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Re: My USB mining setup
by
ldm314
on 06/12/2013, 23:44:03 UTC
  • Total invested (not including equipment I had on hand like the RPi and a few of the hubs): around $1187
  • Power draw: 82W
  • Income per week:  0.046 BTC at current difficulty
  • Hashing power: 9.5GH/sec

9 of the erupters were bought on amazon for $35 each
11 were bought across several ebay auctions around $50 each (varied per auction)
bitfury was bought on ebay for 280

In the next few days I also have a block erupter blade that I also bought on ebay which will bring my total hashing power to 19.5.

Things that need to be improved on this setup:
  • RPi struggles to keep up with this many USB devices. Another RPi (only $35) would make it more much stable.
  • No more USB erupters, for what I paid for them I could have bought two block erupter blades and have double rate I have now
  • Overclock the block erupters. Replace the oscilator with 16mhz to bring them up to 400-440MH/sec which would add ~2Gh/sec total

So far the bitfury has responded well to overclocking, getting close to 2.9Gh/sec after replacing R15 with an 850 ohm resistor

http://i.imgur.com/BURdODS.png