Mining Network Review: PandaMiner B1 Plus GPU Miner Review

PandaMiner is the world's first graphics card integrated mining machine

Mining machine introduction:

The scale of virtual currency mining industry is growing day by day. Many individual miners buy their own graphics cards to assemble and mine, which requires certain skills and time. The Panda Miner team has brought together many professionals in the industry to form an all-round team. Within half a year, it has developed graphics card mining machines suitable for a variety of virtual currencies. Panda Miner hopes to become the world's number one brand of virtual currency hardware equipment.
This time we tested a prototype of the PandaMiner B1 Plus mining machine.
The official parameters of PandaMiner B1 Plus are as follows:

Unboxing photos

The mining machine is packed in a five-layer special hard carton. After unpacking, the mining machine inside is wrapped in a foam sleeve, which can prevent moisture and shock, and avoid damage to the mining machine caused by logistics transportation.

The box also comes with 4 6-pin power extension cables.
From the picture, we can see that there are 8 fans on one side of the mining machine. The picture shows 8 air inlet fans, and there are also 8 air outlet fans on the other side of the mining machine.

The interfaces on one side of the mining machine, from left to right, are:

On the other side of the mining machine are four 6-pin power interfaces and an extended fan power interface.

Prepare for testing, test tools:

Open the back panel of the mining machine and take a look at the internal structure of the mining machine. You can see a long motherboard with 4 graphics cards embedded on it and 16 fans on both sides. It is compact and small, saving space but also ensuring good heat dissipation.

Connect the extension cord and the power supply. The power supply we used in this test is the Ant APW3 power supply. In order to test the power consumption of the mining machine, the power supply is plugged into the power meter.

Connect the mouse, keyboard and monitor, turn on the power, and the fan will start to spin.
To turn on the machine, you need to press the power button on the mining machine. The power button is designed to be difficult to press by hand to avoid accidental touching. You need to find a tool to press it.
After pressing the power button, there is no problem. The monitor lights up. At this time, all the indicator lights next to the power button light up. The Panda Miner is installed with Windows 10. Wait for a while for the system to automatically log in to see the overall effect.

Let's see what the power is at this time.

The power when mining is not started is 612w.

After entering the system, we look at the desktop. Panda Miner has basically prepared all the necessary software.
Mining software eth, zcash, mining steps, teamViewer 12 remote control software, GPU-Z graphics card identification tool, 360 browser, let's use GPU-Z to check the graphics card information,

After GPU-Z is opened, click on the graphics card list in the lower left corner. You can see 8 Radeon(TM) RX 480 graphics cards and one built-in graphics card, Intel HD Graphics.
Let’s take a look at the configuration of this mining machine:

Windows 10 64-bit Enterprise Edition, Pentium Dual-core CPU 1.9GHz, 8G memory
ETH Mining Test <br/>Now we are going to start testing mining. Open the mining steps.txt on the desktop and take a look.
The file contains the ETH mining method. I changed the wallet address. I applied for a new wallet address, but failed to get it on Yunbi. It said that there were no available addresses. Then I went to P.com to apply for one, configured it, and followed the instructions to double-click A1.bat to run mining.

The running interface is as shown above. Panda Miner uses a third-party mining software. It can be seen that 8 Radeon RX 480 graphics cards are recognized. It will wait for about 1 minute here. It may be that the mining software is initializing something.
After a while, the software started mining

We can see that the software receives the task issued by the mining pool, and the software submits the result to the mining pool. The total computing power of the mining machine is about 225Mh/s, and the computing power of each graphics card is stable. Let's take a look at the power consumption of the mining machine at this time.

The mining machine power is maintained at around 1308W, which is consistent with the official data.
After the mining machine has been running for 1 hour, let's test the temperature of the mining machine's air outlet:

The highest temperature at the air outlet is 44.5 degrees Celsius, and the cooling effect of the mining machine is very good.
Let's measure the noise.

The noise level of the mining machine was tested at a distance of about 1 meter and the value was 71.7 decibels.

60 decibels at 5 meters away, more than 50 decibels will affect your rest. It will definitely be very noisy if you mine in your home office. After 12 hours of testing, the computing power curve is as follows:

The average computing power is around 225Mh/s, which is very stable and consistent with the official data.
The payback period of the Panda Miner is calculated based on the current ETH price of 60 yuan. The daily mining income is 0.006 ETH/Mhash/s, which is about RMB 0.36 yuan. The computing power of 225Mh is about 81 yuan.
The electricity fee is calculated at 0.3 yuan. The power consumption is 1.3kw. The daily electricity fee is about 9.36 yuan. The daily net income is 71.64
The mining machine costs 15,000 yuan and it takes about 209 days to recover the investment.
Summarizing the test results:

The overall test results are consistent with the official data, which shows that the pass rate of the Panda Miner is still good and the income can be very stable.
Panda Miner is the first graphics card integrated mining machine, which solves the trouble of assembling mining machines and achieves low power consumption and high computing power, making mining easier and the income more stable and higher.
Appendix <br/>Panda Miner official website: http://www.pandaminer.com
Graphics card mining configuration instructions: http://www.pandaminer.com/default/config