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Title: Mining history... some odd avalon boards Post by: gmaxwell on February 09, 2016, 07:28:02 AM At my local hardware surplus place a bunch of gen 1 Avalon boards showed up.
Among them was a board that had none of the Avalon silk screening. There were also a couple of interesting mod-wires. https://people.xiph.org/~greg/s.jpg Due to lazyness I haven't dug up my batch 1 museum pieces to see if it looked like these. (if anyone wants some dusty mining boards for $20/ea) Title: Re: Mining history... some odd avalon boards Post by: el_rlee on February 09, 2016, 08:49:29 AM The wires are for overclocking. Many people did really serious mods on those things back in the days, every GH/s was worth a fortune!
Title: Re: Mining history... some odd avalon boards Post by: gmaxwell on March 03, 2016, 08:53:44 AM The wires are for overclocking. Many people did really serious mods on those things back in the days, every GH/s was worth a fortune! Interestingly though, I got my avalon batch1 to about 82GH/s with just firmware twiddling. I wonder what people were getting with the voltage mods?I didn't try because it was too valuable to risk frying. Title: Re: Mining history... some odd avalon boards Post by: leowonderful on March 03, 2016, 11:39:51 AM What kind of electronics store? All I see at mine are the occasional used avalon 6 and a few backpanes for old miners. The struggles, man.. Only good thing is I live 5 miles from them and they sell real cheap :D
Title: Re: Mining history... some odd avalon boards Post by: irritant on March 09, 2016, 01:38:00 AM maybe lightfoot is interested
(i know KNC stuff is not Avalon, but hey) Title: Re: Mining history... some odd avalon boards Post by: GenTarkin on March 09, 2016, 01:44:27 AM man ... the good ole days, when ASIC prices were decent... LOL!
I loved my avy1 - b2 ... most profitable ever, regret not buying more. Such a solid machine, and a tank too. I was actually kinda sad when I sold it ... never felt that way bout any other miner since. Now all asic mining is, is the combination of a bunch of the cheapest possible components on the verge of catching on fire and far too overpriced. |
