Waiting at home, still no signs of USPS delivery man 
I am starting to wonder if you are my next door neighbor. We both got ours shipped same day and time, and I think we will both get ours in about 45 minutes (when they come to our doorstep!)
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September 06, 2013, 03:02:44 PM
I am starting to wonder if you are my next door neighbor. We both got ours shipped same day and time, and I think we will both get ours in about 45 minutes (when they come to our doorstep!)
September 06, 2013, 03:01:59 PM
Waiting at home, still no signs of USPS delivery man
Wish I had your problem
September 06, 2013, 02:47:09 PM
Waiting at home, still no signs of USPS delivery man
September 06, 2013, 02:41:42 PM
How are you guys adding in the extra load (without drawing much power) for your power supply so that it will stay on?
Is there a minimum for a PSU to stay on? I have seen someone else post about this a while ago but have not tested it yet. My PSU kicks on fine with only 5 watts on it, but I haven't tested it for long durations.
Mine does not turn on with only the m-board hooked up. I had to connect a dvd-drive to the chain to get it to power up.
September 06, 2013, 02:38:05 PM
How are you guys adding in the extra load (without drawing much power) for your power supply so that it will stay on?
Is there a minimum for a PSU to stay on? I have seen someone else post about this a while ago but have not tested it yet. My PSU kicks on fine with only 5 watts on it, but I haven't tested it for long durations.
I have a 730W psu running about 30-40W (modminer FPGA) over only the 12V line, with the always-on hack and its run continuously for about a week no issues
September 06, 2013, 02:29:17 PM
How are you guys adding in the extra load (without drawing much power) for your power supply so that it will stay on?
Is there a minimum for a PSU to stay on? I have seen someone else post about this a while ago but have not tested it yet. My PSU kicks on fine with only 5 watts on it, but I haven't tested it for long durations.
September 06, 2013, 02:27:50 PM
How are you guys adding in the extra load (without drawing much power) for your power supply so that it will stay on?
extra load? a modern PSU should run safely with minimal load, you just need to bridge the mobo sensor pin to ground to force it to stay on
September 06, 2013, 02:22:57 PM
How are you guys adding in the extra load (without drawing much power) for your power supply so that it will stay on?
September 06, 2013, 01:24:55 PM
Maybe they won't last 10 years.... Maybe only 7.... The useful lifetime of these boards is measured in months at this point...
OC FTW !
OC FTW !
My thoughts exactly. I'm hoping for 12 months, but I am most definitely an optimist. If there was a way to OC, I'd be all over that.
link? I was under the impression that if a board has <16 working chips, it may be possible to overclock the others using the additional headroom provided by not running a chip (ie: 2/16 chips dont work -> 12.5% more power available to working chips. (am i correct on this, can anyone confirm?)
Only if you remove the chip and bridge its spi chain. If the chip is powered, it's consuming at least idle current, and if it's been configured, it's consuming full hashing current, regardless of how much work it's doing.
Also, the chips aren't going to automatically consume more current and run faster just cause current is available. You'd need to turn up Vdd (also an advanced maneuver
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September 06, 2013, 01:24:37 PM
Maybe somebody replaced a resistor and increased the regulator voltage. I don't think there are regulators in the same shape that have higher current capability.
September 06, 2013, 01:10:28 PM
Maybe they won't last 10 years.... Maybe only 7.... The useful lifetime of these boards is measured in months at this point...
OC FTW !
OC FTW !
My thoughts exactly. I'm hoping for 12 months, but I am most definitely an optimist. If there was a way to OC, I'd be all over that.
link? I was under the impression that if a board has <16 working chips, it may be possible to overclock the others using the additional headroom provided by not running a chip (ie: 2/16 chips dont work -> 12.5% more power available to working chips. (am i correct on this, can anyone confirm?)
September 06, 2013, 01:00:16 PM
Do you mind pointing me to that post? Thought I had digested most of the information regarding board limitations and whatnot but didn't see that possibility yet. You may have just set up my Sunday morning project... 
This has only been discussed over irc asfar as I can tell. 
September 06, 2013, 12:59:40 PM
Maybe they won't last 10 years.... Maybe only 7.... The useful lifetime of these boards is measured in months at this point...
OC FTW !
OC FTW !
My thoughts exactly. I'm hoping for 12 months, but I am most definitely an optimist. If there was a way to OC, I'd be all over that.
Do you mind pointing me to that post? Thought I had digested most of the information regarding board limitations and whatnot but didn't see that possibility yet. You may have just set up my Sunday morning project...
September 06, 2013, 12:58:06 PM
Maybe they won't last 10 years.... Maybe only 7.... The useful lifetime of these boards is measured in months at this point...
OC FTW !
OC FTW !
My thoughts exactly. I'm hoping for 12 months, but I am most definitely an optimist. If there was a way to OC, I'd be all over that.
Do you mind pointing me to that post? Thought I had digested most of the information regarding board limitations and whatnot but didn't see that possibility yet. You may have just set up my Sunday morning project...
September 06, 2013, 12:51:57 PM
I'm getting 52 Gh/s out of a pair of cards. The odd thing is, one of them is running right along at 30+, the other just barely manages to hit 22....
Yeah, same here. Seems each card is going at its own pace. Would be nice to find a way to whip all the slacker cards up to 30, heh.
September 06, 2013, 12:51:36 PM
aaah that greed! You get double you pay for and its still not enough.
But I know that feeling
Congrats from across the pond and happy mining to all that believed in bitfury!
But I know that feeling
Congrats from across the pond and happy mining to all that believed in bitfury!
September 06, 2013, 12:44:24 PM
I'm getting 52 Gh/s out of a pair of cards. The odd thing is, one of them is running right along at 30+, the other just barely manages to hit 22....
September 06, 2013, 12:43:40 PM
We are pretty unhappy with the USPS (supposedly) 2 day delivery. Admittedly there was a holiday, but we saw a package that left here on Saturday take 5 damn days to reach Ohio. This is totally bullshit - we dropped the idea of using USPS. Everything is shipping FedEx. It costs over $100 to overnight a starter kit, but this is the only reliable way to get these kits to you guys quickly.
Expedited shipping will be FedEx overnight (domestic). Canada overnight might still work there - I'll check with Yvonne.
Non expedited shipping will be FedEx 2 day.
The problem we ran into is that USPS only guarantees 2 day delivery in "certain zones" - something they didn't bother to tell Yvonne when she was researching this.
Since Bitcoin mining is a game of days at this point, megabigpower.com will ship FedEx from now on, period.
We still have about 2 days of shipping left to do. I'm expecting more product tomorrow, but there's been a back up of stuff in AK customs. It should be cleared by now, but I can't tell by looking at the tracking info. It says expected delivery tomorrow.
Cheers,
Dave
Expedited shipping will be FedEx overnight (domestic). Canada overnight might still work there - I'll check with Yvonne.
Non expedited shipping will be FedEx 2 day.
The problem we ran into is that USPS only guarantees 2 day delivery in "certain zones" - something they didn't bother to tell Yvonne when she was researching this.
Since Bitcoin mining is a game of days at this point, megabigpower.com will ship FedEx from now on, period.
We still have about 2 days of shipping left to do. I'm expecting more product tomorrow, but there's been a back up of stuff in AK customs. It should be cleared by now, but I can't tell by looking at the tracking info. It says expected delivery tomorrow.
Cheers,
Dave
How are you balancing the remaining august preorders vs the 18 TH you have running? Do we have to wait for you to get more boards?
September 06, 2013, 12:40:49 PM
Maybe they won't last 10 years.... Maybe only 7.... The useful lifetime of these boards is measured in months at this point...
OC FTW !
OC FTW !
My thoughts exactly. I'm hoping for 12 months, but I am most definitely an optimist. If there was a way to OC, I'd be all over that.
September 06, 2013, 12:40:25 PM
These seem to be very efficient chips - nearly as much so as the new 28 nm stuff coming out. I'm hoping for a useful year, too, because when these aren't cost effective anymore, nothing currently on the market or expected to be on the market this year will be, either.
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