Whelp. Three weeks later and my 1/2 hour restart cronjob has kept all of my B3/B5 units above 480 on the 24-hour average.
It was an odd fix, but I am pleased.
Just clamped down on a few S3+s, I'm very confident they will be within pennies of the cheapest $/GH come Sept. 20th.
BTW, for anyone that wanted to know, I eventually was able to clock that AMV2 to 1.328TH at 340MHz.
Definitely WAS the best deal at one point but not anymore. Very good miner though...
Topic: ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread - page 238. (Read 710164 times)
I'm sorry that I'm a little bit late to the party - but can someone explain the benefit of updating the firmware? I saw it mentioned several times but not sure what the improvement is with it. I just got 4 new S3's in the mail today, so going through the motions of setting them up - but if someone could explain what is going on - I would really appreciate it!!!
Thanks,
Brian
PS Take pitty on me - I've been working day and night shifts, and I'm exhausted
Thanks,
Brian
PS Take pitty on me - I've been working day and night shifts, and I'm exhausted
They added a clock speed tab on the configuration page so you can change it without having to ssh into it or type funny commands in a dos window.
As noted, if you upgrade to it on the first restart you MUST go to the clock tab and assign a frequency or the unit will not hash properly.
Is there a safe shutdown command, like a "Halt" for these? Either for web Gui or ssh?
ssh in and use the unix shutdown/reboot command it shuts down all the services.
as for unplugging the network cable and waiting why not just shut down cgminer???
/etc/init.d/cgminer stop
and
/etc/init.d/cgminer start
when u change frequency there is no need to reboot it either just stop cgminer and and start it again.
I'm sorry that I'm a little bit late to the party - but can someone explain the benefit of updating the firmware? I saw it mentioned several times but not sure what the improvement is with it. I just got 4 new S3's in the mail today, so going through the motions of setting them up - but if someone could explain what is going on - I would really appreciate it!!!
Thanks,
Brian
PS Take pitty on me - I've been working day and night shifts, and I'm exhausted
Thanks,
Brian
PS Take pitty on me - I've been working day and night shifts, and I'm exhausted
How many people have updated the firmware? When I did mine, it would max out around 100G total. I ended up reset the miner and starting over from scratch. What has been you experience with the firmware?
You needed to set the frequency in the miner configuration>advanced tab. hit save and apply, bingo!
Oh. Forgot that I read about that tab. Time to do the first one.
How many people have updated the firmware? When I did mine, it would max out around 100G total. I ended up reset the miner and starting over from scratch. What has been you experience with the firmware?
You needed to set the frequency in the miner configuration>advanced tab. hit save and apply, bingo!
I did all of mine. Hasn't done any harm but the upside has been minimal.
It's funny, for all of mining's 'brute force' characteristics it really is a game of inches.
It's funny, for all of mining's 'brute force' characteristics it really is a game of inches.
How many people have updated the firmware? When I did mine, it would max out around 100G total. I ended up reset the miner and starting over from scratch. What has been you experience with the firmware?
when will we see an S4 ? 
Now that's a really good question, because with such difficulty jumps of more than 20% every 12 days the S3+ is utterly obsolete when they finally start shipping!
@BITMAIN, you may want to call for a company emergency meeting to discuss canning the S3+ in favor of going straight for the S4 based on 20nm (or better) chip technology. Oh wait, you already have A LOT of S3+ running in your mining farm and have to sell those off first? Good luck with trying to get them going with such well informed customers as you can find here in this thread!
Just quit mining please....
+1
Even after the diff increase the stated price on an S3 hasn't changed, making it 20.86% less likely to ROI.
Enough with the whining. Don't like the way Bitmain does business? Buy from someone else.
Can't figure out how to make money with increasing difficulty? Quit.
But for the love of God stop posting here.
I've been off for a while...
Not Bitmain has to quit mining, whining guys have to...
Ok, so I had three of my four B5's on 250 and they ran great but I felt like I might have been pushing my luck some so I put them on 243.75 and man, I must say, from philipma's expectations of what he said I should get. I'm doing pretty damn good.
The first image is the one machine that's never gone past 237.5.
http://www.eojmarket.com/NonForumStuff/images/bitcoin_stuff/820S30001.jpg
http://www.eojmarket.com/NonForumStuff/images/bitcoin_stuff/820S30002.jpg
http://www.eojmarket.com/NonForumStuff/images/bitcoin_stuff/820S30003.jpg
http://www.eojmarket.com/NonForumStuff/images/bitcoin_stuff/820S30004.jpg
The first image is the one machine that's never gone past 237.5.
http://www.eojmarket.com/NonForumStuff/images/bitcoin_stuff/820S30001.jpg
http://www.eojmarket.com/NonForumStuff/images/bitcoin_stuff/820S30002.jpg
http://www.eojmarket.com/NonForumStuff/images/bitcoin_stuff/820S30003.jpg
http://www.eojmarket.com/NonForumStuff/images/bitcoin_stuff/820S30004.jpg
yeah that is pretty good .
your 1 slow one may want 231.25 it may give you the same hash as the 237.5 gives you or it may even give you 460gh. it will also save power over your 237.5 setting.
What I found so far is :
batch 1 sucked
batch 4 was better
batch 6 was best
I am running these in my garage with temps about 92f in the garage.
So ya, that's interesting. I know some people argue diffs can't affect machines like that but I've basically just proven it does... at least with the S3's.
yep some pools set s-3 at 256
some pools set s-3 at 512
some pools have vardiff and don't care what you do.
Ok, so I had three of my four B5's on 250 and they ran great but I felt like I might have been pushing my luck some so I put them on 243.75 and man, I must say, from philipma's expectations of what he said I should get. I'm doing pretty damn good.
The first image is the one machine that's never gone past 237.5.
http://www.eojmarket.com/NonForumStuff/images/bitcoin_stuff/820S30001.jpg
http://www.eojmarket.com/NonForumStuff/images/bitcoin_stuff/820S30002.jpg
http://www.eojmarket.com/NonForumStuff/images/bitcoin_stuff/820S30003.jpg
http://www.eojmarket.com/NonForumStuff/images/bitcoin_stuff/820S30004.jpg
The first image is the one machine that's never gone past 237.5.
http://www.eojmarket.com/NonForumStuff/images/bitcoin_stuff/820S30001.jpg
http://www.eojmarket.com/NonForumStuff/images/bitcoin_stuff/820S30002.jpg
http://www.eojmarket.com/NonForumStuff/images/bitcoin_stuff/820S30003.jpg
http://www.eojmarket.com/NonForumStuff/images/bitcoin_stuff/820S30004.jpg
yeah that is pretty good .
your 1 slow one may want 231.25 it may give you the same hash as the 237.5 gives you or it may even give you 460gh. it will also save power over your 237.5 setting.
What I found so far is :
batch 1 sucked
batch 4 was better
batch 6 was best
I am running these in my garage with temps about 92f in the garage.
So ya, that's interesting. I know some people argue diffs can't affect machines like that but I've basically just proven it does... at least with the S3's.
Ok, so I had three of my four B5's on 250 and they ran great but I felt like I might have been pushing my luck some so I put them on 243.75 and man, I must say, from philipma's expectations of what he said I should get. I'm doing pretty damn good.
yeah that is pretty good .
your 1 slow one may want 231.25 it may give you the same hash as the 237.5 gives you or it may even give you 460gh. it will also save power over your 237.5 setting.
What I found so far is :
batch 1 sucked
batch 4 was better
batch 6 was best
I am running these in my garage with temps about 92f in the garage.
yeah that is pretty good .
your 1 slow one may want 231.25 it may give you the same hash as the 237.5 gives you or it may even give you 460gh. it will also save power over your 237.5 setting.
What I found so far is :
batch 1 sucked
batch 4 was better
batch 6 was best
I am running these in my garage with temps about 92f in the garage.
Batch 7 what did the Fox says? LOL
Ok, so I had three of my four B5's on 250 and they ran great but I felt like I might have been pushing my luck some so I put them on 243.75 and man, I must say, from philipma's expectations of what he said I should get. I'm doing pretty damn good.
The first image is the one machine that's never gone past 237.5.
http://www.eojmarket.com/NonForumStuff/images/bitcoin_stuff/820S30001.jpg
http://www.eojmarket.com/NonForumStuff/images/bitcoin_stuff/820S30002.jpg
http://www.eojmarket.com/NonForumStuff/images/bitcoin_stuff/820S30003.jpg
http://www.eojmarket.com/NonForumStuff/images/bitcoin_stuff/820S30004.jpg
The first image is the one machine that's never gone past 237.5.
http://www.eojmarket.com/NonForumStuff/images/bitcoin_stuff/820S30001.jpg
http://www.eojmarket.com/NonForumStuff/images/bitcoin_stuff/820S30002.jpg
http://www.eojmarket.com/NonForumStuff/images/bitcoin_stuff/820S30003.jpg
http://www.eojmarket.com/NonForumStuff/images/bitcoin_stuff/820S30004.jpg
yeah that is pretty good .
your 1 slow one may want 231.25 it may give you the same hash as the 237.5 gives you or it may even give you 460gh. it will also save power over your 237.5 setting.
What I found so far is :
batch 1 sucked
batch 4 was better
batch 6 was best
I am running these in my garage with temps about 92f in the garage.
Was about to ask for the settings for 231.25 but I forgo I did all those edits yesterday so I could use the new FW lol
Anyway, I just put the slow one on 231.25 so we'll see what happens by 8pm which will give it 7 hrs but I'll still check on it from time to time but by 8pm I should have a good idea of where it likes to sit.
Ok, so I had three of my four B5's on 250 and they ran great but I felt like I might have been pushing my luck some so I put them on 243.75 and man, I must say, from philipma's expectations of what he said I should get. I'm doing pretty damn good.
The first image is the one machine that's never gone past 237.5.
The first image is the one machine that's never gone past 237.5.
yeah that is pretty good .
your 1 slow one may want 231.25 it may give you the same hash as the 237.5 gives you or it may even give you 460gh. it will also save power over your 237.5 setting.
What I found so far is :
batch 1 sucked
batch 4 was better
batch 6 was best
I am running these in my garage with temps about 92f in the garage.
Bitmain,
Anyway to get an S1 to S3 upgrade kit without a fan and cover?
I already have an extra fan and don't need the cover. Selling a kit without fan and cover would significantly reduce your kit weight, shipping cost, and overall kit cost.
Savings should allow you to sell this version of the kit for less. Thanks.
Anyway to get an S1 to S3 upgrade kit without a fan and cover?
I already have an extra fan and don't need the cover. Selling a kit without fan and cover would significantly reduce your kit weight, shipping cost, and overall kit cost.
Savings should allow you to sell this version of the kit for less. Thanks.
Ok, so I had three of my four B5's on 250 and they ran great but I felt like I might have been pushing my luck some so I put them on 243.75 and man, I must say, from philipma's expectations of what he said I should get. I'm doing pretty damn good.
The first image is the one machine that's never gone past 237.5.
The first image is the one machine that's never gone past 237.5.
I'm wondering why Bitmain just don't make a firmware that wil simply work normally? And what for they injured Linux in S2 and S3 firmware?.. I thought before that when I save, rename or create a file in Linux filesystem it should exist or being chahged no matter if I shutdown or restart a computer... But Bitmain proved that there is nothing impossible when they contribute to Linux... 
Anybody here knows how to get wireless setup so it keeps working after a reboot? I want to move the miners to the shed soon, where I don't have UTP cables. I have connected an antenna and the signal strength seems to be good but still it does not like it when I remove the network cable.
It is still connected to the router through the wifi (the router sees it and figures it's alive), but it does not accept pings. As soon as I connect a network cable, even if not configured on the other end (like an unconnected switch) it starts working. The fix for this is to disable the wired network (WAN), which works until you reboot (then it's re-enabled).
Another issue it has is that dnsmasq does not work over wireless, the only way to get DNS to work is to add an entry to /etc/resolv.conf, which is again lost after a reboot.
It is still connected to the router through the wifi (the router sees it and figures it's alive), but it does not accept pings. As soon as I connect a network cable, even if not configured on the other end (like an unconnected switch) it starts working. The fix for this is to disable the wired network (WAN), which works until you reboot (then it's re-enabled).
Another issue it has is that dnsmasq does not work over wireless, the only way to get DNS to work is to add an entry to /etc/resolv.conf, which is again lost after a reboot.
Anyone bought from Bitmain pre buy from Amazon (Batch 7)? Order date of arrival for me is 22-26 but no shipping yet.. :l
No, we order from bitmaintech.com which is the manufacturer's site. That sounds scammish. Why didn't you order from Bitmain directly?
Hi, I`ve got wierd defected chips layout. And when I`m trying to overclock to 250 some "-" are becoming "x". Another question. I`m mining at vip.btcguild, should I set difficulty to 512+ if my overclocked workers are slightly slover?
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