That's correct.  Sorry if I didn't make myself clear.  It wasn't worth the effort in figuring out how to set the Pi up to mine XMR considering how it negatively effected the hashrate of the R606, but if I didn't try I would never know and I don't like not knowing.


That's a pretty sweet unit you built!  I was pretty disappointed at first because I wanted that 1TH but I couldn't get it on the 3B I had laying around so I took the recommendations of others and got the Pi4.  That really woke it up so I screwed around with the power levels and did some math here and there and found my unit works most efficiently on power level 3 and gives me the 1TH average I was looking for.  It does dip down below 1TH from time to time but it also exceeds it from time to time and whenever I check on it the daily average is just barely over 1TH.  Usually around 1.02TH.  I'm a really happy camper.  Thanks for your product.

I'm a new R606 owner and here are my anecdotal tests and observations.

I purchased my R606 from Eyeboot on Amazon and it came with a R606 wrapped in bubble wrap with a USB cable in a ziplock bag taped to the outside in a Amazon box.  No paperwork or how to get started guide or anything.  I found this place and read through hundreds of posts to get my bearings.

I powered my 606 with a spare PCIe cable from my altcoin mining rig and used a spare raspberry pi 3B to control it (my mining rig runs on hiveos)

With the 3B the best I could do was 800ish GBs running full power.  I read that the Pi4 does better so I bought one with 4GB ram a case with fan and all of the accessories.

With the Pi4 I got right around 1Tb on power setting 3 with it having no difficulty reaching 750 frequency (I read on here somewhere 750 is about the max safe frequency)

I tuned it back down to 550 frequency on power setting 4 (stock settings I think) while I waited for a thermometer to come in the mail.

With a digital thermometer mounted to ass end of the top heat sink it was time to experiment.

I spent a lot of time upgrading the Pi to a 64 bit kernel and installing XMrig to see what would happen.

With XMrig running all four cores I was back in the 800GBs range no matter the power setting.  I expected this.  What I didn't expect was that I couldn't get the two miners to work together to give me a happy medium.

After much experimentation I ended up with the R606 on level 5 and using 3 cores for Monero.

This seems to be the best setup with my hardware but the R606 will just barely put up 1TB and the cpu miner will find several shares over several minutes and then go flat for several hours before finding more shares again.  With all four cores mining I can get a consistent 110hs mining Monero but there isn't enough room for the R606.

Updating to the 64 bit kernel doesn't seem to have any effect on the 606.

In conclusion to this post I believe that a Pi4 is the best way to go considering all the trouble and headache that I see a lot of users go through and how painless it was for me to set up on the Pi.  The 64 bit kernel doesn't do anything and if you try to push the Pi to do anything else it just won't without fucking up everything else.

Right now I'm running about 1.01T on power setting 3 and a temp of 55.7C and I'm quite happy.

I'm new to bitcoin mining and your pool, but reading through posts I can see that a lot of people have a lot of respect for you and the work that you have put in.  If I somehow happen across a block on your pool I want you to take 10% for your effort.  I'd like  you to use half of it to improve the pool and the other half for hookers and cocaine.  Here's the address I'm mining with 1PzUGXKsyubiAy8dJ1Hx98LZ93yLqofrA2