I am located in Gatineau, next to Ottawa. Québec side.

The new one? You mean the one from last year? 5 months ago? I don't see a new one.

While you have some good tidbits of information and warning, you are not applying them correctly in real life situation. At the temperature they run, at worse, hot, with no cooling and bad airflow, it could probably reach 50-60C, thats still several years.

At typical temperature in a good PSU with fan on, you're looking at something like rated for 5376 days of 24/7 use. With your own number. Imagine when you have high quality ones.

So basically saying ATX PSU are a bad idea can be true, if you buy crap, but you're generalizing and also using numbers that don't make sense. A cap wont be running at 100C at all.

You are wasting your time and stressing your phone for absolutely 0. You wont earn any kind of coin with this, ever. You're looking at 24 satoshi per year. You need a million of these for 0.01BTC.

Get a sidehack USB miner stick if you want the minimalist way of earning dust. Even a one GH/s stick taking 0.5~1watt would equal to 1 000 000 kh/s. And that is still dust you can't do anything with.

Completely changed OP, not a feeler anymore. I also added performance data on the relevant miners. Let me know if there is interest in any more details.

Yeah but like the previous user told you, the used S7's are going for the same price or higher than the new S7's. So thats something to check.

And yes you are otherwise right and also, if you buy used hardware that ran for a long time, it will probably last for a while longer. When you buy new, maybe its a bad batch.
The only thing to keep in mind is, if you buy let say 100 S1's instead of 2 S7's you're going to need a shit ton more wire, a shit ton more power cables, etc.

So paying a bit more for higher hashrate density is also worth considering in your $$/TH.

Will do, but anyways over 3 weeks the post limits would be 300 even if it was 100. But i didnt receive the 0.07 either. I'll forward this in PM.

I received the message saying 0.07 BTC, thats 100 posts, should be 150 posts limits and for over 2 weeks of posts should be 0.21BTC~
Also did not receive the amount in Bit-x but i guess thats normal.

The deal has been concluded, locking for Archival. Thanks for the trade.

I'm glad they're having problem with their center, but it must still sting to have so much hardware not mining. Thats a pretty hefty loss per day.

They're not particularly bad PSU. Not ones you'd expect to surge volt like mad and burn hardware, so thats a bit odd. And if they came in cold, there could be condensation, so you would need to let them heat up and dry off before you plug them in but i'm not sure they would die like that, after a while. I'm stumped.

If its any consolation, the boards are worth something for salvage.

If you order from them, the thing should be under warranty. So if there is something wrong, it should be fixable, although you would have to ship them back the defective thing at your expenses.

What is the PSU you used that burned a bunch of S5 cards?

You should of went to his profile and checked his trust feedbacks, you would of seen about 10 red messages saying he was not to be trusted. If you did not see him as red trust warning, it is because your trust setting are at depth 2, so only feedback from default trust are being counted.

Set it to depth 3 and you will see a more accurate reading on their trust.

But the trust rating does not mean anything anyways, you need to go read the feedbacks and see if the previous experience with this user warrant trusting him.

I think you, and i dont blame you per se, but people like you always get scammed from scammers because it has not been proven that the person is a scammer. Basically until they see red trust on their account. But trading with a red trust is the same as trusting with someone with no trust, 0/0. So trading with a 0/0 or someone not labeled red trust is a wrong approach.

The way reality work is "do not trust unless proven otherwise". You trust sellers on Ebay because Ebay guarantee your money. The same when you go to a store, or anything else. People are spoiled they don't even realize why they trust or do not trust something.

The gold world has and still is "Do not trust unless proven trustworthy."

I'd say i told you so, and so the other many person who left that person a red trust, but then no point beating a dead horse.

Could you post this in scam accusation, just to make it clear? Thanks.
Edit: Disregard, i see you did, now. Sorry for your losses. I wish others would learn from your mistakes but then again, probably not. People get scammed from people marked as scammer, still. I wish people were taking escrow more seriously. Especially when said potential scammer has red flashing warning under his name saying he is not to be trusted.

You mean the power cord for the PSU or the PCI-e cable you use to connect into the miners? You'll want 16 AWG for the PCI-e and probably a short 12AWG for the PSU.

Can work and help but a lot of noise is omnidirectional. What i think is Sonopan;
http://pacwestsystems.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Alcor-Sonopan-Acoustical-Panel.pdf

I'm building a box of it around solid plastic shelves, so far its a nice difference. In a bit i'll be able to tell what it does for a S7, but i should be able to make it completely silent.

If you had not said anything, i would not have known, i did not even notice my hashrate drop for one second.  I'm also not the unlucky miner owner i believe. You're very transparent in your pool operation.

I have discussed with several people that wanted to sell them and they all clung to high prices, 2.8 is lowest i got. I bought one for 2.6 from Bitmain instead and soon the price will be close to 2BTC.

I am not buying S5's anymore, but i would guess they're around 0.6~0.7BTC+shipping now.

Yeah, a bit, but i'm running them at 0710~ for 1.99TH/s. I'd rather sell them than drop them to say 1TH/s for 600 watts, though i guess they would be quiet as hell then.