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Board Hardware
Re: Block Erupter USB - Overclocking/ hacking ?
by
mjgraham
on 26/08/2013, 18:34:03 UTC
Friedcat said at higher speed there is a chance that the micro is not capturing the nonce which would explain why speeds may not be as high as they should. I'm hoping he may post some more info on here.


I never tried 17mhz but I have a 18mhz installed and it will not run @ below 1.4v.

Well a 17 does not exist most likely I am using a signal generator, however I am going to have a nice chart to post, so far I am at 20 Mhz however were getting up there on voltage and heat density is making me worry. I can tell you so far were looking at 1.50V @ 3.992A for 20 MHz. I started at 12 MHz and made a chart with the common available oscillators and worked with each one until no HW errors in 5~10 min, long term hard to say. Should be done testing by tomorrow, maybe the fan wont quit in the middle of the night and a fire break out  Smiley Although so far at this test there are 4% HW errors. Is the maximum that everyone believes 1.8v? I think it is going to take a peltier to go to much farther then that adds another level of something to mess up.

As for the 1.4V at 18 MHz that is right on with what I have at that point.