KnCMinerOverclocking

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Overview

The KnC Miner hardware runs as a BeagleBoard controlling a number of ASIC modules. Each of the ASIC modules has 4 or 8 "dies". During the starting of the miner the clock rate of the ASICs is set via the SPI protocol to each die. Therefore we can adjust the clock rate of each die to find a good balance for each miner.

The BeagleBoard is running a minimal Linux operating system. You'll need to understand a bit about ssh, bash and maybe scp in order to achieve an over-clock.

Model Differences

The October released miners have the "easiest" firmware to modify, the commands to set the speed of the dies is located within /etc/init.d/cgminer.

With the November miners we'll need to add similar code to perform the setting of the clock rate.

Frequency Values

MHz
700.0 1B1 372
712.5 382
725.0 1C1 392
737.5 3A2
750.0 1D1 3B2
762.5 3C2
775.0 1E1 3D2
787.5 3E2
800.0 1F1 3F2
812.5 402
825.0 201 412
837.5 422
850.0 211 432
862.5 442
875.0 221 452
887.5 462
900.0 231 472
912.5 482
925.0 241 492
937.5 4A2
950.0 251 4B2

Over-clocking Guide

  1. Determine miner model
  2. Setup SSH access to miner
  3. Install bgminer
  4. Update /etc/init.d scripts to use bgminer
  5. Setup method to monitor temps/current/voltage/wattage
  6. Update init.d scripts with new clock rate
  7. Restart bfgminer
  8. Monitor temps/etc
  9. If performing badly or temps/draw very high stop mining go back to 6
  10. Profit!