ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread

[Lowell904]

New sales will be open tonight 22:00 (UCT +8:00). The shipping date will be before the August 2nd. The price is 0.63BTC per unit.

Coupons will be ready soon. Refund of B1~B3 is in process as well.

The price is already 0.2 BTC higher.

New sales will be open tonight 22:00 (UCT +8:00). The shipping date will be before the August 2nd. The price is 0.63 0.65 BTC per unit.

Coupons will be ready soon. Refund of B1~B3 is in process as well.

and only 0.0025 cheaper than Batch3
0.725- 10% = 0.6525BTC

Can it perhaps a little more to raise ?  0.8 BTC  would be even better.
I wanted to buy 6 pcs, but I do not buy none.

I look forward to a more realistic price that can not be increased every two hours.

Check your math bro.

[Swimmer63]

Our customer service guy will contact you.

Wow ! Thank you very much for the response. I was not expecting that, along with the personal email (No news on Batch 4, folks). I half-jokingly made that post, not expecting such a response.

<3

I have to ask though, do you keep them in your bedroom or what?

Honestly, I have three units on the other side of the wall outside our bedroom (Have most of my house circuits loaded with ~1000kW worth of mining hardware.) I've already modified the S3's by trying to cover up the speaker inside, but alas, they are still slightly audible whenever they do (seemingly) randomly beep.

On a related note, I'm moving my entire operation to a DC next month, and have the most tolerant and patient wife in the world.

Did this 6 months ago and glad I did.

[dlasher]

On a related note, I'm moving my entire operation to a DC next month, and have the most tolerant and patient wife in the world.

Did this 6 months ago and glad I did.

Details anywhere? Thinking about this myself, since I had an army of S3's in batch 1, and just ordered an army more in batch 4.

[not.you]

Hi,

Is anyone able to help me out?  I purchased 2 of the S3's and bought the Enermax Triatholor ECO 550W 80 Plus Bronze PSU (one for each S3).  It says the DC output is +12V 42A 504W.  I hooked one PCI-e connector to one side of the machine and hooked up another PCI-e to the opposite side using only two of the four connections.  The machine never reaches over 330 - 340 GH/s.  Do I need to overclock this machine to reach the 478 GH/s, or do I need to buy a bigger PSU, or both?  If I need a bigger PSU which is recommended?

please post your miner status page

Here are my miner stats

Something is off with chain 2.  I've never seen that with the -o and it should be 16 not 32.  What happens if you swap the PCI-e connector?  If they chains swap info I'd say you have a PSU problem.  If they stay the same I would think it's the miner.

That one blade looks hosed.  Swap the PCI-e connecters as suggested and see what happens.  If the problems remain on the same blade (the second one in the GUI) then open it up and check the ribbon connectors to the blade boards and make sure they are all good.

[Xian01]

On a related note, I'm moving my entire operation to a DC next month, and have the most tolerant and patient wife in the world.

Did this 6 months ago and glad I did.

Details anywhere? Thinking about this myself, since I had an army of S3's in batch 1, and just ordered an army more in batch 4.

Good old-fashioned Google web searching, making some phone calls, talking to some people, going out and getting tours of data centers.

Ask them, "I need x kWh of power with minimal internet bandwidth requirements. How can you accommodate my needs ?"

[oskuro]

pics and GH/s temperatures etc(s3 are in a room, i will move em to a colder area so dont really worry about temperatures):

[ftoole]

Mine batch 3 are on their way finally. The question is how long for customs.
Location   Date   Local Time   Activity
07/24/2014   1:58 A.M.   The package is awaiting clearing agency review. / The package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release.
Shenzhen, China   07/24/2014   11:31 A.M.   Origin Scan
China   07/21/2014   3:50 A.M.   Order Processed: Ready for UPS

[bitcoin4-sale.com]

Hi,

Is anyone able to help me out?  I purchased 2 of the S3's and bought the Enermax Triatholor ECO 550W 80 Plus Bronze PSU (one for each S3).  It says the DC output is +12V 42A 504W.  I hooked one PCI-e connector to one side of the machine and hooked up another PCI-e to the opposite side using only two of the four connections.  The machine never reaches over 330 - 340 GH/s.  Do I need to overclock this machine to reach the 478 GH/s, or do I need to buy a bigger PSU, or both?  If I need a bigger PSU which is recommended?



please post your miner status page

Here are my miner stats


Something is off with chain 2.  I've never seen that with the -o and it should be 16 not 32.  What happens if you swap the PCI-e connector?  If they chains swap info I'd say you have a PSU problem.  If they stay the same I would think it's the miner.

The chains stayed the same.  I plugged in my second miner and it actually works the way it is supposed to.  I switched the PCI-e's to the other two and everything stayed the same with the ASIC.  Hooked up the 2nd PSU to the broken miner and still the same problem.

[TravelingMiner]

I requested 10% coupons on my order of 6, and they still haven't processed even though my miners are shipping right now.  I wanted to buy another from batch 4, but with coupons.

Also, I have some EVGA 1300watt gold PSUs I'm going to use to power 3 on each. 1050 watts (which someone else said is what they get from the wall) is about 80% of 1300.  So I should be good hopefully. 

I'm still a bit sad that my order was going to be delivered next week, but I had to move it since I'm going to be out of town...  Valuable mining time lost

[Mudbankkeith]

I requested 10% coupons on my order of 6, and they still haven't processed even though my miners are shipping right now.  I wanted to buy another from batch 4, but with coupons.

Also, I have some EVGA 1300watt gold PSUs I'm going to use to power 3 on each. 1050 watts (which someone else said is what they get from the wall) is about 80% of 1300.  So I should be good hopefully. 

I'm still a bit sad that my order was going to be delivered next week, but I had to move it since I'm going to be out of town...  Valuable mining time lost

My 10% coupons were processed earlier today. keep watching the site.

[Mudbankkeith]

All we need now is the S1 upgrade kits to be announced

Then I will become a happy multi-terahash miner.

[Biodom]

I have four 0.075BTC coupons and two 0.074 coupons.
Anybody wants all four (I think that I can only donate all at once)?
minimal fair price is 0.23 for all four (your savings would be 0.3-0.23=0.07 BTC)
If you want two (apparently, it is possible), then the cost is 0.1155 BTC
pm me, but i won't accept anything less than 0.23 for all four or 0.1155BTC for two
two 0.074 I will get rid of ONLY if price is even higher

[visdude]

pics and GH/s temperatures etc(s3 are in a room, i will move em to a colder area so dont really worry about temperatures):

I hope you eventually powered up the other blade.

[not.you]

Hi,

Is anyone able to help me out?  I purchased 2 of the S3's and bought the Enermax Triatholor ECO 550W 80 Plus Bronze PSU (one for each S3).  It says the DC output is +12V 42A 504W.  I hooked one PCI-e connector to one side of the machine and hooked up another PCI-e to the opposite side using only two of the four connections.  The machine never reaches over 330 - 340 GH/s.  Do I need to overclock this machine to reach the 478 GH/s, or do I need to buy a bigger PSU, or both?  If I need a bigger PSU which is recommended?

please post your miner status page

Here are my miner stats

Something is off with chain 2.  I've never seen that with the -o and it should be 16 not 32.  What happens if you swap the PCI-e connector?  If they chains swap info I'd say you have a PSU problem.  If they stay the same I would think it's the miner.

The chains stayed the same.  I plugged in my second miner and it actually works the way it is supposed to.  I switched the PCI-e's to the other two and everything stayed the same with the ASIC.  Hooked up the 2nd PSU to the broken miner and still the same problem.

Open it up (5 screws on each side, total piece of cake) and reseat the connector ribbons from the blades to the control board.  If you still have the issue you may have one of the blades that is swimming in thermal paste in which case you will need to take off the heatsink (4 screws, not too hard to do but you have to also disconnect the fan because the heatsink has to slide up after you pull it away from the board) and clean up the chips. Or it could just be a bad blade and you will need to talk to Bitmain about a replacement.

[philipma1957]

My batch 4  s-3 order is marked as paid in full.  Looking forward to more of them.

[sang]

Buying 2 coupons - please PM

[oskuro]

pics and GH/s temperatures etc(s3 are in a room, i will move em to a colder area so dont really worry about temperatures):

I hope you eventually powered up the other blade.

yeah i did that picture was a previous one xD

2 more S3 ordered from Batch 4...

[visdude]

All we need now is the S1 upgrade kits to be announced

Then I will become a happy multi-terahash miner.

How does it work?  Would it just be replacing the S1 blades with S3s on the existing S1 frames (without the shroud)?  Would a fan be included in the upgrade kit since the S1 only came with one 12038 fan?

[Moria843]

I am getting board now, going to make a cup of tea! 

Are you getting an S3 board! I didn't know the kits were out yet 

[wlefever]

In the same boat. Hoping for the same outcome

This happens every time BM launches a new product, and always has.  It will sort out for everyone who paid, as it does every time.  If it's not automatically fixed in 24 hours, shoot BM an email with your order number and the TXID of your payment and they will manually fix it, although I've only seen someone need to do this once in thousands of orders.

Cool. thanks!