Acorn M.2 FPGA based GPU Accelerator

[gsrcrxsi314]

I dunno. I still think I’d rather have the GPU personally. More flexibility. Easier to resale

[philipma1957]

I dunno. I still think I’d rather have the GPU personally. More flexibility. Easier to resale

well if you have gpu's  it is easier to get.

if you have nothing maybe a gpu is better.

I see limitations to these since algorithm  changes appear to have many restrictions.

dependence on  the builder to add software and more   choice is an issue.,

Still waiting on ordering glitch to be fixed

paid for an order of 1 acorn 215+  it went through on the minority

paid for an order of 1 acorn 215+ and a x2g nest and coinpayments took the coin while squirrels research canceled that 446 usd order .

Makes it easy to not buy more gear since I need that order to get fixed first.

[Boriss]

We must also take one more think in calculation, GPUs usually have 3 year warranty on them, this Acorns cost some nice money but question is will they ROI themselves in time before they die?
I can go to may local store to return GPU but for Acorn I don't know how much warranty I have and where to ship it if it start acting weird or die competently.
With 24/7 operation that is something that must be taken into account.

ps. Can someone tell me the difference between their shipping methods?

$129.54   International Economy   FEDEX
$181.30   International Priority   FEDEX
$75.00   Fixed   Flat Rate International

[dsmn]

We must also take one more think in calculation, GPUs usually have 3 year warranty on them, this Acorns cost some nice money but question is will they ROI themselves in time before they die?
I can go to may local store to return GPU but for Acorn I don't know how much warranty I have and where to ship it if it start acting weird or die competently.
With 24/7 operation that is something that must be taken into account.

ps. Can someone tell me the difference between their shipping methods?

$129.54   International Economy   FEDEX
$181.30   International Priority   FEDEX
$75.00   Fixed   Flat Rate International

Remember its an xilinx fpga, so its not some cheap chinese asic core, you still see manny of their 10 year old fpga's arround working.

[philipma1957]

We must also take one more think in calculation, GPUs usually have 3 year warranty on them, this Acorns cost some nice money but question is will they ROI themselves in time before they die?
I can go to may local store to return GPU but for Acorn I don't know how much warranty I have and where to ship it if it start acting weird or die competently.
With 24/7 operation that is something that must be taken into account.

ps. Can someone tell me the difference between their shipping methods?

$129.54   International Economy   FEDEX
$181.30   International Priority   FEDEX
$75.00   Fixed   Flat Rate International

the cheap one is us post office flat rate   medium box I think  that is about 6 to 10 days  to most of the world.

fedex is fedex one  is faster then the other.

one is about 6 days the other is about 3 days

what country are you in?



amazon prime has a sale today

 the ryzen 2700  for 225   note you need prime  and it is the 2700 not the 2700x   still a very good cpu for only 225

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07B41717Z/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

they have a good board for it


https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BVNYFM2/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

deal of the day 175

[aironeous]

alll risers support 3.0 (x1). well if motherboard support only 2.0, than the riser will do 2.0 as well.

Holy shit that worked!



Above screenshot is from Asus PRIME Z270-A.

And a screenshot from HIVE OS after running gen3 for the last 20 minutes with no issues:



I have 6 rigs with those mobos, so hopefully they will take to gen3 fine as well.

I have the same mobo. I can't find a way to change to Gen 3. I tried in the tool menu of bios.

[woodaxe]

We must also take one more think in calculation, GPUs usually have 3 year warranty on them, this Acorns cost some nice money but question is will they ROI themselves in time before they die?
I can go to may local store to return GPU but for Acorn I don't know how much warranty I have and where to ship it if it start acting weird or die competently.
With 24/7 operation that is something that must be taken into account.

ps. Can someone tell me the difference between their shipping methods?

$129.54   International Economy   FEDEX
$181.30   International Priority   FEDEX
$75.00   Fixed   Flat Rate International

Remember its an xilinx fpga, so its not some cheap chinese asic core, you still see manny of their 10 year old fpga's arround working.

the shipping prices take the piss tbh $75 flat rate  for an item that weighs what 2 oz max to to the uk ive had loads of items shipped from the states to the uk and not at prices like that i think they are making a profit on the shipping as well  not a good sign  Also there shopping cart is trying to put tax on the total as its being shipped out of the states i dont pay tax on the item

[NiklasFalk]

amazon prime has a sale today

 the ryzen 2700  for 225   note you need prime  and it is the 2700 not the 2700x   still a very good cpu for only 225

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07B41717Z/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

"AmazonGlobal Shipping   +   $17.77"

I know Amazon gets it's shipping for real cheap (some claim below cost) but just as an example of more expected shipping cost on an item like this.

[Bazzaar]

if you dig around the web a bit you will see that SQRL are aware that there are issues with the shipping fees and have promised to refund any difference if they can get it reduced
requires a bit of trust on customer part I know

[woodaxe]

if you dig around the web a bit you will see that SQRL are aware that there are issues with the shipping fees and have promised to refund any difference if they can get it reduced
requires a bit of trust on customer part I know

i did email them about the shipping price and being charged tax still awaiting reply from that  have you got a link as to where SQRL as stating about the shipping costs

[crazydane]

I have the same mobo. I can't find a way to change to Gen 3. I tried in the tool menu of bios.

Advanced/System Agent (SA) Configuration/Graphics Configuration/PEG Port Configuration / Gen3, Gen3, Auto
Advanced/PCH Configuration/PCI Express Configuration/Gen3

[philipma1957]

shipping and ordering has been very poorly handled.

I paid in full  via coin payments for order number 000000482   446 usd

which is 330 + 99 + 17 for shipping

order was canceled coinpayments is simply fuck you deal with the seller.

gpuhoarder has assured me they will fix this and are backlogged.


other order with  themineority  seems to have been taken okay.

that is for 330 plus 14.75 to ship  or 344.75

so I am 790 out of pocket  all paid to coinpayments

and only  the 344.75 order is good at this moment.

Soo  rathe then spend more on squirrels  I purchased  2 more s9i's  coming in two days  850 after coupons

and I grabbed the ryzen 7 2700  and the aorus mobo 400 usd for the two parts they are due on weds.

thats 1250  that would have been spent here on squirrels  but order system  errors   have made me  delay more orders.

So if squirrels corrects errors  I get 1 order in august  and I get 1 order in sept.

by then  my s9's  at 28th  will have mined for 75 days.


I am disappointed  in logistics with squirrels  but they are typical for a start up miner company.
I spent the money  because they are in Ohio usa based.

well maybe they will correct my cancelled order today.

[MA3A]

I am curious about drivers for these devices - is there any available to download see at all?
Will it be pretty much plug and play or will it need some nerd set mind?

[Iamtutut]

They should put a bank card payment in place, because right now this crypto payment company is not up to the task.

[ithaclies]

I drive for Rush-Delivery.com. We have offices based in Dayton, Columbus, and Cincinnati. If there is anything we can do to help with the shipping, tell GPUHoarder to give us a call (614) 337-3300 (Our Columbus office is only 2 hours from SQRL). I'm following this thread closely because I'm mining ETH with 15 GPUs so far and I just heard about this tech today!

[philipma1957]

I am curious about drivers for these devices - is there any available to download see at all?
Will it be pretty much plug and play or will it need some nerd set mind?

it should be okay to load

http://squirrelsresearch.com/sqrl-miner/

this seems to be it above.

[GaryH]

If you didn't see this already, they go into some good detail:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6el5_IW3pg

go to about the 32 min mark..

[dsmn]

If you didn't see this already, they go into some good detail:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6el5_IW3pg

go to about the 32 min mark..

43:30 This is what im exited about too man

"Without having to go back to the system cpu AT ALL"

[NiklasFalk]

More excitement at 45:00 about the Nest X2G. Selfcontained 2xAcorn+4xGPU unit with no work going to the rest of the system (unsure if the PCI switch will expand on the max 13 video cards on a system, or how many lines the Nest X2G needs from the PCI slot? Apparenty 2.0 X8 (1:05:00).

[dsmn]

More excitement at 45:00 about the Nest X2G. Selfcontained 2xAcorn+4xGPU unit with no work going to the rest of the system (unsure if the PCI switch will expand on the max 13 video cards on a system, or how many lines the Nest X2G needs from the PCI slot? Apparenty 2.0 X8 (1:05:00).

It was refering to the whole NestX2G thing, if youre fine with a 1:2 ratio its the shit man.

Like ive said before, and the talk about this dma bus just confirms it, the nestx2g most likely only need x1, if you just use it to boost its onboard gpu's. Since the data comming in and out to the nestx2g to/from the motherboard will just be work and shares.

The data is most likely so small going from the nestx2g in such setup that you could put 3-4 on a switch, add 12-16 gpu's on them, and then run the whole shit with some shitty soc that has a pcie lane. Depending it can run that manny gpu.

The ideas is endless man, what if you skipped the driver and talked directly with the gpu's, so the host computer didnt even need to know the gpu's were on the nest x2g, that would be cool, hint no limits on gpu's