On Wed, 14 Feb 2018, Smith, Cathy wrote:
Mining bitcoins has its own requirements.
Cathy,
Such as sucking all the available electricity generated. Iceland is facing
this problem now; it was on one of the news sites today. Bit coin miners
there are consuming almost all the electricity
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <plug@pdxlinux.org>
Subject: Re: [PLUG] CPU info needed
On 2018-02-01 18:10, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> First, let me make it clear that when it comes to CPUs, motherboards
> and RAM I am hopelessly out of date. I was out of date four years ago
> w
If I would be building PC now, for similar usage patterns. I would
definitely go AMD Ryzen route + fanless low end MSI Nvidia GT 1030 cards
for about $70.
AMD just dropped their Ryzen CPU prices, so that should help
If you chose go the Intel CPU route, you will not need to buy graphics
card.
I think only AMD's mobile CPUs have integrated graphics. I know my Ryzen 7
desktop does NOT have integrated graphics. AMD has a new open source
driver AMDGPU that performs quite well under Linux. I typically build my
own systems, but bought a prebuilt one because it had good parts and I
could
On 2018-02-01 18:10, John Jason Jordan wrote:
First, let me make it clear that when it comes to CPUs, motherboards
and RAM I am hopelessly out of date. I was out of date four years ago
when I bought my laptop - I just selected component options based on
the
price. I had no idea what any of the
