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FBaggins

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6. They're much faster than CPUs these days

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 18, 2022, 08:20 AM

Oct 2022

Particularly for multi-threaded applications like this.

Most (all?) of the crypto-mining rigs are really just support systems (cooling, power, etc.) for a bunch of GPUs

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