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

[Epinnoia]

Mine have 24 hours under their belts, still running perfectly.  Oddly enough off a DLink D7 hub.  Averaging 2.19GH and 2.00GH.

If you want a higher hashrate up the osc bits in bfgminer to 53 or 54

Any way to make the change a little more permanent?  Like in a command-line parameter, or a configfile line?  I have a script that's doing my mining for me based on profitability, so I can't just hit 'm' every time a more profitable coin is detected.  

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[Beastlymac]

Mine have 24 hours under their belts, still running perfectly.  Oddly enough off a DLink D7 hub.  Averaging 2.19GH and 2.00GH.

If you want a higher hashrate up the osc bits in bfgminer to 53 or 54

Any way to make the change a little more permanent?  Like in a command-line parameter, or a configfile line?  I have a script that's doing my mining for me based on profitability, so I can't just hit 'm' every time a more profitable coin is detected.  

Yes you can use

--set-device NFY:osc6_bits=54

[Epinnoia]

Yes you can use

--set-device NFY:osc6_bits=54

TYVM

[HellDiverUK]

Mine have 24 hours under their belts, still running perfectly.  Oddly enough off a DLink D7 hub.   Averaging 2.19GH and 2.00GH.

If you want a higher hashrate up the osc bits in bfgminer to 53 or 54

Both running at 54, giving 2.77 and 2.54 respectively.  Nice.   

Now why couldn't the BlueFury have been as good as these things? :p

[Beastlymac]

Mine have 24 hours under their belts, still running perfectly.  Oddly enough off a DLink D7 hub.   Averaging 2.19GH and 2.00GH.

If you want a higher hashrate up the osc bits in bfgminer to 53 or 54

Both running at 54, giving 2.77 and 2.54 respectively.  Nice.   

Now why couldn't the BlueFury have been as good as these things? :p

Different board design. Just make sure they stay cool enough. If they do you can push them higher to 55 and you might crack 3gh/s

[HellDiverUK]

Mine have 24 hours under their belts, still running perfectly.  Oddly enough off a DLink D7 hub.   Averaging 2.19GH and 2.00GH.

If you want a higher hashrate up the osc bits in bfgminer to 53 or 54

Both running at 54, giving 2.77 and 2.54 respectively.  Nice.   

Now why couldn't the BlueFury have been as good as these things? :p

Different board design. Just make sure they stay cool enough. If they do you can push them higher to 55 and you might crack 3gh/s

I did get 3GH out of one for a few minutes at 56, but then it freaked.  Seems stable at 55 which is about 2.9GH.  Only cooling at the moment is from the air coming out of the caseless 8GH Jalapeno.    More tests later.

[Beastlymac]

Mine have 24 hours under their belts, still running perfectly.  Oddly enough off a DLink D7 hub.   Averaging 2.19GH and 2.00GH.

If you want a higher hashrate up the osc bits in bfgminer to 53 or 54

Both running at 54, giving 2.77 and 2.54 respectively.  Nice.   

Now why couldn't the BlueFury have been as good as these things? :p

Different board design. Just make sure they stay cool enough. If they do you can push them higher to 55 and you might crack 3gh/s

I did get 3GH out of one for a few minutes at 56, but then it freaked.  Seems stable at 55 which is about 2.9GH.  Only cooling at the moment is from the air coming out of the caseless 8GH Jalapeno.    More tests later.

That is good! What are your thoughts on the name and colour? It was something that i came up with so i am just wondering how people feel.

[HellDiverUK]

I did get 3GH out of one for a few minutes at 56, but then it freaked.  Seems stable at 55 which is about 2.9GH.  Only cooling at the moment is from the air coming out of the caseless 8GH Jalapeno.    More tests later.

That is good! What are your thoughts on the name and colour? It was something that i came up with so i am just wondering how people feel.

Colour?  To be fair, colour is the last thing I'm concerned about. Likewise the name.  It's not a bad name, but I wouldn't care if the thing ran on the cheapest green PCB, as long as it hashes.

But, I do like the heat sink compared to the feeble effort on the BlueFury.  With minimal air cooling they're running much cooler than the BlueFury did, even when a fan was pointed straight that the Blue.  I also like the 'instant overclocking' through BFG, which is nice.  Easier than the pencil trick on the Blues.

If the Icy is more reliable than the Blue, I'll be pretty happy.

I've got some AntMiner U1s arriving in the next few days, so it'll be interesting to see how they compare.

[Jeffrey]

Yes you can use

--set-device NFY:osc6_bits=54

GREAT!!
I haven't received the replacement units yet, but I had some NanoFury's from TechnoBit (which also show up as NFY, so I guess they're the same) and the speed went up from ~1.9GH/s to ~2.4GH/s
(BFGminer 3.9. Win7 x64, powered USB hub)

That is good! What are your thoughts on the name and colour? It was something that i came up with so i am just wondering how people feel.

I haven't received them yet, but I've seen photo's.
I agree with the post above, I don't really care about the color. Sure, for example the RedFury's being all red, red heatsink, red led, red PCB, sure it's all cool and funky. But once they're up and running, I don't think many people will look at them. Also, in most laptops they need to be placed with the heatsink facing the table, so you don't see them anyway.
IceFury sounds cool. But again, not extremely important. I must admit, it sounds like it comes with some extreme form of cooling, which it doesn't (but yes, this heatsink looks SO MUCH better than the BlueFury)
In the end, all people care about is stability, speed and price. If you call them PinkCrap with all pink and purple colors and lights, but they're cheap, stable and fast, people will pick them anytime over some cool looking and named device which runs like shit.

[Beastlymac]

Yes you can use

--set-device NFY:osc6_bits=54

GREAT!!
I haven't received the replacement units yet, but I had some NanoFury's from TechnoBit (which also show up as NFY, so I guess they're the same) and the speed went up from ~1.9GH/s to ~2.4GH/s
(BFGminer 3.9. Win7 x64, powered USB hub)

Yes they are almost exactly the same. Except one of the control chips on the ice fury is slightly larger. We did this because the original one was almost impossible to get our hands on.

Thanks

[nottm28]

I like the name and the signature on the boards - Ice Fury - seems to be attracting more interest on ebay than the 'old' blues and reds.

I must say you took your time beastly but you did come through for everyone in the end when it would have been easy to walk away. Thanks.

[Beastlymac]

I like the name and the signature on the boards - Ice Fury - seems to be attracting more interest on ebay than the 'old' blues and reds.

I must say you took your time beastly but you did come through for everyone in the end when it would have been easy to walk away. Thanks.

Yeah the time it took to get them out doesn't make me happy. But they are good devices.

[Jeffrey]

I like the name and the signature on the boards - Ice Fury - seems to be attracting more interest on ebay than the 'old' blues and reds.

I must say you took your time beastly but you did come through for everyone in the end when it would have been easy to walk away. Thanks.

Yeah the time it took to get them out doesn't make me happy. But they are good devices.

Maybe I've missed it, but are these IceFury's also for sale? Or were they created only to replace defective BlueFury's?

[Beastlymac]

I like the name and the signature on the boards - Ice Fury - seems to be attracting more interest on ebay than the 'old' blues and reds.

I must say you took your time beastly but you did come through for everyone in the end when it would have been easy to walk away. Thanks.

Yeah the time it took to get them out doesn't make me happy. But they are good devices.

Maybe I've missed it, but are these IceFury's also for sale? Or were they created only to replace defective BlueFury's?

They will be available to purchase soon.

[rgr_rgr]

I am curious:

Using Nanofury (*not* Icefury) and bfgminer I noticed a lot of "frequency drop detected restarting" - messages. Do you also see them on Icefury?

[Beastlymac]

I am curious:

Using Nanofury (*not* Icefury) and bfgminer I noticed a lot of "frequency drop detected restarting" - messages. Do you also see them on Icefury?

Some things to check.
Power
the heat of the device
how many osc bits? try it at stock 50

[HellDiverUK]

Using Nanofury (*not* Icefury) and bfgminer I noticed a lot of "frequency drop detected restarting" - messages. Do you also see them on Icefury?

I do see it when I overclocked the IceFury too far - I think they did it on 56 a lot, and a few times on 55.  They're stable at 54.

[Mudbankkeith]

This is the design thread:-

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=321287.msg3441097#msg3441097

There is a resistor needs changing.  
The number was in one of the posts, (can't remember which one)
to raise the chip voltage.

0.81 volts to 0.83 volts?
 EDIT:- Helps with overclocking apparently.

[OutCast3k]

Figured out the problem. One of the components on the PCB has been smashed. It's the 2R2 resistor/coil inductor thingy so I'll see what I can do about ordering the part online

Thats a shame... you sure you're ok doing that??

[Olly_K]

yeah man. I have a new USB male SMD connector and the new inductor coming from RS Components. Cost of about £10. If it doesn't work then it's going in the bin.

It's really not worth anyone's time trying to get a replacement

It's been too emotional