Iceriver KS0 pro

Psittac · April 9

I just got the KS0 pro and it came as the commemorative edition. I just thought I would start a thread and share my experience.

I initially set it up on a Kaspa pool or two then quickly changed it to a nicehash account. I have found that about once a day it default's to the second pool which is the kaspa pool not nicehash and I have to restart the unit to get it back on nicehash.

My current earning's are about $1.50usd in btc a day at a cost of 100w.

The thing run's HOT so I purchased a USB fan and once I put it ontop the heatsink is cool to the touch, kind of odd that the chip temps barely dropped but the heatsink IE: body of the unit is night and day.

I don't know if I will EVER pay this thing off through it's own work, however considering I used crypto I already had to pay for it, I'll consider it a wash at best. Currently I'm looking at 18 month's for ROI.

I'm thinking seriously of putting a new overclock firmware on this thing to get a 50% increase in gh/s for about a 100% increase in power, that will drastically reduce my ROI and the only consideration is safety at this point.

I have already purchased the larger power brick and will not run this new firmware until I have a DMZ set up on my network so it is sitting out in it's own space away from my other devices. FYI overclocking requires additional thermal concerns like paste pad's and mosfet heatsinks which I have.

I could just run this on kaspa and horde my payout in hopes that it goes up, or take the daily cash out in btc from nicehash. I know that the firmware takes 1% split between the kaspa dev's and the firmware creator, however I'm unaware of how that works with nicehash.

For what it's worth asicmarketplace is reputable enough that a couple weeks after placing my order I received my product.

GOTSpectrum · April 11

Funnily enough I ordered one of these recently...

So it may surprise people that the folding team leader is mining, or well in this case planning to mine. I like to make fermented foods and I have an outside cupboard that I use to make them, well much of the year it needs a 100w heater in there to keep the right temp, I decided if I'm using that 100w anyway why not throw a miner in there.

I don't care about profit, but getting back some of the money spend on the electric to head it will be nice