It is likely nobody has been around to respond to messages for the past few days, as there is a public holiday / festival right now - National Day, October 1 - 7.

Best Share = 753,489 => not high enough for Bitcoin => must be an altcoin.

When you mine with nicehash, you are being paid for shares by somebody else, who has some control over what work is being done.  You could be mining on any SHA256 based cryptocurrency.  It makes no difference to you as the payment for your shares is made by Bitcoin.

No.  80% load is 400W drawn from the DC side.  At 85% efficiency, the PSU will draw 470W from the wall.  Assuming linear efficiency, which is not accurate, therefore these numbers are just estimates any way.  But if the PSU has a nice graph, you can get a good idea of the efficiency for the particular load in question.

So, quite similar to one "half" X3

Must make an X3 worth only slightly more than $2500.

Certainly true for my payment - I have received a shipment, but the btc payment is still just sitting there...

It is looking like it's 1W/Gh/s at the wall.  Slightly worse, even.  Apparently it is possible to make it better, but I haven't seen any documentation on the voltage setting yet so it'll have to wait.

Seems I will have to take one of my units apart any way, which I will do after the difficulty change later, should be interesting.

Stable?



Well, not terrible except for one unit that constantly slows down by 10% (looking at cgminer, chip 4 has an issue).  Meh.

I have often wondered about this, it's really not on for a hardware manufacturer to misuse open source software in this way.

Thank you, all is OK, I was more documenting my initial thoughts as I got the units set up.  They're running v1.8 so I think an update happened automatically and then everything started working properly.  Or better, at least.

Thank you very much :-)

Finally I have good news, for me at least.  Took delivery of X3 today.  Direct BA order paid 3 Dec.

The units certainly look nice and came with a power cable (for what that's worth, but still nice).  There are a few issues, so even with it being nearly six months late (and worth maybe 25% of the purchase price), it doesn't seem to be a finished product.

Power on without ethernet connected = it doesn't work, fans run at full speed (and it's incredibly noisy!) but nothing happens.  LCD lights up, nobody home.  Buttons do nothing.
Connect ethernet whilst powered = weird stuff happens, but it doesn't connect to the network.
Power cycle = problematic, PSU shows "alert" indicator but system not responsive.  Fixed by turning off the power and removing the PSU.

LCD seems wasted right now.  It runs Android 4.2.2 but does nothing interesting.  Leave it for a while, the screen will turn off (like any Android phone/tablet) but then it doesn't seem to be possible to activate it again.  None of the buttons below the LCD seem to do anything except Power, which does turn off the miner - but then you have to actually power-cycle the system to get it up again!  At least when I did it this way, the system did come back without issue.

Web interface - system defaults to using DHCP, which has the benefit of working for most people who may not have 192.168.1.x subnet, but means that you need to find it!  Once you've done one, it will find others by itself, which is handy.  My router lists the miners as "android-0123456789abcdef" (unique 16-digit hex code).  If you don't have DHCP?  I think the answer is probably get DHCP!

By default, device starts mining.  No pools are configured, but it mines.  Possibly "benchmark" mode - speed is higher than you get in reality, but who knows really?  I can't get a terminal session to look at the configuration directly, log in is not the same as for the web interface.

Sync Network option is either flaky or just doesn't work.  I tried it, in order to copy the configuration from first unit to the second, and although it appeared to work in the web interface the second unit didn't actually get the configuration.  I ended up configuring it separately any way.

At default "1000Hz" setting it's using just over 1kW.

If this had been delivered in March, I'd be quite pleased.  But it wasn't.

I got DHL instead of UPS...  Mistakes in shipping?  Or maybe they've gone back to doing it randomly, but that would be a bit naughty. ;-)

Oh what a surprise, this is what I've been expecting for some time now...
My order is supposedly going to ship "in the next few days," but that's what they tell everyone who asks anything now so who really knows?

I resolved the support login issue by going through the password reset; at least that did work for me without a problem.  Begs the question as to why it was necessary though, it's disconcerting to say the least that my password had seemingly been changed without my knowledge.

So, I managed to create a ticket to ask about the ASIC exchange, because I want them to confirm the shipping date (they claim next day, but this doesn't seem likely) - one day later and no reply yet.  But again, they took the time to change the priority from High to Normal...

Hmmm it's just me then.  Maybe they reset my password to stop me writing to support?  Not that I've done much of that.
I'll see what happens if I go for the "lost password" option.  Which would be silly, because I absolutely know that I'm not getting it wrong.  Meh.

Black Arrow seem to have a problem with people logging in to their site (again).
Or is it just me?

...I thought as much, the received X3s are only by certain people, they don't seem to be sticking to the order sequence.  They're obviously not shipping out in any great numbers or the forums would be full of people saying they've got their devices!  Don't you think?  It's all just very suspicious and I am beginning to think that I should not hold off in pursuing legal avenues to recovery any longer.

Of course, MS claims to have been sent a number of X3s although they don't appear to have received them yet...?  But in any case, it makes no difference to those of us who ordered direct from Black Arrow last year!

One direct order from BA, for an X3.  Order number #10x late September 2013 IIRC, delivered 5 August 2014.
A ways to go yet, it would seem...

Around GBP 110-120 IIRC (edit: including the GBP 11 brokerage fee for UPS, others may vary).