A few question for Loshia and Marto:
#1 Its possible to ship it out on 10. feb?
#2 Can you say me a configuration for cgminer? Is there something like this: --hexminer8-options x,x,x ?
Thanks!
First question is for marto
about second one:
--hexminer8-set-diff-to-one 1 --hexminer8-chip-mask 255 --hexminer8-voltage 955 --hexminer8-options 8:240
One by one
--hexminer8-set-diff-to-one 1/0
the diff when set to 1 like mine - am testing it now brings a lot pressure between UB-HOST and PIC/ASIC communication
Coin crafts can filter their response based on difficulty configured. When you set to one you got all nonces match diff 1 which has to be filtered and not send to the pool amusing you mine at diff greater than one. The only real advantage setting it to one is the cgminer 5 secs stats not moving up/down like crazy and average stats are settling down more quickly.
Assume that you mine at diff 128.
Cgminer sets it individually for each work passed to asic so it stays in sync with your pool always. Even if it is 1!
When you set it to zero - ASIC send to the pic only nonces matching the diff 128 and back to host so you have about 128 times less data transfer, and cgminer shorts the time for submitting the nonce not checking against pool diff
if it is a HW and all nasty stuff inside. the only disadvantage is that each nonce is counted not as one like before but as work difficulty itself which causes the stats variation. I suggest to use --hexminer8-set-diff-to-one 0 and configure your worker to mine at some constant higher difficulty. for instance when btcguild changes difficulty some old work may become stale oldddiff even though it is valid. In general if you happen to be in between two pools difficulties and your pool changing it up and down frequently you can have higher pool reject ratio - not good
--hexminer8-chip-mask 255 - this was for development you can enable/disable chips based on binary mask bin 11111111 - 255 dec all chips enabled. Obviously zero is not a good choice here
--hexminer8-voltage 955 the core voltage in milivolts. Do not go above one volt 1000
or do it on your risk
--hexminer8-options 8:240
8 is chip count - used for some internal usb timing calculations , 240 is the frequency. The actual chip frequency is multiplied by four so 240 means 880 actually. the maximum value as far as know is 275. But try to stay below 260 in general
And finally use --quiet when you have seen enough of course
