Topic: ANTMINER S2 Discussion and Support Thread - page 123. (Read 355820 times)

With Win7/8 (maybe XP?), use the snipping tool that is built in.  Just search for snip and it should be the first thing. It's REALLY easy and you can select exactly what you want to screenshot. 

On a Mac,  Command + Shift + 4 to select a specific region-saves to desktop.

BFL Josh - Inaba reminded me that "we" do not say enough nice things about our experiences in the forums.

I LOVE my antMiner Products.

I own 12 S1's and an S2 -- ALL run to spec and S2 had minor issues upon arrival due to HOW FAST they ship. 3 DAYS! from China to Mid-west, USA unreal, what a world. BitmainTech does get busy, but their delivery rate and ON TIME performance suggests they are busy working to satisfy ME..  or yews..

BitmainTech is 100% miner friendly,

IMHO..

Where are you that Anchorage is too far?  Packages from Bitmain arrive in Anchorage, get shipped to California or Kentucky for customs clearance, get shipped back to Anchorage, put on another plane down to a town near me and are delivered by the end of the day.  If you're in the US and they're in Anchorage you'll get them tomorrow.

ctrl+print screen = copies your whole screen to the clipboard

crtl+alt+print screen = copies only the active window to the clipboard

please tell me how to post a screen shot i want to share something. i tried the prnt screen and paste but nothing happend 

My Batch 3 is on it's way.

Scheduled Delivery:
Tuesday, 04/29/2014, By End of Day
Last Location:
Departed - Anchorage, AK, United States, Monday, 04/28/2014

Anchorage is too far so it might not deliver tomorrow. Hope it gets here in 1 to 10 pieces and not like other people's miners. I'll report back if they have learnt something from high number of UPS claims.

Both had rubber strips under the lid, the idea is good but it did not hold.

Ditto. Maybe I got lucky... my batch 2 S2 arrived in perfect condition.

AGREED 

mine arrived fine, and had rubber strips in the lid designed to keep the cards tight in the slots. The damaged units must be going through some rough handling - maybe a 'this side up' is necessary?

Got my two s2's today. Both where fucked up inside, Cards everywhere, bent pci slots. Plastic thingy holding the cards had about 50% survival rate.
After assembling them back together one did not start and one worked at 650Ghs. After some hours of trying different things I got two new PSU's, XFX Black Edition 1250W and RECOM 1600W(Overkill but had it laying around) One are stable at 1Ths the other is working at 920ghs with row 10 showing only lines.

I feel the s2 is a step down from s1 when it comes to build quality and overall design.
Next time pack each cards individually with bubblewrap and stick them inside the miner. Shipping the miner with the cards already in their slot is borderline retarded. 

You are probably right for a large operation, but for a home use few s1 are manageable. If S2 was $1800-2000, I would probably buy it instead.

the price/GH is definitely a bit off in the S2. (keep in mind though that it uses 10x the chips as an S1, which is *almost* logical if the chips are the biggest cost). IMO it should be 5BTC right now at most, if not 4.5BTC.

my unit is a batch 2 and i had no issues in shipment or in usage. (~980-990GH stock was a smidge low of the 1TH). the rails that hold the modules are fine on mine and do the job well enough that i really wonder what went wrong with the damaged units some people received. they are small plastic slides on a metal brace, all of which seems firmly put together in my box. The PSU was new 1000W enermax GOLD, or looked like new. I have not had issues with the SD card on reboots or power cycles, but my bitfury unit used to so i am not surprised that the some of the S2 sd cards have corrupted when using cheap cards.

The S2 is rack-mountable. the hashing boards are removable (if swapping them is ever needed). I would say that is important compared to the havoc of dealing with over a dozen S1 units and their seperate power supplies and difficulty stacking. 1!1!1!1 would testify to this - all you need to do is see the difference in his racks for S1 units and S2 units. one rack is clean and gorgeous, the other is a hodgepodge of zipties, server PSUs, and power/ethernet cables.

Too big? The S2 is a lot smaller than 5-6 S1's and takes up a lot less space (power supply is integrated) and uses more or less half the power and I'm sure it's a lot quieter too... you can't just compare $/GH/s, what about W/GH/s?

I'm not completely satisfied with my b2 unit, but it'll do (I didn't get into mining to get rich, thankfully), I hope they fix the packaging issues for b3, I totally agree with you there.

diffS shows up at times, but it should be included for accuracy if it's there as there would have been work done on those stale shares which could have potentially caused errors.

@ aistto: WU: The Work Utility defined as the number of diff1 shares work / minute (accepted or rejected)

re OP on "too big". S2 is overpriced for its power and hashing at ~$3.2/GH with S1 currently at $1.4/GH. S2 has problems of boards falling off the rails during transport (or was it fixed already?). I don't want an expensive unit where reliability might be a problem (with flash cards on restarts, etc.). Modularity is very important, I agree with OP.

Yes my bad, thought I was in the S1 forum

No idea mate, just going by what the authors of cgminer have posted. diffS is always zero on mine anyway.

The stock speed is 196Mhz for ~990GH.
I am running at 218.75MHz for the past 49hours:     1085GH at pool, 1115GH at webUI, 2.02% hw errors       (probably drawing ~1250w from the PSU)

temps range from 48C-55C, fans range from 2400-2520

going from 55nm to 28nm would improve efficiency by about 4x at chip level (perhaps more if they revise the design at all). The overall efficiency might increase by 3.5x to account for the power use of everything else in the BOM and the control modules

and you have to get over the idea that the S2 is 'too big'. The S1 cost 4.75BTC at first, now its about 15% of that price. The S2 is due for a pricedrop to a more realistic ~5BTC very soon if it want to stay relevant. This will drop to 3.5BTC after a month.

The biggest advantage in the S2 is some clear design improvements. these include: space for ATX psu, rack-mounting, denser chip arrangement, and 140mm fans (these are VERY good fans, more airflow than from the S1 fan but less RPM and noise)

If they come out with a new chip, I expect they will maintain the S2 profile, but pack in 4-5TH of chips.