Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com

[Phoenix1969]

My Mercury is running 138 GH/s~, worth updating to 0.9.8 from 0.9.6?

http://www.kncminer.com/userfiles/file/kncminer-0.98.1.bin
Put this on, let it run... if there is a drop, reflash, do again
takes about 1 hour to fully warm up

[CoinHoarder]

My Mercury is running 138 GH/s~, worth updating to 0.9.8 from 0.9.6?

0.9.8 has worked the best for me so far, I recommend you at least try it.

0.9.8.1 was crap for me, 30 less Gh on a Jupiter.

[OmegaNemesis28]

My Mercury is running 138 GH/s~, worth updating to 0.9.8 from 0.9.6?

0.9.8 has worked the best for me so far, I recommend you at least try it.

0.9.8.1 was crap for me, 30 less Gh on a Jupiter.

It particularly sucks for me to attempt to monitor things because I need to rely on slush's pool stats. I cant directly access the miner once its on the network. School sucks

[SirWizz]

I'd like to say thank you to all the hardly-working people, basement dwellers, trolls (and really everyone else  ) for making this possible!

[wasubii]

What could be better than getting up @ 3am to see how much you made during the night?
I love this shizzle!
Gox @ 227, XBT @ 212....  
Just reached 50% return, day 19
But according to Croppo, they aren't worth a dime.....
I better just give up then....
Hahahahahaha

Can I hate you now? :p

Don't hate, just envy that he is 50% towards ROI.
I wish I can say the same thing 

I'm "getting there" got mine (sic) on the 16th Oct

im about to hit the 27 btc mark with my jupiter, received the device oct 12.

hm...  i started with 6 jupiters also oct 12th, they have made 130 so far. but that is only 21.6 per machine. yours must be a class a ...

You guys are the lucky ones, I received my 22XX order on the 27th and have only mined 7 BTC on my jupiter since then (BTC Guild)

At least i havent had any hardware issues and am mining away at a steady 565GH/s

But the lost time makes me think ROI is impossible for me. If i had received it on 15th October I would have mined an extra 15 BTC.

Of course i knew this was a risky venture but i cant help but feel a little let down by the delayed shipment

[dwdoc]

Upgrading from 0.98 to 0.98.1 and then re-enabling all cores has increased the pool reported hashrate of
one Jupiter from 547 to 568GH, one Jupiter from 534 to 607GH and one from 513 to 543GH.  

Unfortunately this will not come close to compensating for the 33% increase in difficulty due in 12 hours.  

http://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty

[OmegaNemesis28]

went from 138GH/s to 145GH/s with my Mercury with 0.98.1

However I did not apply the all cores enabled bin. Should I? I never have before.

[xstr8guy]

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Damn! Lost on betsofbitcoin, betting that Bitcoin would hit $1,000 USD before this thread hits 1,000 pages. Maybe Luke can help me find a loophole.

Fake Edit: Found one! USD was not stated so I'm claiming it was for CNY.

~TMIBITW

lol, ouch.

One thing I would love is this thread to slow down, I'm almost considering hiring someone to read me the posts in Morgan Freemans voice.

Just hire Morgan Freeman himself.  It appears that he won't turn down any job and will narrate just about anything these days.   

Except Robot Chicken , but then they found a white guy who does a better Morgan Freeman than Morgan Freeman.

I'm not so sure that isn't the real Morgan Freeman doing "Morgan Freeman" on Robot Chicken.   

[dwdoc]

went from 138GH/s to 145GH/s with my Mercury with 0.98.1

However I did not apply the all cores enabled bin. Should I? I never have before.

Sometimes my Jupiter hashrates drop after a few days and I find that if I "upgrade" by re-enabling all cores and rebooting it helps.

[waterboi92]

went from 138GH/s to 145GH/s with my Mercury with 0.98.1

However I did not apply the all cores enabled bin. Should I? I never have before.

Sometimes my Jupiter hashrates drop after a few days and I find that if I "upgrade" by re-enabling all cores and rebooting it helps.

ive had hash rate dropping over time problem before as well, but i found that if you keep your temps above 60-63 degrees the hash rate is more stable.

[cheech300]

Wow 1000, thats huge! We have invoice Nr.1 from knc miner....and we do the when Bitcoin reaches 1.000 $ Party.....

Cheers
Cheech300

[plasmoske]

Used to be about 540-560GH/s on my hosted Jup. Now after the latest update, seems to now dropped to 490-500GH/s.

Kinda shitty. Needs for a way to opt in or out of firmware updates. They just seem to mass apply it to all hosted miners.

[timmmers]

went from 138GH/s to 145GH/s with my Mercury with 0.98.1

However I did not apply the all cores enabled bin. Should I? I never have before.

The max is 144 GH theoretically. With all cores running.

As for Slush and stats, my merc shows same there as everywhere else except Eligus which is all over the place. 141 /142 pretty solid since .98.
Not messing with it for a GH when you consider the downtime alone costs you money as it takes time to build back up.
Every time you shut down your average drops for a fair time period, hardly worth keeping doing it given the time sensitive period we're in now re difficulty increases. Your hashpower is worth much more now than after the next diff increase. I wouldn't waste any by messing about when the gains are marginal at best and possibly non existent.

Think formula one pit stops.

[Searing]

Congrats Phoenix! I am at USD break even in one more day!  I've made 32 BTC with my jup.  One more month(ish) to break even in BTC terms using the exponential difficulty estimates I have been using.

Edit - Looks like I am USD break even today based on coinbase price.

chrono, when did you receive your miner?

October 4th

chrono, I suppose your miner minted @530-550 since the beginning right?

Yes - Around 520 gh/s from the start.  I got really lucky with a unit with around 4 bad cores.

I wonder if those that had an easier transport had less hardware issues? I picked mine up in Sweden and flew home with it, and yes although it did go in the hold and suffer the horrors of Norway Air baggage handling and had all 4 fans fall off, it may have had less of a traumatic journey than via UPS/DHL van. Because mine has been happy on .96 hashing at 555Gh/s with zero bad cores according to:

My theory is simply that the boxes they ship the units in are "junk" and the unit is so light that whowever ships it tosses it about..it is not like it says 'fragile" or "electronics" on the outside or anything..

Just to be clear my Jupiter IMHO runs really well with only a couple cores iffy (off/on) is probably DUE TO the fact they shipped in such shabby packages.....my theory is that my unit (if it happened at the beginning of the trip) the box was shredded to the extent the only way to keep the miner in the box was basically to use '2 hands" and carry it..thus no tossing about on the  trip...(although it did arrive in a soggy box that you could not pick up with 1 hand and could see mostly shiny miner inside.and the fact the miner was filled with at least a 1/2 glass of rainwater)....


anyway works well on .95 have not touched it..but it is uncalled for these units should at least be in the kinda box you get a cheap DVD machine in..ie ....heavy cardboard etc...there is no excuse...but anyway that is my theory "ass backwards" though it may be on why the only thing I have wrong with it is they did not include 3 of the 4 foam rubber dealie things  on the top of the heat sinks...(the bas*t*rds).....ship them from Sweden immediately I want the 3 pieces for foam rubber they owe me...

anyway.....but I mean really the cheapness of the shipping boxes they use is just plain scary

Searing

[Puppet]

Think formula one pit stops.

I like that analogy:).  But lets do the math. I dont have a KnC, but how much downtime is there when installing a new firmware and rebooting? Surely less than a minute?

To win back one minute of downtime during the following day, all you would need is a 0.07% performance boost.

[cheech300]

Used to be about 540-560GH/s on my hosted Jup. Now after the latest update, seems to now dropped to 490-500GH/s.

Kinda shitty. Needs for a way to opt in or out of firmware updates. They just seem to mass apply it to all hosted miners.

Same to us, they where running stabil with 540GH/s now since two weeks they hardly Run with 480....

[timmmers]

Think formula one pit stops.

I like that analogy:).  But lets do the math. I dont have a KnC, but how much downtime is there when installing a new firmware and rebooting? Surely less than a minute?

To win back one minute of downtime during the following day, all you would need is a 0.07% performance boost.

Changing a wheel takes 2-3 seconds on F1, yet they lose more like 20 because like these rigs they don't instantly resume their previous speed right away. It's a fair old loss on the pool average especially if you keep doing it or worse, if it results in a lower hashrate (which you won't be sure of for an hour or so)  and you need to revert. Some people have had massive negative results from firmware updates to date, dunno why some and not others, but that required more pissing about and lost hashing.

An hour to get fully back to where you were isn't unusual in my experience when you reboot cgminer/ update. It doesn't go 100% - 0% for a minute - 100% at all, those last few GH can take a while.

Like F1 I think it's better to not have stops you don't have a clear benefit from. 

[ElGabo]

0.98 works better for me than 98.1

I see there is a lot of people how stuck with firmware upgrades. I write it how I do because I never had a problem after upgrading.

1. ssh to the miner

2. shut down cgminer.

3. run enablecores

4. click reboot

5. ssh into the miner

6. shut down cgminer

7. make the upgrade

8. I never click on reboot, just shut down the miner, wait a minute

9. turn on the miner

10. go to ugprade page -> ctrl+f5

11. if you like install bertmod.

Hope it helps for someone.

One sentence about cooling.

I made a fuckin good cooling for the jupiter, I could cool it down until 26-28C on max load verey time. But Phoenix has right, these boxes runs better warm. For me not 70C but between 45-55C. Less hw and a bit better hash.

[Biffa]

Anyone out there with a 4 VRM Day 2 order?  Just curious what firmware are you running?

0.96

[ElGabo]

Anyone out there with a 4 VRM Day 2 order?  Just curious what firmware are you running?

0.96

0.98