Project Update

[Dataman]

Am likin' dem Rockminers!
1,132,801,276 today.


EDIT: BU just started a new campaign for the American Cancer Society (#15).

[kashi]

Wow, a billion in a day, that's a power of mining. As Yosemite Sam would say: "You must have dug clear through to Chinee".

Thanks for the heads up about the new campaign, will change over now.

[Dataman]

LOL Kashi!
A pic of "The Ant Hill".
One of the new U3's is not doing well but I am going to put them on a Superbpak powered hub and see if it makes a difference. I am using all USB ports on that machine now. Oh boy, another 70W hub.
When I get my next electricity bill I may be posting from the cardiac ward of my local hospital. 

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[Dataman]

A pic of "Rock Mountain".



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[Dataman]

A rather poor pic of "The Lizard Nest".


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[Dataman]

And then there is the monster "Goliath".

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[chooka03]

 
WOW Dataman..... Yes... you're lucky you don't live in Australia.... the power bill would indeed give you a heart attack.  

I see Daniel has joined the party also  

The team is really humming along now :)

Edit - I think there was one of those credit irregularities last night where everyone got extra credits. I received 41Mil which isn't correct as my hardware hasn't changed from 2 working Geckos.
Probably receive less credits today.

[chooka03]

Thanks Dataman, now just gotta wait to see if any pop up on ebay lol

Regards

Hey Tazzduke, this guy is in Australia and selling 2 x Butterfly labs 60GH/s devices. He says he'll also throw in a PSU if you buy both.
These are on the approved list.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Butterfly-Labs-60gh-s-SC-ASIC-Bitcoin-Miner-buy-2-for-free-EVGA-500W-PSU-/162369274839?hash=item25cdf683d7:g:m4oAAOSw5cNYhpvO


Can't say whether his pricing is good or not as I haven't really been looking at the Butterfly Labs stuff much. There was a 30GH/s unit for sale on the US eBay for USD$40.00 (AUD$53.00) so if this unit is a 60GH/s unit then I guess the pricing is fair.
Apparently Butterfly labs made a 30GH/s unit and a 60GH/s unit...... not sure how you tell the difference between the two when looking at them.

I saw one ebay add that said "60GH/s" unit in the main heading but in the finer print it said "this is the 30GH/s version". It was pretty misleading so be wary of that trap.

Personally I'll stick to the U3's as I have a 3yr old and the larger hardware with PSU's just don't look at child friendly for my place. 

Goodluck mate!

[tazzduke]

Gday Chooka03

Yeah I saw that as well, but I just spent my budget replacing my GTX 580 (YEah this one really hurts on the powerbill and gets so bloody hot).

GPUS that I have crunching (when it cools down a bit) 2 x GTX 960's (which roughly equates to 1 GTX 580) and 1 x GTX 770

I found a USB Antminer U1 1GH/s but I just got outbid and I aint paying anymore than 50 dollars for a USB miner lol

Regards

[chooka03]

Least you aint running a power monster like my R9 390 :(
Yeah ASIC miners are fetching stupid prices imo.

As people upgrade to newer miners though, we might see more of the smaller ones come on the market.

[Dataman]

Serendipity: means a "fortunate happenstance" or "pleasant surprise". It was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754. In a letter he wrote to a friend, Walpole explained an unexpected discovery he had made by reference to a Persian fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendip.

We were out and about yesterday and stopped by the local Flea Market. Not much going on in the middle of Winter but I saw a table of computer parts. 99% obsolete junk but then ... then I spied it ... on the edge of the table ... standing proud ... gleaming in the sun ... a shiny U3! I played dumb (not a big reach for me   ) and asked, "What does this do?" " I don't know," he said, "but give me $5 and you can find out." I gave him $5!!! No cable or PSU and I don't know if it works but for $5 (free shipping   ) it is worth it. Did not plan to install anymore but what can I say? It was fate.

One of the new U3's is performing badly ... not much better than a Gecko. Question is, "Which one?"

Goliath requires a power cycle (turn PSU off then back on) about every 3 days or it starts to get slower. Hot plug does not work. No big deal.

Bought a RPi 2 model B w/case on eBay for $6.52 (free shipping). Time I learn how to use one. There is a BOINC app for it.

[Dingo]

@Dataman.  I assume that RPI is a Raspberry PI 2 so this post might help from the Raspberry thread.  http://forum.boinc-australia.net/index.php?topic=1352.msg41430#msg41430

If it is a new one it should start straight out the box and you might just need to load BOINC.

[Dataman]

@Dataman.  I assume that RPI is a Raspberry PI 2 so this post might help from the Raspberry thread.  http://forum.boinc-australia.net/index.php?topic=1352.msg41430#msg41430

If it is a new one it should start straight out the box and you might just need to load BOINC.

Cool, thanks. It is used. I formatted a 32 G SD card and downloaded Raspbian. I think I have all the other stuff to config. it. I have an old TV with a HDMI port so hope that works. Don't get the RPi until late next week so should be good to go when it arrives. Will try some Einstein on it. The tutorials on the Rasberry site are quite good.

[Dataman]

I identified the U3 that was not hashing well. Totally by accident, I noticed it had a 6A power supply. The other three have 8A power supplies. I changed the 6A to 8A and it is hashing well.   Still do not know if the one from the flea market is good. It powers up with 6A but I do not have any spare USB cables or another 8A PSU. Yet another order to Amazon ...  

[Dingo]

It would be good if we could see which is which when they are running / or not.  Good pickup on the power supply though.  I only have two U3's and Windows 10 kept overwriting the driver.  I did the same fix as the other one and reverted the driver in Device Manager and said the Windows one did't work and it has been running well for two days.