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Topic: Mining history... some odd avalon boards (Read 990 times)

legendary
Activity: 2450
Merit: 1002
March 08, 2016, 09:44:27 PM
#6
man ... the good ole days, when ASIC prices were decent... LOL!
I loved my avy1 - b2 ... most profitable ever, regret not buying more. Such a solid machine, and a tank too. I was actually kinda sad when I sold it ... never felt that way bout any other miner since.

Now all asic mining is, is the combination of a bunch of the cheapest possible components on the verge of catching on fire and far too overpriced.
sr. member
Activity: 473
Merit: 250
Sodium hypochlorite, acetone, ethanol
March 08, 2016, 09:38:00 PM
#5
maybe lightfoot is interested
(i know KNC stuff is not Avalon, but hey)
legendary
Activity: 1624
Merit: 1129
Bitcoin FTW!
March 03, 2016, 07:39:51 AM
#4
What kind of electronics store? All I see at mine are the occasional used avalon 6 and a few backpanes for old miners. The struggles, man.. Only good thing is I live 5 miles from them and they sell real cheap Cheesy
staff
Activity: 4158
Merit: 8382
March 03, 2016, 04:53:44 AM
#3
The wires are for overclocking. Many people did really serious mods on those things back in the days, every GH/s was worth a fortune!
Interestingly though, I got my avalon batch1 to about 82GH/s with just firmware twiddling. I wonder what people were getting with the voltage mods?

I didn't try because it was too valuable to risk frying.
legendary
Activity: 1600
Merit: 1014
February 09, 2016, 04:49:29 AM
#2
The wires are for overclocking. Many people did really serious mods on those things back in the days, every GH/s was worth a fortune!
staff
Activity: 4158
Merit: 8382
February 09, 2016, 03:28:02 AM
#1
At my local hardware surplus place a bunch of gen 1 Avalon boards showed up.

Among them was a board that had none of the Avalon silk screening.

There were also a couple of  interesting mod-wires.



Due to lazyness I haven't dug up my batch 1 museum pieces to see if it looked like these.


(if anyone wants some dusty mining boards for $20/ea)
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