I think they should first work on those 10%+ rejects we all are dealing with,
it's nice to see a better unit, but it still has these rejects as seen on the pics....
Topic: ROCKMINER ASIC miner official thread - page 43. (Read 199728 times)
Now that is a serious step in the right direction.
Looks like good air flow and not a tentacle monster of cables.
How is the noise level?
Looks like good air flow and not a tentacle monster of cables.
How is the noise level?
Guys you're going to love the R3-Box. Its such a step up and has an inbuilt Pi and USB hub.
Oh don't worry, its a tentacle monster allright, but all the cables are internal. The only external you have is one ethernet and 4 PCI-Es which are all close together. If you've got one of those server PSUs you can almost put it 'in' the miner as well.
Noise levels are like an S1 when it ramps up a bit, but its totally overcooled. The chips closer to the fan are reporting 8-12C over ambient, those further away 22C over ambient. I've suggested putting a $5 fan on the other end and using software to lower the original fan down. Its a proper 4 pin fan so we have full control.
If the heatsinks had been put together instead of seperated they would have seen a much less air loss. Pretty bad on all the units we have
Now that is a serious step in the right direction.
Looks like good air flow and not a tentacle monster of cables.
How is the noise level?
Looks like good air flow and not a tentacle monster of cables.
How is the noise level?
Guys you're going to love the R3-Box. Its such a step up and has an inbuilt Pi and USB hub.
Oh don't worry, its a tentacle monster allright, but all the cables are internal. The only external you have is one ethernet and 4 PCI-Es which are all close together. If you've got one of those server PSUs you can almost put it 'in' the miner as well.
Noise levels are like an S1 when it ramps up a bit, but its totally overcooled. The chips closer to the fan are reporting 8-12C over ambient, those further away 22C over ambient. I've suggested putting a $5 fan on the other end and using software to lower the original fan down. Its a proper 4 pin fan so we have full control.
Who gives a shit what they look like?! Maybe they should address the 10%+ rejects!!!
Now that is a serious step in the right direction.
Looks like good air flow and not a tentacle monster of cables.
How is the noise level?
Looks like good air flow and not a tentacle monster of cables.
How is the noise level?
Guys you're going to love the R3-Box. Its such a step up and has an inbuilt Pi and USB hub.
Can't wait to play with one of these!!!
Guys you're going to love the R3-Box. Its such a step up and has an inbuilt Pi and USB hub.
Guys you're going to love the R3-Box. Its such a step up and has an inbuilt Pi and USB hub.
Billbags, I am going to do that tonight. Are there any details about the wiring? I don't remember what the wiring for my fan controller looks like.
Rocket Boxes been mining for 24 hrs now. I'm having same ghs/watts as setup video. Seems real stable with pi image. I'm gonna replace fans tonight because of noise level. I'll post once I find a quite fan solution. By the way these fans suck air through miner, they do not push.
Update: I installed a manual fan control on my RK-Boxes that is working well to dramatically reduce the fan noise and still keep the blades cool. Highly reccomended if the Rocket Boxes are in your house. I just lowered fan speed and monitored during the hotest times of the day to get right setting for quiet cooling. Here is the link of the ones I'm using:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004LL8KF6?cache=8dd22ea26140667f1737f48c0bd46cbe&pi=SX200_QL40&qid=1404945076&sr=8-1#ref=mp_s_a_1_1
Note: plastic guide on the end of the fan controller wires must be shaved down to fit on the miner. I used a knife, takes about 5 seconds, works well.
When I use the latest CGMiner (4.4.1), the RK-Box blades perform like the R-Box... all around 35GH instead of 100+. This is running without any command line options. Am I missing anything?
Also, it seems the formatting of the ASIC-README.txt file included with CGMiner has changed. I can no longer read it with Notepad. I must use Wordpad. It was much better with the previous formatting.
There's no rk-box support in mainline cgminer (yet) so you're just getting the r-box driver trying to mine on it.Also, it seems the formatting of the ASIC-README.txt file included with CGMiner has changed. I can no longer read it with Notepad. I must use Wordpad. It was much better with the previous formatting.
Formatting should be compatible with notepad. I'll check to see if my scripts are no longer converting the asic readme to windows format.
Is it possible to get the RK-BOX successfully working with P2Pool and CGMiner? Or at all?
When I use the latest CGMiner (4.4.1), the RK-Box blades perform like the R-Box... all around 35GH instead of 100+. This is running without any command line options. Am I missing anything?
Also, it seems the formatting of the ASIC-README.txt file included with CGMiner has changed. I can no longer read it with Notepad. I must use Wordpad. It was much better with the previous formatting.
There's no rk-box support in mainline cgminer (yet) so you're just getting the r-box driver trying to mine on it.Also, it seems the formatting of the ASIC-README.txt file included with CGMiner has changed. I can no longer read it with Notepad. I must use Wordpad. It was much better with the previous formatting.
Formatting should be compatible with notepad. I'll check to see if my scripts are no longer converting the asic readme to windows format.
When I use the latest CGMiner (4.4.1), the RK-Box blades perform like the R-Box... all around 35GH instead of 100+. This is running without any command line options. Am I missing anything?
Also, it seems the formatting of the ASIC-README.txt file included with CGMiner has changed. I can no longer read it with Notepad. I must use Wordpad. It was much better with the previous formatting.
There's no rk-box support in mainline cgminer (yet) so you're just getting the r-box driver trying to mine on it.Also, it seems the formatting of the ASIC-README.txt file included with CGMiner has changed. I can no longer read it with Notepad. I must use Wordpad. It was much better with the previous formatting.
Formatting should be compatible with notepad. I'll check to see if my scripts are no longer converting the asic readme to windows format.
I'm really struggling. I thought I was using version cgminer 4.3.3 and at least I was getting it to work.
I thought upgrading cgminer would help. Unfortunately, I over-wrote my old directory and can't retrieve it to go back.
I have 1 RK-Box and 1 R-Box connected to my computer via USB.
When I use the latest CGMiner (4.4.1), the RK-Box blades perform like the R-Box... all around 35GH instead of 100+. This is running without any command line options. Am I missing anything?
Also, it seems the formatting of the ASIC-README.txt file included with CGMiner has changed. I can no longer read it with Notepad. I must use Wordpad. It was much better with the previous formatting.
I thought upgrading cgminer would help. Unfortunately, I over-wrote my old directory and can't retrieve it to go back.
I have 1 RK-Box and 1 R-Box connected to my computer via USB.
When I use the latest CGMiner (4.4.1), the RK-Box blades perform like the R-Box... all around 35GH instead of 100+. This is running without any command line options. Am I missing anything?
Also, it seems the formatting of the ASIC-README.txt file included with CGMiner has changed. I can no longer read it with Notepad. I must use Wordpad. It was much better with the previous formatting.
Has anyone managed to get their RK-BOX working with p2pool? It seems to submit too many bad shares too quickly addenda up causing CGMiner to crash and the PI to reboot. Works fine on normal pools, and the problem seems to solely lie with using P2Pool. Does the RK-BOX require a stratum server for P2Pool? I was under the assuming CGMiner supported stratum out of the box. If there's something I'm missing here, please fill me in as I'm currently running a node that I can't use.
What alternatives to cgminer are there for the R-Box? I mine other sha256 currencies, and the new versions of cgminer (the ones that support the R-Box) are Bitcoin only.
We only support mining bitcoin, but cgminer can't really tell apart an altcoin mining sha256 from mining bitcoin so there really is nothing stopping you using it. Results better with CGMiner:
cgminer version 4.3.3 - Started: [2014-07-08 20:18:49]
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(5s):420.6G (1m):431.9G (5m):281.0G (15m):127.3G (avg):436.0Gh/s
A:48639 R:0 HW:183 WU:6129.6/m Freq:290MHz
Connected to stratum.bitsolo.net diff 4.1K with stratum as user 18ujkgMxgHfcu
Block: 37caa434... Diff:16.8G Started: [20:18:49] Best share: 5.12M
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[]SB management []ool management []ettings []isplay options []uit
0: RMU 0 : | 108.3G / 107.6Gh/s WU:1522.9/m| T:44C
1: RMU 1 : | 99.98G / 107.3Gh/s WU:1513.6/m| T:44C
2: RMU 2 : | 112.6G / 107.7Gh/s WU:1505.1/m| T:42C
3: RMU 3 : | 80.42G / 78.76Gh/s WU:1100.3/m| T:42C
4: RMU 4 : | 38.30G / 35.51Gh/s WU: 496.3/m| T:40C (R-Box)
Looks like RMU3 is a bum-blade, really disappointing.
This is running with the only command line option --rmu-freq 290. When I set it to 300, CGMiner says the frequency is 270.
With Antec Bronze power supply, this is pulling 445W at the wall.
cgminer version 4.3.3 - Started: [2014-07-08 20:18:49]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
(5s):420.6G (1m):431.9G (5m):281.0G (15m):127.3G (avg):436.0Gh/s
A:48639 R:0 HW:183 WU:6129.6/m Freq:290MHz
Connected to stratum.bitsolo.net diff 4.1K with stratum as user 18ujkgMxgHfcu
Block: 37caa434... Diff:16.8G Started: [20:18:49] Best share: 5.12M
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[]SB management []ool management []ettings []isplay options []uit
0: RMU 0 : | 108.3G / 107.6Gh/s WU:1522.9/m| T:44C
1: RMU 1 : | 99.98G / 107.3Gh/s WU:1513.6/m| T:44C
2: RMU 2 : | 112.6G / 107.7Gh/s WU:1505.1/m| T:42C
3: RMU 3 : | 80.42G / 78.76Gh/s WU:1100.3/m| T:42C
4: RMU 4 : | 38.30G / 35.51Gh/s WU: 496.3/m| T:40C (R-Box)
Looks like RMU3 is a bum-blade, really disappointing.
This is running with the only command line option --rmu-freq 290. When I set it to 300, CGMiner says the frequency is 270.
With Antec Bronze power supply, this is pulling 445W at the wall.
RK-Box overlock command is "--rmu-auto 350".It is default setting.
What alternatives to cgminer are there for the R-Box? I mine other sha256 currencies, and the new versions of cgminer (the ones that support the R-Box) are Bitcoin only.
BFGminer works with the R-Box, but is buggy. It doesn't go over 32GH/s and there seems to be more hardware error with it, too. Sometimes it dies for no apparent reason, and there is some voodoo involved in even getting it to start.
What other options are there? I prefer command line miners, because my mining server is a really low-horsepower laptop. (That's why I love it, it uses very little power, but I can't run lots of graphical doodas while I'm mining.)
BFGminer works with the R-Box, but is buggy. It doesn't go over 32GH/s and there seems to be more hardware error with it, too. Sometimes it dies for no apparent reason, and there is some voodoo involved in even getting it to start.
What other options are there? I prefer command line miners, because my mining server is a really low-horsepower laptop. (That's why I love it, it uses very little power, but I can't run lots of graphical doodas while I'm mining.)
How much does the rocket miner rocket box cost in USD, i did not understand 990 mBTC on the website
I'm actually currently selling an RK-BOX for $600 USD - which does not include SH, or 1 BTC - which does include SH. This is about $100+ less than the average on most websites.
Here's a link to the official listing: http://www.ebay.com/itm/171381497720?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
How much does the rocket miner rocket box cost in USD, i did not understand 990 mBTC on the website
While I was able to find a cgminer binary compatible with MinePeon for the Raspberry Pi with the R-Box, using this same binary throttles down each of the RK-BOX's blades to the speed of an individual R-BOX. Does anyone have a working cgminer binary compiled and working/tested with minepeon? This would be amazing!
Also, is there any word on compatibility of the RK-BOX with P2Pool? Pointing the miner at a node chains errors of multiple duplicate share submissions until the miner/Pi crashes and restarts, to trigger the same event shortly thereafter. This is is able to be reproduced with both the R-BOX and RK-BOX on both the official Raspberry Pi image, modified cgminer binary, and cgminer for windows.
Also, out of curiosity, has anyone dabbled with overclocking the RK-BOX? Is it even possible? What are the gains in GH/s compared to the increases in wattage?
Thanks in advance, and while hopefully someone can shed some light on the p2pool issue the more pressing one is the functional cgminer binary for MinePeon.
Also, is there any word on compatibility of the RK-BOX with P2Pool? Pointing the miner at a node chains errors of multiple duplicate share submissions until the miner/Pi crashes and restarts, to trigger the same event shortly thereafter. This is is able to be reproduced with both the R-BOX and RK-BOX on both the official Raspberry Pi image, modified cgminer binary, and cgminer for windows.
Also, out of curiosity, has anyone dabbled with overclocking the RK-BOX? Is it even possible? What are the gains in GH/s compared to the increases in wattage?
Thanks in advance, and while hopefully someone can shed some light on the p2pool issue the more pressing one is the functional cgminer binary for MinePeon.
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