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newbie
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November 09, 2015, 04:54:49 PM
#10
where do I find the error rate?
hero member
Activity: 687
Merit: 511
November 09, 2015, 04:43:14 PM
#9
My batch 3 I bought on ebay does says 4795 gh/s average. is that acceptable? what else should I look for?

Yeah, that's totally within spec - the big thing is hardware error rate.  The lower the number, the better - for me, I like to see them less than 0.01, but I can live with less than 0.05.  You get unicorns that have no errors, I have two that literally have 0 all the time.  Wink
newbie
Activity: 33
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November 09, 2015, 02:45:48 PM
#8
My batch 3 I bought on ebay does says 4795 gh/s average. is that acceptable? what else should I look for?
legendary
Activity: 1022
Merit: 1003
November 09, 2015, 01:36:58 PM
#7
It seems to me that even in Batch 1 there were "early" batch 1's and "later" batch 1's.  There were many people who ordered in August that received all of theirs together, and then the rest of the B1's shipped right at the end of their deadline (including my 2 which confirmed on Sep 2nd), and mine have been rock solid 4.86, and even over-clocked to >5 TH's without a hitch.  Maybe some of the late B1's were actually B2 after they found some defects? And the early B1's were more like the B3's...
legendary
Activity: 4326
Merit: 8950
'The right to privacy matters'
November 09, 2015, 12:37:36 PM
#6
Batch 6 WILL be worse efficiency, as they're running it at a higher voltage. My best guess is more like 0.3W/GH vs the 0.25 spec on the earlier batches.


not true but could be true.

my batch 2 is a stud and the boards read 575 freq.

my batch 1 sucks

I will post photos.

the batch 1 does 4760 at freq 593---errors are 0.0141%
the batch 2 does 4909 at freq 606---errors are 0.0009%

I can get better numbers if I feed hot volts :

 12.1 is going into the batch two 
11.94 is going into the batch one

the batch 6 may have the widest volt range of all the batches--------------  if true it has an interesting value.

a psu like this one

https://www.trcelectronics.com/ecomm/pdf/rsp1500.pdf

could allow for under volt  & down clock or    over volt  & over clock

so buying used you won't have any idea of what you get. unless you see the gear running.
you need to see the gear and read the input volts to all 9 blade jacks to know what you are buying.

and  I have done extensive testing you can not cheat on the 9 blade jacks 9 separate cables. on some psu's the dc drops a lot when you split the pcie cables.  you go to 11.8 and the s-7 starts to do poorly.
So a guy can say his batch 1 sucks and gives him 4500
and the truth is his power sucks and he could do more like 4700 with better psu's
I will not buy any s-7's via resale unless I test the s-7 first.

legendary
Activity: 1498
Merit: 1030
November 09, 2015, 06:28:57 AM
#5
Batch 6 WILL be worse efficiency, as they're running it at a higher voltage. My best guess is more like 0.3W/GH vs the 0.25 spec on the earlier batches.
hero member
Activity: 687
Merit: 511
November 09, 2015, 03:30:11 AM
#4
My experience mirrors carlosmnk, I have 2 Batch 1's, and they're both a bit of a dog doing ~4.6 w/ 0.04 HWE, but I have 7 Batch 3's that are far better, all doing 4.8 with HWE 0.002 at worse.

BTW; on the itop site, it says Batch 3, but the spec shows 4.05, so it's batch 6.  Zoomhash lists 4.86, but I had a bunch on order with them and they just cancelled them all without warning and then raised the prices on the site.  Sucks because I could have just purchased them directly from Bitmain but I thought my experience would have been better with Zoomhash.

As carlos says, it makes the secondary market on these things a minefield - who knows how the machine will perform, which batch, etc.
hero member
Activity: 572
Merit: 506
November 09, 2015, 02:53:13 AM
#3
Batch 1: It must do 4.86 th/s, but there are "some" (a lot maybe) people reporting 4.66 th/s miners
Batch 2: It must do 4.66 th/s
Batch 3: It must do 4.86 th/s
Batch 4: It must do 4.66 th/s
Batch 5: It must do 4.86 th/s
Batch 6: IT says it do 4.05 th/s and with same eficience (135 chips instead 162 chips version), but some here think it will have worse eficience (perphaps +10% draining power)

Also there are some miners reporting 4.45 th/s (you can but it at itopshop.net ), and bitmaintech was released a new firmware with 3 variants: 4.86 / 4.66 / 4.45 ....

I think this miner have too many variances, and in near future, when we will see an S7 used we will don't know really what can do.... But it runs great...  
legendary
Activity: 4326
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'The right to privacy matters'
November 08, 2015, 07:39:39 PM
#2
I have an antminer s7 and unfortunately like it so much I think I will be buying another lol. I have a batch 3 and I have seen a batch 1 for sale. Any difference between the batches? They are both 4.86 is that all that matters?

Thanks so much,
Paul

my batch one is not 4.86th

on a good day it gets 4.70th
newbie
Activity: 33
Merit: 0
November 08, 2015, 06:09:13 PM
#1
I have an antminer s7 and unfortunately like it so much I think I will be buying another lol. I have a batch 3 and I have seen a batch 1 for sale. Any difference between the batches? They are both 4.86 is that all that matters?

Thanks so much,
Paul
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