Bit Coin Mining - Zeusminer Blizzard power consumption

The extra four Zeus Blizzard miners I mentioned in my previous post have now arrived bringing the grand total up to six. Together they are giving about 8.5MH/s and consuming around 292w as you can see in the picture.

To save you doing the maths (we are not American none of math crap here) that works out at 1.42MH/s each with a power consumption of 48.67w.  I for one am very happy with these figures.

My eye has however been draw to an offer they have on the 28MH/s  Thunder X3 for only $1199, I think I am going to sleep on that one.

Bit Coin Mining - Zeusminer Blizzard first impressions

First impressions?  Well when I unpacked them I can't say I was super happy with the build quality. It is "ok" it will get the job done but its not the nicest.  The packaging was excellent by the way.  First I tried just the one with the custom build of cgminer and it just worked right out of the box, once I had set the correct comm port.  To find this you just need to look it up in device manager.

Getting the second one to work took a little more effort.  This was largely due to a lack of documentation but after a little searching on the web I found it was as simple as duplicating the comm port entry in the bat file.

Below is copy of my bat file, password etc removed:

cgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://stratum.scryptguild.com:3333 -u Username_1234 -p xxxx --chips-count 6 --ltc-clk 328 -S //./COM4 -S //./COM5

I am surprised how good these work and I am getting about 2.7mh off a pair of them.  That's around the same rate as my three r9 290x rig for about an 8th of the cost.  Power consumption is also a fraction of what my old rig used which is good and along with the drop in power consumption there is a corresponding drop in heat output and thus noise as there are a lot less fans which are not having to work nearly as hard.

So when all is said and done I'm pleased, well I have ordered another four.