ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread

[contactlight]

One of my only gripes with mine (outside an unneeded UPS shipment release frustration bomb - would only release 1 of 2 boxes to my front door)...

It lists on the UPS label on each box "Description: BITCOIN MINER" -  Still not comfortable with this being out in the open given what the hardware is...

This is idiotic: each box "Description: BITCOIN MINER" - they might as well say "PLEASE STEAL ME!" Who put the description on the box, UPS or Bitmain? That means more eyes on our personal business. Especially if we live in repressive countries.

can we see a picture of this ??

I still have the box, I'll take a picture when I get back from work. It is pretty obvious, though. It is not a very small text at all.

[bit_NINj4]

Advertise it as 430gh  at 330 watts. Drop price to .65btc min order of 2 .

I agree. Bring on the coupons Bitmain!  

[bit_NINj4]

How can you defend the price of BTC 0.75 ?

I used https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/calculator and it was impossible to reach ROI.

The calculators I have used, including this one are not that great.  I have 4TH mining at Eligius.st currently and make $75 a day roughly minus the $15 a day in power I pay for a total of $60 profit.  My hardware will be paid for in 3 months.  These are actual results(not calculated).  I could never find a calculator that would give me those numbers. 

Coinwarz bro..

But anyone can do the math for themselves. It's fun when you start factoring in PSU efficiency, line resistance, cooling, controllers... "Hmmm.. Do you think this 16 gauge wire will melt?"..

Fun times. Some days I wish I was in an actual gold mine rather than worrying about burning my house down.

[maxweldrr]

How can you defend the price of BTC 0.75 ?

I used https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/calculator and it was impossible to reach ROI.

The calculators I have used, including this one are not that great.  I have 4TH mining at Eligius.st currently and make $75 a day roughly minus the $15 a day in power I pay for a total of $60 profit.  My hardware will be paid for in 3 months.  These are actual results(not calculated).  I could never find a calculator that would give me those numbers. 

Coinwarz bro..

But anyone can do the math for themselves. It's fun when you start factoring in PSU efficiency, line resistance, cooling, controllers... "Hmmm.. Do you think this 16 gauge wire will melt?"..

Fun times. Some days I wish I was in an actual gold mine rather than worrying about burning my house down.

makes me wonder how many bitcoin miners has already burned...

[philipma1957]

How can you defend the price of BTC 0.75 ?

I used https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/calculator and it was impossible to reach ROI.

The calculators I have used, including this one are not that great.  I have 4TH mining at Eligius.st currently and make $75 a day roughly minus the $15 a day in power I pay for a total of $60 profit.  My hardware will be paid for in 3 months.  These are actual results(not calculated).  I could never find a calculator that would give me those numbers. 

Coinwarz bro..

But anyone can do the math for themselves. It's fun when you start factoring in PSU efficiency, line resistance, cooling, controllers... "Hmmm.. Do you think this 16 gauge wire will melt?"..

Fun times. Some days I wish I was in an actual gold mine rather than worrying about burning my house down.

right now my two are literally mining in a bank under lock and key on a metal plate.  

my friends office is on the second floor of a local bank. I put them in one corner of his Air conditioned  office   on a piece of sheet metal.

I placed an all metal table over the top of them.

The next order will be a problem of where to mine them.  I do have an idea I will do a thread on it .

[bobsav2121]

Should "load balancing" be turned on in the S3 ?
Default has it "off" I think on the S1 it was on.

[contactlight]

Should "load balancing" be turned on in the S3 ?
Default has it "off" I think on the S1 it was on.

It was on by default on the S1. You can turn it on if you want. It will give you a more optimal balance between the servers but it will divide work.

[whonesta]

6 Pack of S3's installed @ the DC!! Thank God the Temp in the Lab is back under 30C

[bjalbert]

Should "load balancing" be turned on in the S3 ?
Default has it "off" I think on the S1 it was on.

It was on by default on the S1. You can turn it on if you want. It will give you a more optimal balance between the servers but it will divide work.

Where is this setting? I want to make sure my S1s and S2s have it turned off

[bgibso01]

Just received my 2 batch 1 units. Awesome!!! Freaking Awesome!!!  Good-bye Dragons and hello more S3.  Hurry up and open batch 4

[midyatspor]

6 Pack of S3's installed @ the DC!! Thank God the Temp in the Lab is back under 30C


Lookin good!  

How much are you paying for the DC? I tried to rent a rack and all DC Companies I contacted more than $1500 per month for about 4.5TH, not even worth renting, have the machines in my basement but it's like 100F.

[bobsav2121]

Should "load balancing" be turned on in the S3 ?
Default has it "off" I think on the S1 it was on.

It was on by default on the S1. You can turn it on if you want. It will give you a more optimal balance between the servers but it will divide work.

Where is this setting? I want to make sure my S1s and S2s have it turned off

It's on the miner config page near the bottom where the beeper config is also.

[not.you]

My packages are so awesome Chinese customs wanted a second look:

    07/22/2014    9:40 A.M.    The package is awaiting clearing agency review. / The package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release.
Shenzhen, China    07/22/2014    7:10 P.M.    Departure Scan
   07/22/2014    3:35 P.M.    Export Scan
Shenzhen, China    07/21/2014    11:28 P.M.    Arrival Scan
   07/21/2014    11:20 P.M.    Departure Scan
   07/21/2014    10:05 P.M.    Origin Scan
   07/21/2014    8:42 P.M.    Pickup Scan
   07/21/2014    7:06 A.M.    The package is awaiting clearing agency review. / The package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release.
China    07/20/2014    4:06 A.M.    Order Processed: Ready for UPS

Joy, oh joy

At least your packages have a lot of company because mine are right there with yours.
They even took away my delivery date again just to make sure those package wouldn't try to leave again.

Yeah, we're having fun.

Same, same.  I am kind of hoping that most recent customs thing is actually not in China though.  There was an export scan in Shenzhen last night, and after that I had a new delivery estimate for the 23rd.  But now I also no-longer have a delivery estimate and the last update is "The package is awaiting clearing agency review. / Your package was released by the clearing agency."  So hopefully it is at least out of China.

[whonesta]

6 Pack of S3's installed @ the DC!! Thank God the Temp in the Lab is back under 30C


Lookin good!  

How much are you paying for the DC? I tried to rent a rack and all DC Companies I contacted more than $1500 per month for about 4.5TH, not even worth renting, have the machines in my basement but it's like 100F.

I pay 2148/ month for 10KW and 48U Rack. At present I have 13TH running, 4 of it pays the bills. Not cheapest place, but I have 24/7 physical access and private enclosure so... OH and my girl does not want me and my miners dead

[Anddos]

I cant understand why people are purchasing s3's, the return at the current difficulty is 8usd aday, about 50 week and you spend 468.5 usd??

How are you going to make your money back, not forgetting running costs...

[Anddos]

then whats the points of it?

[jamesc760]

I have two S3's, received last Friday. One of them hashes at 440GHs at stock speed (218.5), so I'm fine with it; however, the other hashes at 400 GHs at stock. I've been trying different things like putting it on a different psu's like ATX, Dell/HP server, but nothing helped. I'm taking notes on different clock speeds on this one:

Frequency     GHS(avg)      Temps       HW            Watt (Kill-A-Watt)     ASIC Status
----------     ----------     -------     --------     ------------------     ----------------------
250              487.26          41, 41        2             428                         Chain#2, 1 "x" on the far right
237.5           423.55          39, 37       38             367                         All OK
225              422.69          39,36         7             364                         Chain#2, 1 "x" at 2nd position & 1 "-" at 8th position from left
218.75          403.58          40, 38        0             355                         All Ok

After editing the asic-freq file, a reboot command was issued. All readings were take at 30 minute mark. PSU is a Dell Server Power Supply 750W. All 4 PCI-E cables are plugged in, even at stock frequency.

Yes, it took me over 2 hours to finish writing this post.  

I'm setting the frequency at 250, seems to be the sweet spot for this S3.

At what frequency would you run this at? Why?

[Anddos]

I have two S3's, received last Friday. One of them hashes at 440GHs at stock speed (218.5), so I'm fine with it; however, the other hashes at 400 GHs at stock. I've been trying different things like putting it on a different psu's like ATX, Dell/HP server, but nothing helped. I'm taking notes on different clock speeds on this one:

Frequency     GHS(avg)      Temps       HW            Watt (Kill-A-Watt)     ASIC Status
----------     ----------     -------     --------     ------------------     ----------------------
250              487.26          41, 41        2             428                         Chain#2, 1 "x" on the far right
237.5           423.55          39, 37       38             367                         All OK
225              422.69          39,36         7             364                         Chain#2, 1 "x" at 2nd position & 1 "-" at 8th position from left
218.75          403.58          40, 38        0             355                         All Ok

After editing the asic-freq file, a reboot command was issued. All readings were take at 30 minute mark. PSU is a Dell Server Power Supply 750W. All 4 PCI-E cables are plugged in, even at stock frequency.

Yes, it took me over 2 hours to finish writing this post.  

I'm setting the frequency at 250, seems to be the sweet spot for this S3.

At what frequency would you run this at? Why?

so you spend 940 usd worth of mining equipment for $16 aday?

[Biodom]

I have two S3's, received last Friday. One of them hashes at 440GHs at stock speed (218.5), so I'm fine with it; however, the other hashes at 400 GHs at stock. I've been trying different things like putting it on a different psu's like ATX, Dell/HP server, but nothing helped. I'm taking notes on different clock speeds on this one:

Frequency     GHS(avg)      Temps       HW            Watt (Kill-A-Watt)     ASIC Status
----------     ----------     -------     --------     ------------------     ----------------------
250              487.26          41, 41        2             428                         Chain#2, 1 "x" on the far right
237.5           423.55          39, 37       38             367                         All OK
225              422.69          39,36         7             364                         Chain#2, 1 "x" at 2nd position & 1 "-" at 8th position from left
218.75          403.58          40, 38        0             355                         All Ok

After editing the asic-freq file, a reboot command was issued. All readings were take at 30 minute mark. PSU is a Dell Server Power Supply 750W. All 4 PCI-E cables are plugged in, even at stock frequency.

Yes, it took me over 2 hours to finish writing this post.  

I'm setting the frequency at 250, seems to be the sweet spot for this S3.

At what frequency would you run this at? Why?

If it works so well at 250, why the heck not? I would. Sometimes rebooting a miner from the webgui (NOT by powering it off, then ON) helps with "x".
I wasn't that systematic as most of my machines are best at stock freq and the one that could be overclocked is starting to produce 0.6%HW error on 237.5 and I dare not to OC it to 250mhz.

[bjalbert]

I have two S3's, received last Friday. One of them hashes at 440GHs at stock speed (218.5), so I'm fine with it; however, the other hashes at 400 GHs at stock. I've been trying different things like putting it on a different psu's like ATX, Dell/HP server, but nothing helped. I'm taking notes on different clock speeds on this one:

Frequency     GHS(avg)      Temps       HW            Watt (Kill-A-Watt)     ASIC Status
----------     ----------     -------     --------     ------------------     ----------------------
250              487.26          41, 41        2             428                         Chain#2, 1 "x" on the far right
237.5           423.55          39, 37       38             367                         All OK
225              422.69          39,36         7             364                         Chain#2, 1 "x" at 2nd position & 1 "-" at 8th position from left
218.75          403.58          40, 38        0             355                         All Ok

After editing the asic-freq file, a reboot command was issued. All readings were take at 30 minute mark. PSU is a Dell Server Power Supply 750W. All 4 PCI-E cables are plugged in, even at stock frequency.

Yes, it took me over 2 hours to finish writing this post.  

I'm setting the frequency at 250, seems to be the sweet spot for this S3.

At what frequency would you run this at? Why?

so you spend 940 usd worth of mining equipment for $16 aday?

Why do you care and why are you even on here. Go away. It will probably get ROI in 3-4 months and thats not including resale value.