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

[not.you]

Hi I have received two units of S9 and both have one board hashing around 2.7

They are batch 2, is it a normal? Any tips?

Thanks!

As others have said try lowering the freq.  I have one board which underperforms as well.  If I do a 'save and apply' without changing anything, sometimes it will come up good (higher hash) and sometimes it will come up bad (lower hash).  But lower freq usually means better odds of it coming up good when I restart cgminer.  I can tell within a minute if it got a good start because it will either come up past 3000 or it wont by that time.

I've got it working with the mysterious "low voltage" firmware from June 22nd. I had to lower the frequency to 593 and reboot quite a few times but now I got it running at 12.6 TH stable, with the slow board around 4000Gh, I guess this is as good as it gets.
I'm wondering if using an alternative PSU to my bitmain one would improve, I will try to borrow one to test.

Yeah I misspoke (misstyped) on my previous post.  It'll hit 4000 within a minute if it gets a good restart, not 3000 as I had stated before.  I get 12.6 also but I am running at 587.  I thought about trying the mystery firmware but opted not to until I hear more results.  My slow board will push 4150 or so after a good restart at 587.  The thing is the other boards will do 4300 easy with higher freqs, but if I do that the slow board just gets stuck around 2700-2800 (like your screeny).  I may well try swapping boards when my B4 arrives to see if I can build a higher freq unit and lower freq unit.

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[RoadStress]

12 or 10nm chips of any sort will not be available from anyone for several more years, on top of that, so far looks like <12nm is going to be reserved for high complexity chips and not simple boutique ones like mining ASIC's.

Why? Because of pricing?

[notlist3d]

Hi I have received two units of S9 and both have one board hashing around 2.7

They are batch 2, is it a normal? Any tips?

Thanks!

As others have said try lowering the freq.  I have one board which underperforms as well.  If I do a 'save and apply' without changing anything, sometimes it will come up good (higher hash) and sometimes it will come up bad (lower hash).  But lower freq usually means better odds of it coming up good when I restart cgminer.  I can tell within a minute if it got a good start because it will either come up past 3000 or it wont by that time.

I've got it working with the mysterious "low voltage" firmware from June 22nd. I had to lower the frequency to 593 and reboot quite a few times but now I got it running at 12.6 TH stable, with the slow board around 4000Gh, I guess this is as good as it gets.
I'm wondering if using an alternative PSU to my bitmain one would improve, I will try to borrow one to test.

Yeah I misspoke (misstyped) on my previous post.  It'll hit 4000 within a minute if it gets a good restart, not 3000 as I had stated before.  I get 12.6 also but I am running at 587.  I thought about trying the mystery firmware but opted not to until I hear more results.  My slow board will push 4150 or so after a good restart at 587.  The thing is the other boards will do 4300 easy with higher freqs, but if I do that the slow board just gets stuck around 2700-2800 (like your screeny).  I may well try swapping boards when my B4 arrives to see if I can build a higher freq unit and lower freq unit.

I would contact them  before switching boards between unit's.  It's would break the warranty seal and be a shame to lose warranty on two pretty new unit's  over a little bit of hash.

Have you contacted them and said it did not fall in "12.93TH/s ±5%" of batch 2?  If not do that before breaking seals and voiding warranty.  

[NotFuzzyWarm]

12 or 10nm chips of any sort will not be available from anyone for several more years, on top of that, so far looks like <12nm is going to be reserved for high complexity chips and not simple boutique ones like mining ASIC's.

Why? Because of pricing?

That would be one way to look at it. The complexity and circuit density of the process so far is dictating that the dies will be fairly large/high value. IMO probably because they can fit so much into the dies that the cost to connect simple circuits to the outside world makes them a moot point. ref the threads here a while ago about IBM announcing a 7nm test chip https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1508382.msg15196056#msg15196056 and https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1508382.msg15197990#msg15197990

[not.you]

Yeah I misspoke (misstyped) on my previous post.  It'll hit 4000 within a minute if it gets a good restart, not 3000 as I had stated before.  I get 12.6 also but I am running at 587.  I thought about trying the mystery firmware but opted not to until I hear more results.  My slow board will push 4150 or so after a good restart at 587.  The thing is the other boards will do 4300 easy with higher freqs, but if I do that the slow board just gets stuck around 2700-2800 (like your screeny).  I may well try swapping boards when my B4 arrives to see if I can build a higher freq unit and lower freq unit.

I would contact them  before switching boards between unit's.  It's would break the warranty seal and be a shame to lose warranty on two pretty new unit's  over a little bit of hash.

Have you contacted them and said it did not fall in "12.93TH/s ±5%" of batch 2?  If not do that before breaking seals and voiding warranty.  

It gets 12.6 which is within the 5% range.  I realize it will void the warranty.  I wouldn't do it right away and I haven't even gotten the B4 so who knows, it might have 3 great boards that all get 4300 in which case there won't be any reason to swap boards around.  Just something I would consider if it looked like it was worth doing.

[notlist3d]

Yeah I misspoke (misstyped) on my previous post.  It'll hit 4000 within a minute if it gets a good restart, not 3000 as I had stated before.  I get 12.6 also but I am running at 587.  I thought about trying the mystery firmware but opted not to until I hear more results.  My slow board will push 4150 or so after a good restart at 587.  The thing is the other boards will do 4300 easy with higher freqs, but if I do that the slow board just gets stuck around 2700-2800 (like your screeny).  I may well try swapping boards when my B4 arrives to see if I can build a higher freq unit and lower freq unit.

I would contact them  before switching boards between unit's.  It's would break the warranty seal and be a shame to lose warranty on two pretty new unit's  over a little bit of hash.

Have you contacted them and said it did not fall in "12.93TH/s ±5%" of batch 2?  If not do that before breaking seals and voiding warranty.  

It gets 12.6 which is within the 5% range.  I realize it will void the warranty.  I wouldn't do it right away and I haven't even gotten the B4 so who knows, it might have 3 great boards that all get 4300 in which case there won't be any reason to swap boards around.  Just something I would consider if it looked like it was worth doing.

Ahh ok I guess the picture is old then or before the  freq change.  I thought you were in area  of 11.4ish (pictured rate) but 12.6 is much better.    Personally if it works I would keep it going at least though warranty stage.    .3T is very little hash to give up warranty over.

Either way best of luck.

[not.you]

Yeah I misspoke (misstyped) on my previous post.  It'll hit 4000 within a minute if it gets a good restart, not 3000 as I had stated before.  I get 12.6 also but I am running at 587.  I thought about trying the mystery firmware but opted not to until I hear more results.  My slow board will push 4150 or so after a good restart at 587.  The thing is the other boards will do 4300 easy with higher freqs, but if I do that the slow board just gets stuck around 2700-2800 (like your screeny).  I may well try swapping boards when my B4 arrives to see if I can build a higher freq unit and lower freq unit.

I would contact them  before switching boards between unit's.  It's would break the warranty seal and be a shame to lose warranty on two pretty new unit's  over a little bit of hash.

Have you contacted them and said it did not fall in "12.93TH/s ±5%" of batch 2?  If not do that before breaking seals and voiding warranty.  

It gets 12.6 which is within the 5% range.  I realize it will void the warranty.  I wouldn't do it right away and I haven't even gotten the B4 so who knows, it might have 3 great boards that all get 4300 in which case there won't be any reason to swap boards around.  Just something I would consider if it looked like it was worth doing.

Ahh ok I guess the picture is old then or before the  freq change.  I thought you were in area  of 11.4ish (pictured rate) but 12.6 is much better.    Personally if it works I would keep it going at least though warranty stage.    .3T is very little hash to give up warranty over.

Either way best of luck.

I think you were thrown off by the nested quotes, the picture wasn't mine (although mine performs very similarly at that freq).

[Swimmer63]

Trying to get another S9 but getting this error when I hit confirm at the bottom.  Anyone else?  Tried two different browsers.

[steve1965!]

Trying to get another S9 but getting this error when I hit confirm at the bottom.  Anyone else?  Tried two different browsers.

https://i.imgur.com/haaV4Sp.png

who knows maybe sold out.

[Swimmer63]

Trying to get another S9 but getting this error when I hit confirm at the bottom.  Anyone else?  Tried two different browsers.

who knows maybe sold out.

Possible.  But previously it would not even let you put a miner in the cart.

[philipma1957]

Most likely it is not sold out it is another problem. 

BTW I have the same problem and  I have had this happen at least 5 times over the last 2 years.  They may correct it later today.

I am not going to pull the trigger and will hold coins instead.

[VERUMinNUMERIS]

Most likely it is not sold out it is another problem. 

BTW I have the same problem and  I have had this happen at least 5 times over the last 2 years.  They may correct it later today.

I am not going to pull the trigger and will hold coins instead.

Historically buying coins has paid out much better.

[philipma1957]

Most likely it is not sold out it is another problem. 

BTW I have the same problem and  I have had this happen at least 5 times over the last 2 years.  They may correct it later today.

I am not going to pull the trigger and will hold coins instead.

Historically buying coins has paid out much better.

some times it works out your way.

[citronick]

Trying to get another S9 but getting this error when I hit confirm at the bottom.  Anyone else?  Tried two different browsers.

just redo and start a fresh order

[philipma1957]

Trying to get another S9 but getting this error when I hit confirm at the bottom.  Anyone else?  Tried two different browsers.

just redo and start a fresh order

no go does not work on 3 different browsers  and on two different bitmaintech accounts.

and I have only ordered 4 units

2x batch 1
2x batch 2
0  batch  3

[Swimmer63]

Trying to get another S9 but getting this error when I hit confirm at the bottom.  Anyone else?  Tried two different browsers.

just redo and start a fresh order

no go does not work on 3 different browsers  and on two different bitmaintech accounts.

and I have only ordered 4 units

2x batch 1
2x batch 2
0  batch  3

Also cleared browsing data and restarted from scratch.  It's their issue.

[philipma1957]

So I went to bhphotovideo.com  and preordered 

 2 msi rdn rx 480 8gb gpu's   cost a lot less the 2000
used a cc have a 3 year msi warranty and earn points with my cc....

this is the only competition  there is for bitmaintech at the moment.

[generalt]

So I went to bhphotovideo.com  and preordered 

 2 msi rdn rx 480 8gb gpu's   cost a lot less the 2000
used a cc have a 3 year msi warranty and earn points with my cc....

this is the only competition  there is for bitmaintech at the moment.

I was considering it but the ship date that they have listed worried me.  I just hope it's a filler date they put into the site.

[traxor]

I have a quick question...

I have 2 separate orders -- 1 paid in 2 minutes, the other in 20 minutes (1st confirmation)...

I did respond to the initial order email with the tx id (per Phillips advice)...

I never received the final order confirmation email.  I went to their website and looked a my 2 most recent orders -- it says "unpaid/unshipped"...

It was 7 hours ago when I placed/paid for the orders...

How long does it normally take to ensure the orders are considered "complete" and not cancelled???

Thanks!!!

[philipma1957]

So I went to bhphotovideo.com  and preordered 

 2 msi rdn rx 480 8gb gpu's   cost a lot less the 2000
used a cc have a 3 year msi warranty and earn points with my cc....

this is the only competition  there is for bitmaintech at the moment.

I was considering it but the ship date that they have listed worried me.  I just hope it's a filler date they put into the site.

i have done business with them  they are decent.   

so i will await news from newegg
i will await news from provantage.

i look at all the gear and I have 8500 worth of btc miners

and while i have 5 pc's that can hold 15 video cards I have no video cards  so now I at least have 2 on order