any custom firmware or overclock for Whatsminer or Avalon ?

[maxfunky]

Hi Miners !

There's lot of mod available for Bitmain but can't find any for other manufacturer. Why? I would love to give a little boost to my Canaan Avalon or maybe WhatsMiner m32.

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Because Canaan's Avalons have no need for 3rd party firmware from folks that charge for using it (and violate the Open source license on cgminer). Use the More options box to tweak them. Starting with the Avalon A10xx the tweaks you can do on them has been cut back but you can still play with temps, fan speeds, hash speed and voltages. Cannan has said that starting with the A12xx series they have brought back the the full list of tweaks.

For most folks, MicroBt's Whatsminers do well enough with the 2-3 operating modes they come with.

[mikeywith]

There's lot of mod available for Bitmain but can't find any for other manufacturer. Why ?  

Because most mining gears out there are made by Bitmain, I believe there are at least 8 Bitmain Antminers for every Avalon and Whatsminer out there, so the custom firmware devs try to target the majority of miners which is pretty logical.

The second reason is what NFW states above, the only reason I use custom firmware is that it does fix some broken miners and gives me the basic tweaks I need that the stock doesn't have, but the other miners have at least the base settings which reduces the need for any custom firmware that has fees on it, honestly, if Bitmain slightly improves their firmware the custom firmware market will take a big hit, but alas, they seem like they are happy with how things are.

On a side but related note, I know Vnish team is working on MicroBT firmware, I have no clue about the exact process, but when any dev tells you "soon", it could be 4 years.

[taserz]

Yes, there is it will be released soon 

A little janky because it piggy backs off the openwrt os it is running but pretty decent. Have done 85T on a m20s drawing I think 4.4kw iirc

[mikeywith]

Yes, there is it will be released soon  

Future post:

Date: 2024
Author: Taserz
"It will be released soon"

Have done 85T on a m20s drawing I think 4.4kw iirc.

That's a toaster, the max power draw for M20s PSU is 3.8kw no? did you guys mod the PSU too? jokes aside, I believe the focus on the M20/M21 should mainly be on the underclock side, MicroBT gears are power-hungry, also the single cable plug on the PSU makes it inconvenient to a lot of folks.

[taserz]

Yeah there was a modification done to the psu

[thierry4wd]

in reality the mod already exists: D but is not in public order ... I remain discreet, but who will have the right of sale here: D !!! ? hahaha