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Topic: Just purchased a ModMiner QUAD... (Read 2194 times)

sr. member
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May 19, 2021, 08:17:48 PM
#17
what an asshat
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April 22, 2013, 06:50:08 PM
#16
Well, it has been over a week since Tom said he sent my 2nd replacement card and I still haven't received it or had any luck getting the miner to actually mine.  Tom also hasn't responded since Wednesday.  Undecided  This is getting frustrating.
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April 08, 2013, 01:19:50 PM
#15

Yeah, I think battmann mentioned to me elsewhere that the guy is changing servers or something.
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April 08, 2013, 12:32:09 PM
#12
Tom, the owner is btcfpga and basic is a scammer. He sold pre-paid hardware that he never delivered and did not refund the payments.


I was under the impression that he was indeed issuing refunds.  There's a whole thread where people are talking about having received refunds. 
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April 08, 2013, 06:18:20 AM
#11
heheh, scam as hell!

check this out, 30" apple screen for $100 Smiley

http://modminerquadstore.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=25_28&product_id=42
legendary
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April 08, 2013, 05:12:45 AM
#10
Tom, the owner is btcfpga and basic is a scammer. He sold pre-paid hardware that he never delivered and did not refund the payments.
sr. member
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April 08, 2013, 04:50:59 AM
#9
What happened to http://www.btcfpga.com/ ? I'm redirected to some funny IT-store site
sr. member
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April 06, 2013, 03:21:05 PM
#8
I haven't been able to make contact with btcfpga ... so I didn't buy without speaking to someone first ...
tell me what they said about delivery times please.
hero member
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April 06, 2013, 02:19:27 PM
#7
I just bought a ModMiner QUAD from www.btcfpga.com and was wondering what flavor of linux will be best suited for running this miner?

Any help is appreciated!
-battmann

Ubuntu would do the job.
It's easy to setup and stable.

If you want a turnkey solution:
I can recommend Minepeon.
I'm running it on a $35 RaspberryPi B using bfgminer which supports the ModMiner.
sr. member
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April 06, 2013, 08:45:29 AM
#6
Regarding the ModMiner QUAD I wonder if I will buy 2 or buy 3x HD 7970 GPU.

The Hash rate is similar (1600 kH/s for ModMiner QUAD against 1800 kH/s for GPUs).
Cost is $2400 for 2 ModMiner QUAD against $1800 for the complete GPU solution (including motherboard, ...)
Energy consumption would be 80W for  2 ModMiner QUAD and 1000W for the GPUs.

But you need a PC to run the ModMiner QUAD?!

What your thoughts?

Do they sell LTC FPGAs already?  Wink
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April 06, 2013, 07:14:23 AM
#5
Regarding the ModMiner QUAD I wonder if I will buy 2 or buy 3x HD 7970 GPU.

The Hash rate is similar (1600 kH/s for ModMiner QUAD against 1800 kH/s for GPUs).
Cost is $2400 for 2 ModMiner QUAD against $1800 for the complete GPU solution (including motherboard, ...)
Energy consumption would be 80W for  2 ModMiner QUAD and 1000W for the GPUs.

But you need a PC to run the ModMiner QUAD?!

What your thoughts?
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I am a student of programming and design.
April 05, 2013, 11:36:19 PM
#4
I had a lot of luck running mine on Ubuntu 12.04. I did have to compile it for that though. There should be how-to's out there on the MMQ wiki or somewhere on here.

Would you be willing to part with your precompiled piece of equipment? or maybe an x6500? Smiley
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April 05, 2013, 11:13:57 PM
#3
Is there a point buying these now ? It is hard to break even in any reasonable time frame.
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April 05, 2013, 08:27:41 PM
#2
I had a lot of luck running mine on Ubuntu 12.04. I did have to compile it for that though. There should be how-to's out there on the MMQ wiki or somewhere on here.
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I am a student of programming and design.
April 05, 2013, 08:08:20 PM
#1
I just bought a ModMiner QUAD from www.btcfpga.com and was wondering what flavor of linux will be best suited for running this miner?

Any help is appreciated!
-battmann
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