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Bitcoin Currency and GPU Mining Performance Comparison
This article looking at Bitcoins and the performance of various GPUs with mining them was really a big team effort at PC Perspective. Props goes out to Tim Verry for doing the research on the process...
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Bitcoin Mining Update: Power Usage Costs Across the United States
Earlier this week we looked at Bitcoin mining performance across a large range of GPUs but we had many requests for estimates on the cost of the power to drive them. At the time we were much more...
View ArticlePodcast #162 - Adventures in Bitcoin Mining, the Eyefinity experience,...
PC Perspective Podcast #162 - 7/14/2011This week we talk about our adventures in Bitcoin Mining, the Eyefinity experience, Ultrabooks and more!You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you can still...
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We know where your Bitcoins went
With all the research that Ken did, it turns out that Bitcoin mining will not make you rich overnight and possibly cost you more money to create a bitcoin than you will ever see out of it. Now,...
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New Trojan.Badminer Malware Steals Your Spare Processing Cycles To Make...
A new piece of malware was recently uncovered by anti-virus provider Symantec that seeks to profit from your spare computing cycles. Dubbed Trojan.Badminer, this insidious piece of code is a trojan...
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Bitcoin Block Reward Halved to 25BTC
Earlier this week, the 50BTC reward given to miners that successfully find blocks of Bitcoin transactions was halved to 25BTC. This means that the gross income of miners is now half of what it has been...
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Seasonic PSUs Will Power HashFast Bitcoin Miners
Seasonic (Sea Sonic Electronics) has announced a design win that will see its power supplies used in HashFast’s bitcoin mining rigs. The upcoming HashFast mining rigs feature the company’s “Golden...
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Video Perspective: GPU Shortages and Litecoin Mining Discussion
If you already listened to this weeks PC Perspective Podcast, then feel free to disregard this post. For the rest of you - subscribe to our damned weekly podcast would you already?!?In any event, I...
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StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Exhibition Match for Bitcoins!
Bitcoin Starcraft Challenge is a show match between Scarlett, the Zerg player from Canada, and NaNiwa, the Protoss player from Sweden.These are two of the best 25 players in the world and, with TLO,...
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Bitcoin StarCraft Challenge Right Now!
Update: The main series prize pool was increased to 14 BTC in addition to 1 BTC for the intro match.So Bitcoins are becoming popular and a legitimate currency. TotalBiscuit decided to create a...
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Boutique PC Vendor Xidax Now Accepting Bitcoin Payments
Xidax Performance PC, a new boutique PC vendor founded in early 2013 has announced that it is now accepting Bitcoin for payment of its custom-built gaming computers. Reportedly in response to customer...
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AMD Radeon R9 290X Hits $900 on Newegg. Thanks *coin
UPDATE (Feb 14th, 11pm ET): As a commenter has pointed out below, suddenly, as if by magic, Newegg has lowered prices on the currently in stock R9 290X cards by $200. That means you can currently find...
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NVIDIA Coin Mining Performance Increases with Maxwell and GTX 750 Ti
As we have talked about on severaldifferentoccasions, Altcoin mining (anything that is NOT Bitcoin specifically) is a force on the current GPU market whether we like it or not. Traditionally, Miners...
View ArticlePodcast #289 - Origin PC EOS-17 SLX Gaming Laptop, Mining on a 750Ti, News...
PC Perspective Podcast #289 - 02/27/2014Join us this week as we discuss the Origin PC EOS-17 SLX Gaming Laptop, Mining on a 750Ti, News from MWC and more!You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you...
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Wonder why you can hear the sounds of pickaxes when you make breakfast?
Not content to ruin the hopes of gamers wanting to upgrade to a Hawaii based AMD GPU now your smart devices are being press ganged into mining crypto-currency. Everything from TVs and fridges through...
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