Biostar ASIC Enabled Motherboards to be ready

[Bluejay0]

It seems that motherboard manufacturer Biostar has just announced the release of ASIC enabled motherboards. These boards that will be on sale will have ASIC chips, made specifically for mining, embedded in the board.  The BTC-24GH, which contains 64 embedded ASIC chips, will have the output of 24 GH/s of a ashrate. This is the equivalent of 30 7970/280X GPUs all at once! 

 

Ever since the crash and now the slow rise of Bitcoin just recently, it will only be time to tell if this will be viable. With such a performance, it seems to be very well done by Biostar since they have so much power in a smaller space. Only thing is that the price is not specified and may be high due to miners.

 

 

 

Source: http://www.techpowerup.com/198967/biostar-ready-to-launch-motherboards-with-built-in-asics-great-for-bitcoins.html

[Fetzie]

Only thing is that the price is not specified and may be high due to miners

Surely that doesn't matter to non-miners

 

And a flood of second-hand R9 280X hits the market in 3...2...1...

[Lord Pantaloons]

[JAKEBAB]

This will probs be as expensive as those dedicated mining boxs which is stupid coz they already have something like this why make another?

[Karumu]

the only people who will be able to afford these is the ones who have a majority share of bitcoins anyway! these BTC-boxes are only gonna make the rich richer! this is why i am not investing in this market, f*****g dumb

[DoubleY]

Surely that doesn't matter to non-miners

 

And a flood of second-hand R9 280X hits the market in 3...2...1...

Bitcoin miners haven't been using GPU's in a LONG time. There are no floods of GPU's that are going to be sold.

[Fetzie]

Bitcoin miners haven't been using GPU's in a LONG time. There are no floods of GPU's that are going to be sold.

 

Ah, I was under the impression you could use it for LTC too. Feel free to ignore what I said

[DoubleY]

Ah, I was under the impression you could use it for LTC too. Feel free to ignore what I said

Well, LTC Asics are coming out soon ;0 so you're no entirely wrong about the flood of GPU's.

[Fetzie]

Well, LTC Asics are coming out soon ;0 so you're no entirely wrong about the flood of GPU's.

 

Of course, one has to wonder what state the GPUs would be in, having been run at 100% for ages. The fan bearings might be on their last legs, for example.

[qwertywarrior]

Well, LTC Asics are coming out soon ;0 so you're no entirely wrong about the flood of GPU's.

I was under the impression that litecoin is asic proof

[DoubleY]

I was under the impression that litecoin is asic proof

You just can't use modern asics with Litecoins. 

[atrash]

Are those the chips? So small..I thought the asics for bitcoin are like on a 65nm manufacturing process

[Fetzie]

Are those the chips? So small..I thought the asics for bitcoin are like on a 65nm manufacturing process

The chips look like they are about the same size as the 4pin power connector, and don't forget that they are purely for mining. They don't have the "unnecessary" fluff that GPUs have.

[Exotath]

So they don't need cooling?

[Suika]

As soon as the litecoin capable boards come out, all should be fine with AMD again, and hopefully Maxwell if the 750 Ti is proof of something.

If they're cheap enough, I might buy a used R9 290/X when GPU mining dies for laughs.

[KakaoDj]

As soon as the litecoin capable boards come out, all should be fine with AMD again, and hopefully Maxwell if the 750 Ti is proof of something.

If they're cheap enough, I might buy a used R9 290/X when GPU mining dies for laughs.

I don't think we will se an ASIC miner for LTC anytime soon

[cramved]

I don't think we will se an ASIC miner for LTC anytime soon

they already have working samples

[Lord_Kitty]

the only people who will be able to afford these is the ones who have a majority share of bitcoins anyway! these BTC-boxes are only gonna make the rich richer! this is why i am not investing in this market, f*****g dumb

Well, its becoming like... every fiat currency on the planet.