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Unread 22-04-2013, 02:25
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Re: Use CRIO to mine bitcoins?

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Originally Posted by fb39ca4 View Post
They have to be the new 4 slot cRIOs to be worth it. The older 8 slot models have much weaker FPGAs.
They are actually pretty comparable size wise. I haven't looked into what type of computations are involved in bit coin mining, so I'm not sure if the dsp blocks would make a big difference.

Joe