Topic: ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread - page 185. (Read 710164 times)

Ship my miner before starting with the new batch >.<

you seem to have almost the last b8 order and since the price is THE SAME, why does it matter?
B8 was promised to be delivered by Sept 20 and you would most likely get it by Fri.
Did you look at the web site (your account). It should say "paid", otherwise it was a mixup.
maybe your miner was sent already (sometimes they have a delay-up to 24 hr-in posting the info).
Go to advanced tracking in UPS and "track by reference number", which is the number that you got when you got email that payment was received.

I think this marks the official availability of these units as an in stock item and no more pre order, also probably means the line is coming to an end soon hopefully and S2 Upgrade kit is up next Id really like these new chips in my S2's

I'm a September 8 order and I'm still waiting. Considering the fact that it's 11:30PM in Beijing, I don't think it will go out until tomorrow or Wednesday. Kind of ridiculous that they opened up Batch 9 sales before they finished shipping out Batch 8 IMO.

I got my first batch 8 order last friday and This morning I got confirmation on my second batch 8 order shipping today so should be any day now for you

If you go back a few pages, you'll see that the majority of them have.  Might check with Bitmain.

I'm still waiting for my B8 order to ship. Any Sep purchases shipped yet?

so because its now in stock that's why there is no price change? Difficulty is still going up even though its not as drastic as the last 2 hikes. I think ill skip this batch as well I have ordered from every batch this will be the first one I skip unless Bitmain wants to offer discount coupons to loyal buyers

and wait for what exactly? this is basically in-stock

Total agreement.

You definitely need to reduce the voltage to all 32 ASICs by changing the resistance on 8 resistors as describe in the undervolt thread if you want to improve efficiency. Simply reducing the frequency doesn't raise efficiency very much. I verified significant reduction with wattmeter by calculating J/Gh and outlined in earlier post.

That's what I'm thinking.

Total disappointment. Will skip this batch at this price.

Corsair will only pay ONE rebate per household per item. The cheapest I ever bought corsair cx500's was $45 after coupons etc. They are the best PSU for the price and they never burn wires. DO NOT buy the modular Corsair's though. The plugs they use are cheap and THEY WILL MELT  even with just one S1 running at 200gh.

Price:      0.58 BTC

ANTMINER S3+ -B9 sales open, shipping starts on Sept. 18th 

Update to shipping - my order placed 30th August for two S3 & 2 upgrade kits has been dispatched today (Monday).

If you are going to watercool, how are you planning to create the water jackets?  Given the need for precision, that will be the hardest part of the job.  Also, it's not just the heat sinks on the outside of the blades - you will need to include those between them too.  If you can solve the jacket issue, the rest should be fairly easy, as you can probably use off-the-shelf parts.  Don't forget you'll need fans on the rad, so there's no escaping them altogether.

I agree with you regarding the S3 fans - they are very loud indeed.  At least mine are, anyway - perhaps some are less so.  To quieten my S3s down, I decided to change these fans.

The fans are of the PWM 4 pin type, with the speed controlled by the hardware.  It is easy to buy 120mm fans that are much quieter than the standard ones, but it is not so easy finding fans as efficient - the standard ones are very good!  To replace them you need a fan with a high static pressure for the inlet - the best ones I found were the Corsair SP120 PWM High Performance edition fans, designed to push air through heat sinks, etc.  Even a 120 to 140 adaptor with well regarded 140mm PWM fans wasn't as good as these Corsairs.  On the outlet, I eventually settled on the Thermalright TY143 140mm PWM, which has a 120mm mounting.

Note that my S3 fans spin within a range up of to about 2,300 rpm for the inlets, so I chose new fans accordingly.  I have seen some printouts on here showing fan speeds of 5000+ rpm.  If those are accurate speeds (not sure how they can be), I don't know what anyone would buy to replace those (industrial standard fans, perhaps?).

My S3s are now much quieter and very tolerable, for me at least.  BUT - even with these expensive replacement fans, the S3s run a degree or two hotter than the standard ones.  It's a trade off that I'm willing to accept to save my hearing! 

Has anybody checked the massive jump in the hashrate at hashnest? From 75363 gh/s to 308056 in only a couple of hours for the Antminer S3. Looks to me as if Bitmain is going the KnC-path.

I couldn't agree with you more.

Alternatively, I think the Corsair CX500 has the best bang for the buck especially when timed with the regularly-occurring $20 rebate offer in conjunction with additional promo code discounts of up to $10 at the Egg, bringing down the cost to as low as $10-$20 each depending on the list price.