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Re-purposing Bitcoin ASIC miners

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ASIC miners are currently very cheap, and soon to be completely obsolete in bitcoin mining, leaving a large surplus that will probably make them cheaper. Has there been any consideration given to using them toward folding?
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Re: Re-purposing Bitcoin ASIC miners

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Unless they support SSE2 or OpenCL 1.1, they can't do any of F@H work. From what I have heard, they are good at hashing and are optimized for that purpose only so running F@H is highly unlikely.
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Re: Re-purposing Bitcoin ASIC miners

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This subject was addressed previously in viewtopic.php?f=38&t=25799&p=253973&hilit=asic#p258692
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Re: Re-purposing Bitcoin ASIC miners

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P5-133XL - I was going to read about this in your link, but it seems the link fails to bring up anything ....
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P5-133XL
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Hardware configuration: Machine #1:

Intel Q9450; 2x2GB=8GB Ram; Gigabyte GA-X48-DS4 Motherboard; PC Power and Cooling Q750 PS; 2x GTX 460; Windows Server 2008 X64 (SP1).

Machine #2:

Intel Q6600; 2x2GB=4GB Ram; Gigabyte GA-X48-DS4 Motherboard; PC Power and Cooling Q750 PS; 2x GTX 460 video card; Windows 7 X64.

Machine 3:

Dell Dimension 8400, 3.2GHz P4 4x512GB Ram, Video card GTX 460, Windows 7 X32

I am currently folding just on the 5x GTX 460's for aprox. 70K PPD
Location: Salem. OR USA

Re: Re-purposing Bitcoin ASIC miners

Post by P5-133XL »

Try the new link (I edited it). Sorry about the previous link.
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Re: Re-purposing Bitcoin ASIC miners

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New link works - Many thanks.
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