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Quote from: shapemaker on July 31, 2013, 08:50:03 AM

Quote from: Its About Sharing on July 31, 2013, 07:31:51 AM

Seems just as easy as when I overclocked my Celeron (was it?) like around in 2000 or so. Was as much bang for the buck as these. Forget the chip but it was known as the most overclock for the buck.

That would have been the Celeron 300A. That one overclocked to 450 MHz with just a FSB bus increase from 66 Mhz to 100 MHz.

Old memories...

Yeah, that is it! My neighbor had one to per my suggestion. Really amazing. But going from 300 to 450MHz (50%) is even a bit less as going from from 282Mh to 450Mh (60%).
Let that sink in...

As long as the chips don't burn out with regular air cooling that is even better than the BEST CPU chip with over clocking ever got...

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Quote from: Its About Sharing on July 31, 2013, 07:31:51 AM

Seems just as easy as when I overclocked my Celeron (was it?) like around in 2000 or so. Was as much bang for the buck as these. Forget the chip but it was known as the most overclock for the buck.

That would have been the Celeron 300A. That one overclocked to 450 MHz with just a FSB bus increase from 66 Mhz to 100 MHz.

Old memories...

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Thanks guys for the comments/help and insults Wink

I'll take the latter when it comes with the former. Grin

You seriously saved me hours and that is appreciated.

Didn't realize it was so easy. I'll do the required reading.
Seems just as easy as when I overclocked my Celeron (was it?) like around in 2000 or so. Was as much bang for the buck as these. Forget the chip but it was known as the most overclock for the buck.

Thanks again, much appreciated.

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For the lazy ones who won't bother to look at the code Tongue

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Default voltage is set to 1.2V:

Code:

#define BITBURNER_DEFAULT_CORE_VOLTAGE 1200 /* in millivolts */

And there are two functions to set and get the voltage:

Code:

static void bitburner_set_core_voltage(struct cgpu_info *avalon, int core_voltage)
static int bitburner_get_core_voltage(struct cgpu_info *avalon)

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Quote from: Its About Sharing on July 30, 2013, 09:18:55 AM

I don't think this is a bad place to bring this up and perhaps it will benefit others as well:

Can someone point me in the direction to learn more about how to overclock on CGMiner?
I am running a Raspberry Pi with MinePeon (CGMiner is the default) and would like to learn more and be ready for the day the chips ship ;-)
Hmmm, maybe I could run two instances of CGMiner on my Pi, one for overclocked hardware and the other for non?
(I used to overclock video cards back in the day but am wet behind the ears here.)

Thanks guys,
IAS

The cgminer README and ASIC-README Tongue

any option that looks like --avalon-*

For voltage it's the --bitburner-voltage in this pull request:
https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/pull/467

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I don't think this is a bad place to bring this up and perhaps it will benefit others as well:

Can someone point me in the direction to learn more about how to overclock on CGMiner?
I am running a Raspberry Pi with MinePeon (CGMiner is the default) and would like to learn more and be ready for the day the chips ship ;-)
Hmmm, maybe I could run two instances of CGMiner on my Pi, one for overclocked hardware and the other for non?
(I used to overclock video cards back in the day but am wet behind the ears here.)

Thanks guys,
IAS

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Quote from: kano on July 29, 2013, 05:38:49 PM

Burnin mentioned a protocoll that is better to bitburner would be possible. I know this would mean much work but would there be a remarkable effect for hashrate at the end?

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Quote from: burnin on July 29, 2013, 05:22:06 PM

Quote from: SebastianJu on July 29, 2013, 04:09:19 PM

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Will the Burnin Mining rigs plug and play with MinePeon and the stock CG Miner or do we need a special version?

Yes, plug & play. There is additional option (voltage regulation) not yet supported by stock CG Miner, but you probably won't need to touch it at all.

Im pretty sure nearly all will need this feature because nearly all want to overclock. Its only possible to achieve high hashrates with overvolting...

The needed changes are already being commited into the cgminer.
Hopefully all that will be reasonable stable by next week.

I am currently at my contractor to supervise the production.
We making good progress even though there were a few delays here and there, which is to be expected when going from prototype to production.
No pretty photos this time since the first batch is done at my second contractor that doesn't allow photos to be taken in their production facility.
But there will be when i am back.

How many days will it take to fulfill all batch 1 orders? Are you going to ship them together once all are completed or are you going to ship them whenever you have enough boards to fulfill an order?

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Quote from: Its About Sharing on July 29, 2013, 05:30:46 PM

Regarding my last question - I meant it in more a gray area sort of way. I read the OP and what I thought was that it doesn't matter when you order, it is when the chips arrive. But what I really is, is there a danger of waiting too long (and then maybe getting your chips) but then the boards are sold out, where as if I ordered a board now, it would be held for me? Perhaps I'm making it more complicated than it is. My first buy so excuse my ignorance. ;-)

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I would like to pay when my batch of chips will be on the way to SebastianJu, is there any reason why I shouldn't do it and make my order now?

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Quote from: robix on July 28, 2013, 05:00:28 PM

Quote from: madmax_ger on July 28, 2013, 04:37:10 PM

I currently work with MinePeon, second link, and (sorry) can't recommend it for 24/7 unmonitored usage.
It might be fixed yet, but my config seems to be killed sometimes, the only way to fix the latest crash was
to stop the cgminer service and run it by hand with the config file on chmod 555. this prevents nightly restarts.

after the latest crash, even rewriting the config, cgminer refused to start all the way.
now it's running 24/7 without restart.

MinePeon was the easiest way for me to get used to RaspPi and mining with it, but I will reconfig to pure Raspbian soon I guess.
It's a very nice piece of software but I don't trust it anymore after these downtimes.

Did you use the latest rlease 0.2.2?

I checked it, I'm running 0.2.0. I will try an update and see if it works out, thanks!

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Quote from: burnin on July 29, 2013, 05:22:06 PM

Quote from: SebastianJu on July 29, 2013, 04:09:19 PM

Quote from: itod on July 29, 2013, 03:07:24 PM

Quote from: Its About Sharing on July 29, 2013, 02:15:19 PM

Will the Burnin Mining rigs plug and play with MinePeon and the stock CG Miner or do we need a special version?

Yes, plug & play. There is additional option (voltage regulation) not yet supported by stock CG Miner, but you probably won't need to touch it at all.

Im pretty sure nearly all will need this feature because nearly all want to overclock. Its only possible to achieve high hashrates with overvolting...

The needed changes are already being commited into the cgminer.
Hopefully all that will be reasonable stable by next week.

I am currently at my contractor to supervise the production.
We making good progress even though there were a few delays here and there, which is to be expected when going from prototype to production.
No pretty photos this time since the first batch is done at my second contractor that doesn't allow photos to be taken in their production facility.
But there will be when i am back.

Thanks for the update Burnin

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Quote from: burnin on July 29, 2013, 05:22:06 PM

Quote from: SebastianJu on July 29, 2013, 04:09:19 PM

Quote from: itod on July 29, 2013, 03:07:24 PM

Quote from: Its About Sharing on July 29, 2013, 02:15:19 PM

Will the Burnin Mining rigs plug and play with MinePeon and the stock CG Miner or do we need a special version?

Yes, plug & play. There is additional option (voltage regulation) not yet supported by stock CG Miner, but you probably won't need to touch it at all.

Im pretty sure nearly all will need this feature because nearly all want to overclock. Its only possible to achieve high hashrates with overvolting...

The needed changes are already being commited into the cgminer.
Hopefully all that will be reasonable stable by next week.
...

... and I'll certainly be adding more API access to the voltage control as soon as I get a chance to play with one.
Also, no doubt, once we understand it better, and if it's possible, possibly add auto control of the voltage - like ckolivas has done with the chip frequency.

Looking forward to seeing "BTB" on cgminer screens all over the world soon

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Quote from: itod on July 29, 2013, 03:07:24 PM

Quote from: Its About Sharing on July 29, 2013, 02:15:19 PM

Will the Burnin Mining rigs plug and play with MinePeon and the stock CG Miner or do we need a special version?

Yes, plug & play. There is additional option (voltage regulation) not yet supported by stock CG Miner, but you probably won't need to touch it at all.

Quote from: Its About Sharing on July 29, 2013, 02:15:19 PM

Also, is it better to place orders sooner rather than later to reserve the board or does it not work like that? (I'm in SebastianJu's Batch 6 order, very helpful guy btw.)

You have the answer to this question in the OP.

Thanks for the info Itod. As Sebastian said, many of us (including me), want to overclock the units. With chip shipments being behind and the hash rate /difficulty rising so much, the best chance to break even with smaller units is by overclocking (unless you got your hands on a 400Gh unit). ~~Has anyone heard when voltage regulation will be available in CG miner (or rather is it already but not in the stock MinePeon version?~~ Ahhh, thanks for the answer Burnin).

Regarding my last question - I meant it in more a gray area sort of way. I read the OP and what I thought was that it doesn't matter when you order, it is when the chips arrive. But what I really is, is there a danger of waiting too long (and then maybe getting your chips) but then the boards are sold out, where as if I ordered a board now, it would be held for me? Perhaps I'm making it more complicated than it is. My first buy so excuse my ignorance. ;-)

Thanks again,

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Quote from: SebastianJu on July 29, 2013, 04:09:19 PM

Quote from: itod on July 29, 2013, 03:07:24 PM

Quote from: Its About Sharing on July 29, 2013, 02:15:19 PM

Will the Burnin Mining rigs plug and play with MinePeon and the stock CG Miner or do we need a special version?

Yes, plug & play. There is additional option (voltage regulation) not yet supported by stock CG Miner, but you probably won't need to touch it at all.

Im pretty sure nearly all will need this feature because nearly all want to overclock. Its only possible to achieve high hashrates with overvolting...

The needed changes are already being commited into the cgminer.
Hopefully all that will be reasonable stable by next week.

I am currently at my contractor to supervise the production.
We making good progress even though there were a few delays here and there, which is to be expected when going from prototype to production.
No pretty photos this time since the first batch is done at my second contractor that doesn't allow photos to be taken in their production facility.
But there will be when i am back.

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Quote from: itod on July 29, 2013, 03:07:24 PM

Quote from: Its About Sharing on July 29, 2013, 02:15:19 PM

Will the Burnin Mining rigs plug and play with MinePeon and the stock CG Miner or do we need a special version?

Yes, plug & play. There is additional option (voltage regulation) not yet supported by stock CG Miner, but you probably won't need to touch it at all.

Im pretty sure nearly all will need this feature because nearly all want to overclock. Its only possible to achieve high hashrates with overvolting...

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Quote from: Its About Sharing on July 29, 2013, 02:15:19 PM

Will the Burnin Mining rigs plug and play with MinePeon and the stock CG Miner or do we need a special version?

Yes, plug & play. There is additional option (voltage regulation) not yet supported by stock CG Miner, but you probably won't need to touch it at all.

Quote from: Its About Sharing on July 29, 2013, 02:15:19 PM

Also, is it better to place orders sooner rather than later to reserve the board or does it not work like that? (I'm in SebastianJu's Batch 6 order, very helpful guy btw.)

You have the answer to this question in the OP.

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Quote from: madmax_ger on July 28, 2013, 04:37:10 PM

Quote from: SebastianJu on July 28, 2013, 02:35:25 PM

Quote from: northcape on July 28, 2013, 02:32:24 PM

in preparation for the arrival of my bitburners, what would be the best OS for running a few of them using a RaspberryPi?

http://www.kano-kun.net/?p=87

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/linux-mining-distro-for-the-raspberry-pi-minepeon-137934

I currently work with MinePeon, second link, and (sorry) can't recommend it for 24/7 unmonitored usage.
It might be fixed yet, but my config seems to be killed sometimes, the only way to fix the latest crash was
to stop the cgminer service and run it by hand with the config file on chmod 555. this prevents nightly restarts.

after the latest crash, even rewriting the config, cgminer refused to start all the way.
now it's running 24/7 without restart.

MinePeon was the easiest way for me to get used to RaspPi and mining with it, but I will reconfig to pure Raspbian soon I guess.
It's a very nice piece of software but I don't trust it anymore after these downtimes.

I've been running MinePeon for a month and a half now (using the default CG Miner) and it has mostly been great. (Just running one errupter)
The ONLY problem I had was when I was running the 2.2 version on an SD card rated at 4 (2 days of sporadic, maybe 2, freezes). When I reburned the image on a 10 speed card it has been up solid. Also was up solid on a 10 card before the upgrade. (But since it took like 30-45 minutes to burn the image I bought another card to swap things out for upgrades. The new version will support upgrades though!)

Will the Burnin Mining rigs plug and play with MinePeon and the stock CG Miner or do we need a special version?

Also, is it better to place orders sooner rather than later to reserve the board or does it not work like that? (I'm in SebastianJu's Batch 6 order, very helpful guy btw.)

Thanks,
IAS

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Hi Burnin

Couple of questions

1) how will you handle warranty returns - are overclocked devices covered in the limited warranty?

2) any sexy pictures of completed units hot off the press? Cheesy

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Quote from: kano on July 29, 2013, 07:28:54 AM

... and just to throw a bit more excitement out there

https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/pull/467

Thanks Kano!

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