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March 22, 2014, 04:15:41 PM
I just got done modding mine I am running at 950 and pulling 404 khs. No hardware errors yet. Thanks to the person that figured this mod out.

Good.
Which mods did you do, exactly?
Just the first two resistor jumpers
or
the resistor replacement to 38K and the 2 pencil mods?

People, please specify exactly which mods you made.
There are a few different ones on here.

Thanks
Wolfey2014
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March 22, 2014, 04:11:14 PM
I just got done modding mine I am running at 950 and pulling 404 khs. No hardware errors yet. Thanks to the person that figured this mod out.
sr. member
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March 22, 2014, 03:52:29 PM
I am giving out 0.6BTC to the first to get his Gridseed miner stable at 1100 MHz (<10 HW error in 24h) and post the steps to mod the miner. So far I have managed to get it stable at 1013 MHz, but I feel we can push it further.
I have found the only way to push these further is by replacing the 36k resistor with a higher one and playing with PLL voltage, you need to lower the resistance of R211 or R212 by tracing it with a pencil. Measure the voltage across both resistors and it should be around 1.1v total. If you want to increase PLL voltage, trace R212, to decrease it, trace R211 (go back and forth atleast 10-20 times or you will not notice a change). Simply use an eraser to revert the mod. Personally 1.05v seems sweet spot.



Disclaimer: as always, I am not responsible for damage to your miner, do this at your own risk!

Yo Sandor...
what are your current results with your over volt mods?
Please specify.
The one miner I modified is working great at 900MHz.
Still throws red nonce's at 950 a bit. Too much for me to tolerate.
At 900 though, it's rock solid just like it is at 850. No problems!
This is with the first two resistor solder bridges.
No pencil mods or resistor change out which I believe is for the PLL voltage setting, right?
Thanks
Wolfey2014
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Bitcoin Evengelist
March 22, 2014, 09:44:21 AM

Yep... not any more. I think ghash was just trying to quickly get a ton of hash. Wonder how much they paid for it and if people will actually stick there once the rewards are back to normal now. I for one like p2p better... so usually when I mine LTC, I bring up my own node..

I went there just for the time of the offer

How did you guys hear about it?
Are you members too?
I am and did not hear a thing!
Wolfey5050

I put 1/3rd of my BTC hash there, so login once in a while to check worker stats and a big flashing banner at the top caught my eye ... okay okay it wasn't that big but it was there :p
sr. member
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March 22, 2014, 08:49:44 AM
What are y'all using the gridseeds for anyways? Multipools?

Yes, I believe most of us are.
Hardly anyone is running dual mode as it's just not really worth mining SHA anymore unless you can mine in the TH/s ranges.

I'm certainly considering my options differently now but it's still cool to be able to make money this way even though the daily income is less than $10 mining only LTC.

I tried ScryptGuild multipool but they didn't impress me as I was making less per day where I should have been making 30% to 40% more per the site owner.
It would be great if my 6 GS5's made me at least $2+ per day!

Wolfey2014


 



10$ only LTC is with using 6 GS's to mine ?

what pool are you using that makes you the most profit at this moment? multipool.us?

Actually as stated, "less than $10/day". Honestly it's just a hair under $10 per day.

In a 24 hour period I make, .40 LTC out of 6 miners running at 850MHz avg. each = $9.098892 per day Grin

Not too shabby for 6 little miners, eh? Will be making a bit more profit once I get them all stably overclocked.

Wolfey2014

Pea Ess.... www.litecoinpool.org ... sorry bout that!

I like litecoinpool.org and fee is relatively low for pps. I was mining at ghash.io the last week with their LTC promotion. Too bad didn't have all my gridseeds then

Why does that sound like a cheesy plug for ghash.io Huh Cheesy

w2014

No fees and give me 1.25x to 2x more. Sure why not. At regular reward, no longer mining LTC there. There are better places.

Cool!
Do you mean at ghash.io you're making up to 2X more than I am at litecoinpool?
What is your average?
w2014.2

Wolfey, there was a one week offer at ghash for Litecoin mining that gave a bonus from 1.25 to 2x what you were mining, depending on the pool hash rate. I think he's reffering to that

Right. Thanks!
Wolfey2014
sr. member
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March 21, 2014, 11:04:57 PM

Yep... not any more. I think ghash was just trying to quickly get a ton of hash. Wonder how much they paid for it and if people will actually stick there once the rewards are back to normal now. I for one like p2p better... so usually when I mine LTC, I bring up my own node..

I went there just for the time of the offer

How did you guys hear about it?
Are you members too?
I am and did not hear a thing!
Wolfey5050

I have seen it on http://cryptomining-blog.com

they announced that Ghash would hold the 1 week offer. But it was a one time offer to attract people to them for the launch of litecoin there
sr. member
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March 21, 2014, 09:52:34 PM

Yep... not any more. I think ghash was just trying to quickly get a ton of hash. Wonder how much they paid for it and if people will actually stick there once the rewards are back to normal now. I for one like p2p better... so usually when I mine LTC, I bring up my own node..

I went there just for the time of the offer

How did you guys hear about it?
Are you members too?
I am and did not hear a thing!
Wolfey5050
sr. member
Activity: 308
Merit: 250
March 21, 2014, 09:47:49 PM

Yep... not any more. I think ghash was just trying to quickly get a ton of hash. Wonder how much they paid for it and if people will actually stick there once the rewards are back to normal now. I for one like p2p better... so usually when I mine LTC, I bring up my own node..

I went there just for the time of the offer
sr. member
Activity: 350
Merit: 250
Bitcoin Evengelist
March 21, 2014, 08:44:39 PM

Yep... not any more. I think ghash was just trying to quickly get a ton of hash. Wonder how much they paid for it and if people will actually stick there once the rewards are back to normal now. I for one like p2p better... so usually when I mine LTC, I bring up my own node..
sr. member
Activity: 308
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March 21, 2014, 07:52:59 PM
What are y'all using the gridseeds for anyways? Multipools?

Yes, I believe most of us are.
Hardly anyone is running dual mode as it's just not really worth mining SHA anymore unless you can mine in the TH/s ranges.

I'm certainly considering my options differently now but it's still cool to be able to make money this way even though the daily income is less than $10 mining only LTC.

I tried ScryptGuild multipool but they didn't impress me as I was making less per day where I should have been making 30% to 40% more per the site owner.
It would be great if my 6 GS5's made me at least $2+ per day!

Wolfey2014


 



10$ only LTC is with using 6 GS's to mine ?

what pool are you using that makes you the most profit at this moment? multipool.us?

Actually as stated, "less than $10/day". Honestly it's just a hair under $10 per day.

In a 24 hour period I make, .40 LTC out of 6 miners running at 850MHz avg. each = $9.098892 per day Grin

Not too shabby for 6 little miners, eh? Will be making a bit more profit once I get them all stably overclocked.

Wolfey2014

Pea Ess.... www.litecoinpool.org ... sorry bout that!

I like litecoinpool.org and fee is relatively low for pps. I was mining at ghash.io the last week with their LTC promotion. Too bad didn't have all my gridseeds then

Why does that sound like a cheesy plug for ghash.io Huh Cheesy

w2014

No fees and give me 1.25x to 2x more. Sure why not. At regular reward, no longer mining LTC there. There are better places.

Cool!
Do you mean at ghash.io you're making up to 2X more than I am at litecoinpool?
What is your average?
w2014.2

Wolfey, there was a one week offer at ghash for Litecoin mining that gave a bonus from 1.25 to 2x what you were mining, depending on the pool hash rate. I think he's reffering to that
sr. member
Activity: 378
Merit: 250
March 21, 2014, 07:37:14 PM
What are y'all using the gridseeds for anyways? Multipools?

Yes, I believe most of us are.
Hardly anyone is running dual mode as it's just not really worth mining SHA anymore unless you can mine in the TH/s ranges.

I'm certainly considering my options differently now but it's still cool to be able to make money this way even though the daily income is less than $10 mining only LTC.

I tried ScryptGuild multipool but they didn't impress me as I was making less per day where I should have been making 30% to 40% more per the site owner.
It would be great if my 6 GS5's made me at least $2+ per day!

Wolfey2014


 



10$ only LTC is with using 6 GS's to mine ?

what pool are you using that makes you the most profit at this moment? multipool.us?

Actually as stated, "less than $10/day". Honestly it's just a hair under $10 per day.

In a 24 hour period I make, .40 LTC out of 6 miners running at 850MHz avg. each = $9.098892 per day Grin

Not too shabby for 6 little miners, eh? Will be making a bit more profit once I get them all stably overclocked.

Wolfey2014

Pea Ess.... www.litecoinpool.org ... sorry bout that!

I like litecoinpool.org and fee is relatively low for pps. I was mining at ghash.io the last week with their LTC promotion. Too bad didn't have all my gridseeds then

Why does that sound like a cheesy plug for ghash.io Huh Cheesy

w2014

No fees and give me 1.25x to 2x more. Sure why not. At regular reward, no longer mining LTC there. There are better places.

Cool!
Do you mean at ghash.io you're making up to 2X more than I am at litecoinpool?
What is your average?
w2014.2
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March 21, 2014, 07:19:05 PM
The 10 I modded yesterday seem to be rock solid at 938Mhz.  I have pushed the non-modded ones as far as I can without too many HW errors.  I will solder the rest if these are stable through the weekend.

I also used the --usb :50 command to break them up into 2 groups of 50 miners so I can see them all.



Okay, cool! Nice work!

I modded one of mine last night. Solder bridged 2 of the resistor blanks as shown earlier by the original modder. This increases core voltage a tad, I believe. And I think that's all you can safely increase it to.

I haven't tried replacing the resistor with a 38K or the pencil track mod trick yet.
That's for PLL voltage adjustment as I understand it, without delving into the schematic etc. myself.

Is this what you did too?

As for your fine tuning to an odd step of 938Mhz, how did you accomplish this?
I'd like to do the same thing.
Mine is rock steady at 900MHz but at 950Mhz being the next allowed step in cpuminer throws enough HW errors to turn me off to it. So for now. it's 900Mhz which is giving positive results at the pool. $$$

Wolfey2014


If you use https://github.com/dtbartle/cgminer-gc3355, you can specify pll_r, pll_f, and pll_od as part of gridseed-options; you can use https://gist.github.com/dtbartle/5319985b29b7f78c3993 to generate all possible combinations of these, and their resulting frequencies.
sr. member
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March 21, 2014, 07:18:16 PM
What are y'all using the gridseeds for anyways? Multipools?

Yes, I believe most of us are.
Hardly anyone is running dual mode as it's just not really worth mining SHA anymore unless you can mine in the TH/s ranges.

I'm certainly considering my options differently now but it's still cool to be able to make money this way even though the daily income is less than $10 mining only LTC.

I tried ScryptGuild multipool but they didn't impress me as I was making less per day where I should have been making 30% to 40% more per the site owner.
It would be great if my 6 GS5's made me at least $2+ per day!

Wolfey2014


 



10$ only LTC is with using 6 GS's to mine ?

what pool are you using that makes you the most profit at this moment? multipool.us?

Actually as stated, "less than $10/day". Honestly it's just a hair under $10 per day.

In a 24 hour period I make, .40 LTC out of 6 miners running at 850MHz avg. each = $9.098892 per day Grin

Not too shabby for 6 little miners, eh? Will be making a bit more profit once I get them all stably overclocked.

Wolfey2014

Pea Ess.... www.litecoinpool.org ... sorry bout that!

I like litecoinpool.org and fee is relatively low for pps. I was mining at ghash.io the last week with their LTC promotion. Too bad didn't have all my gridseeds then

Why does that sound like a cheesy plug for ghash.io Huh Cheesy

w2014

No fees and give me 1.25x to 2x more. Sure why not. At regular reward, no longer mining LTC there. There are better places.

Wow! is that cheddar CHEESE or mozzarella?  Cheesy Grin Cheesy Grin Cheesy Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes

Care to enlighten us on wtf "elsewhere" is? What are the urls's beg you?

w2014.2


p2pool ... I hate fees usually
sr. member
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March 21, 2014, 07:13:20 PM
I mine at ltc.hash.so
0% fee, but they need more miners as it takes around 20 hours for them to find a block :S
Can't beat the 0% fee tho.

Oh yea, almost forgot. I got 4 miners running there making me about 0.5 LTC a day.

For the people using BFG miner, whats the config file for the gridseeds (No CLI stuff, please)?
I ran it for a bit at 250Kh/s. Nothing I did, seemed to make it go faster.

This is my CLI config.

Quote
bfgminer.exe --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://pool-eu.hash.so:3421 -u simon66.##### -p #### -d gridseed -S gridseed:all --set-device gridseed:clock=850,850,850,850 --disable-gpu --remove-disabled
sr. member
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March 21, 2014, 07:07:45 PM
So if I'm right, 10$ a day, you will break even in around 3/4 months depending the price you paid them ?

correct me if I'm wrong

You're close Wink

4.74 months to be more exacter  Roll Eyes

Wolfey2014
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March 21, 2014, 07:05:01 PM
So if I'm right, 10$ a day, you will break even in around 3/4 months depending the price you paid them ?

correct me if I'm wrong
sr. member
Activity: 378
Merit: 250
March 21, 2014, 07:04:41 PM
What are y'all using the gridseeds for anyways? Multipools?

Yes, I believe most of us are.
Hardly anyone is running dual mode as it's just not really worth mining SHA anymore unless you can mine in the TH/s ranges.

I'm certainly considering my options differently now but it's still cool to be able to make money this way even though the daily income is less than $10 mining only LTC.

I tried ScryptGuild multipool but they didn't impress me as I was making less per day where I should have been making 30% to 40% more per the site owner.
It would be great if my 6 GS5's made me at least $2+ per day!

Wolfey2014


 



10$ only LTC is with using 6 GS's to mine ?

what pool are you using that makes you the most profit at this moment? multipool.us?

Actually as stated, "less than $10/day". Honestly it's just a hair under $10 per day.

In a 24 hour period I make, .40 LTC out of 6 miners running at 850MHz avg. each = $9.098892 per day Grin

Not too shabby for 6 little miners, eh? Will be making a bit more profit once I get them all stably overclocked.

Wolfey2014

Pea Ess.... www.litecoinpool.org ... sorry bout that!

I like litecoinpool.org and fee is relatively low for pps. I was mining at ghash.io the last week with their LTC promotion. Too bad didn't have all my gridseeds then

Why does that sound like a cheesy plug for ghash.io Huh Cheesy

w2014

No fees and give me 1.25x to 2x more. Sure why not. At regular reward, no longer mining LTC there. There are better places.

Wow! is that cheddar CHEESE or mozzarella?  Cheesy Grin Cheesy Grin Cheesy Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes

Care to enlighten us on wtf "elsewhere" is? What are the urls's beg you?

w2014.2
sr. member
Activity: 378
Merit: 250
March 21, 2014, 06:59:14 PM
What are y'all using the gridseeds for anyways? Multipools?

Yes, I believe most of us are.
Hardly anyone is running dual mode as it's just not really worth mining SHA anymore unless you can mine in the TH/s ranges.

I'm certainly considering my options differently now but it's still cool to be able to make money this way even though the daily income is less than $10 mining only LTC.

I tried ScryptGuild multipool but they didn't impress me as I was making less per day where I should have been making 30% to 40% more per the site owner.
It would be great if my 6 GS5's made me at least $2+ per day!

Wolfey2014


 



10$ only LTC is with using 6 GS's to mine ?

what pool are you using that makes you the most profit at this moment? multipool.us?

Actually as stated, "less than $10/day". Honestly it's just a hair under $10 per day.

In a 24 hour period I make, .40 LTC out of 6 miners running at 850MHz avg. each = $9.098892 per day Grin

Not too shabby for 6 little miners, eh? Will be making a bit more profit once I get them all stably overclocked.

Wolfey2014

Pea Ess.... www.litecoinpool.org ... sorry bout that!

wow that's pretty impressive indeed to get so much out of the GS's, and that not even OC'd

Actually, the term you're looking for is 'over-volted' not overclocked,,, which they are in fact.
850MHz is 250MHz over the stock - default setting of 600MHz. Wink
One of mine is now overvolted and further overclocked to 900MHz...running rock solid so far.
10 PM tonight will be its first successful 24 hour zero errors benchmark pass! Keep your fingers crossed folks!
Look ma! No fan!  Grin

Wolfey2014
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March 21, 2014, 06:57:33 PM
What are y'all using the gridseeds for anyways? Multipools?

Yes, I believe most of us are.
Hardly anyone is running dual mode as it's just not really worth mining SHA anymore unless you can mine in the TH/s ranges.

I'm certainly considering my options differently now but it's still cool to be able to make money this way even though the daily income is less than $10 mining only LTC.

I tried ScryptGuild multipool but they didn't impress me as I was making less per day where I should have been making 30% to 40% more per the site owner.
It would be great if my 6 GS5's made me at least $2+ per day!

Wolfey2014


 



10$ only LTC is with using 6 GS's to mine ?

what pool are you using that makes you the most profit at this moment? multipool.us?

Actually as stated, "less than $10/day". Honestly it's just a hair under $10 per day.

In a 24 hour period I make, .40 LTC out of 6 miners running at 850MHz avg. each = $9.098892 per day Grin

Not too shabby for 6 little miners, eh? Will be making a bit more profit once I get them all stably overclocked.

Wolfey2014

Pea Ess.... www.litecoinpool.org ... sorry bout that!

I like litecoinpool.org and fee is relatively low for pps. I was mining at ghash.io the last week with their LTC promotion. Too bad didn't have all my gridseeds then

Why does that sound like a cheesy plug for ghash.io Huh Cheesy

w2014

No fees and give me 1.25x to 2x more. Sure why not. At regular reward, no longer mining LTC there. There are better places.
sr. member
Activity: 378
Merit: 250
March 21, 2014, 06:54:50 PM
What are y'all using the gridseeds for anyways? Multipools?

Yes, I believe most of us are.
Hardly anyone is running dual mode as it's just not really worth mining SHA anymore unless you can mine in the TH/s ranges.

I'm certainly considering my options differently now but it's still cool to be able to make money this way even though the daily income is less than $10 mining only LTC.

I tried ScryptGuild multipool but they didn't impress me as I was making less per day where I should have been making 30% to 40% more per the site owner.
It would be great if my 6 GS5's made me at least $2+ per day!

Wolfey2014


 



10$ only LTC is with using 6 GS's to mine ?

what pool are you using that makes you the most profit at this moment? multipool.us?

Actually as stated, "less than $10/day". Honestly it's just a hair under $10 per day.

In a 24 hour period I make, .40 LTC out of 6 miners running at 850MHz avg. each = $9.098892 per day Grin

Not too shabby for 6 little miners, eh? Will be making a bit more profit once I get them all stably overclocked.

Wolfey2014

Pea Ess.... www.litecoinpool.org ... sorry bout that!

I like litecoinpool.org and fee is relatively low for pps. I was mining at ghash.io the last week with their LTC promotion. Too bad didn't have all my gridseeds then

Why does that sound like a cheesy plug for ghash.io Huh Cheesy

w2014
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