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Board Hardware
Re: Experimenting with Jalapeno firmware...
by
K1773R
on 17/09/2013, 11:34:56 UTC
Lol, you OCers are a different breed of cat!  You wait 9 months for your Jalapeños and proceed to blow them up.

I'm just giving you some good-natured grief and I feel bad for the few who've lost or damaged their Jallys.  But for us less daring individuals it can difficult for us to understand why you'd even take the risk in the first place.

With difficulty rising so quickly, wouldn't it be wiser just to mine with it straight out of the box instead of modding and experimenting with firmware hour after hour, day after day?  I start to freak out if my ASICs have any downtime.  For example, I just setup 6 ASICMiner Blades a few days ago and during the first night, the PC that was running Stratum Proxy had a Windows update and restarted.  I about cried when I saw my stats.  Hell, I get mad if one of my USB Erupters goes offline for 5 minutes, lol.
if you know what you do, you wont damage your jala at all Smiley
changing source can be done without taking the jala offline, if you do it right you dont even have to disassemble the jala for flashing it. flashing takes 2-3 minutes Wink spending 1 hour offline time for the jala is totaly worth it if you gain alot more hashpower.