Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com

[faetos]

DID ANYONE RECEIVE KNC UNITS TODAY? AND IF SO, ORDER #/PAY DATE PLEASE??

trying to gauge more or less where knc is at as far as shipping queue/order #/pay date?? thanks.

refer you to here

http://forum.kncminer.com/forum/off-topic/miners-cafe/5386-shipping-log

Thread titled "Shipping Log". First post asks "If you would please post your order number and status (if shipped/hosted)."

And then people go on to post a bunch of "Paid" status orders... Come the fuck on.

People don't read. I expected that, so I am only going to post the last non-Paid status I see. As far as I know sbfree has the latest at June 18th paid. It's completely non-official, so it's whatever info I can grab will get put up there. Btw, did you all notice that their front page has changed (kncminer.com) and it says if you order today you're miner will ship in Nov (no date specified)? Not sure if that means Nov 15th batch is filled and they are going to keep building miners or that Nov will be late. Let's hope the former.

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[600watt]

Hello,

I'd expect they have better things to do than adding for certain customers additional pools, etc now.
They said, in the beginning there will be the KnC-pool available, only as far as I can remember.
As soon as the management interface is up&running you can do what ever you want.
I'd hope they will not modify the config file via ssh for each and every hosting customer asking for it as it would delay startup even further.

I can fully understand if KnC can't configure backup pools before they have solved all the other problems with
the hosting, BUT:

- I have not heard anything about the KnC pool yet. After all the current problems (like webinterface having no option
  for a backup pool) I do not have trust in a KnC pool at the moment.
- From another call with KnC I still assume that no one will get ssh access to the hosted miner. In combination with the
  webinterface not offering the config of a backup pool, this is something that KnC must do manually. Sorry!
  The hosting is overpriced for a normal hosting and I assume one reason is that KnC must do additional tasks normally
  not covered in a normal hosting:
  Doing software / firmware updates.
  Configuration of "normal" mining features via SSH as long as the customer available web interface does not allow this.
  Replacing units that caught fire / did explode    Sorry, I could not resist!

Ralf / trepex

what a bummer. we´ve choosen knc hosting since it was promised hashing "within hours" after production. we end up being behind even the remotest places, while our brandnew gear is resting....  in stockholm.  

4 btc compensation is a nice gesture, but...

"within hours" would be at least tuesday, october 2nd which is a week ago. so the loss is more like 10 btc per jupiter.

on the other hand, what is more important, that knc did actually deliver. no scam, no bfl style drama, but genuine professionals. all the nay sayers, all the haters were wrong. they achieved something big.

the machine looks good. hosting had a bad start. maybe they will come up with another little gift to calm hosting customers.  

[timmmers]

I'd guess that they found that they can't build them as fast as they thought so they amended the Nov date on the site. Fair enough, best to be honest. Doesn't bode too well for Oct 15th if that's the case though.

[bobsmoke]

FYI: According to Emilia from Knc customer support "Day 1 hosting should be going online today. Login details will be provide later this afternoon."

[-Redacted-]

I can't seem to get the customer support people to understand that the worker name for my multiple orders isn't supposed to be entered verbatim.  Explains why there was no hit on my account during testing....

My machine arrived with the worker name set to    "rsbriggs_XX      (replace XX - I have multiple orders)"

[Menig]

FYI: According to Emilia from Knc customer support "Day 1 hosting should be going online today. Login details will be provide later this afternoon."

also there comes a new firmware this afternoon (information from calling with knc-support)

[YipYip]

KnC ....u guys are amaze me !!!


To see a company deliver on time (a couple of days late  anyways ) compared to the total scam/cluster fuck that is CONMASTERS INC @ BFL & then their prodigy love child AVA ( I FUCK U WHITE DOGS) LON

Even offereing compensation for the slight delay on the hosted units like W...T...F..

Josh read this monkey boy .....

KnC thanks you for deliverying us from the evil that if BFl & thier biatch AVALON

You guys are going to totally own crypto if u keep this up like white on rice

AWESOME

 

[sickpig]

FYI: According to Emilia from Knc customer support "Day 1 hosting should be going online today. Login details will be provide later this afternoon."

also there comes a new firmware this afternoon (information from calling with knc-support)

I can confirm that, I've just received an email from Anna saying "Our engineers are making some improvements and new update should be posted later on today."

[madsusies]

Lol, till i get my 100Ghas booth it will earn like 5Ghas jalapenoo 5 months ago  in 2014 no use for wee miner booth

[timmmers]

KnC ....u guys are amaze me !!!


To see a company deliver on time (a couple of days late  anyways ) compared to the total scam/cluster fuck that is CONMASTERS INC @ BFL & then their prodigy love child AVA ( I FUCK U WHITE DOGS) LON

Even offereing compensation for the slight delay on the hosted units like W...T...F..

Josh read this monkey boy .....

KnC thanks you for deliverying us from the evil that if BFl & thier biatch AVALON

You guys are going to totally own crypto if u keep this up like white on rice

AWESOME

 

When you consider the teething troubles now are a learning experience and this was 1st shot at this for them, so next time they'll be wiser and better....other companies have a mountain to climb to match KnC from now on...why would anyone take the risk with someone like BFL when you compare histories with KnC? There's no comparison at all.

It's not just the rigs that KnC have done miners a favour with, the whole industry now needs to change to stay in business which benefits us massively. No room for cowboys anymore is there?

[trepex]

Problem report sent to KnC support:

Hello,

my Saturn miner is running with about 7.5% HW errors (0.93). It looks like this is normal / known by KnC.

But my cgminer process also terminates itself from 2x per hour up every 3h. I did not observe any uptime
of cgminer much greater than 3h.

I observed (by pure chance) such a restart life:
Everything did look normal. A new status update in the bottom of cgminer every few seconds.
Suddenly there did show up error messages like

KnC: accepted by FPGA X works, but only Y submitted (where Y=0 or 1 only I think). X was always < 10.

I did not manage to make a screendump fast enough.
Those messages did show up at a rate of 10-20 (?) per second. SO really fast. After a few seconds the
screen session did terminate and the cgminer process was restarted.

Ralf / trepex

KnC answer (vie e-mail) with small comment from me:

Hello Ralph Ralf,

We are aware there have been problems with CGMiner in the latest firmware 0.93. These have been fixed and new firmware 0.94 will be released on our website later this afternoon. Please apply this as soon as it becomes available.

Regards,

Liam

 

Med vänlig hälsning  |  Best regards
Liam Vardy
Kncminer
www.kncminer.com
Office: +46 8559 253 20

[erk]

Problem report sent to KnC support:

Hello,

my Saturn miner is running with about 7.5% HW errors (0.93). It looks like this is normal / known by KnC.

But my cgminer process also terminates itself from 2x per hour up every 3h. I did not observe any uptime
of cgminer much greater than 3h.

I observed (by pure chance) such a restart life:
Everything did look normal. A new status update in the bottom of cgminer every few seconds.
Suddenly there did show up error messages like

KnC: accepted by FPGA X works, but only Y submitted (where Y=0 or 1 only I think). X was always < 10.

I did not manage to make a screendump fast enough.
Those messages did show up at a rate of 10-20 (?) per second. SO really fast. After a few seconds the
screen session did terminate and the cgminer process was restarted.

Ralf / trepex

KnC answer (vie e-mail) with small comment from me:

Hello Ralph Ralf,

We are aware there have been problems with CGMiner in the latest firmware 0.93. These have been fixed and new firmware 0.94 will be released on our website later this afternoon. Please apply this as soon as it becomes available.

Regards,

Liam

 

Med vänlig hälsning  |  Best regards
Liam Vardy
Kncminer
www.kncminer.com
Office: +46 8559 253 20

At least they are pumping out the updates. It's the kind of thing that happens when you rush stuff our the door to appease the angry horde without a proper beta cycle.

[arlekyn13]

I'd guess that they found that they can't build them as fast as they thought so they amended the Nov date on the site. Fair enough, best to be honest. Doesn't bode too well for Oct 15th if that's the case though.

My guess is they want to give a full month advance for the last orders shipped from batch #1 over batch #2. No longer specifying Nov 15th as the start date of shipping batch #2 means they expect to be some days late past Oct 15th for the final orders of batch #1. Still no refunds available for Oct batch even if they are late past Oct 15th.

[Emmie]

Mine arrived an hour ago. A Saturn paid June 8th, had preregister number 8X and ordernumber 162X.

[electrox]

My Saturn is hashing at 250 - 256 Gh/s.

However regularly cores are being disabled ("due to more than 10 HW errors) and then after a while enabled again only to be disabled shortly thereafter again.

During this process hash rate goes down to 150-200 Gh/s.
In the time the cores are disabled 5sec average is mostly around 266 Gh/s.

So I get the feeling that it would be better if those cores were disabled once and for all.
But maybe the new upgrade will fix this issue.

I summed up the cores that are being disabled: 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 26, 29, 33, 34, 35, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 46, 47
Probably even more but those are the ones I have noticed.

What about you guys? Are you getting similar symptoms?
Is it normal?

[madsusies]

I'd guess that they found that they can't build them as fast as they thought so they amended the Nov date on the site. Fair enough, best to be honest. Doesn't bode too well for Oct 15th if that's the case though.

My guess is they want to give a full month advance for the last orders shipped from batch #1 over batch #2. No longer specifying Nov 15th as the start date of shipping batch #2 means they expect to be some days late past Oct 15th for the final orders of batch #1. Still no refunds available for Oct batch even if they are late past Oct 15th.

They realized no ones pay 6k in February with difficulty XXX mil, the batch 2 is sold out soon

[dwdoc]

My Saturn is hashing at 250 - 256 Gh/s.

However regularly cores are being disabled ("due to more than 10 HW errors) and then after a while enabled again only to be disabled shortly thereafter again.

During this process hash rate goes down to 150-200 Gh/s.
In the time the cores are disabled 5sec average is mostly around 266 Gh/s.

So I get the feeling that it would be better if those cores were disabled once and for all.
But maybe the new upgrade will fix this issue.

I summed up the cores that are being disabled: 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 26, 29, 33, 34, 35, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 46, 47
Probably even more but those are the ones I have noticed.

What about you guys? Are you getting similar symptoms?
Is it normal?

So far one of my two Jupiters is having that problem suggesting a bit of chip/core variability from one machine to the next. I just got an email from KnC saying the 4th firmware update (due any minute) should fix this.  We shall see.

[madsusies]

Hey guy, could you give me a tech tip, i wait for a 100Ghas knc miner, i know it'll take a 5 months to get the money back (2000€), i trow my plans 4 update away (300$ a month in January) .
The question is if i should buy just 300w +80 psu to do not waist an electricity or count on price fall for a jupiter to 1500-2500 usd and buy a 860w crossair - it safe to use only on 100ghas unit till update. Thanks guys and happy mining

[jimrome]

(SNIP)

If any of you have received one of these, I suggest you ask KFC to provide their source modifications to the GPL licensed cgminer source code and they're obliged to provide it within a reasonable timeframe.

I've already asked Knc support for a timeline for source code distribution. When/if I hear back I will let everyone know.

[cognoscente]

Hey guy, could you give me a tech tip, i wait for a 100Ghas knc miner, i know it'll take a 5 months to get the money back (2000€), i trow my plans 4 update away (300$ a month in January) .
The question is if i should buy just 300w +80 psu to do not waist an electricity or count on price fall for a jupiter to 1500-2500 usd and buy a 860w crossair - it safe to use only on 100ghas unit till update. Thanks guys and happy mining

It's not a (significant) waste of energy to buy an oversize seasonic or corsair gold/platinum power supply.  It is a waste of money to buy one that's too small, only to have to buy another later.