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Topic: ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread - page 112. (Read 710164 times)

newbie
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December 07, 2014, 11:51:18 AM
I day dream about going solo once and a while  but I am not sure how to go about it with my antminers.  Or more specifically, I am not clear on how to make the payout go to my multi bit wallet and not bitcoin-qt.
You can do solo mining via offered services too, such ashttp://solo.ckpool.org/
hero member
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December 07, 2014, 11:49:10 AM
Well, changing frequency to default does not fix the new firmware problem.  Woke up this morning and 3 of the 6 S3+'s are running at under 50Gh/s.  Hope they fix this problem quickly.

Did you try reverting to an older firmware?
full member
Activity: 168
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December 07, 2014, 11:46:51 AM
I day dream about going solo once and a while  but I am not sure how to go about it with my antminers.  Or more specifically, I am not clear on how to make the payout go to my multi bit wallet and not bitcoin-qt.
sr. member
Activity: 338
Merit: 250
December 07, 2014, 11:23:09 AM
Well, changing frequency to default does not fix the new firmware problem.  Woke up this morning and 3 of the 6 S3+'s are running at under 50Gh/s.  Hope they fix this problem quickly.
legendary
Activity: 1736
Merit: 1006
December 06, 2014, 09:26:10 PM
why do some s3s work harder then others?

so on my pool it states how big of shares peoples workers submit and when they hit a block.

on my s3s the biggest shares are usually around 30 billion and most of the times its under 10 billion.. sometimes its even in the 100s of thousands Sad


on my pool tho, it seems there are workers that often always hit the shares in the trillions..

there are also workers that get 2 or 3 blocks a month.. while mine have never even gotten close..


is there a trick? like assigning the same worker to more then one s3?

currently my s3s all have their own worker on the pool.

i know that some workers arent all s3s, but i know most are.

Why is this relevant? If you are mining in a pool everything gets shared. Even if your miner hits a block, the block would not be given to you.
This is the flop side of pool mining. If you want to mine a block with a reasonable expectation -have enough hashing power and mine solo.
Still, variance can ruin your day.


i know i get paid the same no matter what.. i was just wondering why some users seem to have better s3s then me lol..
legendary
Activity: 3892
Merit: 4331
December 06, 2014, 09:09:29 PM
why do some s3s work harder then others?

so on my pool it states how big of shares peoples workers submit and when they hit a block.

on my s3s the biggest shares are usually around 30 billion and most of the times its under 10 billion.. sometimes its even in the 100s of thousands Sad


on my pool tho, it seems there are workers that often always hit the shares in the trillions..

there are also workers that get 2 or 3 blocks a month.. while mine have never even gotten close..


is there a trick? like assigning the same worker to more then one s3?

currently my s3s all have their own worker on the pool.

i know that some workers arent all s3s, but i know most are.

Why is this relevant? If you are mining in a pool everything gets shared. Even if your miner hits a block, the block would not be given to you.
This is the flop side of pool mining. If you want to mine a block with a reasonable expectation -have enough hashing power and mine solo.
Still, variance can ruin your day.
full member
Activity: 168
Merit: 100
December 06, 2014, 09:06:59 PM
Are you cloud hashing or something? 
legendary
Activity: 1736
Merit: 1006
December 06, 2014, 09:04:21 PM
why do some s3s work harder then others?

so on my pool it states how big of shares peoples workers submit and when they hit a block.

on my s3s the biggest shares are usually around 30 billion and most of the times its under 10 billion.. sometimes its even in the 100s of thousands Sad


on my pool tho, it seems there are workers that often always hit the shares in the trillions..

there are also workers that get 2 or 3 blocks a month.. while mine have never even gotten close..


is there a trick? like assigning the same worker to more then one s3?

currently my s3s all have their own worker on the pool.

i know that some workers arent all s3s, but i know most are.
legendary
Activity: 3892
Merit: 4331
December 06, 2014, 08:27:38 PM
Why mining can be sweet when the price is right:

My six antminer S3 at home produce roughly 1BTC/mo right now, but use just $180 in electricity (after heating savings).
The bottom line is that I am basically purchasing BTC at less than half the price plus they already produced more than I bought them for initially.
Looking forward to S5.


Yep me 2.  If you don't mind me asking, who do you mine with?

you mean pool? I usually rotate among the usual suspects with the exception of ghash.
full member
Activity: 168
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December 06, 2014, 07:15:30 PM
Why mining can be sweet when the price is right:

My six antminer S3 at home produce roughly 1BTC/mo right now, but use just $180 in electricity (after heating savings).
The bottom line is that I am basically purchasing BTC at less than half the price plus they already produced more than I bought them for initially.
Looking forward to S5.


Yep me 2.  If you don't mind me asking, who do you mine with?
legendary
Activity: 3892
Merit: 4331
December 06, 2014, 07:14:02 PM
Why mining can be sweet when the price is right:

My six antminer S3 at home produce roughly 1BTC/mo right now, but use just $180 in electricity (after heating savings).
The bottom line is that I am basically slowly purchasing BTC at less than half the price plus they already produced more than I bought them for initially.
Looking forward to S5.
full member
Activity: 168
Merit: 100
December 06, 2014, 09:57:12 AM
Sorry that's what I meant...my booze to coffee ratio hasn't leveled out yet...
sr. member
Activity: 338
Merit: 250
December 06, 2014, 09:56:21 AM
So it seems like you need to manually set the voltage and frequency setting(s) after flashing the new firmware ..... that would perfectly explain the dropping hash-rates then ...

Yeah after all my late night fun last night I'll just stick with October's release for now.  LOL
Hindsight is always a wonderful thing ... and with that in mind, it looks like the first port of call for dropping hash-rates would be the freq settings, but yeah, I don't blame you for sticking with your reset firmware seeing the only officially documented change is the reset button functionality.

Anyone still running the new November firmware, would you please find out what version of cgminer ships with it?

I saw that much:  it has the same 6.7.1-1

4.6.1-1
sr. member
Activity: 338
Merit: 250
December 06, 2014, 09:54:10 AM
hello, after the last update firmware, my rate was 60GH / s, I looked and after several attempts I handed voltage textbox and then after a reboot everything is back ok.
I have all the updates to make
Sorry for the bad English, I use a translator

What I got from bitmaintech was

"After you finish the firmware, please go to "Miner Configuration-->Advanced settings" and set the frequency to default value, click "Save&Apply", all would be better."

So this new firmware screws up the S3 if you're over or underclocking?  Hope they get that fixed quick with the next update (and please don't screw something else up doing it).  I'm guessing the problem of the new firmware might have something to do with the voltage settings...  https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/s3-bm1382-overclocking-with-voltage-setting-883197
full member
Activity: 168
Merit: 100
December 06, 2014, 09:32:05 AM
So it seems like you need to manually set the voltage and frequency setting(s) after flashing the new firmware ..... that would perfectly explain the dropping hash-rates then ...

Yeah after all my late night fun last night I'll just stick with October's release for now.  LOL
Hindsight is always a wonderful thing ... and with that in mind, it looks like the first port of call for dropping hash-rates would be the freq settings, but yeah, I don't blame you for sticking with your reset firmware seeing the only officially documented change is the reset button functionality.

Anyone still running the new November firmware, would you please find out what version of cgminer ships with it?

I saw that much:  it has the same 6.7.1-1
newbie
Activity: 34
Merit: 0
December 06, 2014, 09:21:51 AM
So it seems like you need to manually set the voltage and frequency setting(s) after flashing the new firmware ..... that would perfectly explain the dropping hash-rates then ...

Yeah after all my late night fun last night I'll just stick with October's release for now.  LOL
Hindsight is always a wonderful thing ... and with that in mind, it looks like the first port of call for dropping hash-rates would be the freq settings, but yeah, I don't blame you for sticking with your reset firmware seeing the only officially documented change is the reset button functionality.

Anyone still running the new November firmware, would you please find out what version of cgminer ships with it?

cgminer to v4.6.1
hero member
Activity: 518
Merit: 500
December 06, 2014, 09:12:03 AM
So it seems like you need to manually set the voltage and frequency setting(s) after flashing the new firmware ..... that would perfectly explain the dropping hash-rates then ...

Yeah after all my late night fun last night I'll just stick with October's release for now.  LOL
Hindsight is always a wonderful thing ... and with that in mind, it looks like the first port of call for dropping hash-rates would be the freq settings, but yeah, I don't blame you for sticking with your reset firmware seeing the only officially documented change is the reset button functionality.

Anyone still running the new November firmware, would you please find out what version of cgminer ships with it?
full member
Activity: 168
Merit: 100
December 06, 2014, 09:07:17 AM
So it seems like you need to manually set the voltage and frequency setting(s) after flashing the new firmware ..... that would perfectly explain the dropping hash-rates then ...

Yeah after all my late night fun last night I'll just stick with October's release for now.  LOL
hero member
Activity: 518
Merit: 500
December 06, 2014, 09:05:07 AM
So it seems like you need to manually set the voltage and frequency setting(s) after flashing the new firmware ..... that would perfectly explain the dropping hash-rates then ...
newbie
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Merit: 0
December 06, 2014, 08:50:20 AM
yes I handed default
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