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

[VRobb]

Must need my head examined - just plunked down the coin for an S9. 

Fingers crossed it has no issues since it's headed straight to the DC.

[philipma1957]

Did not get a coupon.  As the Donald would say sad. So sad.


@ bitmain


so purchasing 7 s-9's

and buying  2 r-4's


of which

1 dead board for the r-4's

6 dead boards for the s-9's

1 or 2 dead controller for the s-9's

means no coupons

total of  25.038 btc

plus  about 600 in repairs sent to bitmainwarranty

and not a single coupon.

Damn....out of 4 AMD 380's,none are faulty......

Out of 1 AMD 390,not faulty......

out of 95 video card purchased for the last 11 months 100% good.

out of 30 mobos 27 good  well 28 2 doa  1 shorted after 6 months .

out 30 cpus 1 bad  first intel to ever die on me I have installed 100's

every hdd and or ssd good.   yeah the gpu gear is way better then the s9 or r4 gear.

every ram stick works

I think 1 melted 2 melted risers

every psu used since april 2016 is still good.

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Must need my head examined - just plunked down the coin for an S9.  

Fingers crossed it has no issues since it's headed straight to the DC.

{music:  <kachunk kachunk kachunk kachunk>
They're coming to take me away ha ha, they're coming to take me away he he ho ho to the Funny Pharm,
 Where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats, they're coming to take me away HA HAaaaaaaa!
<kachunk kachunk kachunk kachunk> }
 

[VRobb]

Ah, ok, so we're both old enough to know THAT one...

To the happy home with trees and flowers and chirping birds and basketweavers that sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes and they're coming to take me away, ha ha!

Napoleon the Third, if I recall the "artist".

[NotFuzzyWarm]

^^ Yep
I used to have the lyrics to the flip side somewhere - is done backwards...

[Truthchanter]

I am familiar with altcoin mining but haven't been familiar with btc mining since the btc gpu mining days, what are the estimated ROIs looking like for the currently available asics? (s9? r4?) with free electricity

[AriesIV10]

I am familiar with altcoin mining but haven't been familiar with btc mining since the btc gpu mining days, what are the estimated ROIs looking like for the currently available asics? (s9? r4?) with free electricity

Options to get into the Mining Business:
(I always lean to the Conservative side)

Bitcoin at $1275:
  * S9 AVE 12.5THs = Gross $10.00/day
  * Genesis Mining = Gross at about 12THs = $4.50/day
  * Hashnest is another option.

ETH at $19.75:
  * 7 GPU RX470 RIG = Gross $12.50/day

DASH - Baikal Miners are the way to go on this Altcoin.


With your electric rates and Purchasing Cost, I will let you Calculate your ROI.

Hope this Helps, Mine for a Bit.

 

[Truthchanter]

I am familiar with altcoin mining but haven't been familiar with btc mining since the btc gpu mining days, what are the estimated ROIs looking like for the currently available asics? (s9? r4?) with free electricity

Options to get into the Mining Business:
(I always lean to the Conservative side)

Bitcoin at $1275:
  * S9 AVE 12.5THs = Gross $10.00/day
  * Genesis Mining = Gross at about 12THs = $4.50/day
  * Hashnest is another option.

ETH at $19.75:
  * 7 GPU RX470 RIG = Gross $12.50/day

DASH - Baikal Miners are the way to go on this Altcoin.


With your electric rates and Purchasing Cost, I will let you Calculate your ROI.

Hope this Helps, Mine for a Bit.

 

$12.50/day for 7x470s seems high, even with modded bios and OC'd mem. One of my 6x470 rigs gets about $6.6/day mining eth currently although I undervolt and have hynix mem which may be the slowest.

I appreciate all your input though!

[AriesIV10]

I am familiar with altcoin mining but haven't been familiar with btc mining since the btc gpu mining days, what are the estimated ROIs looking like for the currently available asics? (s9? r4?) with free electricity

Options to get into the Mining Business:
(I always lean to the Conservative side)

Bitcoin at $1275:
  * S9 AVE 12.5THs = Gross $10.00/day
  * Genesis Mining = Gross at about 12THs = $4.50/day
  * Hashnest is another option.

ETH at $19.75:
  * 7 GPU RX470 RIG = Gross $12.50/day

DASH - Baikal Miners are the way to go on this Altcoin.


With your electric rates and Purchasing Cost, I will let you Calculate your ROI.

Hope this Helps, Mine for a Bit.

 

$12.50/day for 7x470s seems high, even with modded bios and OC'd mem. One of my 6x470 rigs gets about $6.6/day mining eth currently although I undervolt and have hynix mem which may be the slowest.

I appreciate all your input though!

The Rig is pushing out 200MHs (payout daily on ethermine.org) and yesterday I received a payout of 0.74772276 ETH * $18.28 = $13.67  

[GMPoison]

I am familiar with altcoin mining but haven't been familiar with btc mining since the btc gpu mining days, what are the estimated ROIs looking like for the currently available asics? (s9? r4?) with free electricity

Options to get into the Mining Business:
(I always lean to the Conservative side)

Bitcoin at $1275:
  * S9 AVE 12.5THs = Gross $10.00/day
  * Genesis Mining = Gross at about 12THs = $4.50/day
  * Hashnest is another option.

ETH at $19.75:
  * 7 GPU RX470 RIG = Gross $12.50/day

DASH - Baikal Miners are the way to go on this Altcoin.


With your electric rates and Purchasing Cost, I will let you Calculate your ROI.

Hope this Helps, Mine for a Bit.

 

$12.50/day for 7x470s seems high, even with modded bios and OC'd mem. One of my 6x470 rigs gets about $6.6/day mining eth currently although I undervolt and have hynix mem which may be the slowest.

I appreciate all your input though!

The Rig is pushing out 200MHs (payout daily on ethermine.org) and yesterday I received a payout of 0.74772276 ETH * $18.28 = $13.67  

Those Baikal Miners seem very legit, I'm just having a hard time finding a legit place to purchase them.

[HagssFIN]

...
Those Baikal Miners seem very legit, I'm just having a hard time finding a legit place to purchase them.

Buy from them directly. http://www.baikalminer.com/

There is also a group buy thread in the altcoin section.

[GMPoison]

...
Those Baikal Miners seem very legit, I'm just having a hard time finding a legit place to purchase them.

Buy from them directly. http://www.baikalminer.com/

There is also a group buy thread in the altcoin section.

I don't know if it's just me or not but their website is very broken. Doesn't display prices, can't order, loads slow, etc.

[Unacceptable]

Did not get a coupon.  As the Donald would say sad. So sad.


@ bitmain


so purchasing 7 s-9's

and buying  2 r-4's


of which

1 dead board for the r-4's

6 dead boards for the s-9's

1 or 2 dead controller for the s-9's

means no coupons

total of  25.038 btc

plus  about 600 in repairs sent to bitmainwarranty

and not a single coupon.

Damn....out of 4 AMD 380's,none are faulty......

Out of 1 AMD 390,not faulty......

out of 95 video card purchased for the last 11 months 100% good.

out of 30 mobos 27 good  well 28 2 doa  1 shorted after 6 months .

out 30 cpus 1 bad  first intel to ever die on me I have installed 100's

every hdd and or ssd good.   yeah the gpu gear is way better then the s9 or r4 gear.

every ram stick works

I think 1 melted 2 melted risers

every psu used since april 2016 is still good.

I use old PC mobo's,ram,HDD's & CPU's.No failures & if they did fail,no loss as they were free  

Only things I buy new are GPU's & PSU's,again no failures,most my PSU's are from early ASIC mining back in 2012,so they have been tested pretty well  

[bitsink]

Update: These miners are real putas - at least software wise! The hardware seems ok sofar, although the forum may tell a different story.

So, the miner freaks out if a hashboard is not powered, but has its data cable connected!

single-board-test takes a full hour to test each asic's best config (voltage and frequency) after a hard reset - (tail -F /tmp/search). Once that is completed it launches bmminer. But if a board is not powered up (but data cable connected) it reads 0 asics, and instead of just getting on with it, it does nothing (as far as i can tell). single-board-test is running but not doing anything. Once the data cable is diconnected it does not detect the missing hashboard and happily mines away with 2 boards. Quirky.

In the beginning (before the hard reset) the miner would happily hash away with two boards AND the data cable connected...

Can anybody confirm one or the other behavior? Thanks!

Starting bmminer manually with a data cable connected but board not powered up causes bmminer to search for the board and eventually reboot - not sure which script does the reboot yet.

[electronicshd]

hello everyone, i have the next question.


is profitable buy an s9 antminer nowadays ?


thanks

[HagssFIN]

hello everyone, i have the next question.


is profitable buy an s9 antminer nowadays ?


thanks

You need to do your own calculations based on your costs (electricity etc.).

Also there is already lots of info here at the forum because everything has been asked like 100 times.

[philipma1957]

hello everyone, i have the next question.


is profitable buy an s9 antminer nowadays ?


thanks

Yes if it works and you have cheap power say 6 cents or less

No if it breaks.  And the,s9 has been know to break.

Maybe. If it works and your power cost is say 9 cents.

If your power is 12 or more cents no


Other cases of yes no and maybe are possible

[adaseb]

Did not get a coupon.  As the Donald would say sad. So sad.


@ bitmain


so purchasing 7 s-9's

and buying  2 r-4's


of which

1 dead board for the r-4's

6 dead boards for the s-9's

1 or 2 dead controller for the s-9's

means no coupons

total of  25.038 btc

plus  about 600 in repairs sent to bitmainwarranty

and not a single coupon.

Damn....out of 4 AMD 380's,none are faulty......

Out of 1 AMD 390,not faulty......

out of 95 video card purchased for the last 11 months 100% good.

out of 30 mobos 27 good  well 28 2 doa  1 shorted after 6 months .

out 30 cpus 1 bad  first intel to ever die on me I have installed 100's

every hdd and or ssd good.   yeah the gpu gear is way better then the s9 or r4 gear.

every ram stick works

I think 1 melted 2 melted risers

every psu used since april 2016 is still good.

With GPUs the only part that usually fails is the fans. Those are the highest point of failure.
And melting wires from risers and modular PSU pins.

Also box fans fail also for your rigs. But its usually $20 and they last 2 years or so. Generally they werent designed for 24 hours a day of use.

[leowonderful]

Did not get a coupon.  As the Donald would say sad. So sad.


@ bitmain


so purchasing 7 s-9's

and buying  2 r-4's


of which

1 dead board for the r-4's

6 dead boards for the s-9's

1 or 2 dead controller for the s-9's

means no coupons

total of  25.038 btc

plus  about 600 in repairs sent to bitmainwarranty

and not a single coupon.

Damn....out of 4 AMD 380's,none are faulty......

Out of 1 AMD 390,not faulty......

out of 95 video card purchased for the last 11 months 100% good.

out of 30 mobos 27 good  well 28 2 doa  1 shorted after 6 months .

out 30 cpus 1 bad  first intel to ever die on me I have installed 100's

every hdd and or ssd good.   yeah the gpu gear is way better then the s9 or r4 gear.

every ram stick works

I think 1 melted 2 melted risers

every psu used since april 2016 is still good.

With GPUs the only part that usually fails is the fans. Those are the highest point of failure.
And melting wires from risers and modular PSU pins.

Also box fans fail also for your rigs. But its usually $20 and they last 2 years or so. Generally they werent designed for 24 hours a day of use.

Box fans are pretty cheap though and they do the job for a long time if you get a good one. For the cost a year or two is great, fans on GPUs and burnt cables and connectors are a pain in the ass compared to box fans. Some GPU fans are easy to replace but others are more difficult to replace.

[kano]

I wonder why people trust Bitmain ... this code looks ... very suspect ...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=789369.msg18083086#msg18083086