[GUIDE] GridSeed GC3355 5 Chip Setup/power/windows/linux/rpi by UnicornHasher - page 18.

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Quote from: MobGod on April 04, 2014, 12:50:01 PM

can someone put my in the right direction to compile this please
https://github.com/nwoolls/bfgminer/tree/feature/gridseed-support-new

I'm assuming you're using Linux (I have no idea how to compile this under Windows nor should you attempt that - there are binaries available).

1) Install prerequisites:

libudev-dev build-essential libcurl4-gnutls-dev yasm libncurses5-dev git autoconf automake

E.g. on ubuntu and its clones you would run:

apt-get install libudev-dev build-essential libcurl4-gnutls-dev yasm libncurses5-dev git autoconf automake

2) run this in your home folder:

git clone https://github.com/nwoolls/bfgminer
cd bfgminer
./autogen.sh
./configure
make

This is just to get you on track, if you have any problems please report back and I'll try to help.

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Quote from: Mymine on April 04, 2014, 02:03:53 AM

Quote from: healthandwealth on April 03, 2014, 09:16:02 PM

Not to be a troll...but after reading extensively on getting a gridseed setup...ROI looks to be 6-8 months...well after the high powered ASICs arrive. Is buying gridseeds really worth it?

Yeah, I fear this too.
I have 6 GPU's and 10 Gridseeds happily hashing , but I fear they'll never reach ROI.
Furthermore, with all those big companies producing ASICs (scrypt and SHA256), I'm sure they all do "quality control" for a fair amount of time
=> difficulty goes up even before you have your miner
=> large amounts of BTC are being sold making the rate drop.

...

So yeah, I still believe in the concept of BTC, but in the long run, and not as a small miner. I'd just buy some coins with some money you don't really need and wait (a long time)

Let me know if you want me to mod your 6 pods. Since modding mine, they are now producing as much as 10 or 11 pods would at 300KH/s each.
PM me if you'd like to mod yours. Wink

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Quote from: MobGod on April 04, 2014, 12:50:01 PM

can someone put my in the right direction to compile this please
https://github.com/nwoolls/bfgminer/tree/feature/gridseed-support-new

Mob, I spent a few hours on this last night...can help you out but from my initial analysis dtbartle cgminer is better right now. What are you doing buying these? Their a rip off at $165 Wink

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Quote from: jamieb81 on April 03, 2014, 03:24:38 PM

Quote from: CartmanSPC on April 03, 2014, 02:32:51 PM

Quote from: CartmanSPC on April 01, 2014, 06:52:19 PM

Ok, not sure where to post this so for lack of a better place I will put it here for discussion:

KNC is now specifying a MINIMUM of 250 Mh/s for 10K or $40 per 1 Mh/s! Compare that price to performance cost to the Gridseed 5 chip miners (360 Kh/s) and they should be selling for $14.40 each Shocked

Supposedly KNC is shipping Q2/Q3 2014 but by that time they may increase the hashrate yet again (originally specified at 100 Mh/s about two weeks ago?).
If KNC wasn't a reputable company I would call BS.

I find myself hard pressed to order more Gridseeds at $165/piece Huh

Just had a thought...wonder if KNC announced their hash rates to slow down Gridseed sales? Would be interesting to know if it had an affect on the sale of Gridseeds and GPUs. I know it stopped me from buying more.

That is actually a pretty good point and valid!

I can tell you it does slow down the gridseed sales. I know someone that was going to order an amount of 600 of them and is now going to buy much much less and invest it into pre orders.

I wish I could get them at 165$ but here in Europe it's more 165€ and above! more often 200 if you buy by the unti

I'm willing to take delivery and send them anywhere in the world as long as you pay the shipping and $10/unit or 1 GS per 20 to compensate for the time.

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can someone put my in the right direction to compile this please
https://github.com/nwoolls/bfgminer/tree/feature/gridseed-support-new

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Quote from: dyland on April 04, 2014, 10:11:54 AM

Quote from: suchmoon on April 04, 2014, 08:56:05 AM

Quote from: dyland on April 04, 2014, 08:38:58 AM

Quote from: Mymine on April 04, 2014, 08:26:14 AM

http://www.openelectrical.org/wiki/index.php?title=Cable_Colour_Code

according to that yellow is your earth, but I'd check it before plugging it in

Thank you; I'm not really sure how to check it, and I don't want to fry anything.

On the North American plug ground is the round pin. Check continuity between that and the wire that you are going to connect to the ground terminal on the PSU.

I have a Chinese plug though...

Ok, so you are going to use an adapter or replace the plug, right? That's when you can check the wiring.

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Quote from: suchmoon on April 04, 2014, 08:56:05 AM

Quote from: dyland on April 04, 2014, 08:38:58 AM

Quote from: Mymine on April 04, 2014, 08:26:14 AM

http://www.openelectrical.org/wiki/index.php?title=Cable_Colour_Code

according to that yellow is your earth, but I'd check it before plugging it in

Thank you; I'm not really sure how to check it, and I don't want to fry anything.

On the North American plug ground is the round pin. Check continuity between that and the wire that you are going to connect to the ground terminal on the PSU.

I have a Chinese plug though...

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Quote from: dyland on April 04, 2014, 08:38:58 AM

Quote from: Mymine on April 04, 2014, 08:26:14 AM

http://www.openelectrical.org/wiki/index.php?title=Cable_Colour_Code

according to that yellow is your earth, but I'd check it before plugging it in

Thank you; I'm not really sure how to check it, and I don't want to fry anything.

On the North American plug ground is the round pin. Check continuity between that and the wire that you are going to connect to the ground terminal on the PSU.

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Quote from: Mymine on April 04, 2014, 08:26:14 AM

http://www.openelectrical.org/wiki/index.php?title=Cable_Colour_Code

according to that yellow is your earth, but I'd check it before plugging it in

Thank you; I'm not really sure how to check it, and I don't want to fry anything.

Mymine

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http://www.openelectrical.org/wiki/index.php?title=Cable_Colour_Code

according to that yellow is your earth, but I'd check it before plugging it in

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I have red, yellow, and blue wires inside my power cord in my kit. The plugs are chinese from the looks of it.

anyone know how these match up to their PSU a la the NA green, black, white?

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Quote from: Mymine on April 04, 2014, 02:03:53 AM

Quote from: healthandwealth on April 03, 2014, 09:16:02 PM

Not to be a troll...but after reading extensively on getting a gridseed setup...ROI looks to be 6-8 months...well after the high powered ASICs arrive. Is buying gridseeds really worth it?

Yeah, I fear this too.
I have 6 GPU's and 10 Gridseeds happily hashing , but I fear they'll never reach ROI.
Furthermore, with all those big companies producing ASICs (scrypt and SHA256), I'm sure they all do "quality control" for a fair amount of time
=> difficulty goes up even before you have your miner
=> large amounts of BTC are being sold making the rate drop.

...

So yeah, I still believe in the concept of BTC, but in the long run, and not as a small miner. I'd just buy some coins with some money you don't really need and wait (a long time)

I feel less and less sure about my small mining investment--although I love the slow trickle of BTC.

I think mid-July is a good time to sell gear to see if you can make a slight profit.

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Quote from: healthandwealth on April 03, 2014, 09:16:02 PM

Not to be a troll...but after reading extensively on getting a gridseed setup...ROI looks to be 6-8 months...well after the high powered ASICs arrive. Is buying gridseeds really worth it?

Yeah, I fear this too.
I have 6 GPU's and 10 Gridseeds happily hashing , but I fear they'll never reach ROI.
Furthermore, with all those big companies producing ASICs (scrypt and SHA256), I'm sure they all do "quality control" for a fair amount of time
=> difficulty goes up even before you have your miner
=> large amounts of BTC are being sold making the rate drop.

...

So yeah, I still believe in the concept of BTC, but in the long run, and not as a small miner. I'd just buy some coins with some money you don't really need and wait (a long time)

dyland

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I got EU power or something....is it OK if I use a ten amp 12.5V power cord with this setup that I have lying around? It has the bluish green, black and white wires just like the guide. thanks in advance.

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Quote from: suchmoon on April 03, 2014, 09:49:29 PM

Quote from: healthandwealth on April 03, 2014, 09:16:02 PM

Not to be a troll...but after reading extensively on getting a gridseed setup...ROI looks to be 6-8 months...well after the high powered ASICs arrive. Is buying gridseeds really worth it?

In a way it's a bet (and proven to be a fairly good one) that the aforementioned high-powered ASICs will be late. I think the saying is: a megahash in the hand is worth two in the bush (or something like that).

True and KNC will most certainly deliver late already as I've seen on the forums. Some kind of month were they don't work or so

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Quote from: healthandwealth on April 03, 2014, 09:16:02 PM

Not to be a troll...but after reading extensively on getting a gridseed setup...ROI looks to be 6-8 months...well after the high powered ASICs arrive. Is buying gridseeds really worth it?

In a way it's a bet (and proven to be a fairly good one) that the aforementioned high-powered ASICs will be late. I think the saying is: a megahash in the hand is worth two in the bush (or something like that).

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Not to be a troll...but after reading extensively on getting a gridseed setup...ROI looks to be 6-8 months...well after the high powered ASICs arrive. Is buying gridseeds really worth it?

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Quote from: suchmoon on April 03, 2014, 12:56:29 PM

I don't think it can hash at all without 12V. Is it even submitting shares? You should probably just disconnect it until you get a replacement.

According to the cgminer API and Scripta, it is submitting shares. When I first noticed that the red LED was off this weekend, it appeared that that unit's utility numbers were down. But since it was working to some degree, I just left it running.

I just checked it again and it's performing roughly the same as all the other units.

It surprised me too that it would do *anything* without 12 volt power, but it appears to be working. Maybe it is getting 12 volts, but the LED isn't working. I know that there's nothing wrong with the 12 volt power cable because I checked it with a meter.

Anyway, after the zombie incidents yesterday and this morning, I managed to find an old, unused powered USB 2 hub. I moved the affected unit to that hub. Haven't seen any zombies since. Of course it hasn't been long enough to be definitive, so I'm keeping an eye on things.

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Quote from: CartmanSPC on April 03, 2014, 02:32:51 PM

Quote from: CartmanSPC on April 01, 2014, 06:52:19 PM

Ok, not sure where to post this so for lack of a better place I will put it here for discussion:

KNC is now specifying a MINIMUM of 250 Mh/s for 10K or $40 per 1 Mh/s! Compare that price to performance cost to the Gridseed 5 chip miners (360 Kh/s) and they should be selling for $14.40 each Shocked

Supposedly KNC is shipping Q2/Q3 2014 but by that time they may increase the hashrate yet again (originally specified at 100 Mh/s about two weeks ago?).
If KNC wasn't a reputable company I would call BS.

I find myself hard pressed to order more Gridseeds at $165/piece Huh

Just had a thought...wonder if KNC announced their hash rates to slow down Gridseed sales? Would be interesting to know if it had an affect on the sale of Gridseeds and GPUs. I know it stopped me from buying more.

That is actually a pretty good point and valid!

I can tell you it does slow down the gridseed sales. I know someone that was going to order an amount of 600 of them and is now going to buy much much less and invest it into pre orders.

I wish I could get them at 165$ but here in Europe it's more 165€ and above! more often 200 if you buy by the unti

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Quote from: wolfey2014 on March 24, 2014, 12:25:46 PM

Quote from: jamieb81 on March 24, 2014, 11:38:04 AM

Quote from: wolfey2014 on March 24, 2014, 11:35:41 AM

Quote from: jamieb81 on March 24, 2014, 10:41:42 AM

wolfey,

how much do you think I can overclock the gridseed by doing just the pencil mod and bridge mod? the last remaining mod is a bit out of my leage,

and you are a continent away so I cannot send them over to you that would be really not cost effective haha^^

The resistor mod is necessary to clock over 950MHz stably. Especially to even get 1000mhz to be stable and pretty much hw error free.
But, if you can do the solder bridge, you should be able to do the resistor replacement just as easily.

Best performance is with all 4 mods. That's just the way it is if you don't want to have to put up with red nuisances 'nonce's' Wink

Wolfey2014

could you show me what resistor I can use or buy on ebay for example? I'm in Spain and here the local electronic shops are pretty hard to find.

http://www.jameco.com/1/3/resistor-1-8w

If there is anyone in the Toronto area with the expertise to perform these HW mods for me it is much appreciated. I will compensate of course. Also need help with setup. Have 10 units and rasp pi with cgminer already compiled. I am a total newb to pi and everything, read through threads a bunch of times but I need to save time on the weekend to be with my family.

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