I am in batch 1 and none of mine have been shipped yet.
2014-06-30 19:37:09
Same here...day 1 purchase, no shipment yet. |
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I've had other iffy issues with UPS lately.
Something was shipped set to be delivered by 10am (and you know that costs extra).
Notification came that it was delivered at 9:45. Wife got home at 1pm, no package, and we started freaking out thinking it was stolen. Nope, actually delivered at 6:15pm. Despite the tracking saying it was 9:45am
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Still patiently waiting for shipping...
I know its still in the window but now I feel left out lol. Day 1 6/30 19:31 order...
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Dogie,
Wuff a corsair 750 CXM power 2 units (4 boards) or should I get a bigger PSU?
I'm running two off of a CX750 - seems to be fine! |
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Get a Raspberry Pi and use that to control miners. Save energy and the earth  The Pi has only 512MB of RAM  And? That's more than enough to run cgminer. OP never said anything about p2pool...especially not his own node. And FYI, the PS3 doesn't have more RAM than the Pi |
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Trying to use a PS3 would be horribly inefficient. I have a Dev kit on my desk and I wouldn't even use it to control USB miners never mind mine itself. Get a Raspberry Pi and use that to control miners. Save energy and the earth |
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BITMAIN didn't start shipping from 10th as promised.
New extended shipping promise between 10 and 14 running.
Two days passed after 10th 2 more days left. Pressure mounts.
If 14th is crossed BTC0.75/S3 will effectively be over BTC1.
They didn't promise to ship on the 10th...they promised to ship some time between the 10th and 20th. They have another 9 days before they've broken any promises... Consider the factor they where early shippers. At-least they should have started shipping on 10th. That's what we are expecting from the BitMainTech. No pre-orders were their first quality, support the second. It's true, but assuming that because they shipped ahead of time in the past that they would again is a bad bet. I'm a day-one buyer of these too, and as long as I get them by the 22nd or so (meaning they shipped on the 20th) I'll assume they did what they promised. Since it sounds like it should be closer to the 14th (in my hands middle of next week) I'm thrilled. |
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BITMAIN didn't start shipping from 10th as promised.
New extended shipping promise between 10 and 14 running.
Two days passed after 10th 2 more days left. Pressure mounts.
If 14th is crossed BTC0.75/S3 will effectively be over BTC1.
They didn't promise to ship on the 10th...they promised to ship some time between the 10th and 20th. They have another 9 days before they've broken any promises... |
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I'll give a second vote for Corsair.
Currently using a mix of AX860i and CX-750s (just what I was able to get on sale when I needed them) and they're all stellar - and generally good for more than the advertised power rating. Corsair has a habit of rating their PSUs lower than they can actually put out to get higher efficiency ratings.
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Has anyone been able to format the SD card after putting that RPi img on it. It seems like there are a couple read only files on the img that are keeping me from formating.
0 out the disk using a program like ActiveKillDisk, or nuke the partitions and start from scrap. I dont take no "read only" crap I tried SDFormatter and even KillDisk is giving me errors: Erase method: One Pass Zeros (1 pass) Passes: 1
Selected: Removable Disk2 Generic-xD/SD/M.S. - 7.50 GB
Erase Removable Disk2 Generic-xD/SD/M.S. - 7.50 GB
Started: 2014-07-11 09:52:57
Cannot write to sectors from 0 to 2047. (Error: Data error (cyclic redundancy check).)
Cannot write to sectors from 2048 to 4095. (Error: Data error (cyclic redundancy check).)
Cannot write to sectors from 4096 to 6143. (Error: Data error (cyclic redundancy check).)
Cannot write to sectors from 6144 to 8191. (Error: Data error (cyclic redundancy check).)
Cannot write to sectors from 8192 to 10239. (Error: Data error (cyclic redundancy check).)
Cannot write to sectors from 10240 to 12287. (Error: Data error (cyclic redundancy check).)
It's still trying buy says 216 hours till completion 1) Make sure the write protect isn't turned on... It's failing to write to basically the entire thing which tells me that may be it... 2) If not, it looks like it's your SD card that may be dead / dying. Formatting has nothing to do with files as it doesn't know or care about the files. It operates in blocks and sectors. |
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S3s are NOT preorders, they're sensible batch manufacturing and I fully support it. You simply can't manufacture, test and ship 1000-3000 units instantly, so you have to stagger it over a week to 10 days. That means you have to provide a worst case scenario of dispatch. And you have to arrange payment in advance of the earliest shipping.
= 2 day to 3 week window.
As soon as the first one ships I'd agree (and full disclosure, I had great experiences with my S1s and bought some S3s the day they were available to buy). Big point is, while a lot of people are talking doom and gloom, it seems to be it's never been better for the small miner! |
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I started mining almost a year and a half ago, and in that time I've almost given up a number of times. Not because of cost, or because of difficulty increases, but just because at times there was nowhere to go for newer hardware!
But now it seems like for the first time in...well...quite some time, we actually have options!
Bitmain is launching their S3, which while technically is a preorder (albeit one that's supposed to be getting ship in the next week).
There are a number of AM3-based solutions from Rockminer, BTCGarden, etc.
Technobit has a number of options based on a variety of chips, including BA's Minion that's pretty impressive in the GH-per-chip area (ignoring BA's own complete failure to launch)
Even BA's X1 seem to be shipping finally giving yet another option.
Then there's stores like minersource.net (I know, some of you love em, some of you hate em), ASICPuppy (which I just ordered a couple of BTCGarden rigs from and can speak highly of) both shipping almost immediately even for people needing to pay in cash instead of BTC.
So yes, while it's getting harder for the little guy in terms of ROI and crazy difficulty increases (which seem to be going less insane if the estimates are to be believed), it's getting easier to actually get gear without throwing it at some not-yet-produced hardware that may or may not actually ship in 6 months...
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Hi,
I'm running one S1 (not overclocked) on a Corsair TX650 R2 80+ Bronze, +12V@53A
Now here's the thing - the PS is also powering a low end PC, plus I have two R-Boxes (~40W each) connected to the PS via a PCI-e to molex adapter. So that's around 500W, not including the PC. Everything's running fine, was wondering if I'm pushing it a bit.
Corsair tends to be pretty solid with their PSUs so if it's saying 650W it's good for 650W. With the 2 R-Boxes and the S1 that's another 440w or so, so as long as the PC isn't pushing beyond 210w (if it's a low end, without a discrete graphics card, it's safe to say it's not). |
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These prices are fantastic...
1020 (1180 shipped to US) for 1.2TH - we're not quite there with efficiency yet, but price per GH is competitive with the S3 etc.
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My own follow-up here.
Ordered two AMV1s a day or so before 4th of July. They were waiting for me Monday. Got them Wednesday (stupid work and UPS hours) and they're both up and running. Took a little fiddling to get things going but that was largely due to my own network layout and just not being familiar with the devices.
Overall, pretty happy!
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A few other things you may want to note in the guide:
1) If you have more than one miner daisy-chained, in the Cgminer tab (the first), under the pool settings is a setting for "Board nums". This value should be set to 2 * the number of miners (since each miner has 2 boards). I fought with wiring for like half an hour before I found out about this setting...
2) My boards look slightly different. They don't have a PCIE port on the blades themselves. Instead there are 2 ports which have an adapter that can either take a single PCIE 6pin plug (it splits into 2 cables to plug into two sides). So the 2 6-pin PCIE plugs become 4 power "plugs" - two for each board. In this case I noticed that I had a single PCIE plug split between both boards instead of 1 plug covering the top boards' two power ports with another covering the bottom two. Between this and re-wiring everything (checking all the plugs etc.) I'm down to a reasonable number of errors (200 or so an hour, vs. 10000+).
I can take pictures of my version of the boards I have if it'd help!
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I got the first of my 2 AM V1s setup today. I'm getting a TON of errors however:  And for those having issues with it not connecting to a pool at all: You may need to set an ACTUAL DNS IP, not just your routers IP (depending on what you use for a router). In my case (I'm on comcast business cable) it's 75.75.75.75 Everyone is getting the same % on difficulty errors. I don't know how your router wouldn't also be a DNS server, that doesn't make sense. Its a router. In my case I have a funky network setup (my miners go through a separate gateway so I can connect to them all through a server set between them and the rest of my network. |
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I got the first of my 2 AM V1s setup today. I'm getting a TON of errors however: And for those having issues with it not connecting to a pool at all: You may need to set an ACTUAL DNS IP, not just your routers IP (depending on what you use for a router). In my case (I'm on comcast business cable) it's 75.75.75.75 |
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I am so tempted to do something like this here in cali... We have the benefit of naturally cool weather here in the Bay Area (it's 62F right now...) so heat buildup should be even less of an issue. And having a father-in-law that happens to be a commercial electrician can't hurt either |
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R3 looks decent enough...but higher price AND higher power usage than S3?
Not sure the 0.2btc is worth getting it 10 days sooner
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