[EU/UK GROUP BUY] Blue Fury USB miner 2.2 - 2.7 GH/s

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[Beastlymac]

Good to see that everyone is receiving them. The support thread is linked in my signature if you need help.

[jml]

Just wondering if anyone is having the same HW error rate as I am when using bluefury with bfgminer 3.5.1?

Over 5 hours hashing now and I have noticed an increase in HW errors. In comparison with ASICMiner, I have 0.9% of HW errors and with bluefury I am getting between 3.7% and 5.3%. Quite high in comparison with the ASICMiner BE USB and blade!

PXY 0 is my overclocked ASICMiner blade and BES are the ASICMiner USB BE's.

Code:

 bfgminer version 3.5.1 - Started: [2013-11-11 17:17:19] - [  0 days 05:27:11]
 [M]anage devices [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options  [H]elp [Q]uit
 Connected to ****** diff 16 with stratum as user ***
 Block: ...77ec57a0 #269097  Diff:511M ( 3.66Ph/s)  Started: [22:42:01]
 ST:27  F:0  NB:35  AS:0  BW:[108/ 48 B/s]  E:83.24  I: 1.13mBTC/hr  BS:100k
 26           | 29.38/28.87/28.03Gh/s | A:8021 R:99+5(1.2%) HW:2700/1.9%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 PXY 0:       | 12.49/12.64/12.28Gh/s | A:3630 R:74+5(1.9%) HW: 576/1.0%
 ECM 0:       | 269.1/323.9/396.5Mh/s | A: 112 R: 2+0(1.8%) HW:   2/.11%
 ECM 1:       | 368.8/322.4/402.1Mh/s | A: 114 R: 0+0(none) HW:   2/.11%
 ECM 2:       | 207.4/325.8/383.5Mh/s | A: 113 R: 0+0(none) HW:   3/.17%
 ECM 3:       | 318.5/324.5/394.4Mh/s | A: 107 R: 1+0(.95%) HW:   4/.22%
 BPM 0:       |  2.36/ 2.36/ 2.14Gh/s | A: 581 R: 3+0(.52%) HW: 408/4.0%
 BPM 1:       |  2.35/ 2.35/ 2.11Gh/s | A: 592 R: 5+0(.85%) HW: 403/4.0%
 BPM 2:       |  2.39/ 2.39/ 2.26Gh/s | A: 634 R: 6+0(.76%) HW: 400/3.7%
 BPM 3:       |  2.31/ 2.32/ 2.16Gh/s | A: 588 R: 5+0(.87%) HW: 558/5.3%
 ZTX 0:       | 226.1/225.9/216.3Mh/s | A:  48 R: 0+0(none) HW: 208/.30%
 BES 0:       | 335.7/335.4/326.8Mh/s | A:  83 R: 1+0(1.2%) HW:   7/.46%
 BES 1:       | 335.3/335.3/329.9Mh/s | A: 105 R: 0+0(none) HW:   5/.33%
 BES 2:       | 335.7/334.7/329.3Mh/s | A:  79 R: 0+0(none) HW:   6/.40%
 BES 3:       | 335.8/335.2/332.1Mh/s | A: 106 R: 0+0(none) HW:  13/.85%
 BES 4:       | 335.7/334.9/335.9Mh/s | A:  96 R: 0+0(none) HW:   1/.07%
 BES 5:       | 335.5/334.9/346.6Mh/s | A: 109 R: 0+0(none) HW:   6/.38%
 BES 6:       | 335.6/334.6/331.9Mh/s | A:  87 R: 0+0(none) HW:  15/.98%
 BES 7:       | 335.5/335.0/326.4Mh/s | A:  90 R: 0+0(none) HW:  11/.73%
 BES 8:       | 335.3/334.9/334.0Mh/s | A: 100 R: 1+0(1.0%) HW:   5/.32%
 BES 9:       | 335.2/335.2/348.4Mh/s | A:  97 R: 0+0(none) HW:  11/.69%
 BES10:       | 335.6/335.2/323.8Mh/s | A:  91 R: 0+0(none) HW:   7/.47%
 BES11:       | 335.6/334.8/335.7Mh/s | A: 100 R: 1+0(1.0%) HW:   6/.39%
 BES12:       | 335.6/334.9/354.5Mh/s | A:  96 R: 0+0(none) HW:  14/.87%
 BES13:       | 335.7/335.0/343.0Mh/s | A:  83 R: 0+0(none) HW:  14/.90%
 BES14:       | 335.2/334.9/327.6Mh/s | A:  95 R: 0+0(none) HW:   7/.47%
 BEE 0:       | 335.6/334.9/334.5Mh/s | A:  85 R: 0+0(none) HW:   9/.59%

> 6% HW errors and struggling to get a steady 2.2GH/s out of mine on CGMiner 3.8.1

Not exactly been a great buying experience with these BlueFury, I have to say.

My Bluefury's are hashing at around 2.32GH/s to 2.39GH/s but actual hashing rate is lower than advertised due to HW errors. Running over 12 hours now and I can see that two USB devices have the same amount of HW errors as the ASICMiner blade.

I'll give the pencil mod a go on one of my USB devices and report back what I see.

Code:

bfgminer version 3.5.1 - Started: [2013-11-12 03:09:03] - [  0 days 12:58:29]
 [M]anage devices [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options  [H]elp [Q]uit
 Connected to **** diff 16 with stratum as user ****
 Block: ...98a02261 #269246  Diff:511M ( 3.66Ph/s)  Started: [15:33:47]
 ST:27  F:0  NB:103  AS:0  BW:[ 67/ 50 B/s]  E:116.37  I: 1.18mBTC/hr  BS:187k
 28           | 29.35/29.70/28.88Gh/s | A:19778 R:278+14(1.4%) HW:5889/1.7%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 PXY 0:       | 16.08/12.76/12.37Gh/s | A: 8374 R:191+14(2.2%) HW:1278/.92%
 BPM 0:       |  2.34/ 2.34/ 2.12Gh/s | A: 1481 R: 20+ 0(1.3%) HW: 912/3.8%
 BPM 1:       |  2.39/ 2.39/ 2.27Gh/s | A: 1539 R: 13+ 0(.80%) HW:1050/4.1%
 BPM 2:       |  2.35/ 2.35/ 2.18Gh/s | A: 1498 R:  6+ 0(.40%) HW: 897/3.6%
 BPM 3:       |  2.32/ 2.32/ 2.19Gh/s | A: 1511 R: 15+ 0(.99%) HW:1018/4.1%

[Zammo]

BFGminer 3.5.1 gives hardware errors, switch to the modded BFG 3.2 build and you won't have any hardware errors

I will send my stats using 3.2.

[Mudbankkeith]

BFGminer 3.5.1 gives hardware errors, switch to the modded BFG 3.2 build and you won't have any hardware errors

Download link in quoted message

1 ) Download Alpha Drivers Here : http://www.mediafire.com/download/819me4zvdju8lyg/bfgminerWin.zip

2 ) Extract and note where the bf1.ini is located in the folder.

3 ) Plug in your Blue Fury Miner and go to Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Devices and printers

4 ) Right Click on the Bitfury BF1 Device go to Properties > Hardware > Properties > Change Settings > Driver > Update Driver

5 ) Select "Browse My computer for Driver Software"

6 ) Select "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer"

7 ) Select "Have Disk", Browse to the bfgminerWin folder and Select bf1.ini

8 ) Select Install and it will give you a warning that the driver is NOT SIGNED. Press okay.

9 ) Now that the Driver is installed navigate to bfgminerWin > bfgminer32

10 ) Edit the #Mine.bat file in Notepad and change everything after "-O" to your own mining pool information and save.

11 ) Double click #Mine.bat and start mining Smiley

Here are my stats using 3.2. No HW errors even on the overclocked Blues

Code:

 bfgminer version 3.2.0 - Started: [2013-11-12 11:54:23] - [  0 days 04:35:16]
 [M]anage devices [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options  [H]elp [Q]uit
 Connected to eu-stratum-lb489kj.btcguild.com diff 16 with stratum as user Zammo
 Block: ...89db1e47 #269248  Diff:511M ( 3.66Ph/s)  Started: [16:29:00]
 ST:5  F:1  NB:39  AS:1  BW:[ 56/ 42 B/s]  E:114.03  U:21.2/m  BS:73.8k
 10           | 27.84/28.28/23.51Gh/s | A:5838 R:84+5(.81%) HW:0/none
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 BF1 0: BF1 1517230D |  2.26/ 2.27/ 1.96Gh/s | A: 483 R: 5+0(.34%) HW:0/none
 BF1 1: BF1 15191024 |  2.35/ 2.35/ 2.22Gh/s | A: 551 R: 9+0(.84%) HW:0/none
 BF1 2: BF1 15170E00 |  2.35/ 2.35/ 2.11Gh/s | A: 528 R:10+1(1.0%) HW:0/none
 BF1 3: BF1 150D1615 |  2.40/ 2.40/ 2.13Gh/s | A: 530 R:11+2(1.1%) HW:0/none
 BF1 4: BF1 150C1612 |  3.66/ 3.67/ 2.69Gh/s | A: 673 R: 5+0(.50%) HW:0/none
 BF1 5: BF1 1511211C |  3.64/ 3.64/ 2.55Gh/s | A: 633 R: 8+1(.87%) HW:0/none
 BF1 6: BF1 150C0B12 |  3.69/ 3.71/ 2.71Gh/s | A: 668 R: 4+0(.08%) HW:0/none
 BF1 7: BF1 150C1F13 |  2.37/ 2.37/ 2.28Gh/s | A: 569 R: 5+1(.93%) HW:0/none
 BF1 8: BF1 150F0D0D |  3.16/ 3.18/ 2.74Gh/s | A: 675 R:13+0(1.1%) HW:0/none
 BF1 9: BF1 15111203 |  2.33/ 2.33/ 2.13Gh/s | A: 528 R:14+0(1.4%) HW:0/none
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [2013-11-12 16:29:23] Accepted 0873b894 BF1 6  pool 0 Diff 30/16
 [2013-11-12 16:29:24] Accepted 06367ab0 BF1 4  pool 0 Diff 41/16
 [2013-11-12 16:29:25] Stratum from pool 0 requested work update
 [2013-11-12 16:29:29] Accepted 0019858e BF1 7  pool 0 Diff 2.57k/16
 [2013-11-12 16:29:29] Accepted 0a3ac38a BF1 3  pool 0 Diff 25/16
 [2013-11-12 16:29:30] Accepted 08fedf72 BF1 5  pool 0 Diff 28/16
 [2013-11-12 16:29:38] Accepted 0fc68282 BF1 6  pool 0 Diff 16/16

Every device has some hardware errors, especially overclocked ones, I don't believe BFGMiner3.2.0

The most important figure is the hash rate reported at the pool.

[Beastlymac]

Bfgminer 3.2.0 never showed the hw error rate similar to the way cgminer doesn't show it. I would go off what bfgminer 3.5.1+ says and anything under 8% hw error rate isn't really anything to worry about. It is mainly just crap information that the bitfury chip is spitting out.

[Mudbankkeith]

My Pi is giving an average of 2.33 on MinePeon, with an average of 2.24 at the pool. No special mods, no special drivers, just:-    -S BPM:all

Reject rate is 0.81%    Error rate is 59.23%

simple maths says this is not a true error rate.

2.33Gh less 0.81% =  2.311Gh    pool shows 2.24Gh so corrected error rate is 3.07%                

The extra 56.16% is probably down to running a 5Gh chip at less than 2.5Gh.

So with 2.24Gh at the pool I am quite happy for now.

Maybe next month I will try the pencil mod on the slowest stick.
Till then I want to recover some of the BTc I have invested, before I try to melt them.

[zlang]

Received my Blue fury's today 

[Slesh]

Got mine today.
1 of 8 do not use the Win driver as others (under WIn7) but shows me name of device "ATmega32U2 DFU".
Can someone help?
thanks

[HellDiverUK]

Pencil trick working.

[jml]

Bfgminer 3.2.0 never showed the hw error rate similar to the way cgminer doesn't show it. I would go off what bfgminer 3.5.1+ says and anything under 8% hw error rate isn't really anything to worry about. It is mainly just crap information that the bitfury chip is spitting out.

I upgraded to bfgminer 3.6 and I am getting over 9% HW errors.

Code:

 bfgminer version 3.6.0 - Started: [2013-11-12 18:17:21] - [  0 days 00:36:13]
 [M]anage devices [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options  [H]elp [Q]uit
 Connected to **** diff 16 with stratum as user ****
 Block: ...9841ed5a #269263  Diff:511M ( 3.66Ph/s)  Started: [18:47:28]
 ST:27  F:0  NB:5  AS:0  BW:[345/ 67 B/s]  E:32.86  I: 1.17mBTC/hr  BS:12k
 28           | 31.76/28.40/27.41Gh/s | A:1185 R:25+13(2.0%) HW:479/3.1%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 BPM 0:       |  2.38/ 2.38/ 2.34Gh/s | A:  87 R: 0+ 0(none) HW:115/9.5%
 BPM 1:       |  2.34/ 2.34/ 2.07Gh/s | A:  84 R: 0+ 0(none) HW: 81/7.7%
 BPM 2:       |  2.36/ 2.36/ 2.27Gh/s | A:  91 R: 0+ 0(none) HW: 62/5.5%
 BPM 3:       |  2.32/ 2.32/ 2.22Gh/s | A:  82 R: 4+ 0(3.4%) HW:105/8.9%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[albon]

So when might we get a better firmware?

[stevenf]

Got my Blue Fury's in today. Setup was easy, had them running within 5 minutes.

Do these values below look ok?

Code:

 bfgminer version 3.2.0 - Started: [2013-11-12 21:30:04] - [  0 days 00:44:18]
 [M]anage devices [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options  [H]elp [Q]uit
 Connected to stratum.bitcoin.cz diff 8 with stratum as user stevenf.worker1
 Block: ...ec8e34b1 #269281  Diff:511M ( 3.66Ph/s)  Started: [21:54:56]
 ST:5  F:0  NB:5  AS:0  BW:[ 57/ 47 B/s]  E:60.12  U:23.2/m  BS:22.1k
 6            | 13.88/14.11/13.22Gh/s | A:1030 R:8+0(.60%) HW:0/none
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 BF1 0: BF1 15142320 |  2.32/ 2.32/ 2.22Gh/s | A: 174 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
 BF1 1: BF1 1517250E |  2.41/ 2.40/ 2.37Gh/s | A: 184 R:1+0(.20%) HW:0/none
 BF1 2: BF1 150F200D |  2.43/ 2.44/ 2.38Gh/s | A: 186 R:1+0(.54%) HW:0/none
 BF1 3: BF1 150D050D |  2.31/ 2.30/ 2.15Gh/s | A: 167 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
 BF1 4: BF1 15170E01 |  2.27/ 2.27/ 2.00Gh/s | A: 155 R:2+0(.88%) HW:0/none
 BF1 5: BF1 1515040F |  2.38/ 2.37/ 2.10Gh/s | A: 164 R:4+0(2.0%) HW:0/none
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [2013-11-12 22:13:26] Stratum from pool 0 requested work update
 [2013-11-12 22:13:37] Accepted 07b12d8e BF1 2  Diff 33/8
 [2013-11-12 22:13:37] Accepted 10a4a000 BF1 4  Diff 15/8

Not sure what the values mean.

 BF1 1: BF1 1517250E |  2.41/ 2.40/ 2.37Gh/s | A: 184 R:1+0(.20%) HW:0/none

What do the following values mean in this example:
2.41
2.40
2.37Gh/s
A:184
R:1+0(.20%)
HW:0/none

Thanks very much!

[Mudbankkeith]

Got my Blue Fury's in today. Setup was easy, had them running within 5 minutes.

Do these values below look ok?

Code:

 bfgminer version 3.2.0 - Started: [2013-11-12 21:30:04] - [  0 days 00:44:18]
 [M]anage devices [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options  [H]elp [Q]uit
 Connected to stratum.bitcoin.cz diff 8 with stratum as user stevenf.worker1
 Block: ...ec8e34b1 #269281  Diff:511M ( 3.66Ph/s)  Started: [21:54:56]
 ST:5  F:0  NB:5  AS:0  BW:[ 57/ 47 B/s]  E:60.12  U:23.2/m  BS:22.1k
 6            | 13.88/14.11/13.22Gh/s | A:1030 R:8+0(.60%) HW:0/none
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 BF1 0: BF1 15142320 |  2.32/ 2.32/ 2.22Gh/s | A: 174 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
 BF1 1: BF1 1517250E |  2.41/ 2.40/ 2.37Gh/s | A: 184 R:1+0(.20%) HW:0/none
 BF1 2: BF1 150F200D |  2.43/ 2.44/ 2.38Gh/s | A: 186 R:1+0(.54%) HW:0/none
 BF1 3: BF1 150D050D |  2.31/ 2.30/ 2.15Gh/s | A: 167 R:0+0(none) HW:0/none
 BF1 4: BF1 15170E01 |  2.27/ 2.27/ 2.00Gh/s | A: 155 R:2+0(.88%) HW:0/none
 BF1 5: BF1 1515040F |  2.38/ 2.37/ 2.10Gh/s | A: 164 R:4+0(2.0%) HW:0/none
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [2013-11-12 22:13:26] Stratum from pool 0 requested work update
 [2013-11-12 22:13:37] Accepted 07b12d8e BF1 2  Diff 33/8
 [2013-11-12 22:13:37] Accepted 10a4a000 BF1 4  Diff 15/8

Not sure what the values mean.

 BF1 1: BF1 1517250E |  2.41/ 2.40/ 2.37Gh/s | A: 184 R:1+0(.20%) HW:0/none

What do the following values mean in this example:
2.41
2.40
2.37Gh/s
A:184
R:1+0(.20%)
HW:0/none

Thanks very much!

2.41Gh = 5 second average
2.40Gh = all time average
2.37Gh = average pool corrected
A = accepted
R = rejected
HW = Error rate

There is a full list in the read me documents

[stevenf]

2.41Gh = 5 second average
2.40Gh = all time average
2.37Gh = average pool corrected
A = accepted
R = rejected
HW = Error rate

There is a full list in the read me documents

Thanks a lot! Never used bfgminer, will check the read me docs.

But do the values look ok for the Blue Fury?

[Mudbankkeith]

2.41Gh = 5 second average
2.40Gh = all time average
2.37Gh = average pool corrected
A = accepted
R = rejected
HW = Error rate

There is a full list in the read me documents

Thanks a lot! Never used bfgminer, will check the read me docs.

But do the values look ok for the Blue Fury?

a healthy average is 2.33Gh at the miner with 2.24Gh at the pool, so you need to look at your actual pool figure. (there are ways to make them faster)

[qukkM]

OC I know everyone wants a tracking number but any chance we could get them asap. Been waiting in all morning for my 2 packages and would like to know if I am getting them today.  as I understand it the postage payment included insured special delivery which guarantees next day special delivery so my thursday package should definitely be here today and I would hope my friday 1 is here today too. if we have not had special delivery paid 4 can we get a refund on postage cost considering the massive price rise in btc since we paid for them,  to get delivery on a saturday usually cost a few pounds extra can you confirm that was paid on our orders

You, and everyone had them sent special delivery, the problem is special delivery isn't guaranteed for a Saturday delivery, some of you will get them some wont, those who unfortunetly don't get them today will get them by 1PM Monday.

Also as I keep mentioning, only part of the shipment I sent Thursday made it onto the lorry, the rest spent the night in the post office because it took too long to process, unfortunetly I couldn't say whos got sent thursday and whos went out the next day.

I've got about 10 more receipts to match against my records before I'll be able to mass mail everyones tracking number, there was just too many tracking numbers yesterday, but I'll manually send a few now to those who are desperate.


*EDIT* @qukkM, Sent your tracking numbers to you, both say "We have tried to deliver your item from our P******* Delivery Office before 10:17 on 09/11/13 and we have left a while you were out card." but you've been moaning at me about non delivery since mid day, so I'm not sure what to suggest other than to check your letter box.

I know we have resolved this but I just saw your edit: re: me moaning, I was not complaining without good reason as you are fully aware, you sent my packages, all 38 miners, to the wrong address.

[OutCast3k]

I know we have resolved this but I just saw your edit: re: me moaning, I was not complaining without good reason as you are fully aware, you sent my packages, all 38 miners, to the wrong address.

I do understand your frustration, it has been a long wait, but to be fair, you was complaining well before we discovered that the miners had been sent to your old address, because unfortunetly I never spotted or confirmed your request to change your delivery address.

Anyway, again, I am really very sorry about that, It is good to see it was resolved so quickly though.

[ct1aic]

Already received my 3 USB Blue Fury Gizmos and already left positive trust to Outcast3K.

Many thanks for your kind help and support.

[OutCast3k]

Already received my 3 USB Blue Fury Gizmos and already left positive trust to Outcast3K.

Many thanks for your kind help and support.