Cool! Nice link collection! Here are two good ones:
Watch our team march up the all-time leaderboard
See who is joining team Gridcoin on a daily basis (this excludes pool miners, unfortunately)
I have a few Odroids myself. I bought my first one in May and two more in June. They're really powerful for the price, but I did run into my first problem this week: the on-board cooling fan completely stopped working on the first one, so it now throttles the CPU to about half the original speed. To reduce the throttling and core temps, I dropped it to 3 cores (out of 8) for the time being.
I contacted Odroid and they consider them to be 'consumables' and only guarantee them for two weeks. You can buy a replacement for $5 + shipping, but I'm not at all excited about introducing a recurring cost like this into the already slim profit margin. I think I'm going to try their passive cooler instead, and also set it in front of a portion of one of my cheap 120mm fans.
Welcome to the community, and I wish you many years of happy BOINC crunching!
Hey @jimbo88,
I ordered the Odroid because of your post here on steemit :D
I chose the Odroid XU4Q, that's the one with the passive cooling. I just received it a few hours ago, so there is still a lot of work ahead of me. I just installed Ubuntu minimal and did my network-configurations as I noticed that the thing was getting really hot. I checked the temperature and it was running at 74°C on idle. That seemed a little high, so I removed the heatsink, cleaned everything and some fresh thermalpaste. That had a huge impact: current idle temperature is 49°C.
Next up is installing boinc.
Thank you for your article. I wouldn't have ordered one without it I guess. :)
And thanks for the links, I will edit them in.
Happy to be of assistance :-)
Under full load and with the onboard fan, mine usually run between 80C and 85C. The 4 cores that can run at 2.0GHZ, generally only run at 1.8 or 1.9 though; I've never been able to entirely avoid throttling with these boards.