Bitmain E3 Ethash Miner ASIC (Batch 1 - Shipping:16-31 July. $800 USD)

[pstansel]

I can't get mine working with nanopool Going to be a bust if we can't use these with a pool.

[txrph]

Mine arrived today and, though it took a while, I finally got it connected to Nanopool. It was hashing on Antpool, but never showed up on my dashboard...
https://i.redd.it/a8hyph7i9ea11.png

[pstansel]

So I don't know what I did but after being up for 15 min suddenly nanopool is working

[txrph]

So I don't know what I did but after being up for 15 min suddenly nanopool is working

Yeah, I don't know why, but you just gotta wait and wait and wait...but eventually it shows up and starts hashing. Wierd..

[gsrcrxsi314]

Who’s gonna be the first to crack these bad boys open and show us what’s inside?

[Kalyst69]

it seems that there is no OC possibility like Z9 mini

[shaninium]

it seems that there is no OC possibility like Z9 mini

Does that mean they cant be overclocked at all like a s9 or that they cant be overclocked much? Has anyone tested the power draw at the default 200mhs?

[gsrcrxsi314]

found this video on youtube (its not mine) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew6mL5BjpdI

it is using ESMT M15T1G1664A DDR3 memory modules.

guess the rumors about DDR3 were correct. and its using a Bitmain BM1790 chip.

memory specs: http://www.esmt.com.tw/DB/manager/upload/M15T1G1664A(2C).pdf

[shaninium]

it seems that there is no OC possibility like Z9 mini

Does that mean they cant be overclocked at all like a s9 or that they cant be overclocked much? Has anyone tested the power draw at the default 200mhs?

760w at 200-205mhs on youtube. Can any rigs get that or better?

[gsrcrxsi314]

some quick maths, feel free to correct.

spec sheet seems to indicate that each module is 8M x 16bit x 8 banks

(8x 16bit)/8 = 16 bytes
8million x 16bytes = 128MB per chip
32 chips per package = 4GB per package
6 packages per board = 24GB
3 boards per E3 = 72GB DDR3 total.

if i recall correctly that's exactly what one of the early rumors said.

but it looks like since its made up of 18 smaller units, it might only last until the dag exceeds 4GB, but i'm not sure if they are pairing 2 boards together or not and sharing the memory resources, so it might act as 9 different 8GB units, the screenshots of the miner page seems to show 9 units with 2 chips each.

[jmigdlc99]

760w at 200-205mhs on youtube. Can any rigs get that or better?

Probably not. That's efficiency level could difficult to beat. Even if lets say some we have an rx 580 (which seems to be extremely efficient at mining ETH) doing 31 MH at only 110 watts (very low voltage), you would get 186 MH/s for 810w (660w+150w because you add the power consumption of mobo, cpu, other components).

Like many have mentioned before, the E3 is still more efficient than GPUs and would have been a solid buy at $800 (first batch price).

[heavyarms1912]

760w at 200-205mhs on youtube. Can any rigs get that or better?

Probably not. That's efficiency level could difficult to beat. Even if lets say some we have an rx 580 (which seems to be extremely efficient at mining ETH) doing 31 MH at only 110 watts (very low voltage), you would get 186 MH/s for 810w (660w+150w because you add the power consumption of mobo, cpu, other components).

Like many have mentioned before, the E3 is still more efficient than GPUs and would have been a solid buy at $800 (first batch price).

7 x RX570/RX580 at 29 H/s = 203 and power consumption is 110-115w x 7 + 35w on CPU = 805w-840w from wall.

[yodaTT]

I don't see an option to change clock speed or mem settings in E3.
I was unable to setup using antpool. I added new worker, add the same worker in E3, waited for :15min. nothing got updated in Dashboard except one E3 worker is connected with 0 h/s. Hardware as also showing 0h/s.
I am using eth address and atleast it is showing around 190h/s. Anyone knows whats the payment threshold when using eth address as worker.

[adaseb]

760w at 200-205mhs on youtube. Can any rigs get that or better?

Probably not. That's efficiency level could difficult to beat. Even if lets say some we have an rx 580 (which seems to be extremely efficient at mining ETH) doing 31 MH at only 110 watts (very low voltage), you would get 186 MH/s for 810w (660w+150w because you add the power consumption of mobo, cpu, other components).

Like many have mentioned before, the E3 is still more efficient than GPUs and would have been a solid buy at $800 (first batch price).

7 x RX570/RX580 at 29 H/s = 203 and power consumption is 110-115w x 7 + 35w on CPU = 805w-840w from wall.

I've tried but its very very difficult or you need some extra high ASIC quality GPU to get it to consume only 110W from the wall, even with a Gold PSU.

You might be able to get like 120-125W per GPU but it won't be hashing at 29H/s more like 27/28MH/s or so.

If you set the voltages that low you will keep getting random freezing that will cause you to lose even more profit.

[gameboy366]

it seems that there is no OC possibility like Z9 mini

Does that mean they cant be overclocked at all like a s9 or that they cant be overclocked much? Has anyone tested the power draw at the default 200mhs?

760w at 200-205mhs on youtube. Can any rigs get that or better?

My 12*1050ti rig gives 191h/s at less than 700W.

[whoismoses]

I have a 9 card RX550 4GB rig that does 128MH/s at 410 watts. Extrapolating that to 200 MH/s that would be 640 watts.

[HagssFIN]

My one unit (batch1, bought at 800 USD per piece) is shipped, it will be interesting to have a look and test this miner.

[nastyrunner]

Received mine right now!

[pstansel]

I don't see an option to change clock speed or mem settings in E3.
I was unable to setup using antpool. I added new worker, add the same worker in E3, waited for :15min. nothing got updated in Dashboard except one E3 worker is connected with 0 h/s. Hardware as also showing 0h/s.
I am using eth address and atleast it is showing around 190h/s. Anyone knows whats the payment threshold when using eth address as worker.

If you create a backup of the config you can open the bnminer conf file and potentially edit these:

"bitmain-freq" : "350",
"bitmain-voltage" : "0706",

Seal it up and upload it back to the unit. Now, I have no idea what the appropriate values are So do that at your own risk.

[jstefanop]

I don't see an option to change clock speed or mem settings in E3.
I was unable to setup using antpool. I added new worker, add the same worker in E3, waited for :15min. nothing got updated in Dashboard except one E3 worker is connected with 0 h/s. Hardware as also showing 0h/s.
I am using eth address and atleast it is showing around 190h/s. Anyone knows whats the payment threshold when using eth address as worker.

If you create a backup of the config you can open the bnminer conf file and potentially edit these:

"bitmain-freq" : "350",
"bitmain-voltage" : "0706",

Seal it up and upload it back to the unit. Now, I have no idea what the appropriate values are So do that at your own risk.

That wont do anything, they are running at 1.6 GHZ stock so they have hardwired clocks inside the miner. Looks like they learned from Zcash miner and are now locking down all their miners.

Either way based on the memory specs these wouldn't go much higher anyway.