Avalon ASIC users thread - page 113.

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Quote from: thejestre on July 26, 2013, 04:23:05 PM

Quote from: BitCoiner2012 on July 26, 2013, 03:27:39 PM

Also, any guesses on the bandwidth requirements for these machines, the Avalons?

Pretty negligible, if I understand your question. My Avalon [batch 2, black case] barely effects my network's access to the Internet. Also, the reverse seems true as well. I am able to stream Netflix, browse the web, FTP large files, without effecting the Avalon's performance from what I can tell. I'd bet any DSL-equivalent Internet access speeds are sufficient. I have cable access at about 6 Mbps up and down, but would trust a 1 Mbps up/down link to be more than sufficient for mining.

_theJestre

-just to add to what Jestre said, as far as I can understand it, the latency of the connection will have a much greater effect on your performance than your bandwidth. Bandwidth requirements are pretty much negligible, whereas poor latency could cause you to submit more stales... I think...

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Quote from: BitCoiner2012 on July 26, 2013, 03:27:39 PM

Also, any guesses on the bandwidth requirements for these machines, the Avalons?

Pretty negligible, if I understand your question. My Avalon [batch 2, black case] barely effects my network's access to the Internet. Also, the reverse seems true as well. I am able to stream Netflix, browse the web, FTP large files, without effecting the Avalon's performance from what I can tell. I'd bet any DSL-equivalent Internet access speeds are sufficient. I have cable access at about 6 Mbps up and down, but would trust a 1 Mbps up/down link to be more than sufficient for mining.

_theJestre

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Also, any guesses on the bandwidth requirements for these machines, the Avalons?

ProfMac

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Quote from: BitCoiner2012 on July 26, 2013, 02:34:31 PM

Having trouble pointing an Avalon @ Alt coins... any suggestions as to why?

Also, can't seem to connect anywhere that uses Getwork. IE pit.deepbit.com:8332 is socket error, same with Coinotron unless I add stratum. however, simply changing the port and etc for Coinotron that would normally allow me to mine alt coins does not do so, rather it just forces BTC. These mine SHA-256, is there some trick I am missing to mine more than BTC?

I have installed Ubuntu and eloipool in a virtualbox. This works well with the test network for bitcoin. It fails with bytecoin, an almost identical coin. There is some discussion on the bytecoin thread, search for 'Maria 2.0', about abandoning their p2pool efforts, and making eloipool work with Avalons.

The bytecoin version, bytecoin-qt does list my connection in getpeerinfo.

I was approaching it as a quick configuration problem, so that I could throw some hashes at the coin. It has only mined about 300 blocks since May, apparently someone mined 2016 blocks quickly, then orphaned the network at high difficulty.

I am going to rebuild my virtualbox installation from scratch with very good notes and a checklist. Pending on how much time that takes, I will package it as an "appliance." I may or may not include the blockchain. I have to go learn about diff files and merging them, I haven't done that in 25 years and my memory is empty.

BitCoiner2012

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Having trouble pointing an Avalon @ Alt coins... any suggestions as to why?

Also, can't seem to connect anywhere that uses Getwork. IE pit.deepbit.com:8332 is socket error, same with Coinotron unless I add stratum. however, simply changing the port and etc for Coinotron that would normally allow me to mine alt coins does not do so, rather it just forces BTC. These mine SHA-256, is there some trick I am missing to mine more than BTC?

Tesla71

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OK, then I will try Linux. Maybe it works with minepeon out of the box ?

but I dont know where the bug really lies, this is what I get:

-ck

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Ruu \o/

Quote from: Tesla71 on July 26, 2013, 01:03:40 PM

I think my internal router is dead, it stops always after some hours of hashing and shows nothing for fan or temp then anymore

What do I need to use it with cgminer on windows 7, which usb driver?
I started cgminer 3.3.1 and plugged the internal USB from avalon in, but It wont be recognized..

There is no avalon code built into the cgminer binary for windows for I figured someone would have to be crazy to try that with its lousy timing capabilities. Your choices are to build a windows binary for yourself with avalon support and use zadig to associate the avalon device with the WINUSB driver, and be the first person to try that combination, or use linux.

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I think my internal router is dead, it stops always after some hours of hashing and shows nothing for fan or temp then anymore

What do I need to use it with cgminer on windows 7, which usb driver?
I started cgminer 3.3.1 and plugged the internal USB from avalon in, but It wont be recognized..

weevil

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Quote from: el_rlee on July 26, 2013, 04:10:44 AM

HW/(HW+Diff1)<2%

Thanks running about 1.5% currently at 355

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HW/(HW+Diff1)<2%

szuetam

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Quote from: pikeadz on July 25, 2013, 08:14:09 PM

Quote from: szuetam on July 25, 2013, 06:49:26 PM

How to set all fans for 100% with original newest soft?
I'm to tired for lurking into hundred of pages, please help me briefly.

Any firmware after June 21. Enter the following command in cgminer configuration->more options field:

--avalon-fan

This will set fanspeed percentage for avalon, single value or range (default: 20-100)

See here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Avalon#NEXT

THX I have already found it.

What is reasonable acceptable HW avg errors rate per 5 min?

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Quote from: el_rlee on July 25, 2013, 06:35:19 AM

Quote from: 🏰 TradeFortress 🏰 on July 25, 2013, 06:13:19 AM

My Avalon has shipped without a power cord. I cannot find any cords that fit.

Come on. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60320#C13.2FC14_coupler

I don't know, those power cables are pretty rare Grin

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Quote from: szuetam on July 25, 2013, 06:49:26 PM

How to set all fans for 100% with original newest soft?
I'm to tired for lurking into hundred of pages, please help me briefly.

Any firmware after June 21. Enter the following command in cgminer configuration->more options field:

--avalon-fan

This will set fanspeed percentage for avalon, single value or range (default: 20-100)

See here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Avalon#NEXT

szuetam

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How to set all fans for 100% with original newest soft?
I'm to tired for lurking into hundred of pages, please help me briefly.

pikeadz

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Quote from: ewibit on July 25, 2013, 01:45:37 PM

Quote from: pikeadz on July 25, 2013, 12:26:38 PM

Temps are 43-48 and occasionally 50. I have no idea why one is a little slower. Anyone?

for me the same
bottom is slower because it gets the heat of top, but I have it stacked

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I tried them stacked and side by side with the same result :/

Now I just put them on ventilated shelving. we'll see.

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Quote from: pikeadz on July 25, 2013, 12:26:38 PM

Temps are 43-48 and occasionally 50. I have no idea why one is a little slower. Anyone?

for me the same
bottom is slower because it gets the heat of top, but I have it stacked

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dopamine

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Just read the wiki about the plastic sheet that covers the case, ive been mining with them on, and my temps are below 46, anyone know if it will lower my temps even more?

pikeadz

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I have 3 Avalons and am using ckolivas' 0703 firmware on all. Two of them average 79-81 GH/s over 3 hours reliably. The other one is averaging 76.7 or so. That last 3.5GH/s that the slower one is missing out on is annoying me. Is this normal variance across avalons when overclocked? Or should they be closer in hashing speeds.

I noted that the slower one has a differrent power supply than the other two. It has chinese characters on it and says 850, whereas the others have GX850 printed on them. I have a spare Corsair 750W I am thinking of trying on the slower one. Anyone have any suggestions before I do?

On all three, I have been using the command: --avalon-auto --avalon-freq 300-375 --avalon-options 115200:24:10:36:355

and they seem to clock around 343-347 when I check them. Temps are 43-48 and occasionally 50. I have no idea why one is a little slower. Anyone?

Pics of the two different setups:

http://imgur.com/VHIU8gv
http://imgur.com/mhum98z (slower one)

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Quote from: ProfMac on July 25, 2013, 11:25:32 AM

Quote from: koob on July 25, 2013, 10:38:38 AM

Are there live hashrate graphs in Avalon web interface ?
I think I saw screenshot somewhere but I cant find it anywhere under web interface.

I am aware of a CPU load graph under status --> realtime graphs.
If you are on the eligius pool, you do get realtime hashrate and earnings graphs on his site.
E.g., http://eligius.st/~wizkid057/newstats/userstats.php/146J6Eqsu9ZDFq8VqzXPehYQdYHQZUUuuB

There is a WiFi real time graph, and it gives signal, noise, and SNR. On one machine it works, on the other it is not reporting anything. I thought I had set them up the very same way. Does anyone know a toggle for this graph?

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Quote from: koob on July 25, 2013, 10:38:38 AM

Are there live hashrate graphs in Avalon web interface ?
I think I saw screenshot somewhere but I cant find it anywhere under web interface.

I am aware of a CPU load graph under status --> realtime graphs.
If you are on the eligius pool, you do get realtime hashrate and earnings graphs on his site.
E.g., http://eligius.st/~wizkid057/newstats/userstats.php/146J6Eqsu9ZDFq8VqzXPehYQdYHQZUUuuB

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