@AmDD said in What hardware for mining?:
Maybe thats where Im missing it. In any mining Ive done to date faster is always better. Is this not the case here?
Your capacity is your hashrate, you precalculate hashes while plotting ... all you have to do on mining ... is to find and deliver your best hash for given parameters. The faster you can do that, the better. But without a good hash the speed you deliver it, does not matter.
A hash results in a deadline (time in sec. to forge a block), lets say you have a deadline of 10sec. but you need 40sec. to deliver it ... someone else with a deadline of 20sec. may win the block if he delivers it within 30sec. Thats the point where speed matters.
Or if you mine on a pool, you earn shares of next found block depending on the deadlines you commit. You always want to commit your best deadline before the round ends, to earn as much shares as possible. (Would be bad if you can only 'scan' half of your plots in given time.) Again speed matters ...
Hope i could explain in a understandable way ...