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Topic: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive ASICMiner Tube Setup [HD] - page 10. (Read 35126 times)

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Great guide Dogie the pictures are amazing as always. Will you provide information on over clocking I see you have said it will achieve 920gh/s over clocked how stable is that?
Sometimes a good reboot is all that's needed.. Oh and a nice drop in ambient temperature.

thats the highest GH ive seen so far and one board is having problems lol
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I know it's a workaround. What I'm telling you is I've seen this pattern before and that's all AM will do about it and it will be the solution.

What would you suggest?
Maintain pressure on the manufacturer since these are aimed squarely at the hobbyist miner which is all we have left as a community here.

I agree.  Especially since this solution/workaround sucks, to put it mildly.  BFGMiner regularly freezes the controller!  That is completely unacceptable as a solution.
legendary
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'The right to privacy matters'
You should be able to use any type of pool using the proxy.
I'm really sorry to see this as the accepted solution and AM are not addressing it.

Yeah this is a pretty good piece of gear. I am babysitting the controller.  I don't mind using the hated ghash even though right now I am running my 2 tube daisy chain (sounds like a porn film .)
at mmpool.  A controller with 2 pools auto switching using a free choice of  any two pools is not much to ask for.
legendary
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Curmudgeonly hardware guy
I know it's a workaround. What I'm telling you is I've seen this pattern before and that's all AM will do about it and it will be the solution.

What would you suggest?
Maintain pressure on the manufacturer since these are aimed squarely at the hobbyist miner which is all we have left as a community here.

What I figure on doing is helping Novak trace the protocol, cook up a cgminer driver that talks to the boards directly, and then probably not buy ASICMiner hardware again. I know my business is small but I've always enjoyed messing with their hardware and this is a fairly heavy dropped ball that turns things pretty sour.
legendary
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dogiecoin.com
-ck
legendary
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Ruu \o/
I know it's a workaround. What I'm telling you is I've seen this pattern before and that's all AM will do about it and it will be the solution.

What would you suggest?
Maintain pressure on the manufacturer since these are aimed squarely at the hobbyist miner which is all we have left as a community here.
legendary
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Merit: 1183
dogiecoin.com
You should be able to use any type of pool using the proxy.
I'm really sorry to see this as the accepted solution and AM are not addressing it.

Its not the solution, its a workaround.
I know it's a workaround. What I'm telling you is I've seen this pattern before and that's all AM will do about it and it will be the solution.

What would you suggest?
-ck
legendary
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Ruu \o/
You should be able to use any type of pool using the proxy.
I'm really sorry to see this as the accepted solution and AM are not addressing it.

Its not the solution, its a workaround.
I know it's a workaround. What I'm telling you is I've seen this pattern before and that's all AM will do about it and it will be the solution.
legendary
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wonderful thx dogie, tipped! Smiley
legendary
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Dogie how many tubes would you recommend be used per controller board for stability?
What are common factors that effect stability?

Also congratulations on 4000 forum posts.

The controller is fine dealing with 8 but then every time you take one down for maintenance you take half the chain down with it. Temperatures and using the wrong PSUs are the main factors. I have lots of CX750s from the good old days and while two of them can power 4 or 5 boards between them, getting 6 out of them is very difficult. RM1000s are infinitely more suited to the task.
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Miner Setup And Reviews. WASP Rep.
Dogie how many tubes would you recommend be used per controller board for stability?
What are common factors that effect stability?

Also congratulations on 4000 forum posts.
legendary
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dogiecoin.com
You should be able to use any type of pool using the proxy.
I'm really sorry to see this as the accepted solution and AM are not addressing it.

Its not the solution, its a workaround.
-ck
legendary
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Ruu \o/
You should be able to use any type of pool using the proxy.
I'm really sorry to see this as the accepted solution and AM are not addressing it.
legendary
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dogiecoin.com
What's the CFM on the stock fan?

Tempted to get more of these tube miners but frustrated that it won't work with miningrigrentals type of pools.

Its less about CFM and more about static pressure which is hard to measure and impossible to compare against anything other than server fans. You can try and track down the data sheet for HashRatio's 120mm Nidec Beta V TA450DC to compare as ASICMiner's fan is generic/unmarked.

You should be able to use any type of pool using the proxy.
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What's the CFM on the stock fan?

Tempted to get more of these tube miners but frustrated that it won't work with miningrigrentals type of pools.

Also here is a youtube video of me assembling it with some tips:

http://youtu.be/zEL5EKWwBx0
legendary
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How much airflow do you think these need? I have a quiet fan I attached, but the flow is very minimal compared to stock...

As much as stock provides really, remember we're removing 800-900W of heat with a single 120mm fan. Thats 3x what the Cube was doing and more than any other miner on the market. The Cube's stock fan is already on the lower side of airflow compared to what other OEMs are using, I really wouldn't recommend lowering it if you want your boards to last any amount of time.
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How much airflow do you think these need? I have a quiet fan I attached, but the flow is very minimal compared to stock...
legendary
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great guide, dogie

have you encountered problems with controller saving settings?
i can save only when hashing cable is disconnected or miners are off. (i got 5 chained)

have you noticed randomly chips going off after longer operation?
soft controller rebot wake them up.

i got 39/40 thermal pads, is it normal or am i unlucky ? Wink

can you measure hashing speed, power consumption and temperature at diffrent frequencies?

any hints on undervoltage those boards? in few months/weeks they will mine less then power bill.


I've not seen that before. By miners do you mean mining boards or Tubes (ie 5x4 mining boards?).

Chips shouldn't be dropping out, they should either be there or not. What PSU are you running? Are you absolutely sure all the screws are in good and tight?

270 and 300 results are in the OP, measured pre PSU. Its not really worth doing anything more detailed because the units are quite variable outside stock speed, whether you use 4 or 8 PCI-E, 16 or 18AWG, 20C or 40C ambients etc. The results just end up as a giant band of 'its somewhere in here' which isn't very useful. We don't know any meaningful temperatures because there are no on die (or other) probes on BE200s for cost. They're not temperature sensitive anyway, as you can see by the lack of top side heatsinks. Edit: Its worth mentioning I have these PCBs from 4 different OEMs and they all perform rather differently.

I'm sure someone will work out a pencil mod when we need it, we have all the schematics.
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Pulled link as requested. I was wondering do you know if  FC plans to update the controller's software. To have an auto pool switch option like the antminer s-3's have?

You can do it manually via BFG proxy if its critical for now

The BFG proxy starts showing "error from bufferevent" and crashes the controller.

Known bug, only solution is to hard reset BFGMiner and the controller for now.
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cryptoshark
i will post some results later

i had few toys to play

deus 650, 600
xfx 850+br,550+br,550TS  (all seasonic, branded by xfx)
dell900W
leadtek 1150plat
lketc 1TH 1200W dragon psu (forgot name)

they are consuming around 1,05-1,15j/GH

will mod cooling too (got various fans)

thanks for your feedback

PS. I am waiting for pencil/cap mod (voltage play) tutorial
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