At least one mystery is solved and we know what happened to the 'bullet run' chips

That public holiday couldn't have come at a better time for KNC.

Ship 1 solitary miner on the thursday (and not even to the earliest order) and then mine with everyone else's for next 3 days.

And yet with all the money that they are making, and the fact that not a single purchaser will get back the money they paid, they still felt the need to pull that shit with taking away the 2nd free machine.

Way to treat your loyal customers

Yes it was, but you're not alone lots of us did, especially before they added the warining about what they are doing

Good news is they will reverse the decision if you email them.

It might be confirmed to you, but unforunately I don't have time to look at every post he has ever made all I could do was some basic research.

He had sold a few of these in the past and there was nothing negative posted in those threads (there is now but not at the time I bought)

I checked his feedback profile and whilst there are a couple of negative posts, they seemed to be old or complaints about no support for old hardware.

I'm not affected that badly, out of 3 machines I only have 1 non functioning blade now, allinvain in particular has come off a lot worse with multiple broken machines.  I'm a reasonable person if he'd at least answered me I'm sure we could have worked it out, but I suppose he figures if he deals with me he'll have to deal with everyone else.

I think you are only partly right.

In the jupiters the temperatures listed in that screenshot are the VRM temps, note that there are 8 seperate and different readings.

The temperatures listed in this screen are the ones from the sensor nowhere near the chip

Thanks, excellent as always

It's been over a week, and it's now apparent that he has no intention of answering.

I've left negative trust in his feedback profile as it's the only thing I can do.

Are there issues at the data centre, all of mine are running really slow like 450GH 80GH slow

I expect these are first customer appreciation batch boards and designed with that purpose in mind.

I'm sure the ones heading to boden will be a much better design

I don't know what browser you use, but this is for chrome, I'm sure others browsers have similar plugins.  Just tell it to monitor a page and it will alert you when it changes, no F5 required

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/page-monitor/pemhgklkefakciniebenbfclihhmmfcd

There are probably around 20 orders before you (1108x is the lowest), there are 2 users that I know for sure with lower ones, neither have reported any news so it's a bit strange but congrats on getting the first one and for updating everyone

Yes that's the beauty of the custom fw, switching between advanced and the bertmod output allows you to quickly get it running nicely.

It's a shame but given how hard the single PCI-E connectors are being pushed already I don't think there will be much room for overclocking.

I stand corrected, had never seen them mention it only the S2

I spoke with one of their engineers on IRC about this.

The information he provided was that the 150w listed in the specs for PCI-E isn't a limit it's the minimum requirement for it to be PCI-E compatible, and that that good quality PSU's can handle it fine.

I'm going the Dual EVGA 1300W route as I have them handy, early order so will report back how it goes.

Bitmain have never said that it will be possible to upgrade the S1 so not sure why so many people think it will be.

It's still unknown what the upgrade path will be for S2's but it's likely to be just replacement blades, and it remains to be seen how good a deal it will be.

You won't be able to swap 10 blades with the ones from the S3 as the power consumption will be too high, so it's either going to be different blades with underclocked chips or fewer blades say 4 to match the 1000w PSU.

It seems like I got off quite lightly compared to you.

Thanks for the update, shame about the remote access, will have to do some more pondering

And an official update...

https://www.kncminer.com/news/news-94



Neptune In Assembly.

We’re pleased to announce touch-down of the first batch of our new 20 nanometer Neptune processors. They are now going through the testing/tweaking/assembly stage in Sweden and shipping will commence this week.


A World First 20-Nanometer Design
The Neptune is a formidable technological achievement. It is the first commercially available 20 nanometer processor shipped to end users. KnCMiner can take pride in beating all competitors to the 20nm stage, including the likes of Intel, Apple and Samsung.

The Neptune is a 1440-core 55x55 mm package tailor-made for the Bitcoin market. Each Neptune consists of 5 chips and comes in new sturdier enclosure and packacing. Using the speed offered by a true 20nm die process each Neptune churns out more than 3 TH/s while consuming only 2.1 KW at the wall. That works out to 0,7 watts per GH/s or less.

However, there are margins built into our design and the software running our chips can only improve from today on. All future software updates to raise the hashing speed will be free of charge.


Software Updates
We've reached our initial targets on speed and power consumption. But as this is the first day we’ve had the Neptune in our lab our technicians have already implemented a few tricks to increase hashing speed and we’ll release updates to our firmware shortly.

The first two batches of the Neptune miner is all sold-out. Batch three is available for pre-order now in our web shop. Watch this space for more info on upcoming products based on our new state-of-the-art 20nm design process.

We expect to ship to Batch 1 pre-order customers this week and to Batch 2 pre-order customers before the end of the month.