I have a few questions that I have been wondering about and the answers may help some newbies and others that may have had these ??'s lurking in their thoughts. So I received my batch of miners yesterday, and all is good, I don't know why but I love these little babies, maybe because I have GPU's also and damm!! they are loud and hot, these little asic things are so quite and efficient. I am now waiting on a few pieces to complete the setup and unfortunately its easter and no shops are open until Tuesday ARGH, plus I would of liked to start modding some.
At the moment I can plug 11 miners at anyone time as I am waiting for some accessories - In transit as I type
Plus I feel if this is all successful and you can get a stable 500Kh per miner, for every 40 Miners This is an extra 5.6Mhs Which is equivalent to 1 x G-blade ? Awesome I think!!
1. I now want to ask something which I don't fully understand, it is HW errors, So I have
SOFTWARE over clocked my miners and the most stable with out HW is obviously 850Freq like most of us here. I have tried 875,888 & 900freq and currently @ 900 as i'm typing & most miners have HW errors in the 2 Hrs so far, I have miners having 5 errors all the way to 32, I am testing to see how much shares I get in 4 hrs compare to
4hrs & no HW errors @ 850Freq. Now this brings me to my question, even though they are spitting a few HW some for example I have 1 spitting 25HW in the 1st hour but then only spits another 20 in the next 3hrs which makes me think are HW even that bad to worry about if they are spitting out roughly 20-30hW per hour? One interesting thing I found when testing, So I tested 875 Freq then went to 900Freq why the hell did the HW errors die down a little with higher freq? And yeh so back to HW errors - The shares are accepting fine and I am comparing the accepted shares with some that don't even have any HW errors or even some that have very little HW and funny enough the one with HW actually has slightly more accepted shares than some others (not all but some)? So should we be worrying about HW at the rate of 20-30HW per hour on average? I am starting to think maybe not.
So what are these errors exactly and is it damaging the device is that why we don't wanna see'em I mean if they are still accepting shares in the same range as the NON HW-error miners. Cant we just consider HW errors exactly the same boat as rejected shares? Shouldn't our main focus be on the WU % , the higher this is -even- if there are HW errors than this is the way to go?
2. Once the unit is modded are you basically ruling out BTC mining forever with the modded unit? And is it even worth mining DUAL mining if you have over 40+ units , because it may be worth it as an extra thing - lets say you got 100 Units this is over 1 TH of btc if they are 11Gh or closer to 900Gh if you mix it up with scrypt, maybe be ok for that little extra but of $$ dont you think, I maybe wrong as I did not do my calculations and $$/Electricity/Mh ratio but Im just asking if it is possible if someone wanted to try to BTC after they have modded a unit
3. Copper shrims, Now I heard some people talking about this and seen that these have the best heat conductivity so thats the no brainer, I was able to get quite a few 1mm thickness 15mmx15mm little squares, Now after reading about people braking the solder of ships this made me wonder how the people with copper shrims are doing how do I know which 5c chips to put them on since there are 5? should I out them on all 5 and put thermal paste on top and bottom off the shrim and then not tighten the screws down all the way ? Or is it ok to tighten all the way down BUT not tight just softly tighten it till its stops being loose if you get what I am saying.
4. This one I am 95% sure but just want to ask, when Cgminer loads the seeds it says something about a firmware version of the device, what does this mean? Is there actual firmware for the seeds themselves individually? I thought the firmware version was only for the MIning software that was made for the PI and other software etc... If the actual Seeds have there own firmware update this could be a great thing meaning we can mod them further and maybe pull more out of them, as there are many genius coders and electrical wizards on here
5. Last but not least - In the software tuning, is there ANYTHING other than the Freq we can adjust to try squeeze more out of these things.
If someone here that can answer some of the points it would help and help others that are also wondering,
BUT please no smart asses!!! if there is nothing productive in regards these 5 points above, id rather you totally ignore it rather wasting another post, replying to me but having no answers,ideas,opinions that may help any of us or myself.
) with the other 5 being recovered, which is good enough for me 