Relatively* new to mining, recommendations?

[AdolfinWolf]

I am going to start mining in the near future. I was thinking about buying a Antminer S9-13.5TH/s directly from BITMAIN.

https://shop.bitmain.com/productDetail.htm?pid=00020171110160546640l4g92i60062E

I have a couple questions,

1. Is it smart to buy directly from them or should i search for a reseller in europe?

2. Their next shipping is Jan 11. Does this mean that every order before Jan 11. will be shipped to me, and if not, how do i know that they're out of stock?

3. Wouldn't it be smarter to wait untill they release a newer version of their miner, or shouldn't i worry about that?

4. They recommend using their APW3++ for  ATX PSU, which is another 100-200$, including shipping to europe, see https://shop.bitmain.com/productDetail.htm?pid=00020171107201722598O4kMWe280658

Isn't there something that does this job for cheaper on eBay? Is it really necessary?


Thanks for your time!

[NotFuzzyWarm]

New to mining and yet have 504 activity and 1292 posts here  I take it you bought this account?
Anywho, read the hardware sections. All of your questions and answers to them are there on the first 3 pages. I for one am not going to continually repeat what has been said here time and time again.

I will say DO NOT go cheap on PSU's! Why folks will be happy to spend over $1200 for a miner and then try to nickel & dime the PSU is beyond me. About 95% of troubles are related to folks using crappy or under-rated PSU's.

[Steamtyme]

1) It depends on what you want to spend, and what your return could be in the meantime, From what I hear if you buy it from a re seller the Warranty disappears (you would need to ask them about that)
2) No this means that all orders from this batch will ship on the 11th or there abouts. If you miss this batch  you would be waiting for the next batch. They are out of stock when it doesn't give you the option to buy.
3) That's up to you to decide, going back to my first point. I also haven't heard much in the way that Bitmain has a new product launch expected.
4)If you search the Forum you will find a few recommendations for quality PSU's, but like NotFuzzy said, don't cheap out. My advice also would be do not get multiple psu's, powering one board by each, usually leads to headaches.

New to mining and yet have 504 activity and 1292 posts here   I take it you bought this account?

I guess relatively is relative, lol.

[AdolfinWolf]

1) It depends on what you want to spend, and what your return could be in the meantime, From what I hear if you buy it from a re seller the Warranty disappears (you would need to ask them about that)
2) No this means that all orders from this batch will ship on the 11th or there abouts. If you miss this batch  you would be waiting for the next batch. They are out of stock when it doesn't give you the option to buy.
3) That's up to you to decide, going back to my first point. I also haven't heard much in the way that Bitmain has a new product launch expected.
4)If you search the Forum you will find a few recommendations for quality PSU's, but like NotFuzzy said, don't cheap out. My advice also would be do not get multiple psu's, powering one board by each, usually leads to headaches.

New to mining and yet have 504 activity and 1292 posts here  I take it you bought this account?

I guess relatively is relative, lol.

Thanks, this clears up alot of questions i had about BITMAIN and resellers in general. Batches don't have a timeframe, but rather a rate limited, out of stock -/- out of stock. Kind of annoying that they are so non-transparent about it. It bugs me a bit knowing that every day i wait with buying one that i might need to wait another 3 months to get it shipped.

New to mining and yet have 504 activity and 1292 posts here Huh  I take it you bought this account?

I guess relatively is relative, lol.

I've done some GPU-mining with nicehash, But i wouldn't count that as real mining, hence the title  

[Steamtyme]

Yeah the waiting is one of the reasons I chose to go with Canaan back in August, I also prefer the product. At the moment though they also have a ship date of the end of December, haven't checked to see if they sold out or not. Good luck