Yea, they were leftovers that I salvaged out of a few old PC's.  They still move a good bit of air still.

Like I said earlier, they were free.

My first blade up and running.  Yea...I'm going to have to get a backplane soon.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/102291459/blade.JPG

Yea, I'm interested in seeing how well these Bitfury thumbs perform compared to the BE's. My only complaint so far with the BE's is I have one in that rig that puts out an extremely high number of hardware errors compared to the rest.

Now, if I get one of those little "bitcoin man" figures with the Fury's I ordered I'll post a pic of him holding one while standing over the little BE's.

I'll add my little rig to the list.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/102291459/rig1.JPG

Nothing wild or crazy, just 36 little BE's.  I'll be adding some Red Fury's and a Drillbit Thumb to the mix (hopefully) next month.

I go and try to get my second Cube running tonight and I restarted my main PC that is running the proxy and BFGminer...and neither would reconnect to the US server.  After looking here and seeing others having the same trouble, I pointed them at the EU server and they roared back to life.  I'll try to point them back at the US server in the morning....

Ordered another Cube.  Lets see what two of these will do side by side.

PM sent.

Shesh, this thing is touchy...

Started out with it plugged into my Teckrepublic 7 port hub (only thing plugged into that hub btw) and it sputtered constantly and would zombie out after a few minutes.  This same hub ran four ASICminer UBS's easily and even a Blue Fury without issue.  I switched the Drillbit over to my Gearmo hub and it appears to be running smoothly.  Its currently mining around 2.2Ghs.  Hopefully it will wind up some as it breaks in...

Blue Fury's...Meet Drillbit. 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/102291459/Drill.JPG

If I received this one in Indiana, then they should just about be everywhere in the states.

Oh, unless you want to go give PPS mining out. It's consistant, but your overall reward will be less as, I believe, most that offer that option have higher fee's for it.

Every pool has good luck and bad luck...in the long run its all pretty equal.  If you go do a different pool your still at the mercy of luck. A bigger pool will most likely get you more consistant rewards, but your rewards will still be at the mercy of you miner speed vs the pool's speed.

I don't normally babysit my miners but I just started up some Blue Fury's and the first few days were a challenge. They have settled down and hash just fine now, but one of them didn't want to behave those first few days so I had to keep an eye on it.

Uh...how did one of my workers go from working fine to last share seen over seven hours ago within a few minutes??

**edit**
Now it's saying last share was an hour ago....ugh.



I happen to be in an area expecting strong storms later today, but nothing is close to me yet...I guess my power/net must have just gone out. Eight hours till I get off work and find out what happened....

I'm now running with BFGMiner 3.5.1 after running CGMiner for a few days. Looking at BFGminer, it looks like I have one miner that is actually kicking out about 35% hardware errors while the other four miners are less then 4.5%.  I guess I'll let it run for a day and see if it straightens out...if it doesn't maybe I can get it swapped out.

Thank you.


Ok, I'm done resetting these things for now...this last time I now have one screaming at nearly 3Gh/s but another isn't even getting 1Gh/s.  The overall hash rate is....close each time, I wonder if this is just some weird reporting going on with CGMiner. 

Well, no matter what I do, with CGMiner it just blinks red.  And every time I restart the hash rate on each miner is different....

So what does just a blinking red LED stand for?  That is what my 5 miners are doing.

That's what my miners do, I figured it was normal.


I tried this, as far as I can tell it didn't do anything.  And shortly after I had one miner fall on its face and I had to pull it out and then plug it back in. 

I used Zadig v2.0.1.160.  After I plugged in the first BF I used Zadig to change the driver and then started CGMiner 3.7.0.  After that, all I had to do was plug in each BF one at a time and let it do its thing to each one. 

I restarted my PC running all of this and I've gained a little bit of speed on some miners.  Like I said, maybe in a few days some updates will help squeeze out a bit more speed...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/102291459/CGminer.jpg