Was anyone given an exact "agreed shipping date"? I've been trying to get that from them for my order, and it seems they are trying to avoid stating an exact day. This date was supposed to be set at the time the order entered the shipping queue, because the CPP is based on a number of days after the "agreed shipping date". If they are able to fudge that date later, they can avoid giving additional hardware or refunds.
The way I understood it and had confirmed by bitmine on the phone is that you have .. a) the agreed week of your batch. Say february first week. b) So you go and take the first day of this week. c) you add 10 days to this first day of that week. (allowed delay for shipment) d) you get a clear day when the Customer Protection Plan is triggered, should you not have yet recieved your device on first day of week + 10. Bitmine will absolutely inform you once the device is on the way, meaning it has been handed over to ups or dhl or whatnot for shipping. Should you not have recieved the device within first day of week PLUS 10 days for shipping, you can apply for additional moduls should there be an overlap. Should the delay be large enough , two weeks or more, you can expect the additional moduls to be shipped TOGETHER WITH your initial order, and NOT separately. Now what can happen and what the bitmine guy on the phone was pointing at, was that ... should they recognize that the delivery will get a few days too late to you, because they are at day 9 after the first day of your week, they will simply add the moduls because there is NO WAY in the world the device will get to you in time. I agree it's a little wishy-washy when it comes to this overlap in the first 10 days. But they clearly state that ONLY 10 days for shipment are allowed. And the FIRST DAY of the week is to be taken as starting point. So I believe you can do the calculation, should you recieve an email that says: "Order shipped, here is transaction id"... Thanks, that helps somewhat. I just wish they'd straight-up tell me the day when the CPP started. The best I have at the moment is an email received Nov 8 (I paid Oct 13) that said "Your estimate delivery date is last week of december." And when I asked for the date a couple days ago, they said "When your order enters the production stage will be calculated ... the initial estimated shipping date" as if they'll figure it out later, which makes it easier for them to fudge it in their favor. The last full week of Dec started Dec 22 (Sun). If that's what they intend to use, they could just tell me that exact date now. Does anyone know exactly how they were advertising the delivery date back on Oct 13? Maybe it was earlier than "last week of Dec"? |
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Was anyone given an exact "agreed shipping date"? I've been trying to get that from them for my order, and it seems they are trying to avoid stating an exact day. This date was supposed to be set at the time the order entered the shipping queue, because the CPP is based on a number of days after the "agreed shipping date". If they are able to fudge that date later, they can avoid giving additional hardware or refunds.
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There's no need to get a PSU with way more capacity than needed, as long as you choose a single-rail design from a high-quality manufacturer such as Seasonic. I'm running a full 16-card overclocked v3 rig on a gold 750W Seasonic, and it's perfectly stable at 580GH. I could probably get it up to 620GH if I turned up the voltage a bit more and tweaked the speeds again.
I definitely wouldn't run this on just two PCIe power connectors though; they'd probably melt. I made my own cables to connect four PCIe connectors to the screw terminals.
Well it seems the golden ticket there is a v3 rig. I currently have two PCIe 6 pin feeding the rig and it's running at 512 gh. I would however like to ensure the load is even more spread out so I'm wondering if you know where I can find some pci-e 6 pin to screw terminal connector adapter. Or maybe you can make me some for a fee? If you have, or can get, a basic crimp/strip tool, you can make cables with parts from eBay and Lowes: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=251966.4420I also have a 13-card v2 rig that I've OV/OC/optimized even more, that's stable at 510GH (over 39GH/card). It's running on the same model PSU. |
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There's no need to get a PSU with way more capacity than needed, as long as you choose a single-rail design from a high-quality manufacturer such as Seasonic. I'm running a full 16-card overclocked v3 rig on a gold 750W Seasonic, and it's perfectly stable at 580GH. I could probably get it up to 620GH if I turned up the voltage a bit more and tweaked the speeds again.
I definitely wouldn't run this on just two PCIe power connectors though; they'd probably melt. I made my own cables to connect four PCIe connectors to the screw terminals.
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Please help.
I bought a used Bitfury rig (original M-board) that ran without problems for the last few weeks, mining bitcoin through BTC Guild.
Tonight, while the rig was running, I changed the pool configuration to the D7 mining pool (Peercoin) to see if it would work. Instead, the noncerate immediately went to 0. I restarted the Pi, changed the pool configuration back to BTC Guild, started the miner...and nothing happened. Noncerate is 0, Bank 1 is at 0, and BTC Guild is showing 0 for my worker. Stats.log is showing 0's all the way across, except for speed (all set at 55)
Did I somehow break the rig? Did I fry the board?
Please let me know what I can do. Thanks very much.
EXACT same thing happened to me, I changed to slush, works fine, tried bitminter, works fine. For some reason btcguild not working for me after I rebooted my rig. How did you connect to slush's pool with a bitfury rig? Did you install the stratum proxy for Linux on the Pi? in the btcguild thread, people are reporting difficulty reconnecting at this time.
Would that affect the bitfury's admin page though? Shouldn't I be showing a noncerate of something, even though BTC Guild isn't picking it up? The SD card images already have the stratum proxy setup. Pool problems do cause chainminer to stop counting hashes, unfortunately, which can be misleading. |
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PROBLEM: I rearranged my setup so that its now got 7 cards (up from 1) and is powered via the screw terminals rather than the PCI connectors. I power it up and only the red LED (Power)on the RPi lights up. no video output, no other LEDS, no network connection. I try a test: plug a USB cable in and measure its voltage: 5V ----> AND THE GREEN ACT LIGHT COMES ON ---> still no video or bootup though I unplug the RPI and give it just USB, network, and HDMI -> PWR and ACT lights are lit fully, but no output or actual boot. after maybe 10seconds, the green ACT led turns off (in contrast, when booting without an SD, the green act light is barely lit - a different outcome) is something wrong with my SD card, or the RPi itself? ps: i used the SSH command 'sudo shudown now -h' and then closed the SSH and gave it about 10 seconds before switching off the PSU - if that still corrupted my SD card i am at a loss - these bitfury systems really need a better control board that doesnt obliterate itself every time the power state changes EDIT: of course, it was a mangled SD card image. seriously, what can be done to avoid this nonsense?  I don't have a solution to SD card failure (it's not just corruption), so I just buy lots of SD cards and keep at least one new card ready to go for each rig. At any hint of SD card problems, I pop in a new card and test the old card by putting it in a card reader on another pc and hashing its contents twice and comparing the results, by doing something like 'dd if=/dev/sdb | md5sum'. Usually multiple passes hash differently and I toss the old card and image another backup card for the next time it happens. |
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where are the products being shipped from? I know Dave is located in NewYork IIRC
Silvana, WA |
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Do BitFury rigs overclock well? Is it reasonable to expect 500 GH? Are they reliable? I read a good number of horror stories on this thread from folks who had a lot of trouble getting all 16 boards to work correctly due to board wobble and poor connections. Does the SD card still get corrupted when the machine is powered off?
Yes, yes (510-515), and yes. To prevent wobble order a really nice case from spotswood: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=267713.0The newer kits have the v3 m-board with newer chain miner software, which includes a proper shutdown button on the web interface. Otherwise ssh into the device and issue a 'sudo halt' to cleanly shutdown the RPi. No corruption. I have 13 out of 16 possible boards and I'm running 450 Gh/s. V1 H boards, V2 M board Ordered an 8 board miner yesterday and it's being delivered tomorrow. That's how the world is suppose to work! I have a rig with 13 "pencil-modded" v1 cards doing 510GH at the pool. |
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IXC stuck for record time now
a437a047fe9c2d55094af82a07167f144dc43992712675c914d62a9d19cc2c72
and
39bf2cc8eca0d7cdd76eded47b1cd4aa11fe0323ce480c64cf5495163aa7511
33 and 37 hours, not quite a new record yet. |
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Time to move to Vircurex? I did some deposits, trades, and withdrawals there a few days ago and everything worked quickly and perfectly.
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Wow, I almost can't believe they lowered prices. I took this opportunity to fill up my rigs. Thanks Dave and company. As far as the prices, they are generally ok, but still a tad bit tough given the diff trend. Either way I think after this it's time to put a pause on btc hardware purchase until the other asic mining companies are done shipping their gear.
Just wanted to ask if the v1 H (Old Style V1.2 H-card (compatible with original M-board only)) cards are shipping from stock or is there a lead time. Thanks ordered a few v1 H-card about one hour ago, already got a tracking number!!! Thanks Dave  I also ordered v1.2 cards Fri evening and got a FedEx tracking number about an hour later. No scan yet, but I'll probably see that tonight. |
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Thanks guys! Finally a price worth buying at! Now if the BTC exchange rate would just go a tad higher...
We really appreciate it. I know price has been a big issue here. However, the 'until further notice' is if the BTC price starts skyrocketing. Fair enough. I was just looking for the exchange rate to go up a few more percent to meet my BTC/card target, and it did, so I bought 5 cards. If it's even better in the morning, I'll buy another half-rig. I kept going back and forth trying to decide if I wanted to buy another full rig. I came to the conclusion that I will wait and hope BTC hits ~950-1000 before I purchase. Someone needs to pump BTC price up quick  Yep, at $965/BTC, half/full rigs fit my formula. I hope that doesn't count as "skyrocketing." |
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Thanks guys! Finally a price worth buying at! Now if the BTC exchange rate would just go a tad higher...
We really appreciate it. I know price has been a big issue here. However, the 'until further notice' is if the BTC price starts skyrocketing. Fair enough. I was just looking for the exchange rate to go up a few more percent to meet my BTC/card target, and it did, so I bought 5 cards. If it's even better in the morning, I'll buy another half-rig. |
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Thanks guys! Finally a price worth buying at! Now if the BTC exchange rate would just go a tad higher... |
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If I were unable to answer all their questions to their satisfaction, would they just keep my money indefinitely, or would I be able to trade back to BTC and withdraw that?
Is Bitstamp the only exchange doing this?
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I just heard from Dave that prices are going to be dropped to $16/GH on all kits & spare boards later today. Guaranteed to beat BFL prices.
Anybody that has purchased *after* the most recent diff increase (Jan 2) is eligible for store credit.
Is that $16/GH based on the nominal specs of 25GH/card, so $400/card? Although that's a bit higher than my current target price of 0.43 BTC, it's tempting. |
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my deposit is pending more than 30 hours  Why do guys insist on spreading FUD? Cryptsy is fine, No problems. Sarcasm? |
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Feeling the burn too with Cryptsy and Bter, deposits not happening. It shouldn't matter whether direct from pool or wallet, should it?
Many services can't handle generation txns. As long as the pool is sending as a normal txn, it shouldn't make a difference. Just check blockchain.info to make sure the txn actually has confirms and it didn't come directly from "Newly Generated Coins" like most Eligius payouts. I've moved on to Vircurex. They've processed all my deposits, trades, and withdrawals today quickly. Breath of fresh air after dealing with Cryptsy! |
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