Topic: Successful with BitForce Singles - page 2. (Read 3811 times)
So BFL pushed this things out half assed? I bet we're in for the same treat with the ASic's
Thanks. Just wondering, don't own or have a stake in them
I've been pretty successful, though there has been quite a bit of trial and error.
Temperature-wise, they hate being hot. I have one right now that throttles consistently whenever it gets close to 58C, but it is running the 896 firmware. I've trial-and-errored through all of the firmwares, even auto tune. Looking at the math for my situation, it made more sense for me to run the a/c 24/7 rather than slowing them down. I'm waiting on an order of 120mm fans to upgrade all of mine with, to hopefully keep them nice and cool until october. After all the dicking around with them that I've done, I really just want to have a setup I can leave running and forget about it.
I started on OSX, running them all off of a Mac Mini. I learned that they hate lots of traffic on USB, so the hub you choose, and what else you are running along with it matters a bunch. While the MacMini was dedicated to mining, it did fine as long as I didn't forget to remove any external drives on the chain. Keeping the USB cables away from the power cables seems to help. The hub I got was a 11 port saitek thingy that looked good, but in the end is probably too cheap. I cannot get two of the ports on it to work with the singles, and if I move it around too much I need to restart all of them.
For the last week they have been mining off of a dedicated headless DockStar, using ArchLinux and that same crappy USB hub. I finished reorgnizing my office, and have the Mac Mini as my desktop now. It's been working like a charm, no problems at all.
tl;dr: keep them cool, and watch their USB connections. If you can keep em cool, overclock them as high as they'll go and leave em alone.
Temperature-wise, they hate being hot. I have one right now that throttles consistently whenever it gets close to 58C, but it is running the 896 firmware. I've trial-and-errored through all of the firmwares, even auto tune. Looking at the math for my situation, it made more sense for me to run the a/c 24/7 rather than slowing them down. I'm waiting on an order of 120mm fans to upgrade all of mine with, to hopefully keep them nice and cool until october. After all the dicking around with them that I've done, I really just want to have a setup I can leave running and forget about it.
I started on OSX, running them all off of a Mac Mini. I learned that they hate lots of traffic on USB, so the hub you choose, and what else you are running along with it matters a bunch. While the MacMini was dedicated to mining, it did fine as long as I didn't forget to remove any external drives on the chain. Keeping the USB cables away from the power cables seems to help. The hub I got was a 11 port saitek thingy that looked good, but in the end is probably too cheap. I cannot get two of the ports on it to work with the singles, and if I move it around too much I need to restart all of them.
For the last week they have been mining off of a dedicated headless DockStar, using ArchLinux and that same crappy USB hub. I finished reorgnizing my office, and have the Mac Mini as my desktop now. It's been working like a charm, no problems at all.
tl;dr: keep them cool, and watch their USB connections. If you can keep em cool, overclock them as high as they'll go and leave em alone.
I' had zero problems. Just plugged them in, updated FTDI drivers and started cgminer. They have been hashing happily since.
Maybe you should tell a little bit more about your problem.
AND calm down a bit dude. 10 posts a day? Read more, post less.
Maybe you should tell a little bit more about your problem.
AND calm down a bit dude. 10 posts a day? Read more, post less.
how many people have been successful or consider their purchase and mining with BitForce singles successful? I have READ of a lot of problems with setting them up and throttling etc.
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