Over and under clocking your s-1's

[philipma1957]

 Okay I am deleting old posts

[smooth]

Don't do it yet. Earnings will drop more than electricity savings. But as these become marginal to run, underclocking will prolong their useful life.

[rmines]

I have also seen some reports of these catching fire, so I would beware with overclocking them which only increases the risk.

[aztecminer]

I have also seen some reports of these catching fire, so I would beware with overclocking them which only increases the risk.

i have an ant that has been running non-stop oced @400 since December last year without any problems. it is located in a 60 degree datacenter. i now have six ants altogether with three of them oced @400. i have still yet to oc the other three and have been considering ocing them soon. i am thinking of ordering some of the aluminum heatsinks for these maybe. i am not sure if the downtime from mining would be worth it though since they seem to be running great. i heard rumored three degrees cooler with the heatsinks though.

[smooth]

Zero HW errors is not valuable under normal conditions (unless HW errors are otherwise excessive). What is important is accepted hash rate by the pool.

The correct formula for hw errors is "hw / (hw + diffa + diffr)." Should be 1% or under normally. I have a few that get zero HW at normal clocks and a few that get 1% or so, but I don't notice a difference in delivered hash rate. In fact my most productive unit (by only a small margin though) is the one with the most hw errors. All are running at stock clocks.