Topic: Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com - page 117. (Read 3049514 times)

Depends on which Noctuas you want to compare it to.  You can get Noctuas with 3000 RPM.  So if your comparing to that it does not rank so well. But if it's a 2000 vs 2000 RPM I would think it would be ok.  (I disclose I have not used a silver stone tek fan I'm comparing RPM as that is more what I would worry about.)

I went down to the site this weekend and picked up the Mercury and the Neptune controller board. Haven't had time to test it though. Anyhew, it's getting warmer and it's not much point in doing the controller board bit without improving the cooling. The 3000rpm Noctua are a bit much to throw into this money pit so I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts about these :

http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=366

They are roughly 1/3 the price of the Noctuas, which is much more palatable considering the build quality and reliability of the Neptune thus far.

What the F kind of answer is that (in bold)? And you're moaning about me not being tech savvy when you can't even quote properly in a forum?

On a side note now that Summer is coming in my part of the world....what is the range of acceptable temps for the Titan 300mh 1st batch
dc/dc individually?

mine range from 79 to 92c (only 1 at 92c) I'd guess the majority are in the 85c range

figure should probably know this at the 72F temp outside for what i need to do to ventilate the basement

thanks ...I've seen no degradation of performance of the miner(s) same as when I ran it in basement this last winter


anyway just looking at a high end temp that I should be concerned with ...again this is individual dc/dc temps not the ave per cube which is quite lower

thanks....the constant quest to stop the slow downward slip of the titan(s) to doorstops...........good to have goals

For those curious about KnCMiner's latest chip - AlChip (KnC's steady technology partner) had a big ol' banner up with some specs.  Photographer didn't catch the entire thing:

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yep my thinking especially years from now when Sam Cole will tout himself as a founder of the bitcoin backbone when he is old and grey....(should he get his way and KNC controls
40% of all bitcoin mining in 2016 as they have stated as their goal)

shudder ...scared my self........ 'the horror'.......sheesh...

me I'll stick around here forever ..I still yell on BFL forums because I'm p/o'd about them STILL ..and I got a full refund in 1 year and 20 days.....(miracle it was)

not that i hold a grudge mind you ...(er  i may have issues?)

This nightmare will hunt you forever. 

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Thanks

Does anyone had take answer from knc
I had sent email 3 days now with no answer from them

Does anyone had take answer ?

I'll update what I last talked about with Joakim Stignert. He is one of the lawyer in the group action.

You more people that will join the group action, the better it is for each of us. The interest are really high, especially by the amount from USA and Charlotte Lin.
Consider that, the risk are really low. They will tell the amount of participators so that each of us can make our own estimates of the risks. BUT the cost of the trial(s) should be "normal", so KnC can't get 10 lawyers and think that we will pay that if they win.
They make an estimate that at least 50 people will join the group action. If KnC loose and appeal and wins in the supreme court (first district court and if they loose and appeal they will go to supreme court). And if we count really high, let say KnC sends an invoice of 400 000 sek our cost per person will be 8000 SEK (400 000/50 = 8000 SEK or in USD $50 000/50 = $1000). And that is worst case.

They can't sue any of us because their name or their brand or any thing like that got poorly treated.

Searing... I'm seeing Ebay selling Neppies for a grand still, but okay.... using those calculators...  give the diff an honest KNC 16nm cloud estimate, and then add Spondoolies recent merger with Bitcoinshop who are going "cloud", just like KNC.
Granted, Bitcoin could jump to three grand tomorrow, but it could also dip down to 78 bucks... but one thing is for sure... The difficulty level will be rising wildly again soon.
I thought about running a few during daylight hours on my 8kw solar system, but then the ROI is cut by 66% when doing it that way.(8 hours usable daylight). I don't see how anything short of a miracle could get me to bother with straight Bitcoin mining again.

Oooh... one thing though... Looking at the Titan mining ltc, and trading to btc mining compared to Neptune stats is a bit more tempting... and seeing the difficulty on ltc is lower than when delivered, things are looking to stretch out for Titan...  but then I think about the hellish nightmare I was in when I got miners delivered... both with jupiter and neptune batches...  and the urge goes away. I think I can safely say I won't be needing a 12-step program to get away from mining forever. (grin)
I feel lucky just getting out at 486 and still having a small profit to show. I'd be committing hairy-cary if I had held to two hundred.
I'm feeling safer atm just saving change and buying small amounts of btc to hold now that things are a bit more sable, but not ready for going "all in" again just yet.
cheers

I've been thinking about building something out of aluminum for mine. How much interest would there be from the community for a closed aluminum (or cheaper galvanized) housing?

Hi folks,

I'm looking for a rackmount solution for a Neptune, anyone ideas?

Thanks,
Micky25

well at $750 usd say with the additonal s shipping to you and free electric (which some users on here have with solar) it would take around 4.5 months to ROI with FREE ELECTRIC
and again if you had the proper PSU's from GPU days sitting about to use w/o that added expense.

using this calculator  www.tradeblock.com

now I think? the Neptune draws at the wall about 2500w using that figure with 3.5TH I get the following and a 0% fee pool

at my rate of 12c per kwh I start losing money on the whole thing at 4.5 months ...goes downhill from there at least at these current prices

now both cases the 12c kwh and the  free electric assumes you have 2 proper sized PSU's sitting about from the GPU days and that is not an extra expense to re-affirm that
likely 400 buck extra expense if you don't have such

so imho even at the free electric scenario .....imho you are better off just buying coin.....and hope for a price rise

and also the point that 16nm from the KNC splash in the mining universe is also likely coming here in the next couple months .....with their vow of wanting to own
40% of all bitcoin mining and transacitions fees as/if that applies by 2016.....well ...there is also that to consider

and again for myself I don't have free electric even if I did the added complication of where I am at I'd have to figure out a way to move that 2500w  of 24/7 heat
and summer is coming........(got that issue with the Titans) a further consideration

nope...the boat has sailed...home mining is done.....but I take the point also that 750 for a used neppie now may be great fun ..and maybe under the right circumstances
you could ROI with free electric and such......but as a 'innovative strategy" for making BTC as of this date May 5th 2015..er no so much

if I get to the point I want to contribute to the BTC infrastructure I'll just run a BTC node for my 'good vibes' at an electric loss at that point in time..should it come.

but hey at least the guy is having fun at less then 1/10th the original price!

Well, you know that no one is paying anywhere near $10,000 for a Neptune rig these days. So I'm not sure how you would know that they'll never ROI.

Lol, I can't believe I'm defending anyone who's still mining with KNC gear! But we shouldn't be surprised that people are continuing to mine with secondhand gear. I bet there are people still farting around with the first Avalons somewhere in the world.

If all was true you had a point....
but  http://www.kncminer.com/support works quite well
and the 16 mm cloud well , if you can use your neptubes in iceland where electricity is 100% thermal and water.
you dont care about the KWH price electricity is INCLUDED at no extra charge when you build a new place @ $100.000 +
yes in iceland they have FLAT rate electricity contracts coneected to the parcel you buy!
you can pull 50kwh at 3 phase 400V and they will not complain.
One catch tough you have to be icelandic or married to one

Am I reading this right?
People are still buying Neptunes when KNC are at the brink of launching the 16 nanometer cloud and have stopped any & all support of previous products?
Amazing how people will buy machines BEFORE doing any research.
Your only hope is a BTC price hike to thousands of dollars before the diff jumps again. .... Good luck with that.
Worrying about a few Gigahashes is so futile... It's shear insanity!
Do the math... a Neptune purchased now will likely never ROI... ever. Not even with free electric.

First thing:  When you boot up the BBB & Controller Card, is the white light a flash or longer?  If it flashes 3 times, it's a bad controller.