Antminer S5, a good idea ?

[Erkallys]

It really comes down to what your electric rate is. If it'd cheap it might be a good idea but if it's above the average rate not worth it

I'll check my bill and post it here. You'll tell me if it is above cheap or not.

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[bigbitmine]

S5 s currently the best miner in the market. However, S6 should be out soon.

What about the SP20?  I'm replacing my army of old S1's and don't know which way to go.

[Erkallys]

S5 s currently the best miner in the market. However, S6 should be out soon.

What about the SP20?  I'm replacing my army of old S1's and don't know which way to go.

The SP20 ? I don't know it.

[notlist3d]

S5 s currently the best miner in the market. However, S6 should be out soon.

What about the SP20?  I'm replacing my army of old S1's and don't know which way to go.

The SP20 ? I don't know it.

Just search it on this site, google, ebay.  It is a good quality miner, that has a lot of underclock ability.

They are sold out though and you will have to get from someone who currently owns them.

[allegro]

Better to buy 1155GH/s from Hashnest

www.hashnest.com
Antminer S5
Power: 0.51w/GHS
Maintenance Fee:$0.001175/GHS/Day

Then you see yourself, is S5 profitable or not.  

Since Bitmain lowered the cost of purchasing one S5 to hash to $390 it is a bit less expensive to go ahead and buy one miner, converted to hashrate rather than buy S5 GH/s on the internal market. It will be interesting to see what the S6 sells for.

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[Minerjoe]

Better to buy 1155GH/s from Hashnest

www.hashnest.com
Antminer S5
Power: 0.51w/GHS
Maintenance Fee:$0.001175/GHS/Day

Then you see yourself, is S5 profitable or not.  

Since Bitmain lowered the cost of purchasing one S5 to hash to $390 it is a bit less expensive to go ahead and buy one miner, converted to hashrate rather than buy S5 GH/s on the internal market. It will be interesting to see what the S6 sells for.

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Any ETA on S6?

[vankoovo]

you should give more information , people here can advise you, consists all cost to set up

[allegro]

Better to buy 1155GH/s from Hashnest

www.hashnest.com
Antminer S5
Power: 0.51w/GHS
Maintenance Fee:$0.001175/GHS/Day

Then you see yourself, is S5 profitable or not.  

Since Bitmain lowered the cost of purchasing one S5 to hash to $390 it is a bit less expensive to go ahead and buy one miner, converted to hashrate rather than buy S5 GH/s on the internal market. It will be interesting to see what the S6 sells for.

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Any ETA on S6?

You can take a look at the S6 speculation thread at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=903228.0

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[alh]

S5 s currently the best miner in the market. However, S6 should be out soon.

Interesting ! I'll have the S5 from a friend and maybe I'll buy the S6 after some time like this the price will go down.

I wouldn't hold my breath for the S6. If the past is any indication of the future, the S6 will be a more "data center friendly" S5. By that I mean it will likely have the same BM138x chips that are in the S5, but more of them in a package that fits in a 19-inch rack cabinet. The S6 will likely have an integrated power supply of unknown quality, and it's acoustic profile is completely unknown at this time.

I wouldn't expect the S6 to be a "quantum leap" over the S5, except in terms of packaging.