This guy in the video is using a peg to upvolt it, maybe you're able to downvolt it too?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYOgZqfjimw

Not sure if its a home made thing but you definitively should be running it closer to 12v in your case. But if you have one at 11.7 that sound pretty good too for stock speed. It should run stock speed without hashlost and still be more efficient.

It's not a flat amount of time. First of all, its fee/weight ratio. So basically 0.0001BTC/kB is the norm at the moment. And then its a probability thing. If your transaction has a better fee RATIO; read; "Bounty" then there's more chance that the miners will include your transaction in their block next.

And then it depend who gets it and what transaction they will take. Most miner will just try to take the best they can get but its still probability.

And then its still probability as to when the next block will happen, which take take seconds, minutes, sometimes hour. If your transaction has a high priority, which is a bit complicated but mostly it depend on fee. Then after its included, each block after that will "confirm" and after 3 or 6 confirmation most service consider it confirmed. Which mean 3 or 6 blocksis on average 10 minutes per block, but it could be 20 mins to get 6 confirmation like it can be hours.

Also when there is a lot of transaction spam, the minimum fee to be considered high priority will be raised, could be 0.00015 or 0.0002/kB. Just gotta check what's the recommended fee at the moment for highest priority.

Well as long as the exhaust is not toward the inside, then it will do. If you try to cool off a small farm with only 18k and 24k but you're just gonna be wasting electricity. If you are pushing the exhaust directly outside, then a 24k BTU will do great. For my appartment i think i will need 14 or 16k BTU.

It is indeed not possible, even mining at 0.1 with a S7 is inadvisable since you will likely not ROI because of difficulty increase before the halving, which at that point mean your miner is worthless to you.

That's why OP was suggesting to remove it, basically, its the halving that cause the 21M limit. And when its reached, the block chain doesn't stop there... will still be miner reward.
To prevent inflation, the halving was introduced, but the 21M limit isint something that can be reached anytime soon, everything is working like a clockwork. Basically the whole thread is moot since no, its no, the halving won't be canceled and if it is, no, this means removing the 21M limit. You can't not halve and then reach 21M.

The limit is caused by the halving, not the other way around.

Yes, with a single fan, the air entry end of the heatsink is cool, while the other end is generally much hotter, by something like 10c+. So the setup i had before was a simple piece of paper force air flow to go through the fin's on the side from another airflow source.
Then i evolved when i was able to change my setup, now that the air is cool enough, i can leave the heat exhaust enter my appartment.

So i just put it on the side and the box fan in the window pull air cool enough to keep it cool without using the miner's fan much. Hence, in comparison, quite quiet. The only thing you must watch out for is for the exhaust of the heatsink to not get resistance from the air being blown from the box fan, so i leave the exhaust just outside the box fan... hell i'll get your a picture.

I just saw your initial question now. The recommendation i received, i believe quoted from Bitmain or maybe Dogie's guide is under 70C for best hashrate, under 60C for best lifetime.

So i would not recommend running them much above 70C but if it peak there during peak heat during the day, it's probably not a big deal. For the S5. For the compac, mine @150mh read 50C at the back of the PCB. I imagine putting a USB fan on it would let me overclock by quite a bit.

Yeah i don't know, Servers PSU come by the shovel, some have a volt adjustment pot but i'm not very familiar with server PSU's. At the moment i have a box fan blowing 18C air from the side's so air go through the fin, the fan is at 35% and the temps is 51/53c which is excellent and the noise is acceptable. Under 60dB~

That PSU is 20$ on ebay so it's probably not something very fancy. It might also itself be loud. Anyways, in your case, money wise, no its not worth getting a 160$ EVGA G2 i'd say since you're not paying for electricity, personally, even though i have mega cheap electricity i still get good PSU to have stable power, long lasting hardware and no fires xD

But as we previously discussed, stock speed is loud as fuck. Personally i only find it bearable under 2800 RPM. A second fan or some after market more silent fan could work depending on the ambient temperature and the speed at which you run it.

Also the speed really seem to settle after 20-30 minutes. I did short runs at first too, 10 mins runs as you can see in the charts.

But anyways, for me efficient PSU's is important to keep them from generating Heat into the ambient temp, and optimizing how many miners i can get on a 15a120v breaker. For you, that's up to you to decide.

The other upside is an ATX PSU will generally be really quiet. I don't know about the server PSU you have but the server one i have even though they are 94% efficiency get really loud at 800w/1100w limit.

25$ For a 60Ghs miner?

No that's completely rip off, especially with the added 25$ shipping cost.

You should look to buy at most 25cents per GH and that at up to 0.5J/GH power efficiency. That miner fail both critera by far, thus no. No way.

Some S3's would be good if you have cheap electricity, like 0.03-0.04$/kWh, S5 if you have 0.05-0.06~ and if you have 0.08+ i wouldn't mine. Hence;

What is your electricity cost and what is your budget and also your location?

Give us that and someone will certainly give you a good recommendation.

No. With the added costs.. If you are selling at 0.1$/kWh, the added material cost you would itself need to ROI make this a waste of time, effort for the money you MIGHT profit back.

Basically just as 0.1$/kWh cost for miners pretty much make it pointless to mine, you being able to sell it at 0.1$/kWh means your odds of profiting more than what you're already selling your electricity at aren't worth building a mega datacenter to house thousands of miners.

Hmm it seem like a low end PSU, at least reviews says its in the bronze efficiency usage, fairly wastefull about 90 watts more than a gold. But in your case it's probably okay but i'm not really sure how the S5 would work with over voltage. My ATX PSU's have a rock solid 12.05v~

I'm guessing as long as you don't see a lot of hardware errors you should be okay, what is the PCB version on the top right of the boards? I'm guessing a v1.91 would handle the over voltage fine but i don't know how the others will since i don't think they have oscillators.

You can compare your results (temps, speed, HWE%) with mine;
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1151326.0

Since then the HWE% on my S5 went up its more like 0,002% now at 393.75.

Well Bitmain "Right now" has nothing. It's true there will certainly be a second batch in October but it's pretty moot right now. Meanwhile Spoondoolies is Selling those SP50, however only in Bulk. Now what qualify a "Bulk" i don't know, but that mean a reseller could get a batch and then sell it to end user.

But there's some serious issues with powering 6000W at home. Noise and heat will make this pretty prohibitive, so even if the home buyer can get a hand on a SP50, it feel like you'd need a crane to move the damn thing around.

Meanwhile Bitfury announce something even better but with no actually hardware available. At least Bitmain is getting some pressure so we might be seeing S7's at reasonable ROI soon. Then again that's pretty subjective if these 3 company sell 150PH of hardware by the halving, there won't be much current miner left after that.

Well i'm not really sure, the odd is 0.16% per day and that is at 9TH~, which pretty much hinge on the S7 and donation to be honest. So regardless its a few % but i'm not sure whats the proper way to count it properly for a statistical accurate %.

I really don't know either, but it works, are you sure 83k isint just the packed size? Regardless, it would be a nice addition to put in the win32 binaries obtainable through OP's post in the guide section.

Might save some people's trouble, even though they would never know the trouble we went through for them

That's a insane nice amount of hash for the 25*8GH~ we expected. If we hit a block i'd say Phil should keep two share but heh we'll see. Worse case scenario we can just donate back to Phil or for the next round.

We have what, 3%~ Chance of getting a block in 30 days now?

I have little electrical knowledge, so i do not know how to pair up buck converters together to raise the watt limit and keep the efficiency up to 98%. Basically it would be a god send, even if the end cost is 40$ per to keep it running at full speed but with much better efficiency. At least for some users and maybe me if i can get a bunch of the step down for cheap.

Maybe someone with more knowledge could answer as to whether you can pair up a buck converter to raise the watt limit/keep efficiency up?

Also maybe someone can tell us where the S5 hide the image, or the freq list.

The only thing i can recommend and what i am setting up for next summer is putting all the exhaust of your miner strait through a window and keep the ambiant temp lower with a strong A/C.

I have mixed results at the moment since i have a very bad A/C, as in the ambient temp is still higher than exterior, but i'm still able to run 7000 watts in a small appartment while keeping the miners in good shape.

At the moment temperature is FINALLY going down, so for the next 8 months i can just keep everything cool by using outdoor temps, but for summer, some good A/C will be required to keep my farm quiet enough.

"Well deary, this is like money, you can buy stuff with it, but its like, over the internet. So huh, as far as you're concerned it's the same thing as just money so err yeah, it work like through computers and stuff instead of err, banks and stuff(?)"

I mean, a 5 Years old can't conceptualize anyways and they tend to be like. "Oh you need money? Well i guess you should go to the ATM to get more then!" Would be nice if it worked that way lol.

Personally i assumed and am talking about the main red led next to the reset switch and the Ethernet port. It blink slowly while the unit is booting and also blink and potentially beep when the miner lose connection for about 1-2 minutes~

Yeah i checked it a while back, its a 125AMP circuit and i'm not sure how high i want to keep it running 24/7. For instance sure i could probably go to 80-90 AMP but then what happen when i use the oven and hot water tank? Blap over circuit, i think the switch is in the apartment's electric room so it might be a bit hard to explain how i tripped 125AMP in an apartment.

The board says 125AMP 120/240 so i'm not quite sure what it's real limit is and i don't have a way to track how much consumption the other appliances put on it and i'm already at 60AMP at 120v just with miners.

So maybe i could get away with one 240v but then again it's hard to tell accurately how much power i can take with all the stuff on at the same time.