Real-world setup
My Bitaxe Hex on the desk
The Hex lives on the same desk as my Bitaxe Gamma 601 and NerdQaxe++ Remastered units, all solo mining off a quiet corner in my home office. Room temp is usually around 71°F — heat in the winter, AC set to 70°F in the summer.
I care way more about comfort and stability than raw numbers. If something screams, runs hot, or turns the office into a sauna, it doesn’t last. The Bitaxe Hex passes the “can I live with this 24/7?” test easily.
How I’m running the Hex
For this write-up, I’m running completely on stock settings:
Hashrate, efficiency & stability
What I actually see day-to-day
With those stock settings, my Hex sits right around ~3.1 TH/s sustained once it’s warmed up and settled. Short-term readings will bounce a bit on the LCD, but over time the graph flattens out nicely.
That’s actually better than the published spec, which targets roughly 19–21 W/TH. Silicon lottery obviously plays a role, but my unit landed on the good side.
Thermals, fan, and comfort
Auto fan control keeps things conservative. At these settings, the fan barely spins up — it hangs around the mid-20% range most of the time, which puts noise in the “small desk fan” category instead of “leaf blower in a closet.”
On my Hex, the dashboard screenshot here shows ASIC temps around 47 °C and VR temps around 60 °C at stock. In plain English: cool silicon, no drama, and a fan curve that doesn’t need babysitting.
The dashboard snapshots I’ve grabbed show cool temps, low RPM, and very relaxed thermals. There’s plenty of headroom here if you want to overclock in the future — I’m just keeping mine stock for now while I finish other tests.
Maintenance and real life
This is a real house — I’ve got a kid, a bulldog, and the usual dust and pet hair that comes with both. The Hex sits on the same desk I work at every day, and it just quietly does its thing.
Every few months I shut everything down, let the rigs cool off for 10–15 minutes, bring them outside, and hit them with a quick blast of compressed air. That’s been more than enough to keep the Hex happy so far. No clogged fans, no weird temp spikes — it just shrugs off normal life.
Why Hex is the perfect middle step
More than tiny single-chip miners, less than a big rig
Most people looking for “just a bit more hashrate” end up stuck between cute little single-chip miners and serious rigs:
- Single-chip Bitaxe models like the Gamma and Ultra live in the ~1 TH/s class. The Hex jumps you into the 3+ TH/s class with six BM1366 chips working together.
- NerdQaxe++ Remastered and Zyber-series rigs jump you into the 6+ TH/s and 10+ TH/s classes, respectively, very quickly.
The Hex cuts a clean middle lane:
- Six BM1366 chips on one board — no shelf full of small units.
- 3+ TH/s at very solid efficiency, even stock.
- Stays within a small PSU / normal outlet budget.
- Noise profile that’s totally desk-rig acceptable.
- Keeps you in the open-source Bitaxe ecosystem.
If you want more hashrate than the small single-chip miners can deliver, the Hex is the ideal middle step — real power without jumping all the way up to a NerdQaxe Remastered or a Zyber-series rig.
Build quality & TinyChipHub support
Hardware that feels like it’ll last
The Hex uses an ENIG (immersion gold) PCB, verified brand-new ASICs, and TinyChipHub’s dual-acrylic stand with dual fans. It feels more like a small finished product than a loose dev board with a fan zip-tied to it.
Firmware comes pre-tuned and tested. I recommend running what they ship unless you really know what you’re doing — their builds have been stable for me across multiple miners.
My experience with TCH so far
Shipping, support, and communication from Tiny Chip Hub have all been solid. I’ve consistently gotten replies within about a day, and every order I’ve placed has shown up in roughly a week door-to-door.
One important detail: TinyChipHub uses verified brand-new ASIC chips, and in this hobby that is not a universal standard. Some vendors rely on mixed or reclaimed batches depending on availability, but TCH consistently ships new BM1366 silicon — and it shows in both stability and thermals.
I’m already running multiple TCH-built units and haven’t had a single DOA or early-life failure. I tried a couple vendors before finding TCH, and the experiences were mixed. With them, I know exactly what I’m getting every time: clean hardware, clean silicon, and predictable performance.