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sr. member
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well, good night for now...


Hi folks, I am new to this thread, but not bitcoin or BTCtalk.

PLEASE
Who can tell me anything about overclocking C1 antminer, or direct me to a proper thread?
I have a C1 and am willing to experiment, but would like to listen to the voice of experience.
TY... OzT

cu tomorry
sr. member
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i see, but what about the voltage increment, what should that be?
i am thinking about some advanced cooling solutions, so i may be able to clock a bit higher.

can you tell me any thing about approximate volt increase for each step up?

i also took the C1 about that high, and noticed some instability at times, mostly i think due to heat, but im not relly sure, being somewhat new to C1
legendary
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Hi folks, I am new to this thread, but not bitcoin or BTCtalk.

PLEASE
Who can tell me anything about overclocking C1 antminer, or direct me to a proper thread?
I have a C1 and am willing to experiment, but would like to listen to the voice of experience.
TY... OzT

It's already running at a pretty high frequency.  It is basically S3 chips in there, so take that into consideration when looking at frequency. 

The highest I have went is 256.25, and I don't care to go much higher then that.  Keep in mind over clocking voids warranty. If you do it go in small steps and see what it does.  But don't go to crazy as it's already pretty high frequency for those chips on default settings.
sr. member
Activity: 327
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PS;..
Inbox me also so that i dont loose track of replies while i am offline.
your help is mucho appreciado.
sr. member
Activity: 327
Merit: 250
Hi folks, I am new to this thread, but not bitcoin or BTCtalk.

PLEASE
Who can tell me anything about overclocking C1 antminer, or direct me to a proper thread?
I have a C1 and am willing to experiment, but would like to listen to the voice of experience.
TY... OzT
soy
legendary
Activity: 1428
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I haven't ripped down a C1 yet.  Started but quit.  You use paste on the side to the waterblock?

Yep, the pads are only on the chips and paste remains on the block side, though if it needs a retouch / top-up do that as well.
If you decide to re-do the chip-top paste (or replace with pads), have some paste remover / cleaner, a fine bristle brush and compressed air at the ready (the latter two optional but handy).

I like your idea.  I have cleaned the ASICs using a 1" soft bristle paint brush cut off at 3/4" and acetone.  I sometimes use auto brake cleaner.  I do use compressed air to blow off the liquified paste. 

I like your idea because thermal conductive pads on the ASICs don't mess up the pins or provide a material dust in the air flowing by can adhere to.
soy
legendary
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Odd.  I've been running my two C1's at 243.75/0675,960-985GH/s so they'd last longer.  One has dropped a hundred GH/s to 848GH/s repeatedly the last few days.  Raised the voltage from 0675 to 0700 and again have 977.44GH/s(avg) after an hour.  It had been running so well at 0675 and the only change was that I moved the miner from the bottom shelf of a 4 shelf cart to the top.  Dust buildup rate while on the bottom shelf was too much to ask.  Low pressure air cleaning of internal dust while it was shut down didn't return it to its former rate at 0675.

That may be due to heat paste decay. BTW, not sure whether that term actually exists, but it is one that I relate to gradual loss of abilities in heat dissipation, either due to a rise in ambient temps or heat paste losing it's conductive properties. I coined that from my laptop repair days where a clean out of heat paste from the CPU )and GPU) coupled with an application of new paste cured most random shutdowns. I have to say I upgraded all my antminers to heatpads (good quality ones).

Seems to be dropping again.  Down to 930GH/s.  May have to rip it apart.

If you happen to please document it.  Share it and tell us results.  I have one myself I'm not sure that it might benefit from it.

It's Saturday morning and last night I had decided to rip it apart and repaste.  I decided this because an S3+ board ran hot a couple of days and then even tho I belatedly improved its cooling, the board went belly up - entirely.  But I got up earlier than usual.  I turned the C1 off but then decided to go back to bed and deal with it after breakfast so turned it back on.  The third chain had been running hot.  Before turning it back on I rearranged the cabling somewhat.  Now, during breakfast I glance over and it's been back up for well over 2 hours and not only has the hashrate remained good but temperature on chain 3 is just right.  So, I suspect a connector, cable or supply.  Each of the 4 supplies, one to each board and each supply having two cables, has its own DVM at the supply.  So the problem isn't the supply for that board not providing properly I think but maybe a crack at the solder joint on the board or bad connector.  I make my own cables and the last batch of PCIE-6 connectors I got in were a mixed batch - two different quality, gauge, wires.  I've been splicing these to 14 gauge, 15 amp wire.  I have some doubts about placing the DVMs on the supplies next to the voltage adjustment pot.  I may move them to the PCIE-6 end or splice in a thin wire pair at the PCIE-6 and run it back to the supply leaving the DVM on the supply but reading the voltage at the PCIE-6.  I might do better extracting the pins from the connectors and affixing pins directly on the 14 gauge.  But for now, if my having disturbed the wiring before turning it back on has corrected the problem and that chain 3 doesn't heat, then I'll leave it be until it goes bad and go about getting pins for the connectors.
hero member
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I haven't ripped down a C1 yet.  Started but quit.  You use paste on the side to the waterblock?

Yep, the pads are only on the chips and paste remains on the block side, though if it needs a retouch / top-up do that as well.
If you decide to re-do the chip-top paste (or replace with pads), have some paste remover / cleaner, a fine bristle brush and compressed air at the ready (the latter two optional but handy).
donator
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Please let us know what you found out!!! 
legendary
Activity: 1456
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Odd.  I've been running my two C1's at 243.75/0675,960-985GH/s so they'd last longer.  One has dropped a hundred GH/s to 848GH/s repeatedly the last few days.  Raised the voltage from 0675 to 0700 and again have 977.44GH/s(avg) after an hour.  It had been running so well at 0675 and the only change was that I moved the miner from the bottom shelf of a 4 shelf cart to the top.  Dust buildup rate while on the bottom shelf was too much to ask.  Low pressure air cleaning of internal dust while it was shut down didn't return it to its former rate at 0675.

That may be due to heat paste decay. BTW, not sure whether that term actually exists, but it is one that I relate to gradual loss of abilities in heat dissipation, either due to a rise in ambient temps or heat paste losing it's conductive properties. I coined that from my laptop repair days where a clean out of heat paste from the CPU )and GPU) coupled with an application of new paste cured most random shutdowns. I have to say I upgraded all my antminers to heatpads (good quality ones).

Seems to be dropping again.  Down to 930GH/s.  May have to rip it apart.

If you happen to please document it.  Share it and tell us results.  I have one myself I'm not sure that it might benefit from it.
soy
legendary
Activity: 1428
Merit: 1013
Odd.  I've been running my two C1's at 243.75/0675,960-985GH/s so they'd last longer.  One has dropped a hundred GH/s to 848GH/s repeatedly the last few days.  Raised the voltage from 0675 to 0700 and again have 977.44GH/s(avg) after an hour.  It had been running so well at 0675 and the only change was that I moved the miner from the bottom shelf of a 4 shelf cart to the top.  Dust buildup rate while on the bottom shelf was too much to ask.  Low pressure air cleaning of internal dust while it was shut down didn't return it to its former rate at 0675.

That may be due to heat paste decay. BTW, not sure whether that term actually exists, but it is one that I relate to gradual loss of abilities in heat dissipation, either due to a rise in ambient temps or heat paste losing it's conductive properties. I coined that from my laptop repair days where a clean out of heat paste from the CPU )and GPU) coupled with an application of new paste cured most random shutdowns. I have to say I upgraded all my antminers to heatpads (good quality ones).

Seems to be dropping again.  Down to 930GH/s.  May have to rip it apart.  The good C1 has temps 34,35,34,35 while this is 32,35,38,35.  It's running  hotter.  Cooler water going in but higher temps.  That 38 board is what I see.
legendary
Activity: 1456
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Odd.  I've been running my two C1's at 243.75/0675,960-985GH/s so they'd last longer.  One has dropped a hundred GH/s to 848GH/s repeatedly the last few days.  Raised the voltage from 0675 to 0700 and again have 977.44GH/s(avg) after an hour.  It had been running so well at 0675 and the only change was that I moved the miner from the bottom shelf of a 4 shelf cart to the top.  Dust buildup rate while on the bottom shelf was too much to ask.  Low pressure air cleaning of internal dust while it was shut down didn't return it to its former rate at 0675.

Some act better then others.  It seems that each one has it's own personality.  I have one it could run a month without touching it.  No issues at all.

Other a few times a week it likes a power off/on. I have not looked at paste, redoing it might fix the problem.  But I have taken easy route so far.
soy
legendary
Activity: 1428
Merit: 1013
Odd.  I've been running my two C1's at 243.75/0675,960-985GH/s so they'd last longer.  One has dropped a hundred GH/s to 848GH/s repeatedly the last few days.  Raised the voltage from 0675 to 0700 and again have 977.44GH/s(avg) after an hour.  It had been running so well at 0675 and the only change was that I moved the miner from the bottom shelf of a 4 shelf cart to the top.  Dust buildup rate while on the bottom shelf was too much to ask.  Low pressure air cleaning of internal dust while it was shut down didn't return it to its former rate at 0675.

That may be due to heat paste decay. BTW, not sure whether that term actually exists, but it is one that I relate to gradual loss of abilities in heat dissipation, either due to a rise in ambient temps or heat paste losing it's conductive properties. I coined that from my laptop repair days where a clean out of heat paste from the CPU )and GPU) coupled with an application of new paste cured most random shutdowns. I have to say I upgraded all my antminers to heatpads (good quality ones).

I haven't ripped down a C1 yet.  Started but quit.  You use paste on the side to the waterblock?
hero member
Activity: 518
Merit: 500
Odd.  I've been running my two C1's at 243.75/0675,960-985GH/s so they'd last longer.  One has dropped a hundred GH/s to 848GH/s repeatedly the last few days.  Raised the voltage from 0675 to 0700 and again have 977.44GH/s(avg) after an hour.  It had been running so well at 0675 and the only change was that I moved the miner from the bottom shelf of a 4 shelf cart to the top.  Dust buildup rate while on the bottom shelf was too much to ask.  Low pressure air cleaning of internal dust while it was shut down didn't return it to its former rate at 0675.

That may be due to heat paste decay. BTW, not sure whether that term actually exists, but it is one that I relate to gradual loss of abilities in heat dissipation, either due to a rise in ambient temps or heat paste losing it's conductive properties. I coined that from my laptop repair days where a clean out of heat paste from the CPU )and GPU) coupled with an application of new paste cured most random shutdowns. I have to say I upgraded all my antminers to heatpads (good quality ones).
soy
legendary
Activity: 1428
Merit: 1013
Odd.  I've been running my two C1's at 243.75/0675,960-985GH/s so they'd last longer.  One has dropped a hundred GH/s to 848GH/s repeatedly the last few days.  Raised the voltage from 0675 to 0700 and again have 977.44GH/s(avg) after an hour.  It had been running so well at 0675 and the only change was that I moved the miner from the bottom shelf of a 4 shelf cart to the top.  Dust buildup rate while on the bottom shelf was too much to ask.  Low pressure air cleaning of internal dust while it was shut down didn't return it to its former rate at 0675.
legendary
Activity: 1456
Merit: 1000
Love my C1 as noise is an issue for me. a C2 would be on my buy list for sure.

I agree. If they'd hash more efficiently, they'd be a win win.

If they do I just beg of them not to team up with syscooling.  Please Bitmain find a new partner on water cooling side if you do a C2.
legendary
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Go Big or Go Home.....
Love my C1 as noise is an issue for me. a C2 would be on my buy list for sure.

I agree. If they'd hash more efficiently, they'd be a win win.
sr. member
Activity: 311
Merit: 250
Love my C1 as noise is an issue for me. a C2 would be on my buy list for sure.
hero member
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Batch 4?

C2 (with the higher density chips) ?

I would be so happy if they make a C2. Or an upgrade kit for the C1.
legendary
Activity: 1456
Merit: 1000
Batch 4?

C2 (with the higher density chips) ?



Is the bitmain website down for anyone else? *it is up now for me.

The C1 is not a option now to buy.
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