ANTMINER S2 upgrade kit? EDIT: BITMAIN WHERE ARE YOU?!?! - page 6.

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Quote from: peteabdo on July 20, 2015, 09:43:23 PM

You would think they would respond with something. Any response is better than none. WTF!!!

The none response speaks for itself. I think the S2 is not the easiest upgrade they need to make 10 blades, instead of lets say S4 only 4 blades. I'm sure they did cost analysis to see what profit margin would be.

My guess and its a total guess is they found other things they can make more money off of then an upgrade kit.

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You would think they would respond with something. Any response is better than none. WTF!!!

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Quote from: lucky1974 on July 19, 2015, 12:36:24 AM

Quote from: dairy100 on July 18, 2015, 02:06:57 PM

Quote from: mammon on July 18, 2015, 10:38:45 AM

Why don't we just SPAM them, with the question; IF and WHEN they this S2 Upgrade comes?

How many people are following this Topic? 100, 200 or more...
What if we start emailing Bitmain every day -twice- with lets say 100+ people?
If the arrogance of Bitmain is this high, they need a good lesson!
Believe me, after a while they will answer!

ps. soon LKETC.com is offering 5TH \ 1000watt (maybe it's time to walk away from Bitmain...)

omg....you are right
http://lketc.com/enindex.aspx

Does anyone know the price yet ?

The price and release dates are not known I do not believe. I'm guessing they are still working on this chips myself.

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Quote from: dairy100 on July 18, 2015, 02:06:57 PM

Quote from: mammon on July 18, 2015, 10:38:45 AM

Why don't we just SPAM them, with the question; IF and WHEN they this S2 Upgrade comes?

How many people are following this Topic? 100, 200 or more...
What if we start emailing Bitmain every day -twice- with lets say 100+ people?
If the arrogance of Bitmain is this high, they need a good lesson!
Believe me, after a while they will answer!

ps. soon LKETC.com is offering 5TH \ 1000watt (maybe it's time to walk away from Bitmain...)

omg....you are right
http://lketc.com/enindex.aspx

Does anyone know the price yet ?

dairy100

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Quote from: mammon on July 18, 2015, 10:38:45 AM

Why don't we just SPAM them, with the question; IF and WHEN they this S2 Upgrade comes?

How many people are following this Topic? 100, 200 or more...
What if we start emailing Bitmain every day -twice- with lets say 100+ people?
If the arrogance of Bitmain is this high, they need a good lesson!
Believe me, after a while they will answer!

ps. soon LKETC.com is offering 5TH \ 1000watt (maybe it's time to walk away from Bitmain...)

omg....you are right
http://lketc.com/enindex.aspx

Meech

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Bitmain has grown away from the communities appeal. If you can go back they actually were looking for feedback on the forum but not now.
Emailing would just give a repeat answer as "Wait, we will be releasing info shortly". This whole thread was created to do just what you ask.
When was the last time they posted in here? My point exactly. Twice on the same product promising an upgrade and not delivering is wrong and follows many of the companies that failed.

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Why don't we just SPAM them, with the question; IF and WHEN they this S2 Upgrade comes?

How many people are following this Topic? 100, 200 or more...
What if we start emailing Bitmain every day -twice- with lets say 100+ people?
If the arrogance of Bitmain is this high, they need a good lesson!
Believe me, after a while they will answer!

ps. soon LKETC.com is offering 5TH \ 1000watt (maybe it's time to walk away from Bitmain...)

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Quote from: PatSNL on July 15, 2015, 11:38:26 PM

Quote from: dog1965 on July 15, 2015, 05:14:34 AM

Quote from: Meech on July 14, 2015, 05:51:37 PM

Rude! That's all I have to say to Bitmain. Money hungry Pigs! Great products for the most part but selling PreMined equipment is just uncool! We're fools if we don't believe they have the tech but choose to upgrade their own farms first, then try and sell them as S7's. May be wrong but the silence would tell anyone that this is the course.
Don't ever again advertise a product you don't intend to ship, not just once but twice.

I am glad someone agree's with me.

It was really tedious waiting.... months ago. Now it is far beyond rude. It's a total slap in the face to customers, to wait so long without any real statements (except "soon" "wait")

we will get the answer in the year 2115.

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Quote from: dog1965 on July 15, 2015, 05:14:34 AM

Quote from: Meech on July 14, 2015, 05:51:37 PM

Rude! That's all I have to say to Bitmain. Money hungry Pigs! Great products for the most part but selling PreMined equipment is just uncool! We're fools if we don't believe they have the tech but choose to upgrade their own farms first, then try and sell them as S7's. May be wrong but the silence would tell anyone that this is the course.
Don't ever again advertise a product you don't intend to ship, not just once but twice.

I am glad someone agree's with me.

It was really tedious waiting.... months ago. Now it is far beyond rude. It's a total slap in the face to customers, to wait so long without any real statements (except "soon" "wait")

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Cost of shipping these is $40 minimum, I know........ and they don't travel well. I have one on CL now, Ebay takes too long to pay, another with 1 bad hashing board and no psu. Been keeping these ones just in case a miracle happens, but seeing how Bitmain is that miracle won't be cheap. Too bad these run like a champ and are fairly quiet.

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Quote from: Meech on July 14, 2015, 05:51:37 PM

Rude! That's all I have to say to Bitmain. Money hungry Pigs! Great products for the most part but selling PreMined equipment is just uncool! We're fools if we don't believe they have the tech but choose to upgrade their own farms first, then try and sell them as S7's. May be wrong but the silence would tell anyone that this is the course.
Don't ever again advertise a product you don't intend to ship, not just once but twice.

I am glad someone agree's with me.

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Quote from: navigator on July 14, 2015, 09:16:56 PM

I already gave up waiting for the upgrade. I've already retired the miner and will probably put it in storage with my retired S1's. Even with my cheapish power at 8cents/kwh, it would only clear $10/month. I figure shipping would be too costly and time consuming. Maybe I could ship everything minus the case? I haven't had any issues with the psu. I ran it less than 1 year. I think 9-10 months??

One of the cards has a faulty temp sensor and 1 card seems to fail if it gets to hot(maybe the slot tho), you can reinsert the card while running and it starts working again. I also have trouble getting it to boot. I think it's the microsd card slot pins causing the issue.

Look into shipping entire thing. If you ship all the parts you will have a mess, or a lot in of time making packing.

Sell and have buyer pay shipping. I'm willing to bet you get more then you think. Can buy BTC direct or put twords new machine.

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I already gave up waiting for the upgrade. I've already retired the miner and will probably put it in storage with my retired S1's. Even with my cheapish power at 8cents/kwh, it would only clear $10/month. I figure shipping would be too costly and time consuming. Maybe I could ship everything minus the case? I haven't had any issues with the psu. I ran it less than 1 year. I think 9-10 months??

One of the cards has a faulty temp sensor and 1 card seems to fail if it gets to hot(maybe the slot tho), you can reinsert the card while running and it starts working again. I also have trouble getting it to boot. I think it's the microsd card slot pins causing the issue.

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Curmudgeonly hardware guy

I'd give $100 shipped for an S2. Just throwing that out there.

On the PSUs, I got the S2 Kit and built my own case for it so it's been running on a DPS2K. But last week I helped a guy that had bought an S2 second-hand that dies after about five minutes running all boards. We ended up downclocking it to about 185MHz before the PSU could keep up with the power draw. If you only need something to run 800W or less, the 1000W PSU in one of those would probably do okay but for how long if it's already been run at 100% for most of a year?

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Besides, S2 PSU's were shit and tend to get weak after a while, mine wouldn't maintain all hashing boards after many months. Better off selling the miner whole, or the PSU off separately and buying a real PSU for the S5/S7.

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Quote from: navigator on July 14, 2015, 10:17:54 AM

The best use I can think of for my dormant S2 is to use the power supply for a S5 or S7.

Honestly I would sell it whal it still has value. Either buy btc or a new miner.

The longer you wait for upgrade kit the lower the miner will be worth. So good deal... not really. But this has been quiet so long I would go selling route vs waiting and hoping for something that might not come.

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Rude! That's all I have to say to Bitmain. Money hungry Pigs! Great products for the most part but selling PreMined equipment is just uncool! We're fools if we don't believe they have the tech but choose to upgrade their own farms first, then try and sell them as S7's. May be wrong but the silence would tell anyone that this is the course.
Don't ever again advertise a product you don't intend to ship, not just once but twice.

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The best use I can think of for my dormant S2 is to use the power supply for a S5 or S7.

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Quote from: Rabinovitch on July 14, 2015, 04:33:56 AM

Bitmain, pleeaase... Cry

I think silence speaks for it's self sometimes. This is one of those times.

I could be wrong and later they say something. But does not really seem to be a priority, I think the thread shows this much. Which I can understand some reasons for it.

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Bitmain, pleeaase... Cry

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