antminer s5 performance questions

[dgwayne]

Hi all,

I have three s5 machine coming in and I want to boost the performance of them. Ive looked into custom firmware called minntorro but can find it anywhere. I also tried to get some hotmine x5/x6 upgrade kits but they told me 10 has to be purchased at a time. I also looked into the idea of adding additional hashing boards to the controller but cant find heatsinks that fit. Anyone have any ideas? Im sure the info is out there and if someone can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it!

[fanatic26]

S5 is an old, oudated miner with very little usefulness left in it. There is no upgrade path outside of those hotmine kits. Just buy a better miner if you want better performance.

You just bought pentium 4's when you need quad cores....
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[leowonderful]

In addition, Hotmine kits are pretty difficult to get ahold of even if you have the money for the minimum order amount; many people have tried to contact Hotmine to order the blades and in most cases there was no response. Sidehack also has planned to manufacture Bitfury S1/3/5 upgrade blades in the future, but it will be a while until even the first prototypes are made. Besides these two options there's not much you can do with them to increase mining performance.

[dgwayne]

In addition, Hotmine kits are pretty difficult to get ahold of even if you have the money for the minimum order amount; many people have tried to contact Hotmine to order the blades and in most cases there was no response. Sidehack also has planned to manufacture Bitfury S1/3/5 upgrade blades in the future, but it will be a while until even the first prototypes are made. Besides these two options there's not much you can do with them to increase mining performance.

Thanks for the info. If you know of any group buys for the hotmine kit or anything like that I would love to know. I think I can get my hands on some extra hash boards. I am going to try and see if I can mate 4 hash blades to one controller. At least then each of my s5 machines will do at least 2 TH/s. Not blazing but for what I paid they aren't horrible lol.