Bitmain's Released Antminer S9, World's First 16nm Miner Ready to Order

[mindtrip]

Mine is on the truck out for delivery 

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[Biodom]

at 1275watts is it now ok to use something like a EVGA Gold G2 1300watt?
 Been Eyeballing 1600watts ones but 1300 is liek 150$ cheaper

you'd be pushing it pretty hard.

easy solution is to underclock the S9 slightly, such as to 13TH - which would reduce your PSU load by 100W

Under clock a bit more to 11.5th. The 1300  g2 will work fine..

Then figure your math. You save 150 on the psu. But lose 2000gh to 2500th.

At current diff that's about $3 per day before power costs. So probably 100+ days ROI on that difference alone... I'd say if one already has a 1300W PSU they should probably underclock. If buying new - I'd buy a server PSU anyway.

well the 1300 only has 6 atx connectors so lame.

first of all, eight (four singles and two doubles=8); second, I bought two PCIe split cables (for $4 ea) that increase total numbers of connectors to 10. has been running many B1-5 and 6 like this for 6-8 mo already on EVGA 1300. S7 b1,3,5 has similar 1293 wattage, B2,4,6 even less watts.
EDIT: exactly what @suchmoon said as well ^^^^

where did you get the PCIe split cables. I just want to make sure I get same gauge wire as you! random amazons are bad choices! I did that for my S3's and got like thinner than 22 gauge or something. almost fried them. rewired them with 18 gauge.
 so using a 1300watt GOLD how much under clocking? like a 4.7 S7 needs to run at work? 4.5? or something worse?
thanks

@bspurloc I get Jacobs parts-they have 18gauge, work fine
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JLU0UQ4
S9 B2 can run on EVGA 1300 as is since it's power usage is almost the same as original S7 B1.
As far as undercloclocking S7 batches above 8, I would say that 650 or even 675 should be OK, but i would start with 650.
B6 is exactly the same as above B8, but runs on 600 and uses only 1042W; B8-18 runs at 700, which is 1293W (1390-1400W at the wall).
Fro this, I assume that 650 would be around 1167 (1228 at the wall)  and 675 would be 1230W (1300W at the wall). EVGA 1300 can handle 1360W at the wall just fine.

[notlist3d]

I have been doing a little testing. I don't have one in person so no high res pictures to share of the unit.   But I can say it seems to run very well right around 14T just as expected.  It reported very close to the 14T with very low hardware errors.  So again all signs here point to good things.

I used Antpool to get a 24 hour baseline which was at 13.72 TH/s.  Again this is a early test and the slightly lower hashrate could be due to things such as network variance, pool performance, unit itself, etc.  I do plan on testing other pools for more baselines. On the picture below is also an S7 just as reference. The S9 does tower above it on it's hashing speed.

Could you try to connect it to Kano.is, since rumor is that Bitmain made a hack of cgminer, so most likely only their own Ant "Shit" pool works ??

On last post of page before:

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Also on pools I have not been able to give it a 24 hour run yet but did test Kano for around 2 hour's and no issues.   So again all signs point to good.   I am testing pools for 24 hour runs based on pool hashrate currently as kinda a general path to follow.  So far very positive going off hashrate and performance.

First pool I gave it a little test was Kano due to rumor's.  I have had no issues with mining on it below is a picture for a little over 2 hours on Kano without issues.  I went to 24 hour test's on pools based on hashrate of pools. Switching from there.  But again no issues I experienced with mining on Kano.is .

So as BitmainWarranty shows above it does work great with Kano.is - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1493601.msg15207138#msg15207138 .   So no need to be worried about pool compatibility as it does work again without issue.   So again signs so far point to very good news

[bspurloc]

If you're looking at DC power, each blade needs around 400W and the controller and fans burn another 60 or so.

The chips cache work and cgminer updates it, so if cgminer stops sending work the chips will keep hashing on the last thing they were given. Even if they don't, there's still some power being burned in there while the chips idle (maybe on the order of 1W per chip), and if it's not allowed to escape things will get toasty. One guy on here has reported losing a couple blades due to overheats from that very problem.

  cool. thanks. I wonder if a server room would keep them cool enough.
I do have a pile of extra fans laying around that I grabbed cheap back when everyone thought the fans they use are something special... u know like not the exact fans used in Dell Precision 390/380/t3400 etc etc cases... exact same part number lol.
   I could just toss one of those into the mix for emergencies

[bspurloc]

at 1275watts is it now ok to use something like a EVGA Gold G2 1300watt?
 Been Eyeballing 1600watts ones but 1300 is liek 150$ cheaper

you'd be pushing it pretty hard.

easy solution is to underclock the S9 slightly, such as to 13TH - which would reduce your PSU load by 100W

Under clock a bit more to 11.5th. The 1300  g2 will work fine..

Then figure your math. You save 150 on the psu. But lose 2000gh to 2500th.

At current diff that's about $3 per day before power costs. So probably 100+ days ROI on that difference alone... I'd say if one already has a 1300W PSU they should probably underclock. If buying new - I'd buy a server PSU anyway.

well the 1300 only has 6 atx connectors so lame.

first of all, eight (four singles and two doubles=8); second, I bought two PCIe split cables (for $4 ea) that increase total numbers of connectors to 10. has been running many B1-5 and 6 like this for 6-8 mo already on EVGA 1300. S7 b1,3,5 has similar 1293 wattage, B2,4,6 even less watts.
EDIT: exactly what @suchmoon said as well ^^^^

where did you get the PCIe split cables. I just want to make sure I get same gauge wire as you! random amazons are bad choices! I did that for my S3's and got like thinner than 22 gauge or something. almost fried them. rewired them with 18 gauge.
 so using a 1300watt GOLD how much under clocking? like a 4.7 S7 needs to run at work? 4.5? or something worse?
thanks

@bspurloc I get Jacobs parts-they have 18gauge, work fine
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JLU0UQ4
S9 B2 can run on EVGA 1300 as is since it's power usage is almost the same as original S7 B1.
As far as undercloclocking S7 batches above 8, I would say that 650 or even 675 should be OK, but i would start with 650.
B6 is exactly the same as above B8, but runs on 600 and uses only 1042W; B8-18 runs at 700, which is 1293W (1390-1400W at the wall).
Fro this, I assume that 650 would be around 1167 (1228 at the wall)  and 675 would be 1230W (1300W at the wall). EVGA 1300 can handle 1360W at the wall just fine.

  thanks for the info. what hashing rate would 675 get?
sorry for dumb question. I am just jumping up to s7/s9's.

[d57heinz]

Looking at the monthly charts. It' appears we could be nearing the 5 th leg. Watch close for sure:)

Best Regards
D57heinz

we were building an ascending triangle since last October (8 mo or so). This upmove is the breakout out of that triangle, so i don't know about wave count. We very well might correct here, who knows. Back in late april, i bought a few coins for an upcoming S9 purchase. S9 turned out to be overpriced in btc by 2X of what i was expecting (although I was projecting a ~10th miner, so less than 2X considering that it was 13-14Th), so i kept the coins for a nice gains so far.

Maybe in two mo i will be able to buy two S9 for these btc, as i was expecting in the first place.

EDIT: That said, those who will start mining on S9 from this Tue-Wed will enjoy the most $$ profitability (mining reward vs cost) we have seen in the last 3 years. Too bad it will last only a bit less than four weeks at this level. At current btc value I calculate $693 in revenue until halving per ea machine with $80-95 in electrical costs (at 8-10c/kwh).

 The legs i was talking about is the upward steps the charts seem to take.... Im not much of a trader but since ive been trying to maximize my mining revenue due to being pushed out i was forced to learn a little bit of trading:)  Still a work in progress.  Right now looks like it could be a good time to buy again if the trend holds.. Thats the beauty of trading .. being right on your guess lol> By all means im not even an amateur rank if you were to ask me  im going to wait and see if btc can achieve a new ath before halving.. if not then the trend is down and the 1 day chart https://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/coinbase/btcusd rsi is in way overbought territory.. Need to be watching this close if your holding and thinking of selling soon.

Edit and when i look at rsi on the 3 day and 1 wk.. id say if your going to by a miner you best do it right after halving.  I expect this to do similar to ltc on it recent halving.  So the price should be the highest after halving and the miner should be the lowest price in btc due to halving.. After that i feel the price of btc may drop according to the charts but hell idk.  Tough time to invest for sure..;/  After the halving i may start looking to get a couple s7 used.  i can see them being the cheapest and i can finally retire a few s4's that served me well..


Best Regards
d57heinz

[Biodom]

at 1275watts is it now ok to use something like a EVGA Gold G2 1300watt?
 Been Eyeballing 1600watts ones but 1300 is liek 150$ cheaper

you'd be pushing it pretty hard.

easy solution is to underclock the S9 slightly, such as to 13TH - which would reduce your PSU load by 100W

Under clock a bit more to 11.5th. The 1300  g2 will work fine..

Then figure your math. You save 150 on the psu. But lose 2000gh to 2500th.

At current diff that's about $3 per day before power costs. So probably 100+ days ROI on that difference alone... I'd say if one already has a 1300W PSU they should probably underclock. If buying new - I'd buy a server PSU anyway.

well the 1300 only has 6 atx connectors so lame.

first of all, eight (four singles and two doubles=8); second, I bought two PCIe split cables (for $4 ea) that increase total numbers of connectors to 10. has been running many B1-5 and 6 like this for 6-8 mo already on EVGA 1300. S7 b1,3,5 has similar 1293 wattage, B2,4,6 even less watts.
EDIT: exactly what @suchmoon said as well ^^^^

where did you get the PCIe split cables. I just want to make sure I get same gauge wire as you! random amazons are bad choices! I did that for my S3's and got like thinner than 22 gauge or something. almost fried them. rewired them with 18 gauge.
 so using a 1300watt GOLD how much under clocking? like a 4.7 S7 needs to run at work? 4.5? or something worse?
thanks

@bspurloc I get Jacobs parts-they have 18gauge, work fine
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JLU0UQ4
S9 B2 can run on EVGA 1300 as is since it's power usage is almost the same as original S7 B1.
As far as undercloclocking S7 batches above 8, I would say that 650 or even 675 should be OK, but i would start with 650.
B6 is exactly the same as above B8, but runs on 600 and uses only 1042W; B8-18 runs at 700, which is 1293W (1390-1400W at the wall).
Fro this, I assume that 650 would be around 1167 (1228 at the wall)  and 675 would be 1230W (1300W at the wall). EVGA 1300 can handle 1360W at the wall just fine.

  thanks for the info. what hashing rate would 675 get?
sorry for dumb question. I am just jumping up to s7/s9's.

S7 with batch number at or above 8 should be about 4.56th at 675 vs 4.73th at 700 (theoretically).
S9 batch 2 (not b1) should run fine on EVGA 1300 with two splitters.

[Masha Sha]

@Xircom,

S9 works on any pool to include P2pool!!! 

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1493601.msg15147339#msg15147339

Currently testing an S9 on Eligius if anyone is interested... Will let it go for about a half hour to get some data.

http://eligius.st/~wizkid057/newstats/userstats.php/1NastyFRkeUTmMdbMmzggDVTQA6r3ibUoX


UPDATE:
30-Minute Test Results:








Also testing on the NastyPool p2pool node.  You can see the live chart below (click it if it doesn't update).

Bitmain, Simply number One. Thank you!

[generalt]

More OT here, just checked an my s9 has left Alaska. Still says delivery on Tues but will be Wed at the worst. Got a nice shiny new Cyberpower 3kVA dual-conversion UPS hooked for it at home just a-waitin' for it Love those things -- 0 transfer time because it's always on-line and depending on the %of max load on them, they can keep running off the line down to -60% nominal. Weighs a freakin' ton though. Sure as hell don't want any power disruptions to be taking out 14THs...

Wow that sounds nice.  How much does something like that cost?

1000 USD

 BUT   there is an ebay seller that sells refurbs cheaper.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CyberPower-Smart-App-Sinewave-UPS-PR3000LCDRTXL2U-3000VA-2400W-AC-120V-Rack-2U-/222087119042?

I used this seller for rebuilt ups quite a bit.
he will go down on the price  10 to 15 % if you use make an offer option

I figured that it would be more than what I would want to spend.  Any idea how long the batteries are good for?  From what I understand they have to be replaced every so often and they're not cheap.

[NotFuzzyWarm]

My oldest is a 2kva one just under 2 years old and so far reports 100% capacity. Mine (uses always online dual-conversion) plays around cycling the batteries and applying different charge/trickle regimes to keep them happy. Don't know if their standby/AVR ones can do that but seems to wok great so far.

[Biodom]

from everything I have read so far (Phil @ NFW), the winning combo will probably be S9LN, IF they make it.
Should be 6.75-8.6 Th at 700-850W-would be a best seller by far.
Something like B2, but with less premium should be OK as well.

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Would certainly solve the airflow problem.

[NotFuzzyWarm]

And and since the control board has them tantalizing unpopulated pads for data connectors, filling them, getting some long data cable and then reuse old s7 cases for 2 s9 blades each...

[sidehack]

I'd consider buying an S9LN, and then take it apart.

[KyrosKrane]

With the old S1s, you could take them apart and put a 200mm fan on each blade to cool them effectively but silently:

https://imgur.com/a/RUAX5

Do you think the same trick would work with the S9s, or would the boards cook themselves? The fans on these suckers are unbearable.

[ZedZedNova]

I'd consider buying an S9LN, and then take it apart.

I find that hard to believe. 

[sidehack]

I didn't take apart my S3, but I did hack up the block erupters, the AM Blade (that one took all of 12 hours from landing in my mailbox to hashing at 35% over stock clock), AM Cube, S1s, S2 (I bought the kit, not the preassembled unit), AM Tube (Novak and I were finding proxy workarounds to its broken stratum before most people in the US even had theirs yet), New R-Box, U3, Gridseed pod, Garden AMV2, Avalon1, Avalon2, S5, X1, X3, S4, S4+... hm, I might be forgetting some. That's actually why I got into mining was because the hardware was fun to mess with.

Of course, almost none of those were bought new. A lot of it was gotten dead for repairs, or for the museum shelves.

[Incanus]

Got my 2 s9s today, but one is not working

Cannot find a manual on the website, was trying to do a factory reset so I can make sure it is defective.  Came on for 15 minutes, then went offline.  Temperature was fine, now just a flashing FAULT light.

Does anyone know how to do a reset on this model so I can try this before requesting a RMA?


Thanks in advance.

[generalt]

Got my 2 s9s today, but one is not working

Cannot find a manual on the website, was trying to do a factory reset so I can make sure it is defective.  Came on for 15 minutes, then went offline.  Temperature was fine, now just a flashing FAULT light.

Does anyone know how to do a reset on this model so I can try this before requesting a RMA?


Thanks in advance.

Wow that really sucks.  Have you tried a different power supply?

[ZedZedNova]

That's actually why I got into mining was because the hardware was fun to mess with.

Yes, sir. That's the truth. I started back in the late 70s hacking on an Intel 8080A stuck on a breadboard, and just recently have come back to messing with hardware. The 8080 had a feature minimum size of 6um (6000nm), and to think that the S9 has a feature size of 16nm.