Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com

[DimensionsOfHell]

Just an update for anyone that has paid order from Aug 6th:

I've sent an email regarding my Order# 516X paid Aug 6th in regards to my status being in progress for a full week now. They've sent me a response saying they are shipping my Saturn today and gave me the DHL tracking number.

I have no activity on BTCGuild for any kind of "burn-in" period, and according to DHL, they picked up the package at 10:14AM in Sweden. I don't see anywhere on the DHL tracking page as to when the estimated delivery date should be though, gotta give them a call later and see.

So anyone with a pay date from Aug 6th up should be getting delivered soon. Oh and btw, my status on the KnCMiner page still says "In progress" and not shipped.

I would recommend anyone wanting to know their true status, contact the sales team at KnC, and ask them politely (and not aggressively).





My email to them:

Hi,
 
     I wanted inquire as to when I might be receiving my miner? It is now a week past the 15th deadline. I've been patiently waiting for an update, as my status has been "In progress" for a week now. You guys originally said you would clear the log within 3-4 days, and it has been well passed 5 days. The difficulty is about to change again in 3 days, I need my unit as soon as I can. I am loosing a lot of money everyday (about $100 per day), and I know you guys have no plans of compensation for that. Please, I need an answer as soon as you can.
 
 
Thank you.





and their response:

Hello Asif,

Apologies for the delay. Your order is shipping today with DHL. Your tracking number is; 689XXXXXXX
 
Regards,
Liam
 
Med vänlig hälsning  |  Best regards
Liam Vardy  
Kncminer
www.kncminer.com
Office: +46 8559 253 20

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[zoro]

i got my Mercury today. very quiet at 100GH with 0.9.7 FW
120W/220v  !!!
great job KNC
i guess we cannot overclock it yet :p

[Nemo1024]

Another day is over and my hosted 39xx Saturn (ordered and paid on the 18th of July) still has status "Paid". Maybe tomorrow, then...

[Basil]

Another day is over and my hosted 39xx Saturn (ordered and paid on the 18th of July) still has status "Paid". Maybe tomorrow, then...

did you try to call KNC near few days, when they start hosting clients?

[sbfree]

I can confirm *on my Sat* that 0.97 is faster then previous firmwares. From 270gh/s to 278gh/s.

So far my Saturn seems improved in regards to flushwork and WU....I still have a high HW error rate, maybe slightly higher even...but at this point i am happier....30 mins in....will check back later.

Mining Status
CGMiner Status Running (pid=1735)
Last Checked Wed Oct 23 15:22:26 UTC 2013
Avg. Hash Rate 257 Gh/s
Difficulty Accepted 261,376
Difficulty Rejected 7,168 (2.1 %)
Hardware Errors 74,775 (18.0 %)
WU 4,058
Difficulty Stale 0
Network Blocks 19
Pool Rejected 2.7 %
Pool Stale 0
Best Share 946,168
Found Blocks 0


The hardware error rate is killing me, seems that no matter what firmware I use, some firmware lowers the WU but improves the error rate, and others raise the WU but increase the error rate......most of my cores are running and flushwork is better.
Any ideas on why such a high error rate??

[soy]

Wow, my first found block.  On Slush.  A few days ago, I just noticed.  Can't think of any other reason this one Found Block is listed on my profile page.  The block number 265105.

[cognoscente]

Wow, my first found block.  On Slush.  A few days ago, I just noticed.  Can't think of any other reason this one Found Block is listed on my profile page.  The block number 265105.

You da man.

[yuriygeorge]

Another day is over and my hosted 39xx Saturn (ordered and paid on the 18th of July) still has status "Paid". Maybe tomorrow, then...

Same here, on a Jupiter, paid 16 of July. And people who paid middle of August are getting theirs shipped. Hosting customers getting fucked bad, I don't understand, what's the issue with their data center? Have they run out of space? Why the eff are they shipping mid August orders before mid July hosting orders? WHAT IS UP WITH HOSTING? Day 1 & Day 2 hosting customers are good. Every other hosting customers are effed. Something smells fishy about this.

[madsusies]

Another day is over and my hosted 39xx Saturn (ordered and paid on the 18th of July) still has status "Paid". Maybe tomorrow, then..

I ordered on 19. July payment 1 August,  status in progres i got 10 day but i got email from dhlit is pretty quick on my way the mercury

[r3animation]

I can confirm *on my Sat* that 0.97 is faster then previous firmwares. From 270gh/s to 278gh/s.

So far my Saturn seems improved in regards to flushwork and WU....I still have a high HW error rate, maybe slightly higher even...but at this point i am happier....30 mins in....will check back later.

Mining Status
CGMiner Status Running (pid=1735)
Last Checked Wed Oct 23 15:22:26 UTC 2013
Avg. Hash Rate 257 Gh/s
Difficulty Accepted 261,376
Difficulty Rejected 7,168 (2.1 %)
Hardware Errors 74,775 (18.0 %)
WU 4,058
Difficulty Stale 0
Network Blocks 19
Pool Rejected 2.7 %
Pool Stale 0
Best Share 946,168
Found Blocks 0


The hardware error rate is killing me, seems that no matter what firmware I use, some firmware lowers the WU but improves the error rate, and others raise the WU but increase the error rate......most of my cores are running and flushwork is better.
Any ideas on why such a high error rate??

I don't really care about the error rate. I only look my hash rate @ the pool.

[DPoS]

DPoS I'm really glad that you're able to sort that out, so now your "faulty" jupiter is not faulty anymore

Let me just do a quick recap:

0) someway u were able to set input voltage for you miner to 0.9V
1) u've tweaked the cgimner.conf fiel in such way that cgminer start but do nothing (so no enable/siable core dance anymore)
2) run enablecore repeatedly trying to maximize the number of working cores.  
3) use Like-jr bfgminer instead of cgminer to mine

is this right?

a few other quests:

a) is this jup a 8 VRM  or a 4 VRM one?
b) which is the version firmware currently used on that box?
c) wattage at the wall?
d) u get a die completely turned off on one of your asic board, right?

thanks for sharing your experience.


edit1: theoretically with a 1200W CPU we could turn a good miner into a super miner using this procedure?
edit2: do you have lower system load while using bfgminer (uptime command output)?

I'll be getting a 1000 or 1200w psu today for it..  the 850 is nice but I dont want to kill it

yes the 4 steps you list are correct

a) all 4 VRM boards
b) using .94  (since I have a dead die issue, .93 and earlier can't ignore that and goes on an error tantrum)
c) I have to get another kill-o-watt, but would be scared to know while on the 850, will know later today
d) yes this miner has one die that won't come back anymore and another that sometimes turns off but so far come back on reboots.  

uptime/load:
 15:39pm  up   7:53,  2 users,  load average: 1.54, 1.41, 1.36

I just put .97 on the other miner so need to wait to get a comparison

[Bitcoinorama]

I see network hashrate that was 3.25PH/s when I looked late yesterday was a moment ago only 2.72 and now is 2.9.  I wonder if it's KnC miner users shutting down and restarting with the new firmware.

KNC Pool (https://portal.kncminer.com/) speed already 70 +TH/s (from about 25 TH/s for 24 hrs ). What it mean?

The firmware worked in the datacentre. It was tested on the hosting facility last night, then released today as it was deemed stable.

[sbfree]

I can confirm *on my Sat* that 0.97 is faster then previous firmwares. From 270gh/s to 278gh/s.

So far my Saturn seems improved in regards to flushwork and WU....I still have a high HW error rate, maybe slightly higher even...but at this point i am happier....30 mins in....will check back later.

Mining Status
CGMiner Status Running (pid=1735)
Last Checked Wed Oct 23 15:22:26 UTC 2013
Avg. Hash Rate 257 Gh/s
Difficulty Accepted 261,376
Difficulty Rejected 7,168 (2.1 %)
Hardware Errors 74,775 (18.0 %)
WU 4,058
Difficulty Stale 0
Network Blocks 19
Pool Rejected 2.7 %
Pool Stale 0
Best Share 946,168
Found Blocks 0


The hardware error rate is killing me, seems that no matter what firmware I use, some firmware lowers the WU but improves the error rate, and others raise the WU but increase the error rate......most of my cores are running and flushwork is better.
Any ideas on why such a high error rate??

I don't really care about the error rate. I only look my hash rate @ the pool.

well those errors ultimately affect my hash rate @ the pool that is why I am concerned.
257GH/s on CGminer = 225GH/s on server

[sbfree]

I see network hashrate that was 3.25PH/s when I looked late yesterday was a moment ago only 2.72 and now is 2.9.  I wonder if it's KnC miner users shutting down and restarting with the new firmware.

KNC Pool (https://portal.kncminer.com/) speed already 70 +TH/s (from about 25 TH/s for 24 hrs ). What it mean?

The firmware worked in the datacentre. It was tested on the hosting facility last night, then released today as it was deemed stable.

Hey Bitcoinorama, any ideas as to why my Saturn has such a high error rate, I don't see others with such?

[edgar]

was happy with 0.97 until my average just dropped to 1.344 Mh/s

i enabled CGminer API and restarted CGminer - touch wood its picking up again

Mining Status

CGMiner Status   Running (pid=14460)
Last Checked   Wed Oct 23 16:21:05 UTC 2013
Avg. Hash Rate   520 Gh/s
WU   7908
Difficulty Accepted   145920
HW Status

ASIC slot #1   44.0 ℃
ASIC slot #2   -
ASIC slot #3   51.0 ℃
ASIC slot #4   45.0 ℃
ASIC slot #5   41.0 ℃
ASIC slot #6   -

[DPoS]

The hardware error rate is killing me, seems that no matter what firmware I use, some firmware lowers the WU but improves the error rate, and others raise the WU but increase the error rate......most of my cores are running and flushwork is better.
Any ideas on why such a high error rate??

I don't really care about the error rate. I only look my hash rate @ the pool.

what kills the hashrate the most seems to be the enabling and disabling of cores (besides flushwork of course)

bfgminer removes that and gives control to the user (aided by asic_test to map the really bad ones off for you)

cgminer .96/.97 is doing better since it maps asic_test to ignore the bad ones and plays with ones that shouldn't be much trouble.  It usually takes at least 10-15 mins for these to ramp up and you will see your HW error % go down low if you have good modules


I am tempted to run .93/bfgminer on my good miner to see if can avg 600Gh stable but think that is a bit risky/greedy at this time  

[ElGabo]

The 0.97 firmware doesn't worked for me. The hashrate dropped down from 550 to 540, the HW rate went up to 10%.

Now I'm back to 0.96 with hashrate between 557-560, HW error 4,4%.

What do you guys think?

[DPoS]

The 0.97 firmware doesn't worked for me. The hashrate dropped down from 550 to 540, the HW rate went up to 10%.

Now I'm back to 0.96 with hashrate between 557-560, HW error 4,4%.

What do you guys think?

you have to give .96/.97 longer time to see their real hashrate

about 15mins to see if it increases, and about an two hours to see how it stabilizes

[ElGabo]

The 0.97 firmware doesn't worked for me. The hashrate dropped down from 550 to 540, the HW rate went up to 10%.

Now I'm back to 0.96 with hashrate between 557-560, HW error 4,4%.

What do you guys think?

you have to give .96/.97 longer time to see their real hashrate

about 15mins to see if it increases, and about an two hours to see how it stabilizes

I gave more then 2 hours for 0.97. 0.96 was runing before at 500 for long. There is a picture about it a few post ago. After half an hour since I back to 0.96 it's runing 555 rock solid... with 4,5% HW.

[Rawbit]

Any1 tried enablecores.bin on .97?
I get:

Code:

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./enablecores.bin: line 2: syntax error: unexpected "("
root@Jupiter-E8F:/config#