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

[alh]

While I can't decipher the Chineese web page, my simple view of it is that it is priced in CNY. In other words, the price is a fixed fiat price, and the BTC amount can "float". My recollection is that the English pages that used to be up for the S9 had a fixed BTC price. Unfortunately I can't confirm my memory since the English pages appear to be gone.

[philipma1957]

While I can't decipher the Chineese web page, my simple view of it is that it is priced in CNY. In other words, the price is a fixed fiat price, and the BTC amount can "float". My recollection is that the English pages that used to be up for the S9 had a fixed BTC price. Unfortunately I can't confirm my memory since the English pages appear to be gone.

some were fiat
some were btc

chrome translation

[not.you]

Hello in my miner on first line in ASIC status it is showing X what to do now ?

http://imgur.com/a/wnsAN

Restart

why it is coming X ?

Most of the time your clock is too high for the psu.
So if you are at freq 600 change to freq  593 and see if the x drops off

after restarting it went off but why it came it is because i used cooler(air cooler in which water moves from up to down so cool air comes) near inlet fan to maintain temp ?

I have one with a poor performing board and at stock freq of 600 it will get an occasional x.  If I leave it running they will go away and come back and go away somewhat randomly, always on that same board.  That board also runs lower hashrate than the other two at any freq.  But I leave it running at a reduced freq and it doesn't happen.  Some of these are just not good performers which is probably why they have so many different batches with different freqs.

[delicin33]

While I can't decipher the Chineese web page, my simple view of it is that it is priced in CNY. In other words, the price is a fixed fiat price, and the BTC amount can "float". My recollection is that the English pages that used to be up for the S9 had a fixed BTC price. Unfortunately I can't confirm my memory since the English pages appear to be gone.

some were fiat
some were btc

chrome translation

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well, i can read chinese..the price of china S9 is fixed fiat, and including shipping +( apw3+) + (coupon) to any location in china.

the english site also fix the price in USD and price in  BTC is floating

[Tupsu]

well, i can read chinese..the price of china S9 is fixed fiat, and including shipping +( apw3+) + (coupon) to any location in china.

the english site also fix the price in USD and price in  BTC is floating

Only for Batch1, 2, and 3. After that was fixed BTC price and USD price is floating. Batch4, 5, 6, 7

[banzsolt1]

Any news regarding when will Bitmain update their stock with S9s?

[QuintLeo]

We'll know when Bitmain has more S9s for sale when they make the sale button active.

 I suspect they may be waiting on the next batch of BM1387s to arrive from the foundry.

[banzsolt1]

We'll know when Bitmain has more S9s for sale when they make the sale button active.

 I suspect they may be waiting on the next batch of BM1387s to arrive from the foundry.

Let me rephrase my question then: How often are they releasing batches usually? Will it be in the next weeks/month?
Is it worth usually waiting for the new batch or just buy overpriced ones from ebay?

[sidehack]

Is it ever worth buying overpriced ones from eBay? The price direct from Bitmain is already overpriced; adding more on top of that is shooting yourself in the foot.

[banzsolt1]

Is it ever worth buying overpriced ones from eBay? The price direct from Bitmain is already overpriced; adding more on top of that is shooting yourself in the foot.

Bitman products produces profit after 10 months. An ebay one after 13-15 months. Or did I calculated something wrong?

[philipma1957]

Is it ever worth buying overpriced ones from eBay? The price direct from Bitmain is already overpriced; adding more on top of that is shooting yourself in the foot.

Sometimes, but certainly not now.

Some ebayers get very  good coupons I just got one for 8% it expired  yesterday.

this is 2200 - 8% coupon =  2024   and I can get 1% off via ebates so -22 = 2002   and  I can get 6 months to pay it  at 0 %

so 2002 net cost and 6 months to pay with ebay protection and this was close to worth it yesterday.

Coupon is gone so it is not worth it.  But yesterday it was close to worth it for me.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/AntMiner-S9-B2-12-93TH-s-Running-11-1-11-6-Underclocked-Stable-/172280227864?

[petahashminer]

when will be s9 available in the hashnest cloud mining market?

do you have a road plan for it?

[flameruk]

Hi folks.
Ive had an S9 running for three days now just wanted some feedback on a couple of things.
I run some S7's but have a few questions.

When booting the "Error" light blinks for a few minutes before the miner starts. Is this a normal boot up?

I run one hash card and the controller board on one PSU, then the other two hash cards on a second PSU.
PSU's are 1300W each.
At first I was getting numerous xxxx in the ASIC stats. I swapped the PSU's out with the S7's until I got a trouble free boot up.
Running in my server room at work cooled to about 18 Deg.

Any comments would be greatly appreciated, just while I get used to the new hardware.
Thanks folks.

[jds1119]

Had a S9 batch 8 arrive today. Ethernet lights flash, it won't hash and I can't login through my browser. I've tried different power supplies, Ethernet cables etc. anyway to boot with a sd card? I can't seem to find it on bitmains website for the s9.

I am having the same issue:

This is what I sent to Bitmain just know but hoping someone can help me before them.

I just recieved my S9 about 36 hours ago. I connect and hook it up like all my other miners before. I have had about 25 different Antminers. It took a bit to coneect to the network, I had to use different wires but it eventually connect, it ran for about 6 hours and stopped hashing, but stayed powered on. Now I cant get it back on my network with my other machines. I have reset my router and switches. I have tried to reset the miner by the button on the front and nothing works. The mach powers up and seemed to be working fine but it wont connect to the network nor will cgminer start. I have attached a YouTube video, I removed the front plate but have not disassembled the miner at all. I need to know what needs to be done. Do I need a new controller?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPBOCCsmc2k

any help would be appreciated

[Sierra8561]

Had a S9 batch 8 arrive today. Ethernet lights flash, it won't hash and I can't login through my browser. I've tried different power supplies, Ethernet cables etc. anyway to boot with a sd card? I can't seem to find it on bitmains website for the s9.

I am having the same issue:

This is what I sent to Bitmain just know but hoping someone can help me before them.

I just recieved my S9 about 36 hours ago. I connect and hook it up like all my other miners before. I have had about 25 different Antminers. It took a bit to coneect to the network, I had to use different wires but it eventually connect, it ran for about 6 hours and stopped hashing, but stayed powered on. Now I cant get it back on my network with my other machines. I have reset my router and switches. I have tried to reset the miner by the button on the front and nothing works. The mach powers up and seemed to be working fine but it wont connect to the network nor will cgminer start. I have attached a YouTube video, I removed the front plate but have not disassembled the miner at all. I need to know what needs to be done. Do I need a new controller?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPBOCCsmc2k

any help would be appreciated

Mine was a bad BB board. they are sending me another. But I couldn't login to mine or hash.

[d57heinz]

I couldn't access one of the two I got aswell. I waited for about 5 min to make sure it's fully booted then took a pin and pressed the reset button.  Make sure your not pressing the ip reporter button instead of reset.(looking at front reset on the right)  Hold it down for ten seconds.  About 5 sec in it should start to beep. Keep holding the whole 10.  Then after about 5 min. Shut it down and turn back on.  I was then able to access the miner.  It assigns it the first open ip by dhcp.

Best Regards
d57heinz

[bluudz]

Anyone tried to set up the miner so it would auto restart after lets say 12 hours? Trying to figure out how to do it but editing crontab doesn't seem to work as I would expect.

[mettalmag]

Does anyone have any info when they will be still available for ordering ? I didn't find related topic to post this question so sorry for off

[bluudz]

It seems that one of the board in my miner always start getting more HW errors than the rest. Anyone is experiencing that? For example now (chain 1: 18 HW, chain 3:28, chain 4 :220). Usually it runs fine for some time, but after it last board is getting much more errors. I just want to confirm weather I should try to get the board replaced or there is any other thing I could try?



Thank you for any advice

[wmabern]

It seems that one of the board in my miner always start getting more HW errors than the rest. Anyone is experiencing that? For example now (chain 1: 18 HW, chain 3:28, chain 4 :220). Usually it runs fine for some time, but after it last board is getting much more errors. I just want to confirm weather I should try to get the board replaced or there is any other thing I could try?



Thank you for any advice

I think the 3rd board on the S9's are all producing more HW errors than the others. Most likely because of the heat and case design and air flow.
All of mine are like that and all the others I have seen are the same.