ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread

[rodeoclownicp]

how come when i go to the website it wont let me buy an s3? or order an s3

u cant, try to read last posts batch 4 will be announced who knows when

so do you preorder batch4 or does it just sell out fast??

[jonnybravo0311]

One of the temps on my s3 is showing 248 which is keeping the fans at full speed. Otherwise it seems to be working. Anyone else have this problem?

248???  You might want to shut that unit down ASAP.  That is completely unsafe.  Your units should never be reporting anywhere near that high.

I'm sure its a faulty temp sensor....

Carefully touch the case, if its not hot enough to broil a chicken then its not 248C.

That's very likely, but if I saw a temp reporting 248, I'd be sure to shut down that unit, pull it apart and look for any obvious signs of a problem.  Obviously something's amiss, since the unit should have shutdown by itself at 80C, unless it was changed in the configuration.  Better safe than burnt to a crisp.

[apollojmr]

Has anyone ever heard about refunds for batch 1?

[rodeoclownicp]

do we need preorders

[bobsav2121]

Wow it really looks like Bitmain dropped the ball on these.
ALL the S1's were rock solid and everybody got the same hash rate. Plus everyone could overclock if you so desired.

These S3's have hash rates all over the board.  Some work right some dont.

My units are running at 440 GH right out of the box with stock clock.
Guess I was lucky, but luck shouldn't have anything to do with it.

Wonder if they will fix these problems or just keep pumping out defective units ?

Bob

No - S1's hashrate varied as all miners do.

I have 10 S1's and the variance is less than 3 %  these S3's owners are reporting 10-15 % right out of the box ..
My S3's happen to be "good" ones, lucky I guess

[not.you]

I fixed the x on the asic in the gui by removing the heatsink and reapplying thermal paste.  However I had the opposite issue others have reported.  There was not enough paste.  Looks like someone got a talking to about using too much and is now being too conservative.  There were large areas of pretty much every chip that had clearly not had any paste on them at all.  I applied paste with an exacto blade to all the chips on both blades and put it back together and now the x is gone.  I'm not sure the hashrate is any better though, still only doing about 430 but its only been a few minutes.

[Trammel]

When will be getting the BTC 7.7% refunds from Bitmaintech? 

[Duce]

I fixed the x on the asic in the gui by removing the heatsink and reapplying thermal paste.  However I had the opposite issue others have reported.  There was not enough paste.  Looks like someone got a talking to about using too much and is now being too conservative.  There were large areas of pretty much every chip that had clearly not had any paste on them at all.  I applied paste with an exacto blade to all the chips on both blades and put it back together and now the x is gone.  I'm not sure the hashrate is any better though, still only doing about 430 but its only been a few minutes.

On the bright side it saved you the time of cleaning them up. That took a bit of time for me the other day. Hopefully they will get to 441 for you.

[philipma1957]

bitmain has gained greatly in value from yesterday up to today.  the sp30 is a bust.  no one knows had big of a bust yet but it is a bust.  the ceo the the company admitted so on the sp30 thread.

 so will it hash at 4th and pull 2400 watts.

 it is not going to do the promised 6th.

we also do not know what the efficiency will drop to.  .6 watts  .7 watts?

 this means the s-3 has jumped up in value.  How big a jump depends on how bad the sp30 turns out to be.

As a s-3 owner this will also help with the diff.

[faetos]

bitmain has gained greatly in value from yesterday up to today.  the sp30 is a bust.  no one knows had big of a bust yet but it is a bust.  the ceo the the company admitted so on the sp30 thread.

 so will it hash at 4th and pull 2400 watts.

 it is not going to do the promised 6th.

we also do not know what the efficiency will drop to.  .6 watts  .7 watts?

 this means the s-3 has jumped up in value.  How big a jump depends on how bad the sp30 turns out to be.

As a s-3 owner this will also help with the diff.

Tell them to take their time and work it out for a few more months so we can ROI

[not.you]

I fixed the x on the asic in the gui by removing the heatsink and reapplying thermal paste.  However I had the opposite issue others have reported.  There was not enough paste.  Looks like someone got a talking to about using too much and is now being too conservative.  There were large areas of pretty much every chip that had clearly not had any paste on them at all.  I applied paste with an exacto blade to all the chips on both blades and put it back together and now the x is gone.  I'm not sure the hashrate is any better though, still only doing about 430 but its only been a few minutes.

On the bright side it saved you the time of cleaning them up. That took a bit of time for me the other day. Hopefully they will get to 441 for you.

Aah I spoke too soon.  The x is back.  Same chip. 

[philipma1957]

I fixed the x on the asic in the gui by removing the heatsink and reapplying thermal paste.  However I had the opposite issue others have reported.  There was not enough paste.  Looks like someone got a talking to about using too much and is now being too conservative.  There were large areas of pretty much every chip that had clearly not had any paste on them at all.  I applied paste with an exacto blade to all the chips on both blades and put it back together and now the x is gone.  I'm not sure the hashrate is any better though, still only doing about 430 but its only been a few minutes.

On the bright side it saved you the time of cleaning them up. That took a bit of time for me the other day. Hopefully they will get to 441 for you.

Aah I spoke too soon.  The x is back.  Same chip. 

first what clock?

second what psu?

[bcollan]

Got my two last evening.
Both hashed all night about 440gh/s-450gh/s @pool.

No problem with beeping, they're in the basement.  

[CryptoGuy]

As to the beeping issue when the share difficulty changes, don't most P2Pools allow you to set a user defined share difficulty via the password? The one I use for scrypt mining does anyway.

[mdude77]

Anyone using their S3 on P2Pool? I am mining on GHash right now and it makes me hate myself. If P2Pool worked for you guys, I'll switch them as soon as I get back.

use Eligius man

S3s are working great with P2Pool, here are 4 stock S3s running on a single address:

http://minefast.coincadence.com/miner.php?id=19vXrwKGUhK4cCU8tA4kWZgbChcmh9a6qj

this pool? http://www.p2pool.org/

how much BTC are you earning / day with your miners?

p2pool.org is NOT directly affiliated with p2pool, it is a p2pool node operated by an individual.

http://minefast.coincadence.com is my p2pool node, if you click the link you quoted above you will see exactly what I'm earning.

The official homepage for the p2pool project is:

http://p2pool.in/

Not only that, p2pool.org unfortunately has a deservedly bad reputation.

M

[mdude77]

As to the beeping issue when the share difficulty changes, don't most P2Pools allow you to set a user defined share difficulty via the password? The one I use for scrypt mining does anyway.

Yes you can.  Add /1024 I believe to end of your payout address.  That'll force it to the highest difficulty supported by the current version of p2pool.

Note this won't at all affect your payout, as this is just the psuedoshare difficulty.  The "real" difficulty is much much higher.

M

[sjc1490]

I fixed the x on the asic in the gui by removing the heatsink and reapplying thermal paste.  However I had the opposite issue others have reported.  There was not enough paste.  Looks like someone got a talking to about using too much and is now being too conservative.  There were large areas of pretty much every chip that had clearly not had any paste on them at all.  I applied paste with an exacto blade to all the chips on both blades and put it back together and now the x is gone.  I'm not sure the hashrate is any better though, still only doing about 430 but its only been a few minutes.

On the bright side it saved you the time of cleaning them up. That took a bit of time for me the other day. Hopefully they will get to 441 for you.

Aah I spoke too soon.  The x is back.  Same chip. 

Did you re-flash firmware?

[not.you]

I fixed the x on the asic in the gui by removing the heatsink and reapplying thermal paste.  However I had the opposite issue others have reported.  There was not enough paste.  Looks like someone got a talking to about using too much and is now being too conservative.  There were large areas of pretty much every chip that had clearly not had any paste on them at all.  I applied paste with an exacto blade to all the chips on both blades and put it back together and now the x is gone.  I'm not sure the hashrate is any better though, still only doing about 430 but its only been a few minutes.

On the bright side it saved you the time of cleaning them up. That took a bit of time for me the other day. Hopefully they will get to 441 for you.

Aah I spoke too soon.  The x is back.  Same chip. 

first what clock?

second what psu?

I tried OC on both but too many HW errors.  So they were both back to stock.  Since this one that had the x went to a - I tried OCing it again and it seems to work at 225 with zero HW but still can't even pull 430 hashrate.  These are both duds.

[not.you]

I fixed the x on the asic in the gui by removing the heatsink and reapplying thermal paste.  However I had the opposite issue others have reported.  There was not enough paste.  Looks like someone got a talking to about using too much and is now being too conservative.  There were large areas of pretty much every chip that had clearly not had any paste on them at all.  I applied paste with an exacto blade to all the chips on both blades and put it back together and now the x is gone.  I'm not sure the hashrate is any better though, still only doing about 430 but its only been a few minutes.

On the bright side it saved you the time of cleaning them up. That took a bit of time for me the other day. Hopefully they will get to 441 for you.

Aah I spoke too soon.  The x is back.  Same chip.  

Did you re-flash firmware?

Oh you know what, not on this one.  I did on the other one but it didn't seem to improve anything.  I can try it on this one.

EDIT: Flashed the firmware.  Still got a dash on that chip.  Have to watch and see what the hashrate does.  Still looks like its not doing any HW though at 225 freq.  Maybe that specific chip was throwing all the HW when I OC'd before.

[not.you]

I fixed the x on the asic in the gui by removing the heatsink and reapplying thermal paste.  However I had the opposite issue others have reported.  There was not enough paste.  Looks like someone got a talking to about using too much and is now being too conservative.  There were large areas of pretty much every chip that had clearly not had any paste on them at all.  I applied paste with an exacto blade to all the chips on both blades and put it back together and now the x is gone.  I'm not sure the hashrate is any better though, still only doing about 430 but its only been a few minutes.

On the bright side it saved you the time of cleaning them up. That took a bit of time for me the other day. Hopefully they will get to 441 for you.

Aah I spoke too soon.  The x is back.  Same chip. 

first what clock?

second what psu?

I tried OC on both but too many HW errors.  So they were both back to stock.  Since this one that had the x went to a - I tried OCing it again and it seems to work at 225 with zero HW but still can't even pull 430 hashrate.  These are both duds.

Forgot to mention the PSU.  Corsair CX750M.  One per miner.