Project Update

[chooka03]

Hi Dan,

Well as expected whoever l***a is, he wanted that hex fury more than me.
Hopefully it's no one here but I've done my best to make him pay top $$.
I'm not paying $70 for that!
The Y1's are a CRAZY price!! I picked up 2 recently for $20 but haven't had time to play with then. I should just sell them again for that stupid price!
Anyhoo.... Back to dinner with the wife.

[Dataman]

I bought a used RockMiner R-Box 2.0 like JN's but I will not get it for a couple of weeks (if at all). The seller is new and has no history on Amazon so I will just have to wait and see. At least with Amazon I will get a refund if it does not ship. I paid WAY too much for it but it seemed to be the last one for sale on the planet.  
Today I will briefly be in the top 100 in world position ( ) but will get passed tomorrow back to 101.
I got one of the machines fixed yesterday and prep'ed it for the R-Box. It had a corrupted BIOS but I removed the battery and rebooted it a couple of times and it successfully reloaded it. Then it took over a hour for Win10 updates ( :furious: ) Nice to have two more GTX970's running again. I hope it works for the R-Box as it has a 1000 W PSU but is running 2 GTX970's and an 8 thread processor.
The "monsoon" continues here with rain every day and forecasted for the next 10 days too. It does give me time to play with machines though.  biggrin

[JugNut]

Hey DM good luck with your r-box. Have you got a spare PCI-E lead on that PC?  It needs a six pin PCI-E plug to power it, it's the same as GPU's use.  I've got mine sitting next to my PC with the side panel left off and then just run the PCI-E lead out the box from the Power supply.   

IF you were to ever get any more of them it might be best to just run them from a separate PC power supply. Buying a new power supply for just one seems a waste,  but if you get any more it may be the way to go.  They draw around 100 watt each.

@ Daniel & Chooka:  Yea the prices of those older USB sticks is ridiculous isn't it?

[chooka03]

Hi Jugnuts.
I think it was a BiFury that I bid on yesterday on EBay but I made someone pay $70 for it. (Bitfury red)
Was yours $33 $USD or AUD?
I hear Bitcoins is now over $1000 so maybe that sparked a bit of interest from noobs.

[Dataman]

Hey DM good luck with your r-box. Have you got a spare PCI-E lead on that PC?  It needs a six pin PCI-E plug to power it, it's the same as a GPU uses.  I've got mine sitting next to a PC with the side panel left off and then just use a PCI-E lead comming out from the Power supply.  Buying a new power supply for just one seems a waste,  but if you get any more might be the way to go.  They draw around 100 watt.  

Yep that's what I was doing. First I had to fix it. Then blew about a kg of dust out of it so I could find the PSU  biggrin then attached another PCI-E plug to the PSU and dangled it outside the case. I considered an Avalon 6 but that is a lot of money. I could find only one R-Box on Amazon. If you see any more of them let me know. I would like to decommission the Gecko's as they are a royal pain in the backside!   My ants work fine and rarely need attention.
EDIT: BTW I found this post yesterday on how to jumper a PSU to run them with an external PSU. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=820214

[JugNut]

@ Chooka: Yea if I remember correctly my Bifury was about AU $35 with delivery. The little bugga has been as reliable as a rock too, unlike some little green Gekko's that I can think of.

Yea Bitcoins may be a lot dearer now but there also twice as hard to come by as well.

@ DM:

I would like to decommission the Gecko's as they are a royal pain in the backside!  My ants work fine and rarely need attention.

Amen to that brother...

Yea at this stage the Avalon 6 is way out of my league too maybe when they come up second hand perhaps?

PS: LOL I'm going to have to start editing my posts I little quicker in the future me thinks,  you quoted me mid edit again & quoted the old version instead of the new.(even though there's not much difference between the two:)) Oh well what ya gonna do?

[JugNut]

Yea that link is the cheapest way to get your PSU jump started.  Or you can buy theses for next to nothing on Ebay & Amazon or even better one with a switch down the page a bit.
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dcomputers&field-keywords=PSU+Jumper

Or you can go the rolls royce route & get one of theses. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/301264637169?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT There cheaper on amazon though.

[chooka03]

Well we all know of my Gekko issues... Only 2/5 survived a couple of months. They are still trucking on.
I did try plugging a U1 into my powered hub the other day but found that when the U1 got stuck, it caused the Gekkos to stop also  ???
Unplug the U1 and the Gekkos started again. Strange.
Honest, I'd be tempted to sell the U1's if some fools going to pay over $60 for one.
I bought it for $20.

Clouds have finally cleared here on the Gold Coast. Enjoying a couple of days with the wife and no 3yr old.

[Dataman]

Swan Dive!
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-markets-bitcoin-idUSKBN14P1ID?il=0
http://www.coindesk.com/price/

[Dingo]

Still wouldn't mind a few hundred  biggrin

[Dataman]

BU has started a campaign for SETI 
Bitcoins have fallen another 12% 

[chooka03]

That's great news! 

[Dataman]

 
My R-Box has shipped and I should get it on the 10th.
@ JN: Some questions if you don't mind:
1. Did you use the zadig driver?
2. What are your run times?
3. Any tips?
Thanks!

[JugNut]

My R-Box has shipped and I should get it on the 10th.
@ JN: Some questions if you don't mind:
1.  Did you use the zadig driver?
2.  What are your run times?
3.  Any tips?
Thanks!

Sweet!!  I hope she's a good clean pick.

1  Yep sure did,  if you already have them installed on that box you probably wont need to again. But check just to make sure ;)
2  for 20GH #12's between about 12 - 14 mins.  I't s a tad slower now as it needs a good dusting out.
3  When plugging in or unplugging the 6 pin PCI-E lead make sure it's done in one clean action so there's as little sparking as possible.
Also when the hash rate go's from around 110GH down to under to say 107 - to 105GH then then it most probably just needs opening up & dusting, as that's what mine needs ASAP. If I think of anything else i'll let you know.

4. Have fun :)

[Dataman]

My R-Box has shipped and I should get it on the 10th.
@ JN: Some questions if you don't mind:
1.  Did you use the zadig driver?
2.  What are your run times?
3.  Any tips?
Thanks!

Sweet!!  I hope she's a good clean pick.

1  Yep sure did,  if you already have them installed on that box you probably wont need to again. But check just to make sure ;)
2  for 20GH #12's between about 12 - 14 mins.  I't s a tad slower now as it needs a good dusting out.
3  When plugging in or unplugging the 6 pin PCI-E lead make sure it's done in one clean action so there's as little sparking as possible.
Also when the hash rate go's from around 110GH down to under to say 107 - to 105GH then then it most probably just needs opening up & dusting, as that's what mine needs ASAP. If I think of anything else i'll let you know.

4. Have fun :)

Thanks, I will power it down and shut off the PSU before plugging it in. The PC has not run BU before (it was dead a fair while) so I will have to install the driver. I hope it is a good one. I bid on an ant U3 but did not get it; it sold for a ridiculous price way over my bid. Still looking for another R-Box but there are none to be had.