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Re: [ANN] US/North American Bitfury sales now open
by
Morblias
on 24/07/2013, 19:56:26 UTC
First prototype of Bitfury S-HASH board is hashing:


Features:
  • 16 Bitfury ASIC capacity
  • Adjustable (through 0805 SMT resistor) voltage regulator between 0.7 and 0.9V
  • Core voltage regulator has 50A capacity, so chips can be overclocked.
  • On-board ARM Cortex M3 processor with standard RJ-45 100 Mbps Ethernet port.
  • Built-in mining software can operate stand-alone. No PC or Raspberry PI needed, just an internet connection.
  • TCP/IP stack with DHCP and DNS support. Just fill in pool server name, port number, username and password.
  • Support for Stratum and backup mining pools.
  • Built-in small webserver for chip status/speed reports.
  • PCB temperature sensor, could be used for automatic shutdown when temperature gets too high.

If you don't have the budget for a large number of chips, overclocking is the best option, as it will get you 40GH/sec out of a card (probably more with better cooling), instead of 25GH for a standard H-CARD for the same 16 chips. At 40GH/sec, the card uses about 35 Watts, running off a standard 12V DC supply.

40GH/s with only PC fans blowing onto the chips and no heat sink! Wow!