Just got my first antminers and thought I would provide my initial experience with them.
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Had both the original wire power connections and new PCI-E connections.
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You got them within the last few days and one Ant still needed the PCI-e power wires to be stripped from the PSU (or PCI-e extensions)? Did they supply the PCI-e extensions? Glad to hear both of them had the latest firmware, but I'm not too excited if I get the one that requires stripping off some PCI-e wires on my latest order. I like the solid connections of the PCI-e ports, plus I don't have the extensions. Ordered on 1-15-2013 and received on 1-20-2013 in Dallas, TX The boards had BOTH types of connectors so you could choose to use the old wire type or the new PCI-E connections. Ahh, I got it. Thanks for the info! It's the latest revisions of the S1 blades. Same as my current S1 ordered that was received 1/4/2014. I actually didn't consider using those old-wire connections as I wouldn't want anyone accidentally bumping to the Ant and one of those wires coming off and shorting some circuits. i personally use the wire connectors now since i use server PSUs for the devices. I only need a single 12V and GND per blade if i use 14AWG wires, making hookup a breeze and the terminals twist a very tight connection. If i picked up and threw the antminer across the room, the wires would be so well connected that the power supply would be dragged off the table after it. *seriously, don't use this as a test method* |
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I've not followed closely this manufacturer, but from what I've read they ship from stock, right?
You pay 1.9BTC for one 180GB/s machine and expect it to receive when?
Any reasons to be worried about delays with these guys?
What value do they declare? I read above that sometimes there is a problem with customs.
I am currently contemplating on buying a few as this is their final batch before the Chinese new year.
-they usually ship from stock or the batch they just finished and are testing/packaging to ship in the following days. usually they ship about 2-5 days after opening orders on a batch -you would receive it between this friday and next tuesday -ive only had good experiences and even RMA'd a board that wasnt powering correctly. -they usually declare a relatively low value, something around $500 if i recall. If you need to you can have them declare the full value at USD/BTC rate but duties may be higher |
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Hey maybe someone from Bitmain could answer this.
I forgot to use a coupon on my last order...is it too late for me to use it now?
use it on your next order  |
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Mine pulls 380W from the wall @ 400 in a warm room. I'm going to end up running them on a 450W server PSU (36.6A on 12V).
can you confirm that it need 30 Amp 12 V DC ? because i will use power supply for radio that can deliver 30 Amp. you WILL have problems using that. hardware error rates will be huge, chips will be disabled or marked 'x', and you will absolutely not be able to overclock at all buy a good power supply with at least 500W on a single 12V rail |
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It is amazing that at this point, you could order 600GH (3 antminers) for a similar power draw at nearly the same price (5.7BTC for 3) as a monarch, and they will deliver this week
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Anyone know where I can get a new one of these PCI-e to Screw Terminal adapters?
Or where I can get the lugs that attach and are crimpted to the wires so I can make it myself?
Additionally, is it kosher to have both PCIe connectors hooked up, in addition to these two screw terminals, if we want to ensure our rigs are getting all the juice they require ? Read: Is having 4 power sources going to the M-Board going to cause it to melt ? Would be interested in picking up a few of these cables as well. I have to. Melted 2 pci-e cables. Need to distribute the load better. One of these adapters was the latest casualty. Running 14 boards at 460 GH/s. I have 7 boards powered by 2 runs of 14AWG (2*12V and 2*GND) to the screw terminals and am getting ~255GHash. absolutely no cable warmth |
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Somebody asked about a case. I plan on getting these when i sell them and adding a Cougar Vortex 4 pin fan on the other side. I too feel that people are scared of the bare look and they will pay more for a sleek package. I feel these are the best value out there right now, good stability, low power consumption. But people seem to enjoy paying $1000 more for the Avalon clones that use 75% more power, sound like jets, and take up 3 times the space. Go figure. Here's the link any help in how to buy these would be appreciated, site a little difficult for me to comprehend. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=413687.0 two things: 1) no access for the screw terminals 2) this is how NOT to power an antminer. There is a high risk of that cable burning up trying to deliver 400W over a single PCI-e connection |
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download a program called putty that does SSH, and point it at the miner's IP address and port 22 to access it |
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hey guys i am running in to a problem with my rigs. i have two full rigs (v2 h-card & v3 m-board)
for some reason both of them just stop hashing. what could the problem? i'm still able to go in to the web browser.
Hit save stratum info, wait for the confirmation. hit stop miners, wait for the confirmation. hit start miners, wait for the confirmation. It should be hashing again in a minute or two, if not something else is wrong. (Internet connection working?) its not working. i really don't know whats wrong it was working fine. internet is working correctly. i have other miners that are still running. its still looks like it is hashing from the blinking green light. but on the site (bitfury admin page) it shows 0 hash. sounds like the pool info is correct or recently changed. check its configured correctly and connected to internet, not just the home network |
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Any price drops on the 400+ GH/s models or introduction of higher GH/s setups (basically an addon master card/board)?
I see they are selling them quite good and overpriced of course. When people are buying them is there any reason prices to be dropped? The answer is...... I still don't understand why people are paying for overpriced miners to fund bitfury's private farm (currently at 200TH). Remember people: for every miner sold, bitfury adds a couple more to his farm so think twice before ordering. Stupid stupid people. Because it's an ASIC miner that ships today. And do you honestly think that Bitfury doesn't currently have enough funds to support it's own private farm without the few pennies that we add to their coffers? Lol. Who's stupid now? Everything has a reason dude... Just think about it I hope you're not responding to me. I just received a 1/2 rig, 1/4 rig and 3 V1 H boards last week. I happen to think Bitfury and BitMain gear are very reasonably priced at the moment. An even lower price would be better but I'm not waiting around for that to happen. I think those who are always complaining about over-priced gear will never be happy enough to make a purchase. That's why the ASIC vendors just ignore their pleas. Why try to satisfy a potential customer who will never actually buy your product, right? +1. when the price drop happened, it was enough for me to justify a small purchase. however, they need to come down another 20% before I go out and buy full rigs. alternatively, they fix the rPi SD-corrupting issues and ill buy its a massive pissoff that i am scared to reboot the unit or otherwise touch it at all when in operation, even if i think a few more GH/s could be had |
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I'm new to mining and doing transactions via BTC. Is Miner Fee necessary to make sure transactions are confirmed quickly? Is 2 hours normal without miner fee?
Any answers are appreciated.
a lot of the time, your wallet program will suggest a nominal fee of 0.001 or 0.0005 BTC to flag the transaction as urgent. without the fee, it can take a few extra blocks before your transaction is pushed through. |
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Put 2 orders in and they confirmed fast. Wonder how long until they show up in Canada ...
generally ive found a monday shipment arrives on thursday. If they ship the 21st, it will hopefully deliver by the weekend. Bitmain has traditionally been very good at achieving this and shipping out on or ahead of schedule that said, 1/3 of my puchases today is still totally unconfirmed despite the address having the full payment for about 20+ block confirmations now. Not sure if its because of the coupon or because i sent from 2 addresses, but it was well within the 1hr timeframe so I hope bitmain can manually confirm it when they wake up in ~5 hours |
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Some people are just assholes.
Rheys is not an asshole - he is just dumb and has far too much time on his hands. my advice: ignore him. in fact, ignore anyone with under 50 posts because the noobie section is supposed to keep them enclosed with the rest of thier kind Hey! What did I do?  you? nothing AFAIC. but common sense says that if you have <50 posts, you are a contributing member and hopefully have gained some sufficient understanding of bitcoin in the process of getting there. when a user has <10 posts in the main boards, many of those are in a single topic and often to shill a product or bitch about one. for example, Rheys has made almost every single post of his 14 in this thread (seems like more, maybe they are just that terrible!) |
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Just sent an email to the email on the About page - my order just got Expired even though I sent the BTC  It's shown up in the block explorer fine and now has 6 confirms, but I guess something has gone wrong their end!! same. Im at 9 confirmations. I trust bitmain so i am not concerned, but would feel better seeing a 'PAIED' status Hehe yep, I bought 2 seperately and one went through fine, so presume its just a backend failure somewhere Sods law I bought them at the same time too :p did you get a coupon? I have funds to order a second but am holding off because i want to see if the first order gives me a coupon i can use on the second order. if only it would confirm.... *note: i paid from 2 sources, but the destination address has a full 1.7 BTC in it and the payments were sent roughly 10min and 15min after going through the checkout EDIT: wrent ahead with a second order, paid the entire 1.9BTC from a bitcoin-qt wallet, and its showing within 30seconds. The other order still has no confirmation from Bitmain though. |
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Some people are just assholes.
Rheys is not an asshole - he is just dumb and has far too much time on his hands. my advice: ignore him. in fact, ignore anyone with under 50 posts because the noobie section is supposed to keep them enclosed with the rest of thier kind |
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Just sent an email to the email on the About page - my order just got Expired even though I sent the BTC It's shown up in the block explorer fine and now has 6 confirms, but I guess something has gone wrong their end!! same. Im at 9 confirmations. I trust bitmain so i am not concerned, but would feel better seeing a 'PAIED' status |
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In my browser i see that - Estimated Position in Payout Queue 820.61279937 BTC are ahead in queue, putting this user's payout after a 32 block delay.
So statistics work for someone, not for me ? Now i see 3 versions - 1440, 820 and 52 BTC from my browser and peoples. But i don't see BTC in my wallet anyway, pool still don't pay and statistic work "bad" !
Listen son, you're not getting paid, ok? You're convinced it's a scam so a couple of us have decided that what you really want and what you really need is to be scammed, that way you can be right! I know it's tough hearing that you're going to actually get something right for probably the first time in your life, but after all your negative wannabe posts, we just couldn't turn you down. Consider it a kind gesture on our part, so what we decided to do, to prove to you that it was a scam was to donate all your mined coins to the pool. We felt that you'd really get a kick out of being right, so now you can be happy that everyone in the pool benefits at your expense. Think about that - the whole pool benefits. Awesome really, we win, you lose - but wait! - you're right! so you win too. See what I mean? So whaddayasay? Sweet deal, eh? The good news is that the kind folks of this pool know that you might not be interested in donating all your mined coins to the other pool users forever, so we've given you the option of choosing another pool or - get this - continuing to donate to the pool! Wow! I never knew this pool could be so great! And like you I'm pretty new to the pool, so I have to thank you for donating your earnings to the pool. You get to say it's a scam, we call it a donation, either way, you're a hero! What's it like to be right and totally loved and respected by the whole pool? I can't believe how you managed to do that, first I thought you were scammed, now I understand you donated your earnings to everyone else in the pool! Awesome dude!  You pool co-admin or ? If you admin i will wrote forum administration your words and pool never return in paying pool... And i win 3 BTC if you right   seriously. get your shit together. you are asking the dumbest questions and saying the stupidest things, including trying to claim the winnings to a bet you never backed up with money the pool stats are updating now and slowly catching up. i can see my payout total, my 128/256 second hashrates seem correct, and the payout queue is shrinking. Take your stupidity elsewhere Yeah, dude tell me you see your money in your wallet ? Because before i see my BTC in my wallet i still report scam everywhere, and i'm right ! About 3 BTC - i wrote humor answer to humor question. again, full retard. please stop mining at elgius. if you cant handle and system going down for unexpected maintenance for a few days, WHILE THE POOL STILL ACCEPTS SHARES, you have 4 options. 1) change pools as long as you dont consider all the others to be scams as well 2) solo-mine. if your router dies - find the nearest mirror and point at it screaming 'scammer!" 3) stop mining bitcoins. its beyond you 4) keep mining at eligius despite the fact you think its a scam. Then go on the forums and scream scam. obviously you went with #4. excellent choice. |
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since GPU mining for scrypt coins isn't bitcoin, aren't posts here about it in the wrong place? shouldn't they be posted in the altcoins section? So of course GPU mining is looked down on. it is either unprofitable or being talked about in the wrong place. (Bitcoin Snob here)
I agree that GPUs should be banished from this thread since they are no longer viable for bitcoin mining to make a profit. Glory to ASIC! Sorry to burst your bubble but there are distinct and valid reasons to be using GPU in 2014. Or were you trolling? Some of these rigs people are posting images of cost over $6000, do you really think that they would go to great effort to design and construct these custom systems and not do a few calculations to prove they are viable and profitable? +1 He must be trolling or ignoring uses for the GPUs... Also, this is the "Pictures of your mining rigs!" topic, not the "Pictures of your bitcoin mining rigs!". This is a 'bitcoin' section of the forum, for bitcoin mining hardware. GPUs are no longer viable for profiting with BTC, so you are either stupid wasting money on power for your rig, OR you are mining altcoins. get over it. these used to mine bitcoin, and already people are having a big-enough hissy fit over it to create a 'no-scrypt mining rig' thread for people like you IMHO: that other thread is stupid. I like seeing GPU rigs regardless of what they mine. they are creative, home-made, and often finely tuned. The pictures of ASICs are just a shiny box in the corner or a half-filled USB hub (which is almost just as big a waste of money as mining bitcoins on a GPU) |
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In my browser i see that - Estimated Position in Payout Queue 820.61279937 BTC are ahead in queue, putting this user's payout after a 32 block delay.
So statistics work for someone, not for me ? Now i see 3 versions - 1440, 820 and 52 BTC from my browser and peoples. But i don't see BTC in my wallet anyway, pool still don't pay and statistic work "bad" !
Listen son, you're not getting paid, ok? You're convinced it's a scam so a couple of us have decided that what you really want and what you really need is to be scammed, that way you can be right! I know it's tough hearing that you're going to actually get something right for probably the first time in your life, but after all your negative wannabe posts, we just couldn't turn you down. Consider it a kind gesture on our part, so what we decided to do, to prove to you that it was a scam was to donate all your mined coins to the pool. We felt that you'd really get a kick out of being right, so now you can be happy that everyone in the pool benefits at your expense. Think about that - the whole pool benefits. Awesome really, we win, you lose - but wait! - you're right! so you win too. See what I mean? So whaddayasay? Sweet deal, eh? The good news is that the kind folks of this pool know that you might not be interested in donating all your mined coins to the other pool users forever, so we've given you the option of choosing another pool or - get this - continuing to donate to the pool! Wow! I never knew this pool could be so great! And like you I'm pretty new to the pool, so I have to thank you for donating your earnings to the pool. You get to say it's a scam, we call it a donation, either way, you're a hero! What's it like to be right and totally loved and respected by the whole pool? I can't believe how you managed to do that, first I thought you were scammed, now I understand you donated your earnings to everyone else in the pool! Awesome dude! You pool co-admin or ? If you admin i will wrote forum administration your words and pool never return in paying pool... And i win 3 BTC if you right seriously. get your shit together. you are asking the dumbest questions and saying the stupidest things, including trying to claim the winnings to a bet you never backed up with money the pool stats are updating now and slowly catching up. i can see my payout total, my 128/256 second hashrates seem correct, and the payout queue is shrinking. Take your stupidity elsewhere |
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Pay Details
Pay 0 BTC
Pay Confirm 0 BTC
Date
Does this mean my payment is seen but not confirmed somehow? the payment address has the full amount in it and 9 confirmations. My last order acted similarly so I'm not too concerned, but the system could clearly still use a bit of tweaking to properly acknowledge payment
now I am seeing:
Pay:0 BTC
Confirm:0 BTC
Unpaid
Unshipped
Expired 2014-01-19 15:35:07.0
I definitely sent BTC to the address given, confirmable via blockchain. I 100% trust Bitmain, but nonetheless an update or clarification would be appreciated
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