ANN: BITMAIN has Tested Its 28nm Bitcoin Mining Chip BM1382

[Collider]

So all the smaller gridseeds too
I have 4 and they mine 1.3khs still have not swiched them off or sell them as they dont
consume much electrons.....
and Love the red and green lights!!!
Waiting a fury to be delivered will have more colors as the fury is blue

Electrons are not consumed when using electricity

[shamacala]

Could someone please advise, i use a corsair cx500 on current s1 and never a glitch, i notice that there are 2 spare molex 4 pin connectors on psu,  i can buy adapter for these on ebay to convert molex to pci-e , so my question is would this work with the the s3 (total 12v output from psu is max 456w) for the two othe pci-e on the boards.  Afterall its only another 30 watts more?

[allcoinminer]

Could someone please advise, i use a corsair cx500 on current s1 and never a glitch, i notice that there are 2 spare molex 4 pin connectors on psu,  i can buy adapter for these on ebay to convert molex to pci-e , so my question is would this work with the the s3 (total 12v output from psu is max 456w) for the two othe pci-e on the boards.  Afterall its only another 30 watts more?

One S3 at clock speed can be safely run on your PSU.  Molex to pci-e will do the job.

[shamacala]

Cheers 

[nightyj]

Bitmaintech offers to us advanced technology which will not be cheap. If you compare prices to KNC which will ship after a month, price should be around 1.35 BTC . I hope that they will sell first batch for  0.8-1 BTC .

[Biodom]

Could someone please advise, i use a corsair cx500 on current s1 and never a glitch, i notice that there are 2 spare molex 4 pin connectors on psu,  i can buy adapter for these on ebay to convert molex to pci-e , so my question is would this work with the the s3 (total 12v output from psu is max 456w) for the two othe pci-e on the boards.  Afterall its only another 30 watts more?

One S3 at clock speed can be safely run on your PSU.  Molex to pci-e will do the job.

re the same: can one 4-pin molex power 6pin PCIe or you have to have two dual male 4-pin connectors converging on a single 6-pin PCIe?
I see that there are both types for sale on ebay.

[Pieh0]

Could someone please advise, i use a corsair cx500 on current s1 and never a glitch, i notice that there are 2 spare molex 4 pin connectors on psu,  i can buy adapter for these on ebay to convert molex to pci-e , so my question is would this work with the the s3 (total 12v output from psu is max 456w) for the two othe pci-e on the boards.  Afterall its only another 30 watts more?

One S3 at clock speed can be safely run on your PSU.  Molex to pci-e will do the job.

re the same: can one 4-pin molex power 6pin PCIe or you have to have two dual male 4-pin connectors converging on a single 6-pin PCIe?
I see that there are both types for sale on ebay.

It will be dual 4pin Molex to 6 pin PCIe, trying to shove that much power through 1 12v line will only end up in heat, fire, then tears.

Like this.

[ernie-]

The S3 doesn't look as good value as the S1 was, specifically the S1 had 32 ASICs per blade and the S3 only has 16 so you are getting half the ASIC hardware that the S1 had. That's why it's only rated at 504GH/s when it would have been up around 800GH/s with better power figures if it were 64 chips like the S1. The S3 will be clocking the chips harder I bet to make up for only having 32 of them.

Does this leave an opening for the S4?

For sure, the main thing about the S2 was that it used a lot more ASIC chips than the S1, but at a more sensible lower clock speed for power efficiency.


The S3 uses more power than the S1, I was kind of thinking they might have gone down the path of a S1 speed unit, but less than 100watts. There is no point adding more net hash, it just makes the diff go up, but there is a lot of point in replacing your 350watt S1 with a similar speed unit at less than 100watts. Considering the ASICminer 40nm chip does 0.35J/GHash at the rated voltage, it's should have been easy to beat with 28nm.

[Biodom]

Could someone please advise, i use a corsair cx500 on current s1 and never a glitch, i notice that there are 2 spare molex 4 pin connectors on psu,  i can buy adapter for these on ebay to convert molex to pci-e , so my question is would this work with the the s3 (total 12v output from psu is max 456w) for the two othe pci-e on the boards.  Afterall its only another 30 watts more?

One S3 at clock speed can be safely run on your PSU.  Molex to pci-e will do the job.

re the same: can one 4-pin molex power 6pin PCIe or you have to have two dual male 4-pin connectors converging on a single 6-pin PCIe?
I see that there are both types for sale on ebay.

It will be dual 4pin Molex to 6 pin PCIe, trying to shove that much power through 1 12v line will only end up in heat, fire, then tears.

Like this.

you mean that 4pin to 6pin adapter cannot handle 390/4=95.5W? There are 4 PCIE connectors per each S3 unit. There are 2 PCIe connectors and 2X4pin connectors per each CX500M.

[Pieh0]

you mean that 4pin to 6pin adapter cannot handle 390/4=95.5W? There are 4 PCIE connectors per each S3 unit. There are 2 PCIe connectors and 2X4pin connectors per each CX500M.

Not sure where you're getting the 4 from, as only 1 pin will be delivering the power, so on a dual molex to 6pin pcie adapter, it will be 195w/16.25A per board, and 65w/5.416A per PCIe pin, but on the molex side 1 12v pin will be pulling 130w/10.83A.

Get them cheap and use 2 adapters per board to split it out if possible.

Or do what Xer0 said below .

At least you won't have "wasted"/unused wattage per psu, as you can share the current between psu's.

[Xer0]

just use a server psu

[Biodom]

you mean that 4pin to 6pin adapter cannot handle 390/4=95.5W? There are 4 PCIE connectors per each S3 unit. There are 2 PCIe connectors and 2X4pin connectors per each CX500M.

Not sure where you're getting the 4 from, as only 1 pin will be delivering the power, so on a dual molex to 6pin pcie adapter, it will be 195w/16.25A per board, and 65w/5.416A per PCIe pin, but on the molex side 1 12v pin will be pulling 130w/10.83A.

Get them cheap and use 2 adapters per board to split it out if possible.

Or do what Xer0 said below .

At least you won't have "wasted"/unused wattage per psu, as you can share the current between psu's.

OK, thanks

[MTBmanTT]

Awesome news, cant wait to see the S3 and the upgrade offerings!

[ZiG]

Here we go...:

BM1382 DATA SHEET ...New S3 chip specs...

https://bitmaintech.com/files/download/BM1382_Datasheet_v3.0.pdf


Could go up to 25GH per chip...


Enjoy,

ZiG

...and the copycat(s) at...:

http://cryptomining-blog.com/tag/antiminer-s3/

immediately use it to compile their "news"...

ZiG

EDIT...:

NO credits given to this thread...of course...

[R4v37]

Here we go...:

BM1382 DATA SHEET ...New S3 chip specs...

https://bitmaintech.com/files/download/BM1382_Datasheet_v3.0.pdf


Could go up to 25GH per chip...


Enjoy,

ZiG

...and the copycat(s) at...:

http://cryptomining-blog.com/tag/antiminer-s3/

immediately use it to compile their "news"...

ZiG

EDIT...:

NO credits given to this thread...of course...

hihiihiih
lets just say, he's helping bitmain to promote
win-win solution 

[Pieh0]

Would you have preferred "BREAKING NEWS FROM A BITMAIN INSIDER!" .

[sergio]

Any guess on price?

They only need to match the price for the rk-box       which is 599 usd

Their gear clearly bitch slaps the 450GH 480watt RK box


They did this to the ice fury and red fury usb sticks  last december.

the fury sticks were late to market  ant miners u-1 sticks were a far better price and  the fury sticks ended up being a bad buy.

I am not sure if the gear will work like it says it does but it is better then the sp10 if it does.    an sp10 can get 1th at 700-720 watts     really loud

so if this does 505gh at 390 watts .  it will be a beast.   if the upgrade kit is priced right  the s-1 upgrades will sell like mad.

However SP30 is coming out in August, that's what spondoodlies tech told me. I am planning on meeting up with them in Hong Kong (#proudtobehongkonger) and see what happens

Spondoolies will be not be a match for the S3, for one simple reason:
S3 sells from stock.
SP30 is a pre-order, I would stay away from all pre-orders, they are very high risk. just take a look at all the mining companies that have gove corrupt BFL, Avalon, and now KNC.
Now if Spondoolies changes their policy, eliminates all pre purchases, and sell from stock, it would be interesting to see which product returns a better ROI, but as it stands now the S3 is a far better choice, anytime when you have to decide between buying from stock or pre-order, buy from stock.

As of this writing at current time, Bitmain seems to be one of the better mining vendors, the day the start pre-orders and mining for themselves we are screwed and time to look for another vendor, but at present they seem to be the best.

[sergio]

Bitmain are you going to reward your loyal customers with some good coupons without expiration dates for the S3, and S3 updates from S1 ?

[ernie-]

Bitmain are you going to reward your loyal customers with some good coupons without expiration dates for the S3, and S3 updates from S1 ?

The way I read it was an updated heat sink  for the S3 which could be fitted to the S1. Is it something more than that?

[skizzneena]

Bitmain are you going to reward your loyal customers with some good coupons without expiration dates for the S3, and S3 updates from S1 ?

The way I read it was an updated heat sink  for the S3 which could be fitted to the S1. Is it something more than that?

All batch one buyers will receive a free puppy.