When manufacturing, they have everything streamlined so that they use the least amount of labor/power/time to put it together. Swapping chip, if upgrading from say Avalon 1 to Avalon 2, it might not be too bad. If you are trying to stick chip from a different maker, then it would be massive amount of work.
It would be just like sticking a V8 in a prius as HellDriverUK said, and it might end up costing more than a Lexus in terms of work time and other costs...
Sell it and buy something new would be a better and cheaper way to go.
Topic: Block erupter - changing the chip (Read 1136 times)
It's possible, but it's like putting a Ford 6.2 V8 in a Prius. It's possible, but you're basically rebuilding the Prius from the ground up to put a V8 in it.
Ok I see, great metaphor !
It's possible, but it's like putting a Ford 6.2 V8 in a Prius. It's possible, but you're basically rebuilding the Prius from the ground up to put a V8 in it.
Really isn't something anyone can do just like that, but would be sweet to have a block erupter with 20 times the hashpower 
That's what I thought also...
If the replacement chip is the same size, why wouldn't it be possible ?
If someone is an expert into micro-electronic please help us understand if it's possible or not ?
Thx
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/usb-asic-miner-block-erupter-upgrade-307848
Thats what I found...... really the chip architecture would be different... but you can upgrade the clockspeed though.
heres a webpage that I found on changing the crystal and resistor....FWIW...I am sure there are more in depth pages and forum posts though.
http://wtfmoogle.com/?p=3334
Thats what I found...... really the chip architecture would be different... but you can upgrade the clockspeed though.
heres a webpage that I found on changing the crystal and resistor....FWIW...I am sure there are more in depth pages and forum posts though.
http://wtfmoogle.com/?p=3334
Thx, already found it...
sell them on ebay as collectors items.
Really isn't something anyone can do just like that, but would be sweet to have a block erupter with 20 times the hashpower
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/usb-asic-miner-block-erupter-upgrade-307848
Thats what I found...... really the chip architecture would be different... but you can upgrade the clockspeed though.
heres a webpage that I found on changing the crystal and resistor....FWIW...I am sure there are more in depth pages and forum posts though.
http://wtfmoogle.com/?p=3334
Thats what I found...... really the chip architecture would be different... but you can upgrade the clockspeed though.
heres a webpage that I found on changing the crystal and resistor....FWIW...I am sure there are more in depth pages and forum posts though.
http://wtfmoogle.com/?p=3334
I am wondering if it would be possible to replace the block erupter chip with another one, like the one's from bitfury ? Or perhaps the new asicminer chips that are coming...?
Anyone ever try replacing the chip on these with a better one ?
Thx
Anyone ever try replacing the chip on these with a better one ?
Thx
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