27 Sep
2012
27 Sep
'12
5:41 a.m.
On Sep 27, 2012, at 0:17, Tothwolf <tothwolf at concentric.net> wrote:
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, David Griffith wrote:
Probably not, at least not if they're smart. There's
no way that system could keep up with even a very
modest consumer GPU for bitcoin mining, at
which point any reason for a big CPU and gobs of
RAM goes out the window.
- Dave
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, Paul Anderson wrote:
My money would be on bitcoin "mining"...at someone else's (great) expense.
A friend of mine admins a webserver. Serves
almost exclusively static pages, max 1k hits per day. They are looking at moving to a
rackmount system. What does he spec? Eight core Xeon with 96 gigs of RAM...
Do they plan on using that system for things other than serving up pages?