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Totally missed that thread - even did a search. Thanks!

Mine just got delivered... going to play with it today. Definitely an interesting alternative to RPi4 https://www.ebay.com/itm/202977104873

Two full racks worth of compute? I'm assuming that those are quad-node compute boxes, meaning you're looking at 320 processors of compute? That's absolutely absurd. Is this going in colo?

Motherboards for those processors are relatively rare and expensive. Good mining chip, though. A full system would probably run in the $500-600 range, which means you would likely be better off with traditional graphics cards in profitability.

Thanks guys! huge increases with these new optomizations - I just added 40KH/s to bring me to 220.95 KH/sec

Just a bunch of second-hand dual-proc Xeons.

It was me - I added 20 nodes at 4 KH/s each. I've got some excess capacity that I'm throwing at the pool for the next couple of weeks while I'm prepping my environment for bigger things. All in, I'm pushing around 170KH/s right now.

I'd totally be down to join in!

Same for me. Offered 50, countered with $85. Offered 55, countered with $80, Offered with $60, accepted.

Picked up 4 of these really early on for $40 a piece. They've been sitting in my living room for the past month or so. Anyone tried theirs out yet?

I got lucky - I saw it hit my email on one of the eBay alerts I have set up, and it was listed as "for parts or not working". The seller said that the fans ran when they plugged it in, but had no way to test it. I assumed that this was because they didn't have that proprietary console cable...

So I just got really lucky and managed to pick one of these up on ebay for $380. Anyway, it came without rack ears. Can anyone provide me a source for the rack ears for this thing? I would prefer not to pay the $200+ for the rack rails, and nobody seems to have stock on the ears.

I hate to post the same warning that is in every other thread about ES processors, but I feel like it's still necessary in case someone stumbles across this post... These processors are ENGINEERING SAMPLES. They will work identically to the final retail version (almost always), but some...

Teach me your ways! Seriously... I have a basically useless g8052 sitting in my apartment right now.

How do you connect to the console on this? I've heard that they use a mini-usb connector. Can they connect directly to the computer using a mini-usb to USB cable?