could be since I can  find  usa ones one ebay and price has gone up. I got my last 2 for 85 usd shipped they are now over 140 shipped

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bitmine-Antminer-S3-never-overclocked-ASIC-Bitcoin-441-GH-s-SHA-256-/301707363703?hash=item463f290577

below is european seller of 2880watt server psu.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=738527.0



now I went to ebay uk and found the antminer s-3


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ANTMINER-S3-Virtual-Currency-Miner-BitCoin-SHA-256-366W-ASIC-Miner-/371410014463?hash=item5679c310ff


he wants 167 usd shipping included  4x that is 660 usd

but since you may not be in the uk maybe your 200  euro each price is correct


good luck finding a good price.  I wish I could be more helpful but all my sources would be usa based.

you are in europe.  so I assume you are using 220 volt power.

4 s-3's are about 400 to 440 euros.

and the server psu that does  up to 2880 watts is under 200 euros.

I will find the link

Why when four s-3's should be cheaper and make more money for you?

I would choose s5 . It is loud . If you do overclock it, using the air conditioner it reaches much more than 1.15TH . The trouble is the price. Now, can be purchased for approx. 540 Euro in stock. If ordered from Bitmaintech come out cheaper. It depends on which EU country you live and how high is the VAT . For this example, good ATX power supply Corsair CS750M at a price of approx . 110 Euro . And we have set for one s5 .

S3's I would say, you can get them cheaper and can underclock to run quieter .. Tack on the PSU and your set

s-3's are much quieter .  you could run 4 of them and stay under 1500 watts  maybe do  1.8th

s-5's are noisy you could do 2 and stay under 1500 watts maybe hash at 2.3th


s-3's should be a lot cheaper then s-5's so in the short run if you get cheap s-3's that is best.  .

by short run the next 6 months

do not buy u3's they suck they are hard too run you will go crazy with them.


how cheap is your 1500 watts of power?

 10 cents usa  is not cheap  6 cents usa is pretty good.

if you are euro base .04 euro = 6 cents usa (last I looked that was exchange rate)


if you can do 1000 watts for  0.04 euros s-5's are really decent.