I used a 1500rpm Scythe GentleTyphoon.  More air flow and less noise than the junk the Cube shipped with.

If it's brand new, how were you ruining the fans by blowing compressed air at it every month? 

If you look at the Cube, the cards are held in those slots by the bottom board.  The bottom board is already sagging with the weight of the cards, so being dropped a few times between China and wherever you are, then the cards are obviously going to fall out.

I thought the new ones came with a 6-pin PCI-E plug as well as the wire terminals, which means you don't have to modify.

I suggest you keep your nose out of it. 

Hunderes of botnet CPU miners isn't even going to approach the speed of even a cheap ASIC. 

Ironically, my Cube never, ever worked with my CX750.  It worked OK with a cheap OCZ 600W until the Cube killed it.  I also got the Cube to work with a 850W PSU out of a Dell workstation, until the Cube nuked that too. 

Good luck.

Oh, I thought it was a HEX16A2 you had.  

If it's an i5, then the graphics are built in to the CPU.  You'll get about 5kH at best from that, which is totally and utterly pointless.

If you want to mine with that laptop, you'll have to buy a USB miner, rather than a graphics card.


Nice to see you actually read the thread before posting.    Good luck getting a R9 280 or 290 working in a HP laptop.  Herp-a-derp.

Yay!  Well done, thanks for posting totally wrong information in a thread.  If you don't know what you're looking at, don't post.

Guys like you suck.  


Op, the plans for these boards is open source, and should be accessible from Technobit's site.  It doesn't look too important, as it's between a USB signal line and ground.  Probably a filtering cap or inductor.  I'd have thought the miner would run fine without the component. 

Block Erupter Cubes are VERY fussy about the power supply used, and they also have a huge inrush current which pisses off most PSUs.  Sentey sounds like a piece of crap chinese box-shifter supply, so I'd guess you don't have a hope of using it do do what you want.

First off, GUIMiner is an old piece of crap.  Don't use it.

Second, you'll need to give us a clue as to what your computer's specs are.  What sort of graphics card have you got?  What OS are you running? 

I love Engrish they post too. 

I wouldn't touch them with yours.

.de is Germany.   

nwoolls, any updates on the HEX16A2 drivers for bfgminer?  I would LOVE to get these working with bfg - if I could, it'd mean running 1 PC for everything rather than 1 PC and two little ARM routers that aren't the most stable devices.

I suspect he thinks he's being smart, but really he's just being a retard.

A 750W Dell server PSU can just about run 4x 290X, and can happily run 3x 290X.  Your 670W will run 4x 280X no problems at all.

With a Block Erupter doing 333MH, it really doesn't matter if you join a team, or even bother mining at all. 

It's probably the fact that Eligius is now well on the road to 7PH, when it was barely at 1PH a few months ago.  Something's gotta give with that speed.