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Linus is no stranger to powerful computers but even he has trouble believing just how fast Comino Grando RM copes with a render task. Check out this insane review 🔥 🔥

Hey guys! Right now Harrison, known as Sentdex, is streaming a live demo of "Python plays GTA V" using the Comino Grando RM. * 4x watercooled A100 40GB GPUs * 512GB RAM * AMD 3995wx CPU, also watercooled

This is what Harrison, known as Sentdex, calls our Grando RM-S, packed with 4x A100 and a Threadripper PRO 3995WX. Harrison was fascinated by the tiny form factor of the 4xA100 build, especially considering the temperatures at which it operates. ‘I’m really impressed, I think that the biggest takeaway for me with these Comino machines is the custom water cooling, the engineering here is so well done.’ In his review, he compares our PC with the A100 Nvidia DGX station. Watch his video to find out which workstation performs better.

This is what Jack Howarth from the WePC team calls our workstation. Check out this beautiful video review!

We are pleased to announce our cooperation with one of the largest virtual production studios in Europe, LEDunit. LEDunit specialises in ICVFX technology and uses the unreal engine for real-time video rendering. Virtual production is a technology that enables you to use live rendered interactive LOADS (environments) using camera tracking. The camera’s FOV is then immersed in a virtual environment. In a matter of seconds, you can find yourself in the desert or on top of a mountain. This technology significantly decreases production budgets and opens up new creative possibilities. The VP Studio needs a very powerful yet QUIET system to handle such workloads. Comino's Grando RM turned out to be the perfect solution for this.

WePC calls our PC 'a beast of a machine that contains not one, not two, but four RTX 3090s under the hood.' Check out this amazing review to know how the Grando RM ran through the stress test, Cinebench R23 benchmark and the most demanding game of the decade so far, Cyberpunk 2077.

"The Comino GRANDO RM V2-S is not a simple off-the-shelf workstation. Rather, the manufacturer has made it its business to directly respond to the customer's wishes in order to offer customized workstation solutions. It also relies on server components to deliver the best possible stability in everyday use."- says Sebastian Bade

Unum builds database management systems - the crucial software for the functioning of the IT infrastructure that we all rely on. It helps to bridge the gap between the bandwidths of the super fast CPUs and GPUs and the relatively slow persistent storage hardware. They use our Comino Grando RM to benchmark their solution vs competition we are proud to share their report on the results (spoiler: they are just crushing it). This particular machine stands out even when compared to our typical builds in terms of specs, components and performance (and our typical builds are a pretty high bar, if you can imagine).

“Organic Growth: Crystal Reef” is a collaboration between the contemporary artist Michael Joo and motion designer Danil Krivoruchko, which takes NFT objects to a whole new level: each individual piece of art in this breakthrough project is not only unique thanks to the generative algorithms that produce it, but also reflects the digital ID and history of its owner and changes and grows every time it is sold and bought, incorporating the data of its next owner. In the interview with the OG Danil shares how long it takes to render each crystal👇

We are really happy to inform you that a leasing option for our UK customers is now available. We’ve cooperated with a known leasing company called ELS (https://www.els.lease/) to help your business grow faster. Now you can purchase pricey up-to-date equipment using affordable fixed monthly payments by our partner. This will increase its liquidity and free funds for the further development of the business. Email us and we will help you to determine the leasing terms comfortable for you.

We were approached by a client whose workstations were annoying his employees with their noise. All because it roars like a jet plane! They implored us to make it quiet, as their engineers and scientists literally go crazy over the noise. The solution was to move the client's computing power from the noisy workstation platform to the Comino RM-S platform.

Give your desktop an aesthetic look with the Comino wallpapers😍 Tap the button to see and download more👇

We just hit 1K subscribers on our YouTube channel Yay 🎉 Thanks everyone for helping us to reach this milestone. We appreciate your support!

With Comino’s fundraising campaign coming to an end, we’re currently the most valued project at Seedrs. Our pre-money valuation is €18M. Over 450 investors have already put their trust in Comino. At this point, we’ve reached 121% of our initial target with €900K+ raised by January 25. Why invest in Comino? Over 15 years of accumulated expertise in liquid tech solutions; up to 40% power savings compared to air-cooled devices; accreditation by global hardware giants AMD and ASUS; accolades from top tech influencers Linus Tech Tips, TechPowerUp and PC Master Race. We’ve already delivered over 2,000 products to home and business customers in Europe. Now, we need your support to make our solutions easily accessible in the new markets: North America and beyond. Invest in the only hardware project at Seedrs, get your share of the future! Act promptly before the campaign closes down.

"We're not here just to take part. We're here to take over!” With these words, UFC star Conor McGregor recently unveiled the mobile release of his online strategy game Dystopia: Contest of Heroes. Developed by the Beetroot Lab, the game is scheduled to be rendered with Comino’s liquid-cooled technologies, providing an unparalleled gaming performance. Join Conor in his adventure. Become the most powerful champion in all of Dystopia. Download now!

Detailed video how to build a silent and top performing SFF PC build with Nvidia RTX 3080 GPU by Alexey Chistov, CTO of Comino. In this video Comino Otto is compared with an air-cooled compact case with AMD Ryzen 3800X.

With interest in Comino’s products at an all-time high and computing companies proving popular in 2020, Comino has decided that now is the right time to expand.

This is pretty much the best gaming experience you can get (c) WePC

We are pleased to announce that we are raising funds on the Seedrs crowdfunding platform as we aim to boost our business globally🤩 ⠀ Invest in Comino via Seedrs and get special discounts which we’ve never offered before. These discounts will be available on all items in the Comino e-shop, including our new 30 series GPU-based machines. Stay tuned for more news😉 ⠀ Captial at risk. This post was approved by Seedrs.

«I would love to use this as our video rendering server. It’s freaking fast!”

We’ve got a lot of requests for risers that we use in our devices. So, we have good news for you🤩 Our custom-designed PCI-E 16x risers with Molex gold-plated sockets and ultra-thin and flexible twinax cable are now available to order on our website! Check it out if you want to save space and connect the GPUs and the motherboard with no signal loss.

Stay tuned for the full Tech Tips review!

We are almost there! Building eco-friendly liquid-cooled data center powered with renewable energy. So exited! Stay tuned for more details✌️

0.1mm micro fins, 0.1mm channels, 2.6mm height. CPU water blocks that provide maximum cooling for extreme hardware performance🔥

“Temps are low and framerates are high. PCMR approved.” Jason Proctor

We’ve upgraded chassis, now it is a universal platform! It can be used for AIO systems, for building both liquid-cooled and air-cooled PCs. ⠀ We took into account all your feedback, that we’ve been collecting during the year. ⠀ The new Otto batch will be assembled exactly on this chassis. ⠀ Follow us on instagram to keep posted!

More frequently people are staying in and working from home due to coronavirus pandemic. We’re spending more time in internet, watching TV, playing games. It leads to more load on Data centers. That’s why using green solutions is crucial now. By ,green’ we mean not only energy efficiency, but also solutions, using renewable energy. ⠀ For our systems we use liquid cooling technology. It helps us to achieve PUE 1.05 and allows to recover heat, which can be used for space or water heating.

Comino Otto has even earned the Innovation award!

“Consumer hardware squeezed into a small 13L chassis that looks as good as this is hard to come by, and when you consider the value, this has to be one of the best Mini-ITX prebuilt I’ve ever seen.” Shaun Conroy

Comino OTTO was tested in Metro Exodus at 1080p, 1440p and 2160p (4K) at a range of graphical presets ⠀ Enjoy watching🤗

Today we will tell you about the latest ASUS RX5500 XT GPU card. This model replaces the RX580 and, by its characteristics, is a competitor to the NVidia 1650 super.

Enjoy watching and stay tuned for the full review!

Linus: “I like it!” Alex: “I do too!” Linus: “I declare it to be good!” We got a lot of feedback and offers after this video and we are very pleased to read any comments!

Together everyone achieves more🙌 Now it’s high time to set goals and achieve them in 2020! Happy New Year everyone! Have a prosperous year ahead😉

Grando RM - new generation liquid-cooled workstation for Rendering/AI and other multi GPU software. Packed with 4*GPUs - RTX 2080 TI (2070 Super/2080 Super). Connected through 16x PCI Express to motherboard. ⠀ Install it in a rack cabinet or use it as your working place.

Comino is in Denver, CO for SC 2019. SC is the international conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis. We exhibit energy efficient liquid-cooled solutions that are perfect for HPC, AI, 3D rendering , password recovery, gaming and other operations. Come and join us at booth 699L to learn more. Here we go😉

Our team participates in the biggest gaming exhibition in Moscow - IgroMir. Key products of the event are computer games, console games, handheld consoles games, mobile games and all other electronic entertainment software and hardware. We present our high-end PC - Otto. It is a liquid-cooled gaming system packed with top hardware - in just 13 liters! Come and find us at ASUS ROG booth! Looking forward to see you, guys😉

Today we have revealed a new product named OTTO at Computex in Taipei. It is exposed at ASUS booth. This is how the modern, efficient and ultra compact system for gaming, graphic and other applications should look like according to our team. OTTO is equipped with Intel i9-9900k processor and flagship Nvidia card by Asus - ROG Strix 2080ti. Silent, attractive and convenient for home or office use.

An exclusive interview with our CTO Alexey Chistov. Check it below to read more about the key characteristics of a new water block and other developments 👇

A high-performance Comino water block specially designed for FPGA board. Watch video on our YouTube channel.

What is Comino Company? First of all we manufacture retail device. This is the world's first liquid cooled machine with many GPUs inside. We started with an idea to produce a retal device that is totally plug and play device You bring it home, plug it into the socket and turn it on by just pushing one button. You don't need to know what the cryptocurrency is, you don't need to know about wallets and other tech stuff, just one button and your machine starts working and it heats up your room as an ultra silent and efficient heater. So you can heat up your home and earn money! Along with that device can be used as Hi-end Performance desktop computer. After that we added other products and decided to manufacture big solutions for data centers . So here you are the story about us this Year.

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What is going on in the crypto mining industry? Evgeny Vlasov, Co-founder and CEO of Comino, shared a closer look into the mechanisms mining depends on, with Ethereum as an example. Check it here 👇

Professional computer Comino N1 has obtained a European Declaration of Conformity. It indicates full compliance with health & safety and environmental protection standards for products sold within the European Economic Area as it meets the requirements of the applicable EC directives.

Today we'll show you how we managed to speed up the RX 580 video card by ASUS by using some rather standard means. As you may know, there are several ways to overclock a video card, we will go through these and detail out what helped us. First of all about the card: this is RX 580 from ASUS with a Samsung memory chip. The manufacturer of the module is very important when it comes to mining and overclocking. ASUS claims that this card can go beyond 32 megahashes when mining ethereum. So we decided to test that.

Stay tuned for Air Cooled and Liquid Cooled reviews of ASUS ROG STRIX RX590 8G GAMING. Coming soon!

Unboxing Geforce RTX 2070 and 2080

Short review Intel Stratix 10 FPGA Nallatech 520N FOR improving performance in the following markets: Compute, Network & Storage, Finance & Risk Analysis, Datacenter, HPC, Communications, Industrial, Broadcast, Medical, Automotive, Cryptomining

Nowa­days a lot of ar­ti­cles talk about the end of crypto min­ing. But sta­tis­tics on Google Trends shows that peo­ple are still in­ter­ested in this sphere. Of course, the ROI isn’t as big as it was, but you can still make a re­ally neat profit. So, how can you cal­cu­late the ROI?

This time we will be testing and reviewing the latest range of Nvidia cards, the RTX series from GIGABYTE. These are the RTX 2070, 2080 and 2080TI. It’s worth noting that the GAMING range comes overclocked out of the box.

Short review Bittware XUPVV4 Xilinx UltraScale FOR improving performance in the following markets: Compute, Network & Storage, Finance & Risk, Analysis, Datacenter, HPC, Communications, Industrial, Broadcast, Medical, Automotive, Cryptomining

Short review Nallatech 510T Compute Acceleration Card FPGA FOR improving performance in the following markets: Compute, Network & Storage, Finance & Risk, Analysis, Datacenter, HPC, Communications, Industrial, Broadcast, Medical, Automotive, Cryptomining

We are pleased to announce our new product. Comino Grando FPGA is the world's first ultra-compact liquid-cooled enterprise computing platform with the built-in ability to reuse heat. Comino Grando allows you to take full advantage of FPGA processing power.

In Comino, we are testing only powerful hardware to build our products. The reason we love this ASUS motherboard: IT SUPPORTS 4 * TRUE 16x GPUs Next time we will provide tests on Tensorflow using 4 * 16x latest generation GPUs. Subscribe to our channel and get the newest video as soon as possible!

"Russia has crafted the perfect solution to cold weather and failing economy: an Ethereum cryptocurrency miner that also doubles as a heater" - TNW Media published a review about Comino devices.

Unboxing Antminer S9 Hydro miner. Hashrate showed. In the next video, we will show how we untwisted this device and see what the cooling system looks like from the inside.

What is FPGA exactly? Field Programmable Gate Array is an integrated circuit that contains programmable logic blocks that can be programmed and re-programmed to do different tasks after they are manufactured.

We are pleased to show you a video review of enterprise solution. Comino Grando — the world's first ultra-compact liquid-cooled computing platform.

What is the best way to cool different types of GPU? We have prepared incredible experiments for you. Extreme GPU overclocking coming soon. Look at our YouTube channel.

Early in the year of 2018, mining was profitable enough and the only issue for miners was to obtain the video cards because almost all of them were sold out or extremely overpriced. For example, in January the price of the RX580 card was about $600. Nevertheless, during that gold rush, people mined whatever they like and bought video cards of any type, because it was profitable. If you managed to get the video cards at a low cost, you could earn money, big time. When the profitability started to fall, mining began to transform into smarter mining. It means that it’s less difficult to obtain good equipment at a reasonable price but this means that now we have to be smart about how we mine.

Read a review about our device Comino N1 on the QORIX

Today we're going to tell you how we tried to solve the problem of overheating of the memory power supply unit of a p-104 type GPU. Overheating can cause significant damage to a rig's reliability and service life. GPUs of this particular type often produce so much heat that it just burn. This issue is really critical for those who aren't just going to try mining for a day but try to build a rig that would work steadily for at least a year.

Let’s take a philosophic look at this: people always tend to look for a reason. For example, to understand why one asset goes down in price over another? However, for the most part, it is very hard or even impossible to establish the exact reason. And it’s also extremely difficult to discuss such reasons and to assess why it is the case. It should be pointed out, that very complex processes are taking happening all around the world. For example, one can research the impact of a growing hedgehog population in Australia on the exchange price for a dollar in Berlin. In general, this doesn’t suggest that there is any correlation, but someone could have just looked at the hedgehog population graphic and the dollar exchange rate for Germany and found a similar pattern between these two cases.

We are reviewing the RX 580 Gigabyte Gaming card version with a memory module from Micron. TECH close up review achieving 33,5 MH/s ETHEREUM and additional information about the temperature on most important parts of the graphics card. Be cooled, earn your money!

We've completed integration with our partner Stasis. Now you can pay for Comino gadgets or our cloud mining services using your Stasis account.

Most companies can’t afford to locate their servers on the sea bed, but Germany-based startup Comino has proposed the next-best thing: a liquid cooling system that makes it possible to capture vastly more heat and recycle a higher proportion of waste energy back into the host facility. More about Comino's approach to tackling the waste heat problem in this article.

Bitcoinist.com has talked to Comino co-founder Evgeny Vlasov about the device, the future of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency and the ways to make 'green' hardware.

Comino’s CTO Alexey Chistov thinks out loud about the energy issues behind the bustling crypto mining scene and how Comino contributes to solving them in this column on Future Times

Future Times extensively cover Comino liquid cooled devices in this feature. Which makes sense, after all - what are they if not the future of high-performance computing?

Optimal temperatures are different for different components. - Unrecommended temperatures are always indicated in every technical document of the component (also, maintenance T, storage T, storage and maintenance humidity, allowed altitude). - Optimal temperatures - from the dew point (the lowest temperature at which condensation condenses) and up to 21-26C (usually, indicated in the passport). Capacitor is the most suffering element in hot temperatures. Electrolytic capacitors are widely used because of their low cost. You can take a look here what happens to them when they overheat. - Accordingly, unrecommended temperatures are the ones higher than indicated in the technical passport. - Using your devices in high (or low temperatures) may lead to premature failure (at high temperatures there is an accelerated degeneration of semiconductors and destruction of the elements) and change of embedded characteristics of the whole rig or its parts (the most usual example - decrease in the maximums frequencies).

Day by day the mining sector is becoming increasingly more competitive and complicated. Nevertheless, anyone who is interested can still easily start mining cryptocurrencies and hope to make a good profit. This article aims to answer the most pressing questions surrounding this phenomenon.

We announce the hashrate of Comino Grando - 540MH/s, where variation of +- 5% Mh/s is expected. Hashrates can’t be compared on air cooled and liquid cooled devices. They also can’t be compared on the devices manufactured professionally and assembled at home (though, I know that many of home-assembled rigs show amazing results). Liquid cooling allows to remove the heat from all three modules, while standard air cooling removes the heat only from GPUs. That part of a radiator contains some small copper parts. The other parts are coated insignificantly or not covered at all, sometimes being in contact with the radiator. While mining, as you know, memory and PSU are actively used. When the miner claims that the temperature is 66C, most probably it was taken from the GPU indicator, which is placed in the GPU processor. At the same time, memory and power block can be overheating (100C or even higher). If you google GPU thermal imaging, you’ll see the whole picture. When the system’s memory and power block overheat, GPUs start giving out errors. With time, microchips are starting to degrade. There are cases when after a year of mining microchips burned or degraded by 20%. In our case, all three modules are equally cooled. We pay special attention to the VRM and microchips, they provide a stable longterm operation on high frequencies. Using thermal imaging, we can see that with the outside T 36C, the temperature on all the modules does not rise above 60C, with outside T30C - not higher than 60C. With that, we achieve high hashrates and stable long-term operation. In addition to that, we use all the top level components in our devices by world's leading manufacturers, some of them are customized especially for us: Molex for gold-plated sockets for our custom raiser cards, modified PSU consists of server components for the system to operate at full power in 24/7 mode. We are partnering with Asus, Gigabyte, Nvidia, AMD, Delta, TSMC, Hardware Labs and others. Btw., our last test showed an upper limit of 34.9Mh/s for 24 hours. But, you don’t want to run it long-term.

Bitcoinist.com did a test drive of Comino and here's what they say (among lots of other nice things): "The inside of the machine is incredible. All the parts are designed and manufactured for this miner, specifically, and everything is in just the right place. There are no loose cables or noisy fans. Everything is just where it needs to be and is served by water cooling, making for silent mining."

We are regularly receiving questions and comments regarding radiators in our liquid cooled products: - why do we have only one radiator for five water blocks? or, - one radiator would not be enough for my 6x1080 water cooled rig We use a radiator similar to this http://hardwarelabs.com/nemesis/gtx/360gtx/ exclusively modified for our Comino N1. This radiator has a very thick finning and can conduct up to 1500w of heat. Which is more than enough in our case. Plus - solid performance tuned for low speed fans. In practice, it can also easily handle a 6x1080 (FullCover) with a Laing DDC 1TPllus pump. Some techs: 120 mm x 3 fan Xtreme form factor two-pass radiator 398mm x 133mm x 54mm (L x W x H) 16 FPI 25 Micron Copper Fins Now optimized for sub-800 rpm ultra-stealth fans Supercruise optimizations for scalable performance with higher speed fans 15% more tubing area in the same Black Ice® GTX™ 240 form factor Increased internal coolant flow rates Standard G 1/4″ inlet/outlet fittings Standard M4 mounting threads Compatible with Black Ice® Xtreme III, Black Ice® GTX™ 360 radiators Custom Dark Matter™ high quality finish Fully ROHS Compliant 100% Made from conflict-free materials Industry standard Black Ice® quality Lifetime warranty against manufacturing defects* It is a dual pass radiator, but not in the traditional sense, where the coolant flow path is side to side or U flow. Its flow path is front to back OR back to front depending on which port is used as the inlet. In other words the coolant travels up the tubes the full width of the radiator core then changes direction in the non-port tank and travels down the other set of tubes on the opposite side of the core. To get this flow path to work they have installed a plate and tube in the port tank ends. A professional product, though, not very common for a regular user, building rigs. Therefore, the price may be on the premium side, but it's not unreasonable for a radiator that is not outsorced in China.

Our trip to Computex in Taiwan was a great success and great fun! We had lots of new contacts, multiple meetings with serious vendors (we can't announce the names yet). Our products received a positive feedback from visitors and press. As promised, our miners were mining Ethereum at the show during the day and we raffled the whole amount (0,28Eth) among our booth visitors. Congratulations to Mr.Ivan Liang!

The largest exhibition of modern technologies in the Asian region is starting tomorrow! We have prepared something very special for you. Miners at our booth will be mining Ethereum throughout the show. We will then raffle all cryptocurrency mined during that time among our booth visitors. If you want to win, simply stop by our stand and leave your business card. The winner will get all the mined cryptocurrency on the last day of the show!

You can read all about the winner and the contest itself following the link below. To make it short: the winner received a Comino rig as a trophy and here's what he has to say: "I want to use Comino as a sort of point of interest to draw people into blockchain tech and cryptocurrency trading when I begin teaching my students in San Diego how to make a full time income with day trading crypto." And just FYI: they plan no further beer-chugging contest, but you can win some cryptocurrency if you stop by our booth at Computex.

We boast how great our hardware engineers are a lot, now it’s time for our software engineers to shine: our summer software update brings down energy consumption to around 700 W while maintaining the same hashrate for Ether as before. Cool and steady.

We are glad to announce that we moved to a new large office in Moscow. The office is located at: Большой Саввинский пер., 12с8, Москва, 119435 Bolshoy Savvinsky per., 12c8, Moscow, 119435 Contact: info@comino.com

We're glad to announce that our representative office for China and South-Eastern Asia is now open in Shenzhen, China. Also easy to reach from Hong Kong. Located on 13th floor of SEG Plaza building - one the highest tech hubs in the world. The office is located at: 广东省深圳市福田区华强北路赛格广场13楼1328 SEG Plaza Floor 13, Flat 1328, Futian, Shenzhen, Guangdong Contact: asia@comino.com

It indicates that it can automatically work with 110V USA style AC power, or 240V that the rest of the world uses.

Shipping is not included in the offer price. You can choose your company or use our. Separate amount will be charged in addition to the offer amount. Address we send from is - Rudolf-Breitscheid-Allee 35, 15366 Neuenhagen Weight is 26 - 27 kg

We have completed the production of our first batch of wide risers for mining farms, which you can already buy today.

While our first 100 devices are in the process of being built, we have already ordered new equipment for the next 500 Comino N1, the production of which is set for the end of November.

We are ready to sell our risers, and we created the best x16 pci-e riser of what you can find in the market.

Following a successful testing of all the prototypes, we are happy to announce the launch of production of our first 100 devices. They will be built on 8 ASUS P106-100 video cards —moving to version N1— and on 4 1080TI cards— version N4. The copper and plastic components are made in Germany. According to our partners, all of the components will be ready by the end of October. The set up slowed down the process, but it will be much quicker in the future. ASUS is one of the most reliable video card producing companies. We are planning to disperse the card to 10% for its effective liquid cooling in the final device.

We ultimately believe that people play the most crucial role in any company. We have now formed a shared vision of our company and you can find more about us here

We are happy to share some good news, as the very first drawings of the body and the liquid cooling system inside Comino are ready! What does that mean? We are simply ready to create a real device.

First impressions are the most lasting they say. Whether or not so, our first Comino prototype has a stunning design, which we hope will only become better for actual devices.

The initial idea was to create a comfortable silent miner for homes used as a heater with liquid cooling. For that, our team started a Comino project, which is finally here. We are planning to create different versions of the device based on NVIDIA and AMD processors.