ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread

[JPoet]

Ok who is pre ordering the S3+'s today? Besides me.

I'm in for 2. I'm betting Bitmain surprises with early shipping.

Just got two, smell great, beautiful items, but I cant get them to work.  I suspect a config issue, but usually its 5mins.  Oh well my faith remains in this Company, though I still love the S2 most.

And this is how you convert an old bathroom into a 2.6 Th/s antminer S3 farm. 

https://eesx0q.bn1.livefilestore.com/y2m8cId5TQ9xfY-agtYrGO-LA23xL36vET3oUeb2T0Go9S9iDsYscHNmthd_MYl4Q6id9gCFoV6sCWRbgdFGWl4yZaVWrF0UOo551Jz_V0Mc82rh852b_5TL-eU9fqQDQcP/ToiletMiner%20-%20Small.jpg?psid=1

All six miners and Corsair 750W PSUs exhaust out the back window. Fresh air is drawn through a cracked window on the opposite side of the bathroom. Each miner is stable at 218.75 stock frequency and averages 440 Gh/s per miner. 39C-40C average temps on each. I opted for one PSU per miner as I may decide to OC and got a good deal on them.

May never ROI at my electricity rates but I'm more of a hobbyist anyway...and this was a fun project.

YOU NEED 6 MORE.. NICE JOB

Thanks! I broke down and ordered twelve more of the S3+ models that went on sale as part of Batch 8. Suffice it to say they won't fit into this bathroom though...I'll be putting them into a custom built room in a property I own that I previously used to host twelve of the S1s. That should give me at least 8 Th/s by the end of September.
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Ok who is pre ordering the S3+'s today? Besides me.

I'm in for 2. I'm betting Bitmain surprises with early shipping.

Just got two, smell great, beautiful items, but I cant get them to work.  I suspect a config issue, but usually its 5mins.  Oh well my faith remains in this Company, though I still love the S2 most.

Looks like I got a dud thing number two working ok

[edonkey]

And this is how you convert an old bathroom into a 2.6 Th/s antminer S3 farm. 



All six miners and Corsair 750W PSUs exhaust out the back window. Fresh air is drawn through a cracked window on the opposite side of the bathroom. Each miner is stable at 218.75 stock frequency and averages 440 Gh/s per miner. 39C-40C average temps on each. I opted for one PSU per miner as I may decide to OC and got a good deal on them.

May never ROI at my electricity rates but I'm more of a hobbyist anyway...and this was a fun project.

Nice ventilation in case you have a particularly difficult, er, you know. No need for a match

[Biodom]

Overclocking three S3 on a single EVGA1300 with 4 connectors for each miner (using Startech PCIe splitters on 4 single PCIe cords). It can be done with 4 connectors/miner. See low density arrangement (3) per cart. Will move next to 6 per cart w/2 EVGAs.

So far-OK at ~478Gh for ~5-7hr (see photos), cords are not hot.

[64dimensions]

Results of today's BITMAIN announcement:

1) Existing S3 owners basically received a 0.1 - 0.2 BTC increase in the value of their individual S3's

2) New ebay scams: Sudden increase in the number of S3+ units for sale.

3) cynical B1 owners now have the new S1- model.

Huh, what announcement where ?

The point of 1) was that S3+ really won't be mining in the US or Europe until about 9/25. In the mean time between receiving a early batch S3 and 9/25, you will have mined about 0.2 to say 0.4 BTC. The early batch s3's were about 0.68 BTC and the S3+ are 0.58. So either the early batch s3's were too cheap or the S3+ are too expensive.

Throw in what somebody down thread also mentioned, is that BITMAIN will also get a few weeks of S3+ mining.

[MoreBloodWine]

Results of today's BITMAIN announcement:

1) Existing S3 owners basically received a 0.1 - 0.2 BTC increase in the value of their individual S3's

2) New ebay scams: Sudden increase in the number of S3+ units for sale.

3) cynical B1 owners now have the new S1- model.

Huh, what announcement where ?

The point of 1) was that S3+ really won't be mining in the US or Europe until about 9/25. In the mean time between receiving a early batch S3 and 9/25, you will have mined about 0.2 to say 0.4 BTC. The early batch s3's were about 0.68 BTC and the S3+ are 0.58. So either the early batch s3's were too cheap or the S3+ are too expensive.

Throw in what somebody down thread also mentioned, is that BITMAIN will also get a few weeks of S3+ mining.

Ahh, well I have four B5's I paid 0.68 per on for a total of 2.72 BTC.

[suchmoon]

Results of today's BITMAIN announcement:

1) Existing S3 owners basically received a 0.1 - 0.2 BTC increase in the value of their individual S3's

2) New ebay scams: Sudden increase in the number of S3+ units for sale.

3) cynical B1 owners now have the new S1- model.

Huh, what announcement where ?

The point of 1) was that S3+ really won't be mining in the US or Europe until about 9/25. In the mean time between receiving a early batch S3 and 9/25, you will have mined about 0.2 to say 0.4 BTC. The early batch s3's were about 0.68 BTC and the S3+ are 0.58. So either the early batch s3's were too cheap or the S3+ are too expensive.

Throw in what somebody down thread also mentioned, is that BITMAIN will also get a few weeks of S3+ mining.

B1 was obviously underpriced because it was announced around the time when the big 25% difficulty jump happened and nobody could have predicted the subsequent sub-10% difficulty increases.

[Biodom]

Results of today's BITMAIN announcement:

1) Existing S3 owners basically received a 0.1 - 0.2 BTC increase in the value of their individual S3's

2) New ebay scams: Sudden increase in the number of S3+ units for sale.

3) cynical B1 owners now have the new S1- model.

i don't get point #3. point#1 is correct, so what?

[ZiG]

And this is how you convert an old bathroom into a 2.6 Th/s antminer S3 farm.  



All six miners and Corsair 750W PSUs exhaust out the back window. Fresh air is drawn through a cracked window on the opposite side of the bathroom. Each miner is stable at 218.75 stock frequency and averages 440 Gh/s per miner. 39C-40C average temps on each. I opted for one PSU per miner as I may decide to OC and got a good deal on them.

May never ROI at my electricity rates but I'm more of a hobbyist anyway...and this was a fun project.

Could you still use the toilet, when you are mining...

Good Job, buddy..."doo-doo" mining ...in Chinese...

ZiG

[OutlawsVices]

Results of today's BITMAIN announcement:

1) Existing S3 owners basically received a 0.1 - 0.2 BTC increase in the value of their individual S3's

2) New ebay scams: Sudden increase in the number of S3+ units for sale.

3) cynical B1 owners now have the new S1- model.

i don't get point #3. point#1 is correct, so what?

I think he just means that they own basically an upgraded-ish version of the S1.

[philipma1957]

Results of today's BITMAIN announcement:

1) Existing S3 owners basically received a 0.1 - 0.2 BTC increase in the value of their individual S3's

2) New ebay scams: Sudden increase in the number of S3+ units for sale.

3) cynical B1 owners now have the new S1- model.

i don't get point #3. point#1 is correct, so what?

I think he just means that they own basically an upgraded-ish version of the S1.

yeah me too but he is wrong.  my batch 1  pair has earned .55btc as of today. 

they also got me 2

 .075 coupons.  so that is .150 + .55 or .7btc .

 I can't complain about them.. they mine at freq 212.5  use 650 watts and do 860gh

[Fahlcor]

Do we dare comment on the dropping hash rate?  Doing a small happy dance for the time being.

[1Neptune]

Do we dare comment on the dropping hash rate?  Doing a small happy dance for the time being.

Guess not.

Have fun dancing.   <{:^{0}

[chunkyjunkie]

Do we dare comment on the dropping hash rate?  Doing a small happy dance for the time being.

Why wouldn't the hash rate be dropping?  People shutting down older equipment that was probably lucky to be break even.

You did see current btc price right?  520 USD

Hashrate is going to go even lower as people can't pay electric with btc earned on most older equipment.

[grn]

Do we dare comment on the dropping hash rate?  Doing a small happy dance for the time being.

Why wouldn't the hash rate be dropping?  People shutting down older equipment that was probably lucky to be break even.

You did see current btc price right?  520 USD

Hashrate is going to go even lower as people can't pay electric with btc earned on most older equipment.

or......sp30s are being boxed up ready to ship

[Xian01]

B1 was obviously underpriced because it was announced around the time when the big 25% difficulty jump happened and nobody could have predicted the subsequent sub-10% difficulty increases.

Batch 1 was also fraught with initial production issues and stability, so the pricing actually isn't as good considering many get less than a stable 440GH/s, and B1 was initially advertised as being closer to ~480GHs.

Having said that, it's great to see that Bitmain has improved things with the newer batches. Would love to have some sort of trade-in program where I could return my wonky B1 S3's for the more recent ones.

[tutorialevideo]

Hy there is anyoane ho had playd whit quota from cgminer on antminer s3?

[cowchaser]

What's the experience with Bitmaintech RMA support so far ?

I received a S3 that's showing xxxxxx xxxxx000 for one of the blades after using it for about an hour.
No overclocking, tried 2 different power supplies, 2 power connectors, 4 power connectors...
Also tried to reconnect all internal wiring. Checked if the heatsink is tight, all to no avail....

Hashing power is around 220 Gh/s on average, obviously not what I want.

I tried to get a reply from Bitmain since last monday but no feedback at all on how they're going to fix this. I'm using their info@. email address.

Probably I need a new blade. Naturally I would really like to get to full hashing power asap to get some better ROI on my little antfarm, so if any of you have tips or tricks on what to try next....

Also if Bitmaintech is reading this thread (and they should be).. please try and get your RMA team to work overtime.. I know you guys must be crazy busy to move out thousands of miners but for continued business customer support is equally important as R&D and sales.

[heslo]

What's the experience with Bitmaintech RMA support so far ?

I received a S3 that's showing xxxxxx xxxxx000 for one of the blades after using it for about an hour.
No overclocking, tried 2 different power supplies, 2 power connectors, 4 power connectors...
Also tried to reconnect all internal wiring. Checked if the heatsink is tight, all to no avail....

Hashing power is around 220 Gh/s on average, obviously not what I want.

I tried to get a reply from Bitmain since last monday but no feedback at all on how they're going to fix this. I'm using their info@. email address.

Probably I need a new blade. Naturally I would really like to get to full hashing power asap to get some better ROI on my little antfarm, so if any of you have tips or tricks on what to try next....

Also if Bitmaintech is reading this thread (and they should be).. please try and get your RMA team to work overtime.. I know you guys must be crazy busy to move out thousands of miners but for continued business customer support is equally important as R&D and sales.

Been great to me! Needed a replacement hash board, they sent one out no questions asked via UPS and according to the tracking it should be here tomorrow. Also used the info@ email address

[cowchaser]

Been great to me! Needed a replacement hash board, they sent one out no questions asked via UPS and according to the tracking it should be here tomorrow. Also used the info@ email address

How long did it take for them to reply ? I can imagine that even with the smallest failure rate they must be receiving numerous support requests after this huge rollout of S3 miners.

[cowchaser]

Ah...Just received my reply from China on what to do.
Most of it already tried like trying another power supply but now will start to swap boards with other minders to see if it's the controller board or the blade.