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Barn said on the other forum that they would be doing a 16 chip Avalon gen 2 board. They won 5000 chips in the Avalon design contest.
That could be interesting if they get the price right, the Avalon chip is not as fast as the Bitfury, quite a performance gap actually, but ultimately it's $ per GH/s that matters. |
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December 23, 2013, 08:39:25 PM |
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Barn said on the other forum that they would be doing a 16 chip Avalon gen 2 board. They won 5000 chips in the Avalon design contest.
That could be interesting if they get the price right, the Avalon chip is not as fast as the Bitfury, quite a performance gap actually, but ultimately it's $ per GH/s that matters. After being very badly screwed over by Avalon this summer (with 1000s of other people) I will never buy any designs based on them, and suspect many feel similarly. It's not just $ per Gh/s that matters, but I'd consider W per Gh/s to be most important since this is the metric that determines "when to turn it off", the lowest W/Gh/s chips will be the last ones standing. Avalon is much weaker on W/Gh/s than others. And that's if they actually give you the product you paid for and don't auction it to a higher buyer. |
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December 23, 2013, 09:52:20 PM
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After being very badly screwed over by Avalon this summer (with 1000s of other people) I will never buy any designs based on them, and suspect many feel similarly.
It's not just $ per Gh/s that matters, but I'd consider W per Gh/s to be most important since this is the metric that determines "when to turn it off", the lowest W/Gh/s chips will be the last ones standing. Avalon is much weaker on W/Gh/s than others. And that's if they actually give you the product you paid for and don't auction it to a higher buyer.
Watts per GH/s is can be controlled to some extent by the clock rate you choose to drive the chips. We are not at the point where power consumption it trashing the profits, that will come but it's not where we are at atm. Even my BFL Jalapenos are making a profit at their 5Gh/s for 32watts. That's 6watts per GH/s, the Avalon chips can be run at about 1.5watts per GH/s. The ROI killer atm is the initial outlay, sha256 mining ASICs have always been way overpriced compared to other integrated circuits. |
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December 24, 2013, 11:36:39 AM |
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Hey all. Merry Christmas!  It has been a pleasure sharing the last months with this community. Despite all the ups and downs, I have thoroughly enjoyed everyone's company. Sharing in this crazy protect with you all has been a great experience. Hope everyone is having lovely festive times with your family and friends. Here's to a fresh new year with some fresh new exciting projects. And no more broken shit! I hope you will all be joining us. Lots of announcements coming soon to lead us into the new year. Cheers Barntech |
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December 24, 2013, 05:15:08 PM |
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Merry Christmas to all the team, and of course everybody reading  Its been a fun ride, and I look forwards to the next adventure. |
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December 24, 2013, 08:50:09 PM |
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Happy Holidays!!!! Big thanks to the Drillbit Team for all of your hard work.... Enjoy your achievements and look forward to some more cheers |
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December 25, 2013, 05:36:06 AM |
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Thank you Barntech. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
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December 27, 2013, 02:40:29 AM |
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Tried contacting tk1337 over PM but no response, any chance I can get the tracking number for the board you repaired for me, mate?
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December 27, 2013, 02:46:18 AM |
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Tried contacting tk1337 over PM but no response, any chance I can get the tracking number for the board you repaired for me, mate?
Try the Drillbit forums site. He's pretty responsive over there. |
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December 29, 2013, 04:06:45 PM |
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hi
will the 8 drillbit boards be still on sale
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erk
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December 29, 2013, 08:55:09 PM |
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hi
will the 8 drillbit boards be still on sale
There are no drillbit boards currently for sale, there has not been any for several weeks. |
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December 30, 2013, 01:40:30 AM
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Oh I am sure there are secondhand ones around, people scalping that kind of thing. |
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December 31, 2013, 05:00:17 PM |
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Got my 8baord yesterday, flashed ,fitted two fans and its happily hashing away....using cgminer --drillbit-options int:52:2:950 --usb DRB:1,ICA:0 ,38C with 2274HW in 18hours, which i hope is good?  |
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December 31, 2013, 05:26:12 PM |
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Got my 8baord yesterday, flashed ,fitted two fans and its happily hashing away....using cgminer --drillbit-options int:52:2:950 --usb DRB:1,ICA:0 ,38C with 2274HW in 18hours, which i hope is good? Hash rate? |
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December 31, 2013, 06:01:50 PM
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Got my 8baord yesterday, flashed ,fitted two fans and its happily hashing away....using cgminer --drillbit-options int:52:2:950 --usb DRB:1,ICA:0 ,38C with 2274HW in 18hours, which i hope is good? Hash rate? cgminer reports jumping 23.5(21.1) 5s av / 21.66 GH/s avg |
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December 31, 2013, 10:04:34 PM |
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Got my 8baord yesterday, flashed ,fitted two fans and its happily hashing away....using cgminer --drillbit-options int:52:2:950 --usb DRB:1,ICA:0 ,38C with 2274HW in 18hours, which i hope is good? Hash rate? cgminer reports jumping 23.5(21.1) 5s av / 21.66 GH/s avg Congrats! your board seems to be doing fine Getting cgminer version 3.8.5 - Started: [2013-12-31 09:46:00] DRB 0: E8 32.2C (34.7C) | 22.44G/22.44Gh/s | A:435092 R:1058 HW:14051 WU:313.5 snapshot time [2014-01-01 08:56:47] (abt 23 hours) while running with --drillbit-options int:53:2:950 HNY Cheers |
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December 31, 2013, 10:37:39 PM
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Congrats! your board seems to be doing fine Getting cgminer version 3.8.5 - Started: [2013-12-31 09:46:00] DRB 0: E8 32.2C (34.7C) | 22.44G/22.44Gh/s | A:435092 R:1058 HW:14051 WU:313.5 snapshot time [2014-01-01 08:56:47] (abt 23 hours) while running with --drillbit-options int:53:2:950 HNY Cheers well just stop working with those setting back to default int:40:1:850 the other i now just get asc timeouts ed. using int:52:2:850 with lot less hw errors!? edd. using :950 produces asic timeouts |
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January 01, 2014, 03:17:06 AM |
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Congrats! your board seems to be doing fine Getting cgminer version 3.8.5 - Started: [2013-12-31 09:46:00] DRB 0: E8 32.2C (34.7C) | 22.44G/22.44Gh/s | A:435092 R:1058 HW:14051 WU:313.5 snapshot time [2014-01-01 08:56:47] (abt 23 hours) while running with --drillbit-options int:53:2:950 HNY Cheers well just stop working with those setting back to default int:40:1:850 the other i now just get asc timeouts ed. using int:52:2:850 with lot less hw errors!? edd. using :950 produces asic timeouts Do the asic timeouts at :950 persist or are they just a short time transient? I think that if the configuration is changed for a 'running board', then there is a short time transient until present values from the previous session are cleared. If the timeouts are persistent, then you might try 'incremental' increases as suggested by one of the people on the drillbitsystem forum. Cheers |
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January 01, 2014, 03:32:39 AM
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Do the asic timeouts at :950 persist or are they just a short time transient? I think that if the configuration is changed for a 'running board', then there is a short time transient until present values from the previous session are cleared. If the timeouts are persistent, then you might try 'incremental' increases as suggested by one of the people on the drillbitsystem forum.
Cheers
I think that was me? My boards can be a little finicky when setting them to 950mV. What I've done so far is start mining at int:48:2:950 for anything from a few seconds to a few minutes, and then change to int:53:2:950. Got this automated using CGWatcher (in Windows 7) to begin mining on startup at 48:2:950, and then switch to 53:2:950 after three minutes (the smallest time increment possible with that program). Lately however, they haven't been reliably starting this way. I've had to manually toggle between 40:1:850, 48:2:950 and 53:2:950 before they can run at 53:2:950. Made a few batch files to make this easier. BTW, got a lovely 42 degrees day coming up on Saturday (EDIT: been updated to 43 degrees, wat...). Either gonna run the boards at 850mV or just turn them off for the day. Yay! |
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January 01, 2014, 07:35:32 AM |
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Congrats! your board seems to be doing fine Getting cgminer version 3.8.5 - Started: [2013-12-31 09:46:00] DRB 0: E8 32.2C (34.7C) | 22.44G/22.44Gh/s | A:435092 R:1058 HW:14051 WU:313.5 snapshot time [2014-01-01 08:56:47] (abt 23 hours) while running with --drillbit-options int:53:2:950 HNY Cheers well just stop working with those setting back to default int:40:1:850 the other i now just get asc timeouts ed. using int:52:2:850 with lot less hw errors!? edd. using :950 produces asic timeouts Do the asic timeouts at :950 persist or are they just a short time transient? I think that if the configuration is changed for a 'running board', then there is a short time transient until present values from the previous session are cleared. If the timeouts are persistent, then you might try 'incremental' increases as suggested by one of the people on the drillbitsystem forum. Cheers total timeout no hashing message: DRB 0: timing out unresponsive ASIC 0 - 6 any setting with 950 in so using int:54:2:850 for 10 min 19.8GH/s avg 30C a:2072 HW:143 so not to bad but less way less than yesterday |
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