Are there any quiet but powerful miners?

[Bizmark13]

I posted a while back about how I was thinking of buying a miner or two. The miner that I was thinking of was the Antminer S1. However, after watching this video, I can see that it would be too loud for where I'm currently living.

A few questions:

1. Now I know that the Antminer S1 can be underclocked to 170W. Would this result in a quieter machine or would it still sound exactly the same?

2. Are newer generations of the Antminer S series any quieter?

3. Is there such thing as a quiet and powerful miner? I know that USB miners can mine completely silently but they aren't powerful enough to be profitable even with free electricity. Preferably, I would like something with either small fans (think of the fans that you'd find in a typical PC) or entirely passive cooling.

And before anyone says that mining isn't worth it. Well, I have free electricity.

[dunand]

I posted a while back about how I was thinking of buying a miner or two. The miner that I was thinking of was the Antminer S1. However, after watching this video, I can see that it would be too loud for where I'm currently living.

A few questions:

1. Now I know that the Antminer S1 can be underclocked to 170W. Would this result in a quieter machine or would it still sound exactly the same?

2. Are newer generations of the Antminer S series any quieter?

3. Is there such thing as a quiet and powerful miner? I know that USB miners can mine completely silently but they aren't powerful enough to be profitable even with free electricity. Preferably, I would like something with either small fans (think of the fans that you'd find in a typical PC) or entirely passive cooling.

And before anyone says that mining isn't worth it. Well, I have free electricity.

The C1 is quiet but it's not the most efficient.

[lovenlifelarge]

this is silent

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/221722087360?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

[notlist3d]

Some miners are not silent but can be quieter.  SP20 underclocked can have fan's turned down.   Also the Avalon 4.1 is suspose to be on the quit side.   And of course the watercooliing option of the C1. (And if you look some of the other Bitmain products have shown fan mods on here to make more quiet)

[Amph]

any recent miner with fan modification can do the job you want, very silent but powerful

i did that to my two g-blade



at 40% they cool good and you can't hear nothing basically

[adaseb]

I am in the same situation as yourself.

IF you want one thats quiet get an old KNC Jupiter, they are dirt cheap at the moment.

[klondike_bar]

S3 is a good bet - but there arn't too many for sale. they are similar in volume to a desktop computer and can be managable in even a living room

[adaseb]

S3 is a good bet - but there arn't too many for sale. they are similar in volume to a desktop computer and can be managable in even a living room

S3 is good but if its really hot in the room and the fans are above 2600 rpm its considered loud for some.

[notlist3d]

S3 is a good bet - but there arn't too many for sale. they are similar in volume to a desktop computer and can be managable in even a living room

S3 is good but if its really hot in the room and the fans are above 2600 rpm its considered loud for some.

S3's fans I would rate medium on sound.  You will see some here who have made them more quiet with mods.

One thing to keep in mind with all miners is summer is coming, so there will be more heat (for most) meaning needs more fan then winter did.

[philipma1957]

I posted a while back about how I was thinking of buying a miner or two. The miner that I was thinking of was the Antminer S1. However, after watching this video, I can see that it would be too loud for where I'm currently living.

A few questions:

1. Now I know that the Antminer S1 can be underclocked to 170W. Would this result in a quieter machine or would it still sound exactly the same?

2. Are newer generations of the Antminer S series any quieter?

3. Is there such thing as a quiet and powerful miner? I know that USB miners can mine completely silently but they aren't powerful enough to be profitable even with free electricity. Preferably, I would like something with either small fans (think of the fans that you'd find in a typical PC) or entirely passive cooling.

And before anyone says that mining isn't worth it. Well, I have free electricity.

Ahh free power.

yes you can get s-3's clock them to freq 200 hashing at 400gh pretty quiet. they will pull around  300 watts each.  you can run 3 of them on an evga 1300g2 psu.

 easy to do.   you have about 1200gh of pretty quiet hashing.

[novak@gekkoscience]

I posted a while back about how I was thinking of buying a miner or two. The miner that I was thinking of was the Antminer S1. However, after watching this video, I can see that it would be too loud for where I'm currently living.

A few questions:

1. Now I know that the Antminer S1 can be underclocked to 170W. Would this result in a quieter machine or would it still sound exactly the same?

2. Are newer generations of the Antminer S series any quieter?

3. Is there such thing as a quiet and powerful miner? I know that USB miners can mine completely silently but they aren't powerful enough to be profitable even with free electricity. Preferably, I would like something with either small fans (think of the fans that you'd find in a typical PC) or entirely passive cooling.

And before anyone says that mining isn't worth it. Well, I have free electricity.

We have some S1s underclocked/volted I think about 130W, some of them actually sit there with the fan off most of the time, then they barely bump it into spinning but it never breaks a few hundred RPM before shutting off again.  You have to tune it a bit for stability, but it is darn near silent.  If you underclocked them much more you could probably stand them on end and take the fan right off.

Other than that... I've been impressed by the RBox from Rockminer, it is also pretty quiet.

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novak