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Re: [In stock] Gridseed 5-chips USB miner - $259
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on 17/02/2014, 23:44:16 UTC
Quote from: SummersideGuy on February 17, 2014, 08:22:56 PM
Quote from: darkjed on February 17, 2014, 08:20:56 PM
Quote from: SummersideGuy on February 17, 2014, 07:23:17 PM
Maybe someone can answer this for me as I know very little about these devices: do you need the wiibox controller for these to work or can you run them right through a usb hub to your PC, if you can run them through your PC without the box what software's can you use. Currently I use CGMiner for Scrypt

From the looks of it the wiibox is just a small linux device running minerd, There have been people that ran these on windows pc, and there has been some Raspberry Pi development. But things are still in the experimental area since this hardware is so new. It's one of the reasons I want a couple, see if I can get these mining on a Pi with a self modified version of cgminer.

I was just told that on another forum thread, I was also told though they dont work with Win64bit at the moment no driver support yet, alas I run Win64 and do not have any plans for dualbooting

They run on Win8-64bit with minred. You have to reset them every few hours and that's were the wiibox is probably helpful. The hash rate fluctuates wildly from 200kh-400Kh. I have one that runs pretty stable for almost 24 hours at a time and another that needs to be constantly reset every 6-10 hours.