battmann (OP)
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April 06, 2013, 12:08:20 AM |
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I just bought a ModMiner QUAD from www.btcfpga.com and was wondering what flavor of linux will be best suited for running this miner? Any help is appreciated! -battmann
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EngMan
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April 06, 2013, 12:27:41 AM |
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I had a lot of luck running mine on Ubuntu 12.04. I did have to compile it for that though. There should be how-to's out there on the MMQ wiki or somewhere on here.
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Sorry, I'm all sold out of x6500's.
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shibaji
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April 06, 2013, 03:13:57 AM |
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Is there a point buying these now ? It is hard to break even in any reasonable time frame.
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battmann (OP)
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April 06, 2013, 03:36:19 AM |
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I had a lot of luck running mine on Ubuntu 12.04. I did have to compile it for that though. There should be how-to's out there on the MMQ wiki or somewhere on here.
Would you be willing to part with your precompiled piece of equipment? or maybe an x6500?
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Renaud
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April 06, 2013, 11:14:23 AM |
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Regarding the ModMiner QUAD I wonder if I will buy 2 or buy 3x HD 7970 GPU.
The Hash rate is similar (1600 kH/s for ModMiner QUAD against 1800 kH/s for GPUs). Cost is $2400 for 2 ModMiner QUAD against $1800 for the complete GPU solution (including motherboard, ...) Energy consumption would be 80W for 2 ModMiner QUAD and 1000W for the GPUs.
But you need a PC to run the ModMiner QUAD?!
What your thoughts?
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BBQKorv
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April 06, 2013, 12:45:29 PM |
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Regarding the ModMiner QUAD I wonder if I will buy 2 or buy 3x HD 7970 GPU.
The Hash rate is similar (1600 kH/s for ModMiner QUAD against 1800 kH/s for GPUs). Cost is $2400 for 2 ModMiner QUAD against $1800 for the complete GPU solution (including motherboard, ...) Energy consumption would be 80W for 2 ModMiner QUAD and 1000W for the GPUs.
But you need a PC to run the ModMiner QUAD?!
What your thoughts?
Do they sell LTC FPGAs already?
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torusJKL
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April 06, 2013, 06:19:27 PM |
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I just bought a ModMiner QUAD from www.btcfpga.com and was wondering what flavor of linux will be best suited for running this miner? Any help is appreciated! -battmann Ubuntu would do the job. It's easy to setup and stable. If you want a turnkey solution: I can recommend Minepeon. I'm running it on a $35 RaspberryPi B using bfgminer which supports the ModMiner.
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actudoran
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April 06, 2013, 07:21:05 PM |
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I haven't been able to make contact with btcfpga ... so I didn't buy without speaking to someone first ... tell me what they said about delivery times please.
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April 08, 2013, 09:12:45 AM |
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Tom, the owner is btcfpga and basic is a scammer. He sold pre-paid hardware that he never delivered and did not refund the payments.
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marra
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April 08, 2013, 10:18:20 AM |
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$1 = 1 satoshi ☰☱☲☳☷☷☳☲☰☰☱☲☳☷☳☲☰☰☱☲☲☳☷☷☳☲☳☱☷☷☳☲☰☰☰☰☲☳☳ ☳☲☰☰☱☲☳☷☷☳☲☰☰☱☲☳☲☳☷☷☳☳☳☲☰☰☱☲☲☳☷☷☳☳☲☰☰☱☲☲☳☷☷☳☰☱☲☳
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April 08, 2013, 04:32:09 PM |
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Tom, the owner is btcfpga and basic is a scammer. He sold pre-paid hardware that he never delivered and did not refund the payments.
I was under the impression that he was indeed issuing refunds. There's a whole thread where people are talking about having received refunds.
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April 08, 2013, 04:40:46 PM |
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Product not found.
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April 08, 2013, 05:19:50 PM |
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Yeah, I think battmann mentioned to me elsewhere that the guy is changing servers or something.
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April 22, 2013, 10:50:08 PM |
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Well, it has been over a week since Tom said he sent my 2nd replacement card and I still haven't received it or had any luck getting the miner to actually mine. Tom also hasn't responded since Wednesday. This is getting frustrating.
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