Post
Topic
Board Mining support
Re: Hacking The KNC Firmware: Overclocking
by
mwarrior
on 17/12/2013, 15:41:44 UTC
I second that.  I'm getting between 575 and 625 on my day 1 shipment miner (which arrived on day 5) . 

- .m.w. -

what temps are you seeing??  added fans or just open case ?


I am running an open case.  With the issues I had in the beginning I've just made it habit.  I have a workstation set up in my garage and I run my miner down there since the temp is considerably lower right now.  I work on PC's a lot and instead of buying expensive canned air to clean them all the time I invested in an air tank, hose, and blow nozzle ($50) that I can fill up any  place with an air pump. Works great to keep my miner/fans clean in the garage too. I blow them off about once a week to keep residue / dust off.  I have actually been paying close attention to the temps since I applied the mod.  At first I had 2 ASIC's that were getting close to 70, the other 2 are good to go and run between 48 - 56 give or take.  From what I've read 70 is no worries.  I had a box of PC case fans (nothing special just plane jane case fans) I had ordered some time back and plugged 2 of them up to my power supply and positioned them at about a 45 degree angle on the sides of the ASIC boards that blow air on top and underneath of the boards.  Surprisingly  this took the temperature down a pretty good amount. Honestly most of the heat seems to be coming from the voltage regulators vs the ASIC chips.  I have to say that I have been lucky with my DIE's too though. Pretty happy with the output right now.  When it gets too expensive to run this thing I will go balls to the wall just for fun to see what I can make happen, as I may be able to provide info to people getting the new KNC products.  If I fry it then oh well as I'm planning on taking the miner out to a field and blowing holes in it with my AR-15 when no longer needed.  Although I will remove the nice heat syncs if they still work OK.  Long story short.. I am running a Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 1000w PS and my outputs are as follows:

SSH

Mining Status

CGMiner Status   Running (pid=9584)
Last Checked   Tue Dec 17 15:36:27 UTC 2013
Avg. Hash Rate   633 Gh/s
WU   8174
Difficulty Accepted   2688638
HW Status

ASIC slot #1   39.0 ℃
ASIC slot #2   -
ASIC slot #3   56.5 ℃
ASIC slot #4   39.5 ℃
ASIC slot #5   34.5 ℃
ASIC slot #6   -

I mine with Eligius now and you can have a look at my stats:

http://eligius.st/~wizkid057/newstats/userstats.php/1K5sYZvJK42k8WBRYHcW3SxhCRZNdKYmAL

Hope this helps someone and thank you once again to all that put this out there!