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Upgrade boards for the old scrypt ZeusMiner hardware (as well as the rebranded miners sold by GAW) has been developed thats an easy drop in replacement. Innosilicon is behind the upgrade and it utilizes the A2 chip. This board can replace all boards in the ZeusMiner X2 X3 and X6 products (including the hurricane ones as well), as well as the equivalent GAW miner products. 

Im in talks with purchasing a large order of just the boards, as they won't sell small orders. So I'm seeing what kind of interests we can have for this, so far this is what pricing looks like. I already have about 100 boards committed between myself and members on litecointalk, and need about another 100 to green light this.

Preliminary pricing will be $90 per board, which produces 15MH @150 W

So lets say for a Thunder X3 which is a 4 board 28MH @1000W...upgrade would cost $360 and turn it into a 60MH @ 600w miner.

I could probably get it down a bit more for a VERY large order (around 400 boards).

I know zeusminer sold thousands of these units last summer, so maybe there is enough interest to order these boards so I can stop looking at these units collecting dust in my basement ;)

POST THE NUMBER OF BOARDS YOUR INTERESTED IN YOUR REPLY (if you don't know how many boards your unit has just open it up).

Pics of the new boards below.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qxobyne4hgtjoi0/AAD6HU5Jkkgjr7XwliRe1bbZa?dl=0

I have a Blizzard X3, would these boards also update this device?

ok as far as i understand the zeus replacement boards were going to be shipped along with the zeus volcanoes. they never arrived ( as far as i know ), otherwise we would see a massive diff increase in coins such as litecoin

no they are for the larger ASICS

these have nothing to do with zeus miner...they are from Innosilicon

Take a look at this. might want to reconsider sending a bunch of coin to inno.. seems they are shady.. But hell what major asic retailer isnt now.. https://bitmine.ch/

Best Regards
d57heinz

I am sure inno isn't shady, they supply the chips for lketc and other 1TH chinese copycat miners.

Jstefanop how about the controller will existing zeus controller works with this ? Or can I buy a pi and load it with available firmware on litecointalk or bitcointalk ?

Yea all the existing stuff will work, you'll just need the new miner version for these to run.

What if we weren't looking to upgrade an old miner - just wanted some raw boards.  What is necessary to hook them up to operate?  I mean, do they have USB on them (since the Farmboy has USB out, I'm assuming they do), and what's the scoop with the driver software for them?  I'm less interested in upgrading some sold miner, but it would be interesting to roll my own with a bunch of blades...

BTW; how hot do these run?  I have a ton of 88's and 110's, and for the most part they run cool, but I bought two newer 110's a month or so ago and they run substantially hotter than before.

The boards are serially connected via a UART chain, So at the very least you would need a UART to USB converter (like an FTDI one), 3 pin UART cables, heatsinks, and case/fan.

How many of these boards go into a GAW War Machine?