That's pretty badass. Product information link? If the footprint is big enough to house two rows of four chips it might be enough.
The copper heatpipes would look better in a dark stainless or something though. I wonder if I could plate them?
Gonna have to think about that a bit. It's definitely kinda engine-shaped, but what about the turbocharger?
What if the chips are on daughter boards attached to the main board at an angle, with a straight heatsink mounted on top and 4 small fans on it? Look kinda like cylinder heads. But that still doesn't solve the turbo. Hmm... Maybe I'll worry about figuring out the power systems and AJRGale, you can keep whittling away at the aesthetics. Making things not look like plain rectangles is not something I'm terribly good at.
the 1st heatsink was from http://www.overclockersonline.net/?p=5000106it was made back in 2001 for the old AthlonXP 1.7GHz, rated at 75W of heat. 'prolly could makes some off old stock of AMD sinks and 45 degree cut the fins. the next is the Scythe Grand Kama Cross http://www.scythe-eu.com/en/products/cpu-cooler/grand-kama-cross.htmlthis thing is Huge! 177x140x137 mm / 6.97x5.51x5.39 in with a 140mm fan strapped to the top |
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Alright, how about this. A badass dual-phase 50A VRM pushing power for a 2x4 string, top and bottom heatsinks each with color-coordinated dual ducted fans, pushing the chips to 500MHz (estimated 16W each) and zero warranty because let's face it, you're going to blow it up. And a toggle switch underneath that you have to flip or it won't turn on. The voltage potentiometer will be a little steering wheel. Maybe throw some arbitrary analog gauges on there to monitor power draw and chip temp and stuff. It'll be obscenely expensive but ultimately sexy.
The B8 Interceptor. Such a stupid idea but I gotta admit, I'm starting to like it.
i thought this..  but then i remembered this:  add 8 little fans across the top, 4 little blowers across the bottom side, aiming slightly down. each heatpipe clamped down onto 2 chips across the banks. |
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You know... our shop is just down the lane from a big dildo store. I could make a Compac XXX mounted inside a rubber dong, so you can plug and play and plug and play and plug and play yourself silly. How's that for hot action?
The Extreme Compac (Compac X) would probably have a black PCB and bigger heatsink (with flames painted on it), and modified hardware and software so you could take it to 900mV and 500MHz. All the LEDs would be red. It would also have a big red TURBO button on it, that doesn't actually do anything but makes you feel like you're kicking on the nitrous injectors or something.
what you could do with the button is increase the voltage (make it run hotter) have a 10 second 8kbps v8 reving sound pumped out of a 10c piezo, and 3 more LEDs lighting up just under the sink  that will make nerds drop their... glasses Maybe I'll make a black 8-chip board with a silver heatsink and built-in ducted fan with red blades, and we'll call it the B8 Interceptor. The last one to come off the production line will of course be nicknamed Max.
you MUST make 1 of these! and sit it on the self at your museum! |
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Also, if anyone gets a PM from me calming i have some to sell because of this, until its finalised, i won't be PM'ing anyone to take any coins/money. id probably discuss most of it here and just get you to PM me your postal details.
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Hello People. just doing a obvious copy of valkir group buy topic, but for Australia. Heres the topic that started it all: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=995675.0some People have tested these sticks, still waiting on a few more testes to ad in their views: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1086011.0Heres a picture that I shamelessly stole off TheRealSteve  These can pull 0.3W/GH, at that, it does 9.5GH/s Hit me up on how many you want, but, a Maximum of 10 Per Person Only! relaxed on the limit, as per: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1126705.msg12053176#msg12053176so far there is up to 20 that has been asked and I've paid sidehack for 20 of them now. me x3 (paid, derp) tricass x2 (paid) heslo x 2 (paid) btc6000 x2 TheRealSteve x 1 (paid) Stringer Bell x 10 (cancelled) So if anyone wants any more, ask away, I'll put the order down. The prices are still at 0.1BTC each, and for a small package its about $15aud, I Will double check the pricing, it could be more or less. as i have said, BTC Address is: 17z2no9upjzgqjYfuG2Z72Ezyg4KEmeq53 |
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Frankly, no. It was good, but not amazing. I think the universe was conspiring on my side, because during the course of the film I got a drop-in visitor, three phone calls and some diarrhea.
Also, everyone posting and PMing me about picking up a couple sticks, don't. Sales aren't open yet. We still have no public review or opinion from half the testers.
Shows you how impatient humans are when it comes to new toys eh? you mentioned when you may ship, if it all goes to plan (which it is showing not to atm) and now a price, you wanted to stir this wasp nest  none the less, I am just putting feelers out atm to see who in aus wants some, so far it hasn't pushed the 10/pp limit (i want 4 to 6, 2 other people want 2 each, so till then), who ever else wants some can PM me, i'll tally up and go from there. I really wish i didn't choose woodworking at High-school over Electronic engineering, id so help you with your power plain setup.. I understand what you are saying there, but i have nothing to input  |
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Wasn't I supposed to ask when its coming out? so you have to push back the date again?
So about 0.1BTC each, or 1btc for 10? (so $35aud each for me) anyone else in Australia wants to buy up some? maybe be able to do a deal for postage...
sidehack, say so if im out of line here
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I was thinking, you could wait it out for the next gen chipsets for the NRB upgrade boards, i'll just shove some of them steeks in the chassis.. Steeeksies, yesh.. steeks..
I'd be keen for one or two mate! Live in Adelaide, dunno where you are located? middle o' NSW.. unless there is anymore people, that'll still be covered under the 10/pp.. if there is more then that, and its an OK with sidehack and open a groupbuy. |
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Wasn't I supposed to ask when its coming out? so you have to push back the date again?
So about 0.1BTC each, or 1btc for 10? (so $35aud each for me) anyone else in Australia wants to buy up some? maybe be able to do a deal for postage...
sidehack, say so if im out of line here
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I was thinking, you could wait it out for the next gen chipsets for the NRB upgrade boards, i'll just shove some of them steeks in the chassis.. Steeeksies, yesh.. steeks..
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Well, back on with Hash Rate:150/131GHs OK, its not my 200/170, but its close, i missed the hum of fans at full speed :3
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I think the 4-chip pod is a more logical target. It should be possible to make a single board which fits both the Gridseed and U3 heatsinks; I'll have to get ahold of an RBox pod to see what it'd require but I know I can hit the other two for sure.
CanaryInTheMines used to sell them on Eligius iirc, maybe they might have one or 2 (dead/alive) to spare? if not, I will look out for one or 10 for you, if I get my hands on one I'll PM you. |
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meh, if i could strap down an intel BGA775 sink to it (or any of them multi-socket heatsinks), i wouldn't say no. some little 60-100GH/s pod would look nice.
I do have more NBRs over U3/Grid/Rboxes. but if fitting a stock cpu heatsink to them with little mods, i have little problem buying up a handful.
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First, a change of subject from BM1384 projects to server PSUs is somewhat inappropriate for a BM1384 project thread. Second, I'm really not sure what you're asking for. Send a PM. Or actually you should PM pmorici since he sells breakout boards for HP PSUs.
Yeah you right, should of PM'ed 1st |
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change of subject, Sidehack, you don't have any HP Server PSU break-out adapters? the type that is the PCB as the connector tong, not the metal blades?
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It's a good thing scammers are so darn lazy. If they'd put half their website design budget into any kind of feasibility research and spoofing hardware, it might have taken more than 30 seconds to completely pick them apart.
I think they are trying for a quick buck. It is 100 percent sad and lazy. Throw a rig with a GPU showing and brag miner. Most likely they/he/she if sell 1 pay for quite a few of these attempts. So I'm guessing they go for number of scams and not quality on scamming. well, they were hoping for the people that know nothing on what hardware looks like what, but, it only takes one person to look into things to make it all fall down. im surprised they didn't use the more alien looking furyx gpu with the stacked memory, then photoshop it to a quad core thing (since you see single and dual core furyx out there).. maybe that might be a little more obvious.. Hmm, let me Decap a G80 (Nvidias old 8800GTX Ultra, from back in 2006) and show the silicon die.. or a Core 2 Quad, you don't see many photos of them. Then i'll photoshop it onto a Gridseed/U3/R-Box board, watch the masses flock to that! yeah, i know, giving the scammers ideas, and you people the knowledge! |
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Well, i vote Yes, due to the fact i have some dead New-R-Box's.. or they get trashed/hacked/used in some bitcoin cultist ritual
if the S1 is the same/similar footprint as the NRB board, and people want to go that way, meh, i'd re-drill the sinks to match and see if it fits in the case
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Yeah, anything I design will have adjustable voltage integral so you can downclock without the lameness that is "pencil modding" and double the effective service life with no extra cost.
I'd set the stock power dissipation to within a few watts of the actual board, which should ensure the heatsinks would work. Cranking it up higher will be your own concern.
A single run, like a couple hundred boards, would increase the per-unit cost from materials and dev recoup. Probably still come in under $100 a board, which seems kinda high to me for the hashrate but whatever. Also it's past my bedtime but now y'all got me thinking so I'm gonna be up for another hour scheming instead of being passed out.
sorry... didn't mean to throw that idea up. just count them 0s salted on the heads of them hash-string sheep.. think about them boards tomorrow, plenty of time |
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i was thinking one of as in a single run to give us dead NRB owners something to use. it would be a little harder to retrofit a 120mm fan in, you'd have to cut some holes (make it look like a Prospero X1 clone), or even 2 more 72mm fans on the other end without shrinking the board or strapping them to the outside, none the less, the 2 fans pull a lot of air no issue there, the sinks though, i many have to measure up and calculate the potential Watts/Centigrade dissipation (used to do this a lot with old amd atlonsXP heatsinks, with my maaad overclocking skillz, so now im a bit rusty on the calculations) but the board itself looks to be used in R3-Boxes, and the RK-box, same layout, almost all are the same sinks, different controllers yeah, i would be buying them if they were available. id be up for 3 of them off the bat. then i'll buy up as many NRBs as possible  also Screw ROI, you cant predict the future, i already made 6BTC off a 200kh/s(scrypting) videocard many moons ago, they all said i couldn't do it. who says when btc halves its reward things don't get easier? price rise, hashing drops, much fud in the fan. The GiggleWATdolla police can shove it, a better designed miners will outlast and outplay the cheap cost cutting fire-per-watt hardware, yeah, im looking at you AsicMiner Tech >_> i was looking into dev'ing up my own board for the NRBs, maybe throwing a spondoolie chip or 2 (stealing it off the "lotto dice" thing or cramming up the BE200s in the same footprint (instead of 12, maybe 24). but i don't have the resources atm. |
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that would be 59W for 115GH or 0.51W/GH all in. Not too bad.
Not too bad at all, especially if you compare to the U3, which for the same wattage on 4 of the older chips was only netting about 60GH/s, so you've basically doubled up on it (and without any of the hardware issues that come with a U3). And this is where I just realized I'll never use my U3s again...  Hmm.. i wonder if i could fit 4-6 of these inside a u3 chassis, with a little laptop heat-piping Hmmm... definitely getting 10/20 of these inside an old "new-r-box" chassis actually.. sidie baby, how much for a one off run of these chips on a "new r-box" clone board? I have 2 dead ones: sinks, fans, board (with shitty quality attempts at repairing the cp2012 chips) and chassis, you know there will be little market for these, maybe me, dave, phil, and steve? ( i think they are the ones that have these rockxie boxes) |
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You were my next alternate if anyone else had backed out.
I've had a lot of people asking to do reviews (seriously a lot, including a bunch of n00bs and folks I've never heard of), and a lot of people asking to buy sample sticks. Gonna say this now so I don't have to repeat myself a bunch of other times (again) - if you're not one of the 8 listed above, you're not getting a sample stick. Go ahead, offer me a hundred bucks for one. You're not getting it. More than half of the ones I have materials for are being sent out to reviewers, and we're keeping the rest for in-house stuff like software dev and posterity and stuff. So please, stop asking.
oh shi- i forgot to throw my PM in too! what was i thinking, im such a n00b! ah well, looks like i miss out on free stuff like everyone else i could see that happening, i can see you just giving them a simple "No." for a message back, if you didn't just delete the message. you know, i was going to buy dogies last 2 items he has for sale, screw him! im saving for these! |
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Come on, guys, I am almost ready to buy 42 of that sticks (probably even 49 - not sure whether we have 6 or 7 7-port USB hubs) on approbation.  To save me trouble I'll probably end up just selling on the forums here. I reckon if someone else wants to list on eBay that's fine with me, but you'll have to remember there's no bulk discounts.
If the first 600 sell out super fast, I'll definitely look into a second batch. It's going to depend pretty heavily on chip sourcing though.
Are they available yet ??  remember, the more you beg, the longer it takes As soon as people stop asking that question.
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