ini, error 2FAULTING_IP: atikmpag+bd88fffff880`04057d88 4883ec28 sub rsp,28hDEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: GRAPHICS_DRIVER_TDR_FAULTCUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 1BUGCHECK_STR: 0x116PROCESS_NAME: SystemCURRENT_IRQL: 0STACK_TEXT: fffff880`044fb758 fffff880`04149140 : 00000000`00000116 fffffa80`0af60290 fffff880`04057d88 00000000`00000000 : nt!KeBugCheckExfffff880`044fb760 fffff880`04148ec7 : fffff880`04057d88 fffffa80`0af60290 00000000`00000000 fffffa80`08c43010 : dxgkrnl!TdrBugcheckOnTimeout+0xecfffff880`044fb7a0 fffff880`11f97f13 : fffffa80`0af60290 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 fffffa80`08c43010 : dxgkrnl!TdrIsRecoveryRequired+0x21ffffff880`044fb7d0 fffff880`11fc5ed6 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`0011af6c fffff880`044fb930 00000000`00000102 : dxgmms1!VidSchiReportHwHang+0x40bfffff880`044fb8b0 fffff880`11fc191a : fffffa80`08c43010 ffffffff`feced300 00000000`00000002 fffffa80`08c60230 : dxgmms1!VidSchWaitForCompletionEvent+0x196fffff880`044fb8f0 fffff880`11fc01b0 : fffffa80`08c43010 00000000`00000002 fffff880`11fbff3c 00000000`00000000 : dxgmms1!VidSchiWaitForDrainFlipQueue+0x92fffff880`044fb9e0 fffff880`11fc047a : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000002 00000000`00000002 00000000`00000000 : dxgmms1!VidSchiHandleControlEvent+0x4cfffff880`044fba10 fffff880`11f932d2 : ffffffff`ff676980 fffffa80`08c43010 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : dxgmms1!VidSchiWaitForSchedulerEvents+0x23efffff880`044fbab0 fffff880`11fbfff6 : 00000000`00000000 fffffa80`07004970 00000000`00000080 fffffa80`08c43010 : dxgmms1!VidSchiScheduleCommandToRun+0x1dafffff880`044fbbc0 fffff800`035252ea : 00000000`fffffc32 fffffa80`08634b50 fffffa80`06ce3040 fffffa80`08634b50 : dxgmms1!VidSchiWorkerThread+0xbafffff880`044fbc00 fffff800`032798e6 : fffff880`009ea180 fffffa80`08634b50 fffff880`009f50c0 fffffa80`086bed10 : nt!PspSystemThreadStartup+0x5afffff880`044fbc40 00000000`00000000 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nt!KxStartSystemThread+0x16STACK_COMMAND: .bugcheck ; kbFOLLOWUP_IP: atikmpag+bd88fffff880`04057d88 4883ec28 sub rsp,28hSYMBOL_NAME: atikmpag+bd88FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwnerMODULE_NAME: atikmpagIMAGE_NAME: atikmpag.sysDEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 52a231d9FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: X64_0x116_IMAGE_atikmpag.sysBUCKET_ID: X64_0x116_IMAGE_atikmpag.sysFollowup: MachineOwner---------  Windows 7 Kernel Version 7601 (Service Pack 1) MP (8 procs) Free x64Product: WinNt, suite: TerminalServer SingleUserTS PersonalBuilt by: 7601.18247.amd64fre.win7sp1_gdr.130828-1532Machine Name:Kernel base = 0xfffff800`03407000 PsLoadedModuleList = 0xfffff800`0364a6d0Debug session time: Sat Jan 11 19:10:10.695 2014 (UTC - 5:00)System Uptime: 0 days 0:31:36.771******************************************************************************** ** Bugcheck Analysis ** ********************************************************************************SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED_M (1000007e)This is a very common bugcheck. Usually the exception address pinpointsthe driver/function that caused the problem. Always note this addressas well as the link date of the driver/image that contains this address.Some common problems are exception code 0x80000003. This means a hardcoded breakpoint or assertion was hit, but this system was booted/NODEBUG. This is not supposed to happen as developers should never havehardcoded breakpoints in retail code, but ...If this happens, make sure a debugger gets connected, and thesystem is booted /DEBUG. This will let us see why this breakpoint ishappening.Arguments:Arg1: ffffffffc0000005, The exception code that was not handledArg2: fffff800034ad622, The address that the exception occurred atArg3: fffff880009a9868, Exception Record AddressArg4: fffff880009a90c0, Context Record AddressDebugging Details:------------------TRIAGER: Could not open triage file : e:\dump_analysis\program\triage\modclass.ini, error 2OVERLAPPED_MODULE: Address regions for 'nvlddmkm' and 'nvlddmkm.sys' overlapEXCEPTION_CODE: (NTSTATUS) 0xc0000005 - The instruction at "0x%08lx" referenced memory at "0x%08lx". The memory could not be "%s".FAULTING_IP: nt!KxWaitForLockOwnerShip+12fffff800`034ad622 48890a mov qword ptr [rdx],rcxEXCEPTION_RECORD: fffff880009a9868 -- (.exr 0xfffff880009a9868)ExceptionAddress: fffff800034ad622 (nt!KxWaitForLockOwnerShip+0x0000000000000012) ExceptionCode: c0000005 (Access violation) ExceptionFlags: 00000000NumberParameters: 2 Parameter[0]: 0000000000000000 Parameter[1]: ffffffffffffffffAttempt to read from address ffffffffffffffffCONTEXT: fffff880009a90c0 -- (.cxr 0xfffff880009a90c0)rax=0000000000000001 rbx=00000000000139ed rcx=fffff880009a9b28rdx=4000000000000000 rsi=fffffa80065d4d08 rdi=fffff880009a9b28rip=fffff800034ad622 rsp=fffff880009a9aa0 rbp=00000000000000ff r8=0000000000000000 r9=0000000000000000 r10=fffffa80065d4d28r11=000000000000000f r12=000000000000000d r13=fffffa80003adc70r14=0000000000000100 r15=fffff800035f7e80iopl=0 nv up ei ng nz na pe nccs=0010 ss=0018 ds=002b es=002b fs=0053 gs=002b efl=00010282nt!KxWaitForLockOwnerShip+0x12:fffff800`034ad622 48890a mov qword ptr [rdx],rcx ds:002b:40000000`00000000=????????????????Resetting default scopeCUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 1DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: WIN7_DRIVER_FAULTPROCESS_NAME: SystemCURRENT_IRQL: 2ERROR_CODE: (NTSTATUS) 0xc0000005 - The instruction at "0x%08lx" referenced memory at "0x%08lx". The memory could not be "%s".EXCEPTION_PARAMETER1: 0000000000000000EXCEPTION_PARAMETER2: ffffffffffffffffREAD_ADDRESS: GetPointerFromAddress: unable to read from fffff800036b4100GetUlongFromAddress: unable to read from fffff800036b41c0 ffffffffffffffff FOLLOWUP_IP: nt!KxWaitForLockOwnerShip+12fffff800`034ad622 48890a mov qword ptr [rdx],rcxBUGCHECK_STR: 0x7ELAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from fffff8000343fb9f to fffff800034ad622STACK_TEXT: fffff880`009a9aa0 fffff800`0343fb9f : 00000000`000139ed 00000000`000000ec 00000000`0000000c fffffa80`065d2f30 : nt!KxWaitForLockOwnerShip+0x12fffff880`009a9ad0 fffff800`037192ea : fffffa80`066e0450 00000000`00000080 fffffa80`066e09e0 fffff800`0346d8d9 : nt!MmZeroPageThread+0x4a2fffff880`009a9c00 fffff800`0346d8e6 : fffff800`035f7e80 fffffa80`066e0450 fffff800`03605cc0 db1d44a6`502600d0 : nt!PspSystemThreadStartup+0x5afffff880`009a9c40 00000000`00000000 : fffff880`009aa000 fffff880`009a4000 fffff880`009a9870 00000000`00000000 : nt!KxStartSystemThread+0x16SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX: 0SYMBOL_NAME: nt!KxWaitForLockOwnerShip+12FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwnerMODULE_NAME: ntIMAGE_NAME: ntkrnlmp.exeDEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 521ea035STACK_COMMAND: .cxr 0xfffff880009a90c0 ; kbFAILURE_BUCKET_ID: X64_0x7E_nt!KxWaitForLockOwnerShip+12BUCKET_ID: X64_0x7E_nt!KxWaitForLockOwnerShip+12Followup: MachineOwner--------- 

Original Article: here

This is incredibly fascinating. A brain, which runs on something like 20 watts equivalent of electricity, is orders of magnitude faster than a supercomputer with 82,944 processors, 8.162 petaflops of performance, capable of 1,016 billion operations per second, has 663,552 cores and uses 12.6 Megawatts (12,600,000 watts) (Source: TweakTown and Wikipedia)

What "K" simulated: 1.73 Billion Neurons, connected to 10.4 Trillion Synapses, each synapse containing 24 bytes of data.
What is actually in the brain: ~86-100 Billion Neurons and 1 Quadrillion synapses in a child, and between 100 and 500 trillion synapses in an adult.

Fun fact: Some people calculate that the data storage capacity of the human brain is between 2.5 and 5 petabytes, that is equivalent to between 2,500 and 5,000 1TB hard drives! All stored in your brain!

The brain packs quite an incredible punch for such a small, lightweight (~3lbs), and energy efficient unit that can run on Cheetos and Mountain Dew. It is like the De Lorean from Back to the Future, just add organic matter!

Here is an interesting calculation for you, 40 minutes = 2,400 seconds, so I suppose that our brains are 2,400x more powerful than the "K" supercomputer. The supercomputer uses 12.6MW, so I calculated that if you had enough "K" supercomputers to equal the brain (you would need roughly 2,400 of them), the brain would be 1,512,000,000x more power efficient than the "K" supercomputer.
 
 
Very rough Bitcoin mining calculations:
I did some research and some people here said that each core of the CPU's used in the "K" supercomputer would be capable of 327 Khash on SHA-256-based coins. So 327x8=2616 Khash per CPU (SPARC64 VIIIfx), and there are 82,944 CPUs. So the extremely rough average hashrate of the "K" supercomputer is 216981504 Khash, or roughly 216 GHash (Remember that this is CPU, not GPU mining). Multiply that by 2,400 (how many times more powerful the brain is over the supercomputer) and you get 520.75 Thash/s. So IN THEORY the brain is at least capable of 520.75Thash/s of bitcoin mining. Assuming that Scrypt coin mining is roughly 10% as fast as SHA-256 mining, the brain would be capable of 52.075 Thash/s of scrypt mining. With that kind of power, using your brain, in theory, you could mine $135,663.96 of bitcoins per day, running on only 20 watts, but according to CoinWars, if you were mining the most profitable coin you could, you could make upwards of $500,000 per day.
 
Disclaimer: These calculations are EXTREMELY rough, and are not to be taken literally. I am not responsible for that one guy who tries to upload cgminer to his brain which fails and then goes into a coma for the rest of his life.
Calculated using this link.
 
 
The bottom line is, if your brain were a graphics card, it would, in fact, be able to play Crysis

Original Article: here

This is incredibly fascinating. A brain, which runs on something like 20 watts equivalent of electricity, is orders of magnitude faster than a supercomputer with 82,944 processors, 8.162 petaflops of performance, capable of 1,016 billion operations per second, has 663,552 cores and uses 12.6 Megawatts (12,600,000 watts) (Source: TweakTown and Wikipedia)

What "K" simulated: 1.73 Billion Neurons, connected to 10.4 Trillion Synapses, each synapse containing 24 bytes of data.
What is actually in the brain: ~86-100 Billion Neurons and 1 Quadrillion synapses in a child, and between 100 and 500 trillion synapses in an adult.

Fun fact: Some people calculate that the data storage capacity of the human brain is between 2.5 and 5 petabytes, that is equivalent to between 2,500 and 5,000 1TB hard drives! All stored in your brain!

The brain packs quite an incredible punch for such a small, lightweight (~3lbs), and energy efficient unit that can run on Cheetos and Mountain Dew. It is like the De Lorean from Back to the Future, just add organic matter!

Here is an interesting calculation for you, 40 minutes = 2,400 seconds, so I suppose that our brains are 2,400x more powerful than the "K" supercomputer. The supercomputer uses 12.6MW, so I calculated that if you had enough "K" supercomputers to equal the brain (you would need roughly 2,400 of them), the brain would be 1,512,000,000x more power efficient than the "K" supercomputer.
 
 
Very rough Bitcoin mining calculations:
I did some research and some people here said that each core of the CPU's used in the "K" supercomputer would be capable of 327 Khash on SHA-256-based coins. So 327x8=2616 Khash per CPU (SPARC64 VIIIfx), and there are 82,944 CPUs. So the extremely rough average hashrate of the "K" supercomputer is 216981504 Khash, or roughly 216 GHash (Remember that this is CPU, not GPU mining). Multiply that by 2,400 (how many times more powerful the brain is over the supercomputer) and you get 520.75 Thash/s. So IN THEORY the brain is at least capable of 520.75Thash/s of bitcoin mining. Assuming that Scrypt coin mining is roughly 10% as fast as SHA-256 mining, the brain would be capable of 52.075 Thash/s of scrypt mining. With that kind of power, using your brain, in theory, you could mine $135,663.96 of bitcoins per day, running on only 20 watts, but according to CoinWars, if you were mining the most profitable coin you could, you could make upwards of $500,000 per day.
 
Disclaimer: These calculations are EXTREMELY rough, and are not to be taken literally. I am not responsible for that one guy who tries to upload cgminer to his brain which fails and then goes into a coma for the rest of his life.
Calculated using this link.
 
 
The bottom line is, if your brain were a graphics card, it would, in fact, be able to play Crysis

Original Article: here

This is incredibly fascinating. A brain, which runs on something like 20 watts equivalent of electricity, is orders of magnitude faster than a supercomputer with 82,944 processors, 8.162 petaflops of performance, capable of 1,016 billion operations per second, has 663,552 cores and uses 12.6 Megawatts (12,600,000 watts) (Source: TweakTown and Wikipedia)

What "K" simulated: 1.73 Billion Neurons, connected to 10.4 Trillion Synapses, each synapse containing 24 bytes of data.
What is actually in the brain: ~86-100 Billion Neurons and 1 Quadrillion synapses in a child, and between 100 and 500 trillion synapses in an adult.

Fun fact: Some people calculate that the data storage capacity of the human brain is between 2.5 and 5 petabytes, that is equivalent to between 2,500 and 5,000 1TB hard drives! All stored in your brain!

The brain packs quite an incredible punch for such a small, lightweight (~3lbs), and energy efficient unit that can run on Cheetos and Mountain Dew. It is like the De Lorean from Back to the Future, just add organic matter!

Here is an interesting calculation for you, 40 minutes = 2,400 seconds, so I suppose that our brains are 2,400x more powerful than the "K" supercomputer. The supercomputer uses 12.6MW, so I calculated that if you had enough "K" supercomputers to equal the brain (you would need roughly 2,400 of them), the brain would be 1,512,000,000x more power efficient than the "K" supercomputer.
 
 
Very rough Bitcoin mining calculations:
I did some research and some people here said that each core of the CPU's used in the "K" supercomputer would be capable of 327 Khash on SHA-256-based coins. So 327x8=2616 Khash per CPU (SPARC64 VIIIfx), and there are 82,944 CPUs. So the extremely rough average hashrate of the "K" supercomputer is 216981504 Khash, or roughly 216 GHash (Remember that this is CPU, not GPU mining). Multiply that by 2,400 (how many times more powerful the brain is over the supercomputer) and you get 520.75 Thash/s. So IN THEORY the brain is at least capable of 520.75Thash/s of bitcoin mining. Assuming that Scrypt coin mining is roughly 10% as fast as SHA-256 mining, the brain would be capable of 52.075 Thash/s of scrypt mining. With that kind of power, using your brain, in theory, you could mine $135,663.96 of bitcoins per day, running on only 20 watts, but according to CoinWars, if you were mining the most profitable coin you could, you could make upwards of $500,000 per day.
 
Disclaimer: These calculations are EXTREMELY rough, and are not to be taken literally. I am not responsible for that one guy who tries to upload cgminer to his brain which fails and then goes into a coma for the rest of his life.
Calculated using this link.
 
 
The bottom line is, if your brain were a graphics card, it would, in fact, be able to play Crysis

Original Article: here

This is incredibly fascinating. A brain, which runs on something like 20 watts equivalent of electricity, is orders of magnitude faster than a supercomputer with 82,944 processors, 8.162 petaflops of performance, capable of 1,016 billion operations per second, has 663,552 cores and uses 12.6 Megawatts (12,600,000 watts) (Source: TweakTown and Wikipedia)

What "K" simulated: 1.73 Billion Neurons, connected to 10.4 Trillion Synapses, each synapse containing 24 bytes of data.
What is actually in the brain: ~86-100 Billion Neurons and 1 Quadrillion synapses in a child, and between 100 and 500 trillion synapses in an adult.

Fun fact: Some people calculate that the data storage capacity of the human brain is between 2.5 and 5 petabytes, that is equivalent to between 2,500 and 5,000 1TB hard drives! All stored in your brain!

The brain packs quite an incredible punch for such a small, lightweight (~3lbs), and energy efficient unit that can run on Cheetos and Mountain Dew. It is like the De Lorean from Back to the Future, just add organic matter!

Here is an interesting calculation for you, 40 minutes = 2,400 seconds, so I suppose that our brains are 2,400x more powerful than the "K" supercomputer. The supercomputer uses 12.6MW, so I calculated that if you had enough "K" supercomputers to equal the brain (you would need roughly 2,400 of them), the brain would be 1,512,000,000x more power efficient than the "K" supercomputer.
 
 
Very rough Bitcoin mining calculations:
I did some research and some people here said that each core of the CPU's used in the "K" supercomputer would be capable of 327 Khash on SHA-256-based coins. So 327x8=2616 Khash per CPU (SPARC64 VIIIfx), and there are 82,944 CPUs. So the extremely rough average hashrate of the "K" supercomputer is 216981504 Khash, or roughly 216 GHash (Remember that this is CPU, not GPU mining). Multiply that by 2,400 (how many times more powerful the brain is over the supercomputer) and you get 520.75 Thash/s. So IN THEORY the brain is at least capable of 520.75Thash/s of bitcoin mining. Assuming that Scrypt coin mining is roughly 10% as fast as SHA-256 mining, the brain would be capable of 52.075 Thash/s of scrypt mining. With that kind of power, using your brain, in theory, you could mine $135,663.96 of bitcoins per day, running on only 20 watts, but according to CoinWars, if you were mining the most profitable coin you could, you could make upwards of $500,000 per day.
 
Disclaimer: These calculations are EXTREMELY rough, and are not to be taken literally. I am not responsible for that one guy who tries to upload cgminer to his brain which fails and then goes into a coma for the rest of his life.
Calculated using this link.
 
 
The bottom line is, if your brain were a graphics card, it would, in fact, be able to play Crysis

Original Article: here

This is incredibly fascinating. A brain, which runs on something like 20 watts equivalent of electricity, is orders of magnitude faster than a supercomputer with 82,944 processors, 8.162 petaflops of performance, capable of 1,016 billion operations per second, has 663,552 cores and uses 12.6 Megawatts (12,600,000 watts) (Source: TweakTown and Wikipedia)

What "K" simulated: 1.73 Billion Neurons, connected to 10.4 Trillion Synapses, each synapse containing 24 bytes of data.
What is actually in the brain: ~86-100 Billion Neurons and 1 Quadrillion synapses in a child, and between 100 and 500 trillion synapses in an adult.

Fun fact: Some people calculate that the data storage capacity of the human brain is between 2.5 and 5 petabytes, that is equivalent to between 2,500 and 5,000 1TB hard drives! All stored in your brain!

The brain packs quite an incredible punch for such a small, lightweight (~3lbs), and energy efficient unit that can run on Cheetos and Mountain Dew. It is like the De Lorean from Back to the Future, just add organic matter!

Here is an interesting calculation for you, 40 minutes = 2,400 seconds, so I suppose that our brains are 2,400x more powerful than the "K" supercomputer. The supercomputer uses 12.6MW, so I calculated that if you had enough "K" supercomputers to equal the brain (you would need roughly 2,400 of them), the brain would be 1,512,000,000x more power efficient than the "K" supercomputer.
 
 
Very rough Bitcoin mining calculations:
I did some research and some people here said that each core of the CPU's used in the "K" supercomputer would be capable of 327 Khash on SHA-256-based coins. So 327x8=2616 Khash per CPU (SPARC64 VIIIfx), and there are 82,944 CPUs. So the extremely rough average hashrate of the "K" supercomputer is 216981504 Khash, or roughly 216 GHash (Remember that this is CPU, not GPU mining). Multiply that by 2,400 (how many times more powerful the brain is over the supercomputer) and you get 520.75 Thash/s. So IN THEORY the brain is at least capable of 520.75Thash/s of bitcoin mining. Assuming that Scrypt coin mining is roughly 10% as fast as SHA-256 mining, the brain would be capable of 52.075 Thash/s of scrypt mining. With that kind of power, using your brain, in theory, you could mine $135,663.96 of bitcoins per day, running on only 20 watts, but according to CoinWars, if you were mining the most profitable coin you could, you could make upwards of $500,000 per day.
 
Disclaimer: These calculations are EXTREMELY rough, and are not to be taken literally. I am not responsible for that one guy who tries to upload cgminer to his brain which fails and then goes into a coma for the rest of his life.
Calculated using this link.
 
 
The bottom line is, if your brain were a graphics card, it would, in fact, be able to play Crysis

Original Article: here

This is incredibly fascinating. A brain, which runs on something like 20 watts equivalent of electricity, is orders of magnitude faster than a supercomputer with 82,944 processors, 8.162 petaflops of performance, capable of 1,016 billion operations per second, has 663,552 cores and uses 12.6 Megawatts (12,600,000 watts) (Source: TweakTown and Wikipedia)

What "K" simulated: 1.73 Billion Neurons, connected to 10.4 Trillion Synapses, each synapse containing 24 bytes of data.
What is actually in the brain: ~86-100 Billion Neurons and 1 Quadrillion synapses in a child, and between 100 and 500 trillion synapses in an adult.

Fun fact: Some people calculate that the data storage capacity of the human brain is between 2.5 and 5 petabytes, that is equivalent to between 2,500 and 5,000 1TB hard drives! All stored in your brain!

The brain packs quite an incredible punch for such a small, lightweight (~3lbs), and energy efficient unit that can run on Cheetos and Mountain Dew. It is like the De Lorean from Back to the Future, just add organic matter!

Here is an interesting calculation for you, 40 minutes = 2,400 seconds, so I suppose that our brains are 2,400x more powerful than the "K" supercomputer. The supercomputer uses 12.6MW, so I calculated that if you had enough "K" supercomputers to equal the brain (you would need roughly 2,400 of them), the brain would be 1,512,000,000x more power efficient than the "K" supercomputer.
 
 
Very rough Bitcoin mining calculations:
I did some research and some people here said that each core of the CPU's used in the "K" supercomputer would be capable of 327 Khash on SHA-256-based coins. So 327x8=2616 Khash per CPU (SPARC64 VIIIfx), and there are 82,944 CPUs. So the extremely rough average hashrate of the "K" supercomputer is 216981504 Khash, or roughly 216 GHash (Remember that this is CPU, not GPU mining). Multiply that by 2,400 (how many times more powerful the brain is over the supercomputer) and you get 520.75 Thash/s. So IN THEORY the brain is at least capable of 520.75Thash/s of bitcoin mining. Assuming that Scrypt coin mining is roughly 10% as fast as SHA-256 mining, the brain would be capable of 52.075 Thash/s of scrypt mining. With that kind of power, using your brain, in theory, you could mine $135,663.96 of bitcoins per day, running on only 20 watts, but according to CoinWars, if you were mining the most profitable coin you could, you could make upwards of $500,000 per day.
 
Disclaimer: These calculations are EXTREMELY rough, and are not to be taken literally. I am not responsible for that one guy who tries to upload cgminer to his brain which fails and then goes into a coma for the rest of his life.
Calculated using this link.
 
 
The bottom line is, if your brain were a graphics card, it would, in fact, be able to play Crysis

Original Article: here

This is incredibly fascinating. A brain, which runs on something like 20 watts equivalent of electricity, is orders of magnitude faster than a supercomputer with 82,944 processors, 8.162 petaflops of performance, capable of 1,016 billion operations per second, has 663,552 cores and uses 12.6 Megawatts (12,600,000 watts) (Source: TweakTown and Wikipedia)

What "K" simulated: 1.73 Billion Neurons, connected to 10.4 Trillion Synapses, each synapse containing 24 bytes of data.
What is actually in the brain: ~86-100 Billion Neurons and 1 Quadrillion synapses in a child, and between 100 and 500 trillion synapses in an adult.

Fun fact: Some people calculate that the data storage capacity of the human brain is between 2.5 and 5 petabytes, that is equivalent to between 2,500 and 5,000 1TB hard drives! All stored in your brain!

The brain packs quite an incredible punch for such a small, lightweight (~3lbs), and energy efficient unit that can run on Cheetos and Mountain Dew. It is like the De Lorean from Back to the Future, just add organic matter!

Here is an interesting calculation for you, 40 minutes = 2,400 seconds, so I suppose that our brains are 2,400x more powerful than the "K" supercomputer. The supercomputer uses 12.6MW, so I calculated that if you had enough "K" supercomputers to equal the brain (you would need roughly 2,400 of them), the brain would be 1,512,000,000x more power efficient than the "K" supercomputer.
 
 
Very rough Bitcoin mining calculations:
I did some research and some people here said that each core of the CPU's used in the "K" supercomputer would be capable of 327 Khash on SHA-256-based coins. So 327x8=2616 Khash per CPU (SPARC64 VIIIfx), and there are 82,944 CPUs. So the extremely rough average hashrate of the "K" supercomputer is 216981504 Khash, or roughly 216 GHash (Remember that this is CPU, not GPU mining). Multiply that by 2,400 (how many times more powerful the brain is over the supercomputer) and you get 520.75 Thash/s. So IN THEORY the brain is at least capable of 520.75Thash/s of bitcoin mining. Assuming that Scrypt coin mining is roughly 10% as fast as SHA-256 mining, the brain would be capable of 52.075 Thash/s of scrypt mining. With that kind of power, using your brain, in theory, you could mine $135,663.96 of bitcoins per day, running on only 20 watts, but according to CoinWars, if you were mining the most profitable coin you could, you could make upwards of $500,000 per day.
 
Disclaimer: These calculations are EXTREMELY rough, and are not to be taken literally. I am not responsible for that one guy who tries to upload cgminer to his brain which fails and then goes into a coma for the rest of his life.
Calculated using this link.
 
 
The bottom line is, if your brain were a graphics card, it would, in fact, be able to play Crysis

Original Article: here

This is incredibly fascinating. A brain, which runs on something like 20 watts equivalent of electricity, is orders of magnitude faster than a supercomputer with 82,944 processors, 8.162 petaflops of performance, capable of 1,016 billion operations per second, has 663,552 cores and uses 12.6 Megawatts (12,600,000 watts) (Source: TweakTown and Wikipedia)

What "K" simulated: 1.73 Billion Neurons, connected to 10.4 Trillion Synapses, each synapse containing 24 bytes of data.
What is actually in the brain: ~86-100 Billion Neurons and 1 Quadrillion synapses in a child, and between 100 and 500 trillion synapses in an adult.

Fun fact: Some people calculate that the data storage capacity of the human brain is between 2.5 and 5 petabytes, that is equivalent to between 2,500 and 5,000 1TB hard drives! All stored in your brain!

The brain packs quite an incredible punch for such a small, lightweight (~3lbs), and energy efficient unit that can run on Cheetos and Mountain Dew. It is like the De Lorean from Back to the Future, just add organic matter!

Here is an interesting calculation for you, 40 minutes = 2,400 seconds, so I suppose that our brains are 2,400x more powerful than the "K" supercomputer. The supercomputer uses 12.6MW, so I calculated that if you had enough "K" supercomputers to equal the brain (you would need roughly 2,400 of them), the brain would be 1,512,000,000x more power efficient than the "K" supercomputer.
 
 
Very rough Bitcoin mining calculations:
I did some research and some people here said that each core of the CPU's used in the "K" supercomputer would be capable of 327 Khash on SHA-256-based coins. So 327x8=2616 Khash per CPU (SPARC64 VIIIfx), and there are 82,944 CPUs. So the extremely rough average hashrate of the "K" supercomputer is 216981504 Khash, or roughly 216 GHash (Remember that this is CPU, not GPU mining). Multiply that by 2,400 (how many times more powerful the brain is over the supercomputer) and you get 520.75 Thash/s. So IN THEORY the brain is at least capable of 520.75Thash/s of bitcoin mining. Assuming that Scrypt coin mining is roughly 10% as fast as SHA-256 mining, the brain would be capable of 52.075 Thash/s of scrypt mining. With that kind of power, using your brain, in theory, you could mine $135,663.96 of bitcoins per day, running on only 20 watts, but according to CoinWars, if you were mining the most profitable coin you could, you could make upwards of $500,000 per day.
 
Disclaimer: These calculations are EXTREMELY rough, and are not to be taken literally. I am not responsible for that one guy who tries to upload cgminer to his brain which fails and then goes into a coma for the rest of his life.
Calculated using this link.
 
 
The bottom line is, if your brain were a graphics card, it would, in fact, be able to play Crysis

Original Article: here

This is incredibly fascinating. A brain, which runs on something like 20 watts equivalent of electricity, is orders of magnitude faster than a supercomputer with 82,944 processors, 8.162 petaflops of performance, capable of 1,016 billion operations per second, has 663,552 cores and uses 12.6 Megawatts (12,600,000 watts) (Source: TweakTown and Wikipedia)

What "K" simulated: 1.73 Billion Neurons, connected to 10.4 Trillion Synapses, each synapse containing 24 bytes of data.
What is actually in the brain: ~86-100 Billion Neurons and 1 Quadrillion synapses in a child, and between 100 and 500 trillion synapses in an adult.

Fun fact: Some people calculate that the data storage capacity of the human brain is between 2.5 and 5 petabytes, that is equivalent to between 2,500 and 5,000 1TB hard drives! All stored in your brain!

The brain packs quite an incredible punch for such a small, lightweight (~3lbs), and energy efficient unit that can run on Cheetos and Mountain Dew. It is like the De Lorean from Back to the Future, just add organic matter!

Here is an interesting calculation for you, 40 minutes = 2,400 seconds, so I suppose that our brains are 2,400x more powerful than the "K" supercomputer. The supercomputer uses 12.6MW, so I calculated that if you had enough "K" supercomputers to equal the brain (you would need roughly 2,400 of them), the brain would be 1,512,000,000x more power efficient than the "K" supercomputer.
 
 
Very rough Bitcoin mining calculations:
I did some research and some people here said that each core of the CPU's used in the "K" supercomputer would be capable of 327 Khash on SHA-256-based coins. So 327x8=2616 Khash per CPU (SPARC64 VIIIfx), and there are 82,944 CPUs. So the extremely rough average hashrate of the "K" supercomputer is 216981504 Khash, or roughly 216 GHash (Remember that this is CPU, not GPU mining). Multiply that by 2,400 (how many times more powerful the brain is over the supercomputer) and you get 520.75 Thash/s. So IN THEORY the brain is at least capable of 520.75Thash/s of bitcoin mining. Assuming that Scrypt coin mining is roughly 10% as fast as SHA-256 mining, the brain would be capable of 52.075 Thash/s of scrypt mining. With that kind of power, using your brain, in theory, you could mine $135,663.96 of bitcoins per day, running on only 20 watts, but according to CoinWars, if you were mining the most profitable coin you could, you could make upwards of $500,000 per day.
 
Disclaimer: These calculations are EXTREMELY rough, and are not to be taken literally. I am not responsible for that one guy who tries to upload cgminer to his brain which fails and then goes into a coma for the rest of his life.
Calculated using this link.
 
 
The bottom line is, if your brain were a graphics card, it would, in fact, be able to play Crysis

Original Article: here

This is incredibly fascinating. A brain, which runs on something like 20 watts equivalent of electricity, is orders of magnitude faster than a supercomputer with 82,944 processors, 8.162 petaflops of performance, capable of 1,016 billion operations per second, has 663,552 cores and uses 12.6 Megawatts (12,600,000 watts) (Source: TweakTown and Wikipedia)

What "K" simulated: 1.73 Billion Neurons, connected to 10.4 Trillion Synapses, each synapse containing 24 bytes of data.
What is actually in the brain: ~86-100 Billion Neurons and 1 Quadrillion synapses in a child, and between 100 and 500 trillion synapses in an adult.

Fun fact: Some people calculate that the data storage capacity of the human brain is between 2.5 and 5 petabytes, that is equivalent to between 2,500 and 5,000 1TB hard drives! All stored in your brain!

The brain packs quite an incredible punch for such a small, lightweight (~3lbs), and energy efficient unit that can run on Cheetos and Mountain Dew. It is like the De Lorean from Back to the Future, just add organic matter!

Here is an interesting calculation for you, 40 minutes = 2,400 seconds, so I suppose that our brains are 2,400x more powerful than the "K" supercomputer. The supercomputer uses 12.6MW, so I calculated that if you had enough "K" supercomputers to equal the brain (you would need roughly 2,400 of them), the brain would be 1,512,000,000x more power efficient than the "K" supercomputer.
 
 
Very rough Bitcoin mining calculations:
I did some research and some people here said that each core of the CPU's used in the "K" supercomputer would be capable of 327 Khash on SHA-256-based coins. So 327x8=2616 Khash per CPU (SPARC64 VIIIfx), and there are 82,944 CPUs. So the extremely rough average hashrate of the "K" supercomputer is 216981504 Khash, or roughly 216 GHash (Remember that this is CPU, not GPU mining). Multiply that by 2,400 (how many times more powerful the brain is over the supercomputer) and you get 520.75 Thash/s. So IN THEORY the brain is at least capable of 520.75Thash/s of bitcoin mining. Assuming that Scrypt coin mining is roughly 10% as fast as SHA-256 mining, the brain would be capable of 52.075 Thash/s of scrypt mining. With that kind of power, using your brain, in theory, you could mine $135,663.96 of bitcoins per day, running on only 20 watts, but according to CoinWars, if you were mining the most profitable coin you could, you could make upwards of $500,000 per day.
 
Disclaimer: These calculations are EXTREMELY rough, and are not to be taken literally. I am not responsible for that one guy who tries to upload cgminer to his brain which fails and then goes into a coma for the rest of his life.
Calculated using this link.
 
 
The bottom line is, if your brain were a graphics card, it would, in fact, be able to play Crysis

Original Article: here

This is incredibly fascinating. A brain, which runs on something like 20 watts equivalent of electricity, is orders of magnitude faster than a supercomputer with 82,944 processors, 8.162 petaflops of performance, capable of 1,016 billion operations per second, has 663,552 cores and uses 12.6 Megawatts (12,600,000 watts) (Source: TweakTown and Wikipedia)

What "K" simulated: 1.73 Billion Neurons, connected to 10.4 Trillion Synapses, each synapse containing 24 bytes of data.
What is actually in the brain: ~86-100 Billion Neurons and 1 Quadrillion synapses in a child, and between 100 and 500 trillion synapses in an adult.

Fun fact: Some people calculate that the data storage capacity of the human brain is between 2.5 and 5 petabytes, that is equivalent to between 2,500 and 5,000 1TB hard drives! All stored in your brain!

The brain packs quite an incredible punch for such a small, lightweight (~3lbs), and energy efficient unit that can run on Cheetos and Mountain Dew. It is like the De Lorean from Back to the Future, just add organic matter!

Here is an interesting calculation for you, 40 minutes = 2,400 seconds, so I suppose that our brains are 2,400x more powerful than the "K" supercomputer. The supercomputer uses 12.6MW, so I calculated that if you had enough "K" supercomputers to equal the brain (you would need roughly 2,400 of them), the brain would be 1,512,000,000x more power efficient than the "K" supercomputer.
 
 
Very rough Bitcoin mining calculations:
I did some research and some people here said that each core of the CPU's used in the "K" supercomputer would be capable of 327 Khash on SHA-256-based coins. So 327x8=2616 Khash per CPU (SPARC64 VIIIfx), and there are 82,944 CPUs. So the extremely rough average hashrate of the "K" supercomputer is 216981504 Khash, or roughly 216 GHash (Remember that this is CPU, not GPU mining). Multiply that by 2,400 (how many times more powerful the brain is over the supercomputer) and you get 520.75 Thash/s. So IN THEORY the brain is at least capable of 520.75Thash/s of bitcoin mining. Assuming that Scrypt coin mining is roughly 10% as fast as SHA-256 mining, the brain would be capable of 52.075 Thash/s of scrypt mining. With that kind of power, using your brain, in theory, you could mine $135,663.96 of bitcoins per day, running on only 20 watts, but according to CoinWars, if you were mining the most profitable coin you could, you could make upwards of $500,000 per day.
 
Disclaimer: These calculations are EXTREMELY rough, and are not to be taken literally. I am not responsible for that one guy who tries to upload cgminer to his brain which fails and then goes into a coma for the rest of his life.
Calculated using this link.
 
 
The bottom line is, if your brain were a graphics card, it would, in fact, be able to play Crysis

Original Article: here

This is incredibly fascinating. A brain, which runs on something like 20 watts equivalent of electricity, is orders of magnitude faster than a supercomputer with 82,944 processors, 8.162 petaflops of performance, capable of 1,016 billion operations per second, has 663,552 cores and uses 12.6 Megawatts (12,600,000 watts) (Source: TweakTown and Wikipedia)

What "K" simulated: 1.73 Billion Neurons, connected to 10.4 Trillion Synapses, each synapse containing 24 bytes of data.
What is actually in the brain: ~86-100 Billion Neurons and 1 Quadrillion synapses in a child, and between 100 and 500 trillion synapses in an adult.

Fun fact: Some people calculate that the data storage capacity of the human brain is between 2.5 and 5 petabytes, that is equivalent to between 2,500 and 5,000 1TB hard drives! All stored in your brain!

The brain packs quite an incredible punch for such a small, lightweight (~3lbs), and energy efficient unit that can run on Cheetos and Mountain Dew. It is like the De Lorean from Back to the Future, just add organic matter!

Here is an interesting calculation for you, 40 minutes = 2,400 seconds, so I suppose that our brains are 2,400x more powerful than the "K" supercomputer. The supercomputer uses 12.6MW, so I calculated that if you had enough "K" supercomputers to equal the brain (you would need roughly 2,400 of them), the brain would be 1,512,000,000x more power efficient than the "K" supercomputer.
 
 
Very rough Bitcoin mining calculations:
I did some research and some people here said that each core of the CPU's used in the "K" supercomputer would be capable of 327 Khash on SHA-256-based coins. So 327x8=2616 Khash per CPU (SPARC64 VIIIfx), and there are 82,944 CPUs. So the extremely rough average hashrate of the "K" supercomputer is 216981504 Khash, or roughly 216 GHash (Remember that this is CPU, not GPU mining). Multiply that by 2,400 (how many times more powerful the brain is over the supercomputer) and you get 520.75 Thash/s. So IN THEORY the brain is at least capable of 520.75Thash/s of bitcoin mining. Assuming that Scrypt coin mining is roughly 10% as fast as SHA-256 mining, the brain would be capable of 52.075 Thash/s of scrypt mining. With that kind of power, using your brain, in theory, you could mine $135,663.96 of bitcoins per day, running on only 20 watts, but according to CoinWars, if you were mining the most profitable coin you could, you could make upwards of $500,000 per day.
 
Disclaimer: These calculations are EXTREMELY rough, and are not to be taken literally. I am not responsible for that one guy who tries to upload cgminer to his brain which fails and then goes into a coma for the rest of his life.
Calculated using this link.
 
 
The bottom line is, if your brain were a graphics card, it would, in fact, be able to play Crysis

Original Article: here

This is incredibly fascinating. A brain, which runs on something like 20 watts equivalent of electricity, is orders of magnitude faster than a supercomputer with 82,944 processors, 8.162 petaflops of performance, capable of 1,016 billion operations per second, has 663,552 cores and uses 12.6 Megawatts (12,600,000 watts) (Source: TweakTown and Wikipedia)

What "K" simulated: 1.73 Billion Neurons, connected to 10.4 Trillion Synapses, each synapse containing 24 bytes of data.
What is actually in the brain: ~86-100 Billion Neurons and 1 Quadrillion synapses in a child, and between 100 and 500 trillion synapses in an adult.

Fun fact: Some people calculate that the data storage capacity of the human brain is between 2.5 and 5 petabytes, that is equivalent to between 2,500 and 5,000 1TB hard drives! All stored in your brain!

The brain packs quite an incredible punch for such a small, lightweight (~3lbs), and energy efficient unit that can run on Cheetos and Mountain Dew. It is like the De Lorean from Back to the Future, just add organic matter!

Here is an interesting calculation for you, 40 minutes = 2,400 seconds, so I suppose that our brains are 2,400x more powerful than the "K" supercomputer. The supercomputer uses 12.6MW, so I calculated that if you had enough "K" supercomputers to equal the brain (you would need roughly 2,400 of them), the brain would be 1,512,000,000x more power efficient than the "K" supercomputer.
 
 
Very rough Bitcoin mining calculations:
I did some research and some people here said that each core of the CPU's used in the "K" supercomputer would be capable of 327 Khash on SHA-256-based coins. So 327x8=2616 Khash per CPU (SPARC64 VIIIfx), and there are 82,944 CPUs. So the extremely rough average hashrate of the "K" supercomputer is 216981504 Khash, or roughly 216 GHash (Remember that this is CPU, not GPU mining). Multiply that by 2,400 (how many times more powerful the brain is over the supercomputer) and you get 520.75 Thash/s. So IN THEORY the brain is at least capable of 520.75Thash/s of bitcoin mining. Assuming that Scrypt coin mining is roughly 10% as fast as SHA-256 mining, the brain would be capable of 52.075 Thash/s of scrypt mining. With that kind of power, using your brain, in theory, you could mine $135,663.96 of bitcoins per day, running on only 20 watts, but according to CoinWars, if you were mining the most profitable coin you could, you could make upwards of $500,000 per day.
 
Disclaimer: These calculations are EXTREMELY rough, and are not to be taken literally. I am not responsible for that one guy who tries to upload cgminer to his brain which fails and then goes into a coma for the rest of his life.
Calculated using this link.
 
 
The bottom line is, if your brain were a graphics card, it would, in fact, be able to play Crysis

Original Article: here

This is incredibly fascinating. A brain, which runs on something like 20 watts equivalent of electricity, is orders of magnitude faster than a supercomputer with 82,944 processors, 8.162 petaflops of performance, capable of 1,016 billion operations per second, has 663,552 cores and uses 12.6 Megawatts (12,600,000 watts) (Source: TweakTown and Wikipedia)

What "K" simulated: 1.73 Billion Neurons, connected to 10.4 Trillion Synapses, each synapse containing 24 bytes of data.
What is actually in the brain: ~86-100 Billion Neurons and 1 Quadrillion synapses in a child, and between 100 and 500 trillion synapses in an adult.

Fun fact: Some people calculate that the data storage capacity of the human brain is between 2.5 and 5 petabytes, that is equivalent to between 2,500 and 5,000 1TB hard drives! All stored in your brain!

The brain packs quite an incredible punch for such a small, lightweight (~3lbs), and energy efficient unit that can run on Cheetos and Mountain Dew. It is like the De Lorean from Back to the Future, just add organic matter!

Here is an interesting calculation for you, 40 minutes = 2,400 seconds, so I suppose that our brains are 2,400x more powerful than the "K" supercomputer. The supercomputer uses 12.6MW, so I calculated that if you had enough "K" supercomputers to equal the brain (you would need roughly 2,400 of them), the brain would be 1,512,000,000x more power efficient than the "K" supercomputer.
 
 
Very rough Bitcoin mining calculations:
I did some research and some people here said that each core of the CPU's used in the "K" supercomputer would be capable of 327 Khash on SHA-256-based coins. So 327x8=2616 Khash per CPU (SPARC64 VIIIfx), and there are 82,944 CPUs. So the extremely rough average hashrate of the "K" supercomputer is 216981504 Khash, or roughly 216 GHash (Remember that this is CPU, not GPU mining). Multiply that by 2,400 (how many times more powerful the brain is over the supercomputer) and you get 520.75 Thash/s. So IN THEORY the brain is at least capable of 520.75Thash/s of bitcoin mining. Assuming that Scrypt coin mining is roughly 10% as fast as SHA-256 mining, the brain would be capable of 52.075 Thash/s of scrypt mining. With that kind of power, using your brain, in theory, you could mine $135,663.96 of bitcoins per day, running on only 20 watts, but according to CoinWars, if you were mining the most profitable coin you could, you could make upwards of $500,000 per day.
 
Disclaimer: These calculations are EXTREMELY rough, and are not to be taken literally. I am not responsible for that one guy who tries to upload cgminer to his brain which fails and then goes into a coma for the rest of his life.
Calculated using this link.
 
 
The bottom line is, if your brain were a graphics card, it would, in fact, be able to play Crysis

Original Article: here

This is incredibly fascinating. A brain, which runs on something like 20 watts equivalent of electricity, is orders of magnitude faster than a supercomputer with 82,944 processors, 8.162 petaflops of performance, capable of 1,016 billion operations per second, has 663,552 cores and uses 12.6 Megawatts (12,600,000 watts) (Source: TweakTown and Wikipedia)

What "K" simulated: 1.73 Billion Neurons, connected to 10.4 Trillion Synapses, each synapse containing 24 bytes of data.
What is actually in the brain: ~86-100 Billion Neurons and 1 Quadrillion synapses in a child, and between 100 and 500 trillion synapses in an adult.

Fun fact: Some people calculate that the data storage capacity of the human brain is between 2.5 and 5 petabytes, that is equivalent to between 2,500 and 5,000 1TB hard drives! All stored in your brain!

The brain packs quite an incredible punch for such a small, lightweight (~3lbs), and energy efficient unit that can run on Cheetos and Mountain Dew. It is like the De Lorean from Back to the Future, just add organic matter!

Here is an interesting calculation for you, 40 minutes = 2,400 seconds, so I suppose that our brains are 2,400x more powerful than the "K" supercomputer. The supercomputer uses 12.6MW, so I calculated that if you had enough "K" supercomputers to equal the brain (you would need roughly 2,400 of them), the brain would be 1,512,000,000x more power efficient than the "K" supercomputer.
 
 
Very rough Bitcoin mining calculations:
I did some research and some people here said that each core of the CPU's used in the "K" supercomputer would be capable of 327 Khash on SHA-256-based coins. So 327x8=2616 Khash per CPU (SPARC64 VIIIfx), and there are 82,944 CPUs. So the extremely rough average hashrate of the "K" supercomputer is 216981504 Khash, or roughly 216 GHash (Remember that this is CPU, not GPU mining). Multiply that by 2,400 (how many times more powerful the brain is over the supercomputer) and you get 520.75 Thash/s. So IN THEORY the brain is at least capable of 520.75Thash/s of bitcoin mining. Assuming that Scrypt coin mining is roughly 10% as fast as SHA-256 mining, the brain would be capable of 52.075 Thash/s of scrypt mining. With that kind of power, using your brain, in theory, you could mine $135,663.96 of bitcoins per day, running on only 20 watts, but according to CoinWars, if you were mining the most profitable coin you could, you could make upwards of $500,000 per day.
 
Disclaimer: These calculations are EXTREMELY rough, and are not to be taken literally. I am not responsible for that one guy who tries to upload cgminer to his brain which fails and then goes into a coma for the rest of his life.
Calculated using this link.
 
 
The bottom line is, if your brain were a graphics card, it would, in fact, be able to play Crysis

Original Article: here

This is incredibly fascinating. A brain, which runs on something like 20 watts equivalent of electricity, is orders of magnitude faster than a supercomputer with 82,944 processors, 8.162 petaflops of performance, capable of 1,016 billion operations per second, has 663,552 cores and uses 12.6 Megawatts (12,600,000 watts) (Source: TweakTown and Wikipedia)

What "K" simulated: 1.73 Billion Neurons, connected to 10.4 Trillion Synapses, each synapse containing 24 bytes of data.
What is actually in the brain: ~86-100 Billion Neurons and 1 Quadrillion synapses in a child, and between 100 and 500 trillion synapses in an adult.

Fun fact: Some people calculate that the data storage capacity of the human brain is between 2.5 and 5 petabytes, that is equivalent to between 2,500 and 5,000 1TB hard drives! All stored in your brain!

The brain packs quite an incredible punch for such a small, lightweight (~3lbs), and energy efficient unit that can run on Cheetos and Mountain Dew. It is like the De Lorean from Back to the Future, just add organic matter!

Here is an interesting calculation for you, 40 minutes = 2,400 seconds, so I suppose that our brains are 2,400x more powerful than the "K" supercomputer. The supercomputer uses 12.6MW, so I calculated that if you had enough "K" supercomputers to equal the brain (you would need roughly 2,400 of them), the brain would be 1,512,000,000x more power efficient than the "K" supercomputer.
 
 
Very rough Bitcoin mining calculations:
I did some research and some people here said that each core of the CPU's used in the "K" supercomputer would be capable of 327 Khash on SHA-256-based coins. So 327x8=2616 Khash per CPU (SPARC64 VIIIfx), and there are 82,944 CPUs. So the extremely rough average hashrate of the "K" supercomputer is 216981504 Khash, or roughly 216 GHash (Remember that this is CPU, not GPU mining). Multiply that by 2,400 (how many times more powerful the brain is over the supercomputer) and you get 520.75 Thash/s. So IN THEORY the brain is at least capable of 520.75Thash/s of bitcoin mining. Assuming that Scrypt coin mining is roughly 10% as fast as SHA-256 mining, the brain would be capable of 52.075 Thash/s of scrypt mining. With that kind of power, using your brain, in theory, you could mine $135,663.96 of bitcoins per day, running on only 20 watts, but according to CoinWars, if you were mining the most profitable coin you could, you could make upwards of $500,000 per day.
 
Disclaimer: These calculations are EXTREMELY rough, and are not to be taken literally. I am not responsible for that one guy who tries to upload cgminer to his brain which fails and then goes into a coma for the rest of his life.
Calculated using this link.
 
 
The bottom line is, if your brain were a graphics card, it would, in fact, be able to play Crysis