Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com

[sbfree]

0.96 did indeed speed my saturn up a tad...about 10Gh/s

*Camping @ end of driveway for other two!

good news !

maybe I didn't notice before with .95, but the HW error rate is 1.28% according to cgminer after I just upgraded to .96

 KnC 0:                | 333.4G/276.6Gh/s | A:56589 R:263 HW:700 WU:3895.2/m

the first number is declining slowly (started at over 400GH).  Maybe once they converge, the HW rate will slow down... will keep an eye on my lonely Saturn...

hey canary....nice to see you here....AND 400GH/s for a Saturn??? how, please tell as mine just literally arrived. I am actually going to unpack now, read manual and instructions then go for it....

[soapmodem]

heh glad to help read my post on the KNC refund of my 2nd miner Saturn 520x was in processing (few posts back) customer service really came thru
in a big way ..was in processing and everything but tell anyone that want to do this to be quick I really think they are gonna wrap this 1st run up in
the next few days....(still amazed had an order 1 day late..only ..so far...at the time I called and the Saturn wad
.in processing..they coulda just hung up an said nothing they could do (I was just
kinda going thru the motions for ego sake with the email)....really went to town tracked down miner (and I assume others) chased it down from the plant
which is located elsewhere all under the current probably hell of the working conditions of KNC now I'd expect....so yeah they coulda done the easy way
and told me it was in processing elsewhere so no chance .lot less work....went the extra mile.....very impressed ...pass this stuff forward who those who
don't know of this small timeline for refunds on after oct 15th stuff
(ie not shipped yet) and to be quick and the DHL stuff ..as a shipper .they don't seem to be too organized in the states at all....not looking forward to seeing how my box arrives

Oh by the way after announcing  ONE HOUR or so ago I was gonna get a paypal refund..on my 520x Saturn 2nd order from KNC..
...paypal has just sent me an email my Saturn 520x has been fully REFUNDED! jeez.....they may not be perfect but I gotta admit they seem to be at least
trying to improve at KNC...and customer service seems to have really taken to the notion of "repeat customers".

AND my Jupiter arrives tomorrow ..this lucky streak has to end just be kind to me on forums tomorrow when my Jupiter tries to pretend it is a "brick" and I yell for help on here!

an't that always the case

Searing

Understand totally.

I'm in a similar situation, with another Jupiter on order (71xx).. I thought long and hard about cancelling, but it looks like they should have it out within a week at their current pace, and with the price of BTC rising and only set to rise further imo, I think there's still a decent chance (probably 50/50 at this point) of making ROI. And if not, it should at least come close. All depends on the price at this juncture.

Thanks again, because without that phone call it would have taken another few days, maybe a week, and lost me a fair chunk of change.

[CanaryInTheMine]

0.96 did indeed speed my saturn up a tad...about 10Gh/s

*Camping @ end of driveway for other two!

good news !

maybe I didn't notice before with .95, but the HW error rate is 1.28% according to cgminer after I just upgraded to .96

 KnC 0:                | 333.4G/276.6Gh/s | A:56589 R:263 HW:700 WU:3895.2/m

the first number is declining slowly (started at over 400GH).  Maybe once they converge, the HW rate will slow down... will keep an eye on my lonely Saturn...

hey canary....nice to see you here....AND 400GH/s for a Saturn??? how, please tell as mine just literally arrived. I am actually going to unpack now, read manual and instructions then go for it....

the second number is probably closer to the truth with .96 upgrade... the first # is declining after the flash to .96 and a reboot...
if you need help, feel free to PM me

[Nemo1024]

New firmware release didn't appear to change the (low) hashing rates with hosted units.   Currently at 350 and 480.

heard people have been getting refunds on equip and hosting is that something people are considering or are a lot of you gonna ride it out?

(I don't host anything just curious)

Searing

I am tempted to ride it out with my 39xx hosted Saturn, which still has "Paid" status.

I sent an enquiring e-mail to support as to the state of the hosting. I also have a November hosted Jupiter order, and I don't know how that will pan out.

Got a refund from BFL before, and I don't really want to go the refund/cancellation route again: I want a serious miner I can call my own.

[MidwestMiner]

Currently showing this:


Mining Status
CGMiner Status   Running (pid=1740)
Last Checked   Thu Oct 17 19:48:44 UTC 2013
Avg. Hash Rate   259 Gh/s
WU   3856
Difficulty Accepted   2909
HW Status
ASIC slot #1   55.0 ℃
ASIC slot #2   -
ASIC slot #3   -
ASIC slot #4   46.5 ℃
ASIC slot #5   -
ASIC slot #6   -


Saturn with 0.96, anyone care to give me some advice? What can I do to maximize hash rate?

[Paladin69]

So when something is coming from Sweden to the US what is worse in terms of customs hold-ups...UPS or DHL?

Despite UPS having tons of rough man sex with the boxes, they did get to me fast.

[faetos]

I've posted about the restart/flushwork thing since... 9th October? Asking for it to be addressed.

How about some answers to these questions:
1. How come the sub-standard cgminer from KNC?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=18313.msg3294238#msg3294238
This post suggests the KNC version is not doing a proper work restart. Any reason KNC are spending 9 days releasing firmware updates that doesn't even fix these issues? I'm fairly sure the guys who wrote cgminer could sort this quick fast.

So I guess it could now read:

Any reason KNC are spending 17 days releasing firmware updates that doesn't even fix these issues?

Pride's a bitch, aint't it? They should swallow that damned pride,  hook up ckolvias, and let him sort it properly.

[cognoscente]

DHL Brussels is airborne.

[soapmodem]

DHL Brussels is airborne.

Mine too. After an extended stay, taking in all the views and nightlife to be had in Belgium, my miners are finally underway once more.

[CanaryInTheMine]

So when something is coming from Sweden to the US what is worse in terms of customs hold-ups...UPS or DHL?

Despite UPS having tons of rough man sex with the boxes, they did get to me fast.

probably depends where you live... if DHL has not station close to you in US, then they transfer to a 3rd party which takes more time and as SSB found out the hard way, things can and do get lost with 3rd parties... if that's the situation, then UPS is better.  if DHL services your area directly, especially for many units, DHL is better.  they are very proactive with customs.  (provided you supplied a good phone number on your order, like your cell for ex.)

FedEx is worse than DHL with customs... (wrt to speed due to FedEx being bigger)

one other benefit of DHL:  if you call the main number, you can ask the agent to lookup if there's a package headed your way via last name, zip lookup...  100% they can do it, so if the agent tells you no, hang up and call again to get a different agent, and ask same question... once you have the tracking number, you can then ask to see if they have everything they need to clear customs.  it should also tell you the declared value if over 2K etc... etc... etc...  DHL rock wrt to customer service, better than UPS and FedEx.

[DPoS]

I've posted about the restart/flushwork thing since... 9th October? Asking for it to be addressed.

How about some answers to these questions:
1. How come the sub-standard cgminer from KNC?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=18313.msg3294238#msg3294238
This post suggests the KNC version is not doing a proper work restart. Any reason KNC are spending 9 days releasing firmware updates that doesn't even fix these issues? I'm fairly sure the guys who wrote cgminer could sort this quick fast.

So I guess it could now read:

Any reason KNC are spending 17 days releasing firmware updates that doesn't even fix these issues?

Pride's a bitch, aint't it? They should swallow that damned pride,  hook up ckolvias, and let him sort it properly.

Luke Jr will probably have something running before that happens but without the code released nothing is going to get created

[sickpig]

I've posted about the restart/flushwork thing since... 9th October? Asking for it to be addressed.

How about some answers to these questions:
1. How come the sub-standard cgminer from KNC?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=18313.msg3294238#msg3294238
This post suggests the KNC version is not doing a proper work restart. Any reason KNC are spending 9 days releasing firmware updates that doesn't even fix these issues? I'm fairly sure the guys who wrote cgminer could sort this quick fast.

So I guess it could now read:

Any reason KNC are spending 17 days releasing firmware updates that doesn't even fix these issues?

Sure I hoped 0.96 would have fix the restart/flushwork issue but I think they have to much things on their plate, like focusing on hw issues.

Sure they could have done better e.g involved ckolivas/kano/luke-jr in the dev phase, but all in all considering the tight schedule the only thing I could blame knc for boils down to lack of communcation

[The Avenger]

I've posted about the restart/flushwork thing since... 9th October? Asking for it to be addressed.

How about some answers to these questions:
1. How come the sub-standard cgminer from KNC?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=18313.msg3294238#msg3294238
This post suggests the KNC version is not doing a proper work restart. Any reason KNC are spending 9 days releasing firmware updates that doesn't even fix these issues? I'm fairly sure the guys who wrote cgminer could sort this quick fast.

So I guess it could now read:

Any reason KNC are spending 17 days releasing firmware updates that doesn't even fix these issues?

Pride's a bitch, aint't it? They should swallow that damned pride,  hook up ckolvias, and let him sort it properly.

Luke Jr will probably have something running before that happens but without the code released nothing is going to get created

They could have released the code, let the community get involved and we would probably have fixed all the problems, pimped out the knc cgminer driver and then KNC would have one less problem to worry about. But they didn't. I think they are worried someone might discover that they are building asic bitcoin miners... shhhh!

[nightengale]

Apologize if this has already been covered. Is there an optimal work difficulty on Elgius?

Thanks in advance.

[DPoS]

They could have released the code, let the community get involved and we would probably have fixed all the problems, pimped out the knc cgminer driver and then KNC would have one less problem to worry about. But they didn't. I think they are worried someone might discover that they are building asic bitcoin miners... shhhh!

I'm a broken record on this but I think if they just left the boards with 8 VRMs and open up the code they would of been champions.   Once they took them off they have been in 'oh shit' mode and now anyone tampering with the code could really fry these boards up much easier  (their own firmware was)

once they get a handle on everything they will release it but they quickly went the money savings route and treat us like we shouldn't ask questions

[AFox]

Apologize if this has already been covered. Is there an optimal work difficulty on Elgius?

Thanks in advance.

*** Minimum Difficulty Setting does NOT yet have any effect! ***

Written in big and red : http://eligius.st/~wizkid057/newstats/mystats.php

[timmmers]

I've posted about the restart/flushwork thing since... 9th October? Asking for it to be addressed.

How about some answers to these questions:
1. How come the sub-standard cgminer from KNC?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=18313.msg3294238#msg3294238
This post suggests the KNC version is not doing a proper work restart. Any reason KNC are spending 9 days releasing firmware updates that doesn't even fix these issues? I'm fairly sure the guys who wrote cgminer could sort this quick fast.

So I guess it could now read:

Any reason KNC are spending 17 days releasing firmware updates that doesn't even fix these issues?

Pride's a bitch, aint't it? They should swallow that damned pride,  hook up ckolvias, and let him sort it properly.

+100

[nightengale]

Apologize if this has already been covered. Is there an optimal work difficulty on Elgius?

Thanks in advance.

*** Minimum Difficulty Setting does NOT yet have any effect! ***

Written in big and red : http://eligius.st/~wizkid057/newstats/mystats.php

Saw that but thought I'd read otherwise -- thanks for the tactful response.

[Nemo1024]

Bitminter has minimum diff implemented.

[CanaryInTheMine]

Apologize if this has already been covered. Is there an optimal work difficulty on Elgius?

Thanks in advance.

use stratum.  diff. will adjust to the appropriate setting automatically by the pool.