Quote from: erk on April 30, 2013, 03:56:33 AM

Quote from: ckolivas on April 30, 2013, 03:45:04 AM

Quote from: ckolivas on April 30, 2013, 01:23:24 AM

Can we have one BFL thread that doesn't end up debating the same offtopic things that 10 billion other threads already do?

Looks like the answer is no. Roll Eyes

Lol.

So anyway, tell us a bit more about your little BFL "Borg cube" have you got it mining all the time or just mucking about with it?

Does it run hot to touch?

How much CPU power do you need for cgminer to drive one of these things? Like would it run from a Raspberry Pi or a small low power Intel Atom board?

The cgminer code is stable so it needs no attention right now so I've left it mining full time. I've moved it around a few times from pc to laptop to mining rig and so on. I've ripped the case off to look inside, and found it runs a lot cooler with the fan blowing downwards and the case off - though I put it back together the original way to be able to safely move it from PC to PC. My particular one runs at 5.7GH with about 1 hw error only every 12 hours. When mining on a PC only with it, the CPU usage of cgminer doesn't even register (something like <1%). Trying it on r-pi it still only uses 3% CPU to run it. This is all thanks to cgminer using direct USB instead of the ancient serial usb interface with the ftdi driver. It doesn't run hot at all, mine sits at ~43 degrees on the sensor and is only warm to touch. It uses 32W via the power brick it was sent with, but only increases my mining rig's power by 30W when I use the adapter to plug it into the PSU of the rig so this is a more efficient way to mine with it.