Biostar announces new RYZEN mining motherboard

[Princess Luna]

10 hours ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

but why

This is actually great, here in 2 months when this whole deal fails and ethereum is worth shit all the damn miners who mess up the market will have useless motherboards with no resale value.

[rn8686]

10 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

This is actually great, here in 2 months when this whole deal fails and ethereum is worth shit all the damn miners who mess up the market will have useless motherboards with no resale value.

Dont see any reason it would fail, and that depends what you use to mine (Nicehash converts to BTC, will be very stable). 

[Princess Luna]

9 minutes ago, rn8686 said:

Dont see any reason it would fail, and that depends what you use to mine (Nicehash converts to BTC, will be very stable). 

Yeah... I'm old school... I have a job.

[rn8686]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

Yeah... I'm old school... I have a job.

Still is profitable, will likely be even more valuable in the future (Especially BTC). 

[FirstArmada]

On 6/26/2017 at 7:25 AM, Tedny said:

DVI on bord? R3 will have iGpu ? 

Isn't that a given? even Pentiums have an iGPU

[ImBleu]

7 hours ago, FirstArmada said:

Isn't that a given? even Pentiums have an iGPU

ryzen doesn't, IIRC.

[grimreeper132]

On 26/06/2017 at 0:15 PM, ThatCoolBlueKidd said:

Just seems odd as mining requires very minimal CPU power so most miners (myself included) go for Pentiums/i3s which are less than half the cost of the cheapest Ryzen CPU. It's all about return on investment, so why would you needlessly spend up to an extra $100 minimum for no gain - unless this motherboard is dirt cheap it seems like a bad move until Ryzen 3 1200s come out at hopefully near $60-$80.

R3s start about $120 I think.

[grimreeper132]

11 hours ago, Jito463 said:

Except Q3 could mean anywhere between July 1st and September 30th.  Given AMD's end quarter launches lately, I wouldn't be surprised if it's at least August before they launch.

I think then next set of launches is before the 27th of july, so maybe not, we will need to see, but R5 was earlier Q2 and R7 was late Q1, so I can see R3 coming out early Q3 as well as that's where AMD will sell their volumes and make moneyz, which they need at the moment

[grimreeper132]

2 hours ago, FirstArmada said:

Isn't that a given? even Pentiums have an iGPU

the IGPUs for Ryzen (the ryzen APUs) are coming Q4 I think along with thee laptop CPUs, so that's what the DVI will be for, having the same CPU with and without graphics isn't a bad idea though, as if you have a GPU in your system there's no point having a IGPU as you won't use it, but if your in an office and you don't need a dedicated GPU cause your only using word then it makes perfect sense to just use an APU

[JuNex03]

22 hours ago, Princess Cadence said:

Yeah... I'm old school... I have a job.

But imagine having a job and leaving your computer on to mine (provided that electricity costs are cheap in your area of course). It'd be like investing in stocks where you'd let your money work for you.

[Mooshi]

1 hour ago, JuNex03 said:

But imagine having a job and leaving your computer on to mine (provided that electricity costs are cheap in your area of course). It'd be like investing in stocks where you'd let your money work for you.

Mining is already tanking. Buying a rig now just to burn power is an awful idea. Job is the adult way.

 

Edit: even with existing rig, seems like a waste of power. I live in the desert too so...that heat is def unwanted.

[JuNex03]

14 minutes ago, Mooshi said:

Mining is already tanking. Buying a rig now just to burn power is an awful idea. Job is the adult way.

 

Edit: even with existing rig, seems like a waste of power. I live in the desert too so...that heat is def unwanted.

I know, just giving an example on how it could work. Basically while you're working, you're letting your money grow, by investing in a rig and the electricity to run the rig. You'll of course need to factor in your electricity cost, if its not worth it then better invest that money somewhere else.

[Mooshi]

4 minutes ago, JuNex03 said:

I know, just giving an example on how it could work. Basically while you're working, you're letting your money grow, by investing in a rig and the electricity to run the rig. You'll of course need to factor in your electricity cost, if its not worth it then better invest that money somewhere else.

I totally get where you are coming from and have honestly considered letting system run while I'm at work. But I used to mine before and there are some scenarios where the payoff isn't high enough to justify the effort, lol

[JuNex03]

3 minutes ago, Mooshi said:

I totally get where you are coming from and have honestly considered letting system run while I'm at work. But I used to mine before and there are some scenarios where the payoff isn't high enough to justify the effort, lol

Yeah, I was thinking about it before too, but then I plugged in my electricity cost on a calculator and concluded that if I ever were to run a rig for mining, I'd have to do some illegal stuff and steal electricity from my neighbours. I wonder how those dedicated miners in china find this profitable? Maybe the cost of electricity is low seeing that most of their power plants run on coal?