Block Erupters - Anyone mined Scrypt with one yet?
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Simple question. [size=8pt](Sorry for asking but I’ve trolled through a few forums and threads regarding this and can’t find an answer)[/size]
The Sapphire Block Erupters. They run at 333 MH/s… Can I assume that they will run at 300 kH/s?
Or… Does the low bandwidth make them run slower? It’s my understanding that mem bandwidth is what makes the difference here…
I’ve looked around but I’m yet to find anyone report on there efficiency when mining Scrypt based coins.
From what I can tell, for there wattage and also considering the price, if they did 300+ kH/s, wouldn’t they be worth it? I’m assuming it’s not the case otherwise everyone would be mining Scrypt with em right?
Has anyone actually tried?
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Yes, this is not technically possible…Erupters are designed to work with Sha256 only.
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[quote name=“midwaycy6” post=“35716” timestamp=“1385134250”]
i’m not sure but i think block erupters are just for SHA256 and Feathercoin is scrypt.greetings.
[/quote]I’m also under the same impression…
I read that if you can do sha at xxxMH/s then you should be able to do xxxkH/s…
I was hoping that the Block Erupters would be no different then GPU mining…
But yeah… Due to mem bandwidth, it’s my understanding that that rule doesn’t apply…
I was hoping I was wrong. :'(
Cheers midway and mirrax. :D
[size=8pt]btw, Midway ftw… (I have a couple of mint snes and 64 games by them)
I’m not sure if your alias is a reference but If it is, you deserve a high five.[/size] -
those usb stick are dumb units built to decrypt sha256 algoritm, thats their only an single task. which makes em a good paperweight when theyr not worth mining bitcoin with anymore.
scrypt is an whole other ballpark and can not be decryptet by theese units.that also concurrs with current fpga systems due to the memory intensiveness of scrypt.
making repurpose of old fpga to scrypt not possible.
and also makes it alot more expencive to develop/manufacturing fpga scrypt.