Antminer s3 - 5 of them - need input

[jklopiloppi]

My farm will consist of 5x S3's.

What is your opinion of this? At around $0.11/kw/hr

[1715462011]

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[1715462011]

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[xstr8guy]

My farm will consist of 5x S3's.

What is your opinion of this? At around $0.11/kw/hr

Welcome to break even! 

I'm in a similar situation and pay the same price for electricity and now I'm doing just a little better than break-even after I pay the electric bill.

Granted, of my 10THs only about 3THs is at the same efficiency as the S3, .7w/GHs. The other 7GHs is ~1w/GHs. So you may have 2-3 average difficulty adjustments (a month or two) before you are officially spending more money on electricity than you can earn from mining.

[toptek]

My farm will consist of 5x S3's.

What is your opinion of this? At around $0.11/kw/hr

Might pay a tab more  in power, other wise go for it  it should pay you back in a few month's  depending on how much the set up will cost you price per coin etc . .

I have two  S3 and 3 S1 gonna add two more  S3 and replace the S1 in time  then let it do it do its thing   but my power is only .919 per kw  i don't see a jump in power yet  and  may not till I  add the last two.


some may even try to tell you i pay more in power then i claim but if you want proof i will  give to you . just won't post it here. as he said go with it but be ready to replace those s 3  at  that time  frame . or add one 2 tH miner and go for there .


This might help you some


http://dustcoin.com/

[jklopiloppi]

My farm will consist of 5x S3's.

What is your opinion of this? At around $0.11/kw/hr

Welcome to break even! 

I'm in a similar situation and pay the same price for electricity and now I'm doing just a little better than break-even after I pay the electric bill.

Granted, of my 10THs only about 3THs is at the same efficiency as the S3, .7w/GHs. The other 7GHs is ~1w/GHs. So you may have 2-3 average difficulty adjustments (a month or two) before you are officially spending more money on electricity than you can earn from mining.

alright so i just purchased 2x Terraminer IV 1.6TH.

So my total power is going to be 5.4 TH/s +-
Total power consumption will be 5,900 Wats

What are some thoughts?

Still looking at $0.11 per hour if not more / less.

Still breaking even?

[xstr8guy]

I'm not exactly sure what the Terraminer's efficiency is but I'm quite sure it's a lot worse than the S3... well over 1w/GHs vs .7W/GHs.

[jklopiloppi]

Yea it is

Damn mistake on this purchase. Could have gotten a better machine for the price

[philipma1957]

Yea it is

Damn mistake on this purchase. Could have gotten a better machine for the price

 

yeah you fucked up.  but most of us have done a few bad deals at this game.

 I purchased a short tube from am.  it was not a good purchase on paper , but i scored like a mofo with it.

read what I did with a  pair of tubes.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=790451.


my point is you could use one of these two pools and get lucky making the poor purchase a good one.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=559011.0  

 this is a small pool about 60-80 th   it makes 1 block a month.  so if you start on it today and it make the block in 10 days not a month you could make up for the poor purchase choice. this is what happened to me. In fact I hit 3 fast blocks and those 'short' tubes made me about 2.5 -2.7 coins profit.


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=763510.0

 this is a solo pool winner take all pool   this is  much harder to hit, but it could bail you out.