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Title: Compact Gridseed Miners? Post by: xstr8guy on March 27, 2014, 02:10:29 AM I just received my first 10 pack of Gridseed miners from ZoomHash and just love these (not so) little 5 chip buggers to death but hate how much room they take up.
Is anyone developing a device that has many more chips, let's say 100 chips minimum in a more standard board layout? Since these chips run super cool in Scrypt-only mode it shouldn't be difficult to cram these chips close together and cool them with a single 120mm fan like BitMain does. And please, if someone is already designing such a device, please use standard PCI-e power connectors so we can easily connect them to a ATX PSU. Title: Re: Compact Gridseed Miners? Post by: crazyates on March 27, 2014, 03:11:47 AM Take the fans off, and lay them down sideways, flat ends together. We used some cheap plastic pieces of wire conduit, and laid out channels for them to sit in so they don't roll sideways. Blow a small amount of air down the row, and heat isn't a problem at all. Cable management is also somewhat easy, as all the power and data are running the same direction.
Ends up with a very nice setup, and on our 2x4' shelf, we estimate we could fit close to 150 units. Of course, if this is too much, I do believe they are working on 5 and 10MH/s standalone units, but last time I checked the price was more expensive than just buying the little round ones and chaining them together.... https://i.imgur.com/xyfdMlw.jpg (http://imgur.com/xyfdMlw) https://i.imgur.com/xdhmj2O.jpg (http://imgur.com/xdhmj2O) Title: Re: Compact Gridseed Miners? Post by: xstr8guy on March 27, 2014, 08:41:15 AM Cheers, thanks! That's a much better solution.
Title: Re: Compact Gridseed Miners? Post by: redled on March 27, 2014, 10:11:22 AM Looks really nice,
I'm also trying to biuld up a small LTC-Rig to support my pool (OK, also my wallet ;D) This setup looks as it could fit in my shelf. Title: Re: Compact Gridseed Miners? Post by: gsupp on March 31, 2014, 02:14:00 PM I ordered one of these: http://www.gawminers.com/gaw-miners-gridseed-case-t2/
I should have it in a couple of days. It should hold 40 units without the fans. Title: Re: Compact Gridseed Miners? Post by: incognitoworker on March 31, 2014, 02:46:36 PM It could be worth keeping the fans.
Especially if you going to OC with the volt mod, if not the fans are not needed. Happy mining! Title: Re: Compact Gridseed Miners? Post by: CartmanSPC on April 29, 2014, 10:04:02 PM ...or you could make your own like I did here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=499132.0
Holds 28 on each "shelf" with the fans on. Title: Re: Compact Gridseed Miners? Post by: Spotswood on April 29, 2014, 10:12:13 PM I ordered one of these: http://www.gawminers.com/gaw-miners-gridseed-case-t2/ I should have it in a couple of days. It should hold 40 units without the fans. +1 ;) Title: Re: Compact Gridseed Miners? Post by: lajz99 on April 29, 2014, 10:37:27 PM Or you could buy a blade and not deal with any of this nonsense...
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