Topic: ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread - page 139. (Read 710164 times)

If you talking to me, I have no idea. Im in the UK and mine are due next week I got the S3+ Antminers from eBay brand new for £185 + Free Postage. I bought 4.

I'm currently thinking about buying one of those. However, the price in the EU is kinda high (compared to the price from Bitmain directly (even with shipping)),
so I'd like to ask how many mBtc does one device generate at current diff in average per day? thanks in advance.

Is this ok

4x S3+ OC'd

show us a screen of your disabled coupons ... maybe BITMAIN will help you out

Anyone have any coupons they want to donate to me? I'm looking for 2 to 3. Mine went missing from my account for some reason.

Thanks.

Not that I've found.  And it's not a nice quiet beep like S1s, it's a loud annoying beep.

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Is there a way to get an S3 to never ever beep for any reason without covering up or removing the speaker?

I have beeping set to false but whenever my mining pools take a dump i'm left with 4 beeping (crying) baby S3s.

Thanks

yep, just tried it, every 5 minutes the s3s beep and lose connection.
im going back to the 826 FW with the newer cgminer..

I tried it - made little to no difference. The new firmware is too bloated for the S3 as well as poorly done, it can't keep up, it can barely keep up with the older firmware....

i put the new firmware on my S3s and while the HW errors have went down i also noticed a slight drop in hash and an increase in stale shares.. one s3 is getting about 2 an hour vs the other one 2 in a whole day.

altho i havent noticed an increase in invalid shares from the pool.. so maybe the stale shares before wasnt being calculated? maybe the new cgminer has the dont submit stales tag set..

anyway, would it be beneficial to put the newer cgminer on top of the new firmware? has anyone tried this?

Absolutely. The fact that they leave the broken firmware up for people to download is disgusting. I too have reverted back to the older firmware with ck's binary - it just works better. I was always under the impression that firmware updates were supposed to improve performance, not break it & degrade it......

i had a problem similar with one of my S3s when i first got it..
i removed the heatsink to repaste it and a chip had NO paste on it.

i put some new paste on the chips and put it back together and its working fine now.. might give it a try.

^^^ +1 to that to an extent.
The rejects have definitely shot up, and though I am not certain as to the reason for this (it may be due to improved efficiency!), there seems to be no stales at all (not that I'd want them)!
I wonder, has anybody noticed an increase in power consumption with the latest firmware? I may be a bit tired, but it seems to me to be the case.
On a positive note, the UI now displays the HW error % which at a least makes sense of the numbers at a glance, also, I have managed to overclock one of my upgraded S1 to S3 to a freq of 268 without getting any chips x'ed out and the HW rate still very low. Saying that, we need to make more sense of the voltage setting .... I am not sure it simply is a leftover from the S4 settings as has been suggested.

There's quite a lot wrong with this firmware update for me I'm afraid, apart from it being broken in the first place of course. Having to fix it before you can use your S3 again after flashing is pretty stupid on it's own, but the appearance of two invisible fan readings with no explanation & the voltage adjustment setting, again with no explanation, make it verging on the ridiculous.

I've been running it on two of my S3's for 24 hours now just to experiment & see if there is any improvement over my other Ants running the older firmware with ck's excellent S3 binary added, and from what I can see - it's worse. The load on the Ants has gone up from ~1.8 to over 2.4, the reject rate has gone up from ~2.5% to over 3.5%, the stale rate has gone from less than 1% to over 2% and the cpu usage has increased from ~75% to 95-100% - the only thing that hasn't changed is the HW error rate & the hash rate.

I'm not sure if Bitmain are using the same binary that ck done for the S3, but if they are, I can only imagine that all the extra needless additions to the (broken) firmware are overloading the already overloaded/underpowered controller which is causing the higher rejects/stales/cpu rate. One thing is certain though, Bitmain have once again not bothered testing their firmware whatsoever, making the same mistake as they did with the S4 - simply because if they had of tested it properly they would have noticed that it was not only broken in the first place, but also that the performance was worse than the older version.

I just thank the cyber gods that I didn't rush straight in & flash all my S3's in one go with this junk firmware, as I now have only two S3's to revert back to the older firmware with ck's binary - instead of 20 

Whoever "created" this firmware should be sacked.

I had glossed over this thread over the last week and didn't really read much about this part. i saw the bootstrap appearance change fix and was out. this was so simple and i've only been mining and using the ubuntu os for around 2 weeks max.  thank you very much.

I am still testing it as the chip sometimes takes too much time to die. Is there a way to disable it completely? It dies after some time at any clock so it's definitely not a good chip.
I was using a PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mk III 1200W and just changed it with Corsair RM850. No difference at all. Both are single rail PSUs.
Anyways.. Seems like I got one of the not so good units.

x chip is dead and can be for different reasons.  

clock too high

psu too weak

if results improve with 212 clock run the 212 clock.

i forgot the exact name of the psu that you use.  it was a gold 1000 watter but they differ in rail structure.     if you have multi rails it can be a problem.

I purchased 3 more just last week and the price increased since then.

i purchased 2 back in August.  If purchased two more, I would pay more today, than back in office.  Can't justify two with current shipping cost.  I was ready to pull the plug and order two more, but that shipping stopped me.

Just seen this on the S2 thread:


I've yet to see the supposed "great" communication the dogie messenger raves about.......