<g​ingeropolous:monero.social> would a risc-v based computer be found there?

<p​olar9669:matrix.org> They assemble it, so yes they can find the needed components

have we got any stats on what kind of hashrates can be squeezed out of those RISC-V SBCs yet? I'm assuming though bitmain rigs are basically just aluminium cases packed full of them with some fans and a PSU

My nonce analysis showed 400-500 h/s per CPU core

thats not terrible :o anyway to tell what CPU was in use? guessing it wasn't the JH7110

xuantie c910 is a likely candidate

not cheap nor easy to get my hands on an SBC using that chip :/ assuming they went straight to the manufacturer. I guess buying one of those X5's could at least mean you ended up with a boatload of SBCs (if thats how they managed to jam so much hashrate into a single unit)

you can get those JH7110 chips in a VisionFive board pretty cheaply anyway

this Sipeed SBC has C910 quadcore aliexpress.com/item/1005005532736080.html

looks like 2x faster perf than JH7110

I might get one to mess around with

around £150gbp ... for the novelty, definitely worth a play with

but for a little over the price of 2 of them, could probably build a bog standard Ryzen5 3600 rig :)

true

hm, the case is out of stock. phooey

I can't run bare boards in a house with 2 cats

not ideal :P I can barely run my 7950x rig as the radiator vents out through the top of the case. Damn cat gets too comfortable

lol

I wonder if the mounting holes would line up with my Pi1 acrylic case. that thing's been offline for years now

was just looking at the form factor, seems pretty shallow, but quite a bit more square than the pi's

might be a 3d printer job

or, if you've bricked any android boxes, the case might be repurposed

12v 2a supply though, would probably switch out that jacked socket for a usb-c mount. Should be able to push 12v 2a through a decent cable

it'll run on 5V 2A USB-C

interesting review liliputing.com/sipeed-lichee-pi-4a-…-risc-v-mini-pc-with-up-to-16gb-ram

note that the actual SOC & memory is on its own LM4A card

and see the photo near bottom: 7 slot carrier itx board

I think we've found our ASIC...

yeah... looking at that...

its just a carrier board with all of the peripherals ... bit like the pi compute modules I'm guessing

Lichee Cluster 4A - 7 slots for the LM4A

so at around 600h/s per core, 4 codes per module, 7 modules, 17kh/s-ish per board

s/codes/cores

"on sale next week"

a shame to build a cluster like that, but no hardware crypto instructions

I love the whole "Not going to specify which week it is... just next" method of marketing :D

yeah, the announcement was a couple weeks ago. oh well

have no doubts they can produce it tho

I was looking at getting a bulk buy of the rpi compute modules early last year, then stacking them up to try and build an expandable mining rig in a little itx case

now if I could get a bulk buy of the LM4A modules and some cluster boards, well its basically an expandable X5 :D

lol

lack of PCIe/NVMe makes it unappealing for general use

but for pure compute it's prob ok

BeagleV will have same chip

the BeagleV-Ahead? hmm

similar price to the lichee pi, however I can order from my usual electronics provider in the UK :D

wonder if xmrig can pick up the chip type, doesn't seem to be any any benchmarks for its hashrate

might grab one for shits and giggles

too bad beagleV only has 4GB RAM

looking at the global hashrates on the monero blockchain, do you think Bitmain were doing some tests in July to make sure the kit they had still worked prior to starting to sell it off?

spent a week over 3GH/s, then just dropped right off

they've been testing since a year ago December at least

No, when they switch it on, they keep it. This is how it happened in 2021

Which is logical - if the money printer is working, why turn it off?

unless they started work on a 400kh/s setup when some new tech came out, so time to offload the old kit

quite unlikely that they could justify the investment now, with tail emission and stagnant XMR price

in 2017 it was worthwhile to develop an XMR ASIC because both price and block reward were high

looking at historical price (and hashrate) bitinfocharts.com/comparison/hashrate-price-xmr.html#alltime

If they're looking for ROI profits on the short term, certainly true - been a difficult few years. Though I guess they've picked a decent enough time to release their 'ASIC' as XMR is certainly picking up on the questionable side of the internet

the price in 2017 was an ATH. it was comparable in 2021, but block reward was much smaller.

this chart is more to the point: mining profitability bitinfocharts.com/comparison/mining…rofitability-price-xmr.html#alltime

you would have to be a fool to invest in the R&D now.

hmm, was that peak in June last year related to the Russian's offloading their FIAT into a virtual currency perhaps? :D