New Technobit project HEX4RB - 4 chip RockerBox ASic based board

[luigi74]

Can I ask how many flashing LEDs it has? Need LEDs because they create extra hash

[marto74]

http://technobit.eu/0_4_0.rar

* 0.4.0
* Known Issues reported by users:
  1. dhcp client my brick your router - do not use it
  2. Openwrt failsafe mode is not working
  3. Startup scripts are messed up during upgrade. Fix them via web or check and execute /usr/bin/fix_rc. Minimum is (s)cgminer and udev (Hotplug) to be enabled during startup
* cgminer for hex BTC Miners - patch to cgminer 4.6.1 rev_9afd0a216a0f95adb650e4818f24af1a61ad837d.patch
* cgminer for hex Scrypt Miners - patch to cgminer 4.6.1 srev_9afd0a216a0f95adb650e4818f24af1a61ad837d.patch
* cgminer - HEXR driver production release
* Compile Rocker HEXR ./autogen.sh ..... --enable-hexminerr
* Rocker (HEXR) new cgminer config options
--hexminerr-asic-diff use at least 16 here and meake sure your pool worker min difficulty is configured accourdingly in order not to loose hash rate
--hexminerr-pic-roll - Default: 60 or 90. MicroChip PIC work internal roll count - Reduces dramatically USB load - range 0-255. Please use at least 10 or 20 here
--hexminerr-chip-mask - 255 enable all chips
--hexminerr-voltage  - core voltage Default: 690
--hexminerr-options chip_count:frequency Default: 4:650
* openwrt - New HEXR web config tabs to reflect above
* openwrt updated to 42657
Todo
* Fix dhcp,failsafe and startup scripts when time alows
* Fix bugs HEXR (Spondoolies-Tech Rocker ASICs) in preparation for board launch - done

[BitcoinRuinedMyLife]

why so many power connectors?

Why not, its just a test board and there's plenty of board space. For the retail boards you just don't dont drop PCI-E connectors through and leave them as empty connections.

I personally would have preferred the chips to be centralised and squashed together more so we could have used standardised PC heatsinks cooling all 4 chips. 350W can be done with one higher end air heatsink or basic 120mm watercooling. I think its time we moved away from these strange aluminium blocks with obscene fans to make up for the low surface areas.

350watt on a "high end" air cooler is going to result in bad temperatures.
With a price of a high end air cooler it would be easier to buy one of those corsair aio water cooling units and have better performance for a price in the same ballpark.

[dogie]

why so many power connectors?

Why not, its just a test board and there's plenty of board space. For the retail boards you just don't dont drop PCI-E connectors through and leave them as empty connections.

I personally would have preferred the chips to be centralised and squashed together more so we could have used standardised PC heatsinks cooling all 4 chips. 350W can be done with one higher end air heatsink or basic 120mm watercooling. I think its time we moved away from these strange aluminium blocks with obscene fans to make up for the low surface areas.

350watt on a "high end" air cooler is going to result in bad temperatures.
With a price of a high end air cooler it would be easier to buy one of those corsair aio water cooling units and have better performance for a price in the same ballpark.

High end air with a sensible fan = will do that fine while being smaller, lighter and cheaper. Either way it doesn't matter because I don't think its what we're getting.

[zyberguy]

How loud of the fan?
In your webshop, you combine 2 miners into 1 units.
Not sure about fan sound when run in turbo mode.
I want to run it on an office or living room, do you have info on this?

[marto74]

How loud of the fan?
In your webshop, you combine 2 miners into 1 units.
Not sure about fan sound when run in turbo mode.
I want to run it on an office or living room, do you have info on this?

on the power distribution board you have an option to attach fans to 5V when underclocked

[area3121]

nice porn there..

[ZiG]

nice porn there..

Better of anything else...

[BitcoinRuinedMyLife]

why so many power connectors?

Why not, its just a test board and there's plenty of board space. For the retail boards you just don't dont drop PCI-E connectors through and leave them as empty connections.

I personally would have preferred the chips to be centralised and squashed together more so we could have used standardised PC heatsinks cooling all 4 chips. 350W can be done with one higher end air heatsink or basic 120mm watercooling. I think its time we moved away from these strange aluminium blocks with obscene fans to make up for the low surface areas.

350watt on a "high end" air cooler is going to result in bad temperatures.
With a price of a high end air cooler it would be easier to buy one of those corsair aio water cooling units and have better performance for a price in the same ballpark.

High end air with a sensible fan = will do that fine while being smaller, lighter and cheaper. Either way it doesn't matter because I don't think its what we're getting.

I'm not sure what high end cooler you are referring to. For $80-100 a H series Corsair AIO will dissipate more heat regardless.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103189&cm_re=cooler_master_v8-_-35-103-189-_-Product
I am assuming this is what you consider a high end air cooler, if that is the case then yes the Corsair units would be better all around.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181031&cm_re=corsair_h80-_-35-181-031-_-Product

That cooler master will be a huge awkward sized cooler where the corsair will be a small block with a radiator where you can position to your convenience...

[dogie]

why so many power connectors?

Why not, its just a test board and there's plenty of board space. For the retail boards you just don't dont drop PCI-E connectors through and leave them as empty connections.

I personally would have preferred the chips to be centralised and squashed together more so we could have used standardised PC heatsinks cooling all 4 chips. 350W can be done with one higher end air heatsink or basic 120mm watercooling. I think its time we moved away from these strange aluminium blocks with obscene fans to make up for the low surface areas.

350watt on a "high end" air cooler is going to result in bad temperatures.
With a price of a high end air cooler it would be easier to buy one of those corsair aio water cooling units and have better performance for a price in the same ballpark.

High end air with a sensible fan = will do that fine while being smaller, lighter and cheaper. Either way it doesn't matter because I don't think its what we're getting.

I'm not sure what high end cooler you are referring to. For $80-100 a H series Corsair AIO will dissipate more heat regardless.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103189&cm_re=cooler_master_v8-_-35-103-189-_-Product
I am assuming this is what you consider a high end air cooler, if that is the case then yes the Corsair units would be better all around.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181031&cm_re=corsair_h80-_-35-181-031-_-Product

That cooler master will be a huge awkward sized cooler where the corsair will be a small block with a radiator where you can position to your convenience...

... no, just no....

[BitcoinRuinedMyLife]

why so many power connectors?

Why not, its just a test board and there's plenty of board space. For the retail boards you just don't dont drop PCI-E connectors through and leave them as empty connections.

I personally would have preferred the chips to be centralised and squashed together more so we could have used standardised PC heatsinks cooling all 4 chips. 350W can be done with one higher end air heatsink or basic 120mm watercooling. I think its time we moved away from these strange aluminium blocks with obscene fans to make up for the low surface areas.

350watt on a "high end" air cooler is going to result in bad temperatures.
With a price of a high end air cooler it would be easier to buy one of those corsair aio water cooling units and have better performance for a price in the same ballpark.

High end air with a sensible fan = will do that fine while being smaller, lighter and cheaper. Either way it doesn't matter because I don't think its what we're getting.

I'm not sure what high end cooler you are referring to. For $80-100 a H series Corsair AIO will dissipate more heat regardless.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103189&cm_re=cooler_master_v8-_-35-103-189-_-Product
I am assuming this is what you consider a high end air cooler, if that is the case then yes the Corsair units would be better all around.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181031&cm_re=corsair_h80-_-35-181-031-_-Product

That cooler master will be a huge awkward sized cooler where the corsair will be a small block with a radiator where you can position to your convenience...

... no, just no....

Your post regarding an air cooler dissipating 350watt is nonsense. Dual 120mm radiators with decent fans of 1500-1800rpm would dissipate up to 300w. I am not sure where you're pulling your magical unicorn numbers from. Feel free to post a air cooler that can dissipate 350watts, make sure it doesn't have 5000rpm fans attached to it.

[MasterRadix]

pics pics pics

[dogie]

Your post regarding an air cooler dissipating 350watt is nonsense. Dual 120mm radiators with decent fans of 1500-1800rpm would dissipate up to 300w. I am not sure where you're pulling your magical unicorn numbers from. Feel free to post a air cooler that can dissipate 350watts, make sure it doesn't have 5000rpm fans attached to it.

I just need to quote this to show you don't know what you're talking about and you're not worth arguing with.

[Taugeran]

Your post regarding an air cooler dissipating 350watt is nonsense. Dual 120mm radiators with decent fans of 1500-1800rpm would dissipate up to 300w. I am not sure where you're pulling your magical unicorn numbers from. Feel free to post a air cooler that can dissipate 350watts, make sure it doesn't have 5000rpm fans attached to it.

I just need to quote this to show you don't know what you're talking about and you're not worth arguing with.

I can't help but laugh and want to humor this guy with a pic of my air cooled habanero running at slightly better than baby jet speeds ~435 Ghs

[Daengineer]

If you got solidworks/inventor you could run analyst on cooling systems and identify flow and trap locations and adapt to low power solutions to dissipate heat. 

[marto74]

If you got solidworks/inventor you could run analyst on cooling systems and identify flow and trap locations and adapt to low power solutions to dissipate heat.  

+1
I was using Solidworks since 2001 and it is a great tool .
Anyway do have in mind that in real life , cooling is always different.

[Davefox]

This looks very interesting I am current looking for new mining gear... Watching this thread

[BitcoinRuinedMyLife]

Your post regarding an air cooler dissipating 350watt is nonsense. Dual 120mm radiators with decent fans of 1500-1800rpm would dissipate up to 300w. I am not sure where you're pulling your magical unicorn numbers from. Feel free to post a air cooler that can dissipate 350watts, make sure it doesn't have 5000rpm fans attached to it.

I just need to quote this to show you don't know what you're talking about and you're not worth arguing with.

Get off your high horse. Hard to argue something you can't prove.

You took the time to write horse manure instead of list a name of a product, so the only waste of time here is you. Dodge more when someone questions your opinion because you can't provide facts to prove it.

You are claiming a "high end" air cooler can dissipate 350watts of heat. Do you have a name for one? Sorry you don't. The high end air coolers you mention cost the same as closed loop coolers. The closed loop coolers dissipate more watts of heat than the air coolers. When it comes to surface area, air and water, ambient temperature water flowing through a radiator with fans blowing through the radiator fins will dissipate more than the same surface area of heatsink with just air blowing on the fins.

Again, feel free to prove yourself, because it would of took less words to type the model of this "high end air cooler". You could have saved everyone the time and just listed the name of this unicorn air cooler.

[klondike_bar]

Your post regarding an air cooler dissipating 350watt is nonsense. Dual 120mm radiators with decent fans of 1500-1800rpm would dissipate up to 300w. I am not sure where you're pulling your magical unicorn numbers from. Feel free to post a air cooler that can dissipate 350watts, make sure it doesn't have 5000rpm fans attached to it.

I just need to quote this to show you don't know what you're talking about and you're not worth arguing with.

Get off your high horse. Hard to argue something you can't prove.

You took the time to write horse manure instead of list a name of a product, so the only waste of time here is you. Dodge more when someone questions your opinion because you can't provide facts to prove it.

You are claiming a "high end" air cooler can dissipate 350watts of heat. Do you have a name for one? Sorry you don't. The high end air coolers you mention cost the same as closed loop coolers. The closed loop coolers dissipate more watts of heat than the air coolers. When it comes to surface area, air and water, ambient temperature water flowing through a radiator with fans blowing through the radiator fins will dissipate more than the same surface area of heatsink with just air blowing on the fins.

Again, feel free to prove yourself, because it would of took less words to type the model of this "high end air cooler". You could have saved everyone the time and just listed the name of this unicorn air cooler.

250W TDP at 26dB  (huge, using 2 120mm fans) http://www.bequiet.com/en/cpucooler/482
350W TDP http://www.techpowerup.com/141811/zalman-announces-cnps11x-extreme-cpu-cooler.html

IMO the only fan/heatsink coolers that can handle such wattage are massive monstrosities that almost certainly cannot be shipped mounted or they will snap the PCB/mounts, and would require a big open case to offer the airflow. Closed-loop liquid cooling seems like the obvious winner

[Bicknellski]

Technobit  Up to 10 week delays in shipment of some customers Minion Group Buy Units.

The hurt / delays continue for some customers of Technobit who have paid substantial amounts for miners over 10 weeks ago.

I agree with scrappy here, Batch 1 should of been sent out by now. reading the thread its totally unprofessional sending out small orders first.
i see some people waiting 10 weeks now for there order to be shipped out and nothing. Seems people with large orders are getting shafted.

I think compensation is due MARTO!!!!

People have been patient with you since you had a problem with the boards, but this now seems to be resolved.
So what exactly is going on??

i do not what to take legal action as BFL are facing and now KNC miner, marto.
You really havent provided any updates to people with large orders on the forum at all.

Please provide a clear update on what is going on and when everyone's orders are going to be fulfilled and compensation package.
with have been patient, but you have taken are patience for granted now.

There is seriously something wrong with this thread. Folks Martin has yet to deliver batch one yet we have 3 confirmed cases of him shipping batch 2. He says "small orders" Fuck that shit. Mine may have been large and paid in fiat. I have as of to date received 6 of 50, and Marto has promised 6 shipping dates and only sent once!

 Guys, enough of the bullshit.

 I paid in fiat for a flat conversion, have been lied to about shipping, and seen batch 2 orders go out before mine. Check the thread, I was in page 2 and traded in 2 x3's and paid in fiat. I know I am not alone here as I have spoke to many of you in pm's. Enough with the BS, bring it.

scrappy do, dam so shipments are just trickling out. i would of thought at least batch 1 would of been completed by now

I haven't received a single one of my 88 boards. My chips have been at technobit since July 17th.

Marto any news when batch 2 will be shipped, its been over a month now since you received my chips. ive emailed you on your site, 2 weeks ago and no reply.
would like to know whats happening with those.

you going to be offering any compensation for late deliveries now. awaiting 25 boards   and counting

 No offense Guyver, but he hasn't even shipped batch one out. Hopefully he will not ship out anymore batch 2 like the mistake made last week. I just got my first partial shipment today 6 of 50. I know its been over a month for you and I hate it, but it has been over 10 weeks for some of us.