I suppose it could be used for some alt-coins that are still minable using GPU. I guess if there were ASIC PCI style cards that were compatible with this, one could just stuff it full of those and still mine BTC and it would probably work better since those generate way less heat and use way less power than their GPU counterparts.
I find it amazing that companies way smaller than Intel are releasing 20nm ASIC designs while Intel is still on 22nm. It is very telling about what's going on in the cryptocurrency world. Probably not a fair comparison though, since Intel has to have a literally perfect chip for it to work at all, while ASIC boards can be heavily flawed and still work for the simple task that they're doing....
I find it amazing that companies way smaller than Intel are releasing 20nm ASIC designs while Intel is still on 22nm. It is very telling about what's going on in the cryptocurrency world. Probably not a fair comparison though, since Intel has to have a literally perfect chip for it to work at all, while ASIC boards can be heavily flawed and still work for the simple task that they're doing....