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Well, as I start this reply it's 1:23pm.

I just OC'd all four of my S3's to 237.5, I have a dentist appointment at three. So after I hit the post button. I'm gonna do a single refresh on all four to see web stats. After that I'll let everything be til probably around 4pm when I get back. If everything looks good, I'll leave them all on 237.5 for 24hrs.

If after that, everything still looks good. Then about this time tomorrow or so I will take the proverbial plunge and try 250 on one of them for 24hrs. If that holds good, then I'll set the second at 250 and let run 24hrs, so on and so forth til I t all four on 250 if I'm lucky.

Between 237.5 & 250, is there any other freqs, I think I saw someone say 240 or something a few pages back.
Ok, so back from the dentist, checked on the four S3's and no x's but I did however notice something weird and maybe it will wind up between now and tomorrow. Anyway, below are as of this post... Elapsed Time, Gh/s(5s) & Gh/s(avg) as well as the HW & the Diff a & r figures.

My curiosity is in tthe avg speed of miners 1 & 3 while 2 & 4 look good. Haven't done the HW% math, maybe someone could for me ? lol.

Oh ya, all four are OC'd to 237.5

About this time tomorrow I'll use actual pics when it will be ~24hrs that they will all have been up on 237.5.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ms-miner-antsp-monitor-v52-alertsautomassscheduled-rebootmobile-miner-596178
Try Ant Monitor. Its pretty useful. It will tell you your HW% and you can set up alerts. Use the S1 settings when setting up.
Can't until M patches it for hosted outside the home network machines.

I made mine wireless and I connect through the router. I can jump on any computer in the house and monitor it.

Edit: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.8062114
After you connect it just treat it like an S1 and you can set up the wireless. Once you connect to the wifi it will be named WWAN by default. Go to WAN and change it to DHCP client and save and apply it. Disconnect the wire and turn the power off and on.

I reserved the DHCP on my router for the Antminer's MAC address so it will always have that IP.
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Well, as I start this reply it's 1:23pm.

I just OC'd all four of my S3's to 237.5, I have a dentist appointment at three. So after I hit the post button. I'm gonna do a single refresh on all four to see web stats. After that I'll let everything be til probably around 4pm when I get back. If everything looks good, I'll leave them all on 237.5 for 24hrs.

If after that, everything still looks good. Then about this time tomorrow or so I will take the proverbial plunge and try 250 on one of them for 24hrs. If that holds good, then I'll set the second at 250 and let run 24hrs, so on and so forth til I t all four on 250 if I'm lucky.

Between 237.5 & 250, is there any other freqs, I think I saw someone say 240 or something a few pages back.
Ok, so back from the dentist, checked on the four S3's and no x's but I did however notice something weird and maybe it will wind up between now and tomorrow. Anyway, below are as of this post... Elapsed Time, Gh/s(5s) & Gh/s(avg) as well as the HW & the Diff a & r figures.

My curiosity is in tthe avg speed of miners 1 & 3 while 2 & 4 look good. Haven't done the HW% math, maybe someone could for me ? lol.

Oh ya, all four are OC'd to 237.5

About this time tomorrow I'll use actual pics when it will be ~24hrs that they will all have been up on 237.5.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ms-miner-antsp-monitor-v52-alertsautomassscheduled-rebootmobile-miner-596178
Try Ant Monitor. Its pretty useful. It will tell you your HW% and you can set up alerts. Use the S1 settings when setting up.
Can't until M patches it for hosted outside the home network machines.
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I got mine to freq 250. Took out the intake fan and used a fan I had laying around. I replaced the thermal paste for all the chips and only had enough left over for one of the heat sink in the back. You can see the temp difference of replacing the thermal paste. I used Antec F7 since I didn't want to wait for the MX-4 to arrive in the mail. The room is about 23.3C and the fan rarely goes above 1700.

interesting, but why taking out the intake fan?

I experimented with the intake fan on and off. It seemed a little redundant to have a fan blowing into the intake. Once I took off the intake and the piece of metal behind it I saw a ~2C drop in temp.

Edit: I also took the case off.

Oh, so you basically made it S1-like. S1 was known to respond well to an external fan blowing air in the same direction-I used it all the time, but it had zero effect on closed S3, as you would expect.

Yeah. I also took the internal wireless antenna from my old laptop and made it wireless. Its in my room so I needed to make the fan less noisy and ended up with this.
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Well, as I start this reply it's 1:23pm.

I just OC'd all four of my S3's to 237.5, I have a dentist appointment at three. So after I hit the post button. I'm gonna do a single refresh on all four to see web stats. After that I'll let everything be til probably around 4pm when I get back. If everything looks good, I'll leave them all on 237.5 for 24hrs.

If after that, everything still looks good. Then about this time tomorrow or so I will take the proverbial plunge and try 250 on one of them for 24hrs. If that holds good, then I'll set the second at 250 and let run 24hrs, so on and so forth til I t all four on 250 if I'm lucky.

Between 237.5 & 250, is there any other freqs, I think I saw someone say 240 or something a few pages back.
Ok, so back from the dentist, checked on the four S3's and no x's but I did however notice something weird and maybe it will wind up between now and tomorrow. Anyway, below are as of this post... Elapsed Time, Gh/s(5s) & Gh/s(avg) as well as the HW & the Diff a & r figures.

My curiosity is in tthe avg speed of miners 1 & 3 while 2 & 4 look good. Haven't done the HW% math, maybe someone could for me ? lol.

Oh ya, all four are OC'd to 237.5

About this time tomorrow I'll use actual pics when it will be ~24hrs that they will all have been up on 237.5.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ms-miner-antsp-monitor-v52-alertsautomassscheduled-rebootmobile-miner-596178
Try Ant Monitor. Its pretty useful. It will tell you your HW% and you can set up alerts. Use the S1 settings when setting up.
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I got mine to freq 250. Took out the intake fan and used a fan I had laying around. I replaced the thermal paste for all the chips and only had enough left over for one of the heat sink in the back. You can see the temp difference of replacing the thermal paste. I used Antec F7 since I didn't want to wait for the MX-4 to arrive in the mail. The room is about 23.3C and the fan rarely goes above 1700.

interesting, but why taking out the intake fan?

I experimented with the intake fan on and off. It seemed a little redundant to have a fan blowing into the intake. Once I took off the intake and the piece of metal behind it I saw a ~2C drop in temp.

Edit: I also took the case off.

Oh, so you basically made it S1-like. S1 was known to respond well to an external fan blowing air in the same direction-I used it all the time, but it had zero effect on closed S3, as you would expect.
legendary
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Well, as I start this reply it's 1:23pm.

I just OC'd all four of my S3's to 237.5, I have a dentist appointment at three. So after I hit the post button. I'm gonna do a single refresh on all four to see web stats. After that I'll let everything be til probably around 4pm when I get back. If everything looks good, I'll leave them all on 237.5 for 24hrs.

If after that, everything still looks good. Then about this time tomorrow or so I will take the proverbial plunge and try 250 on one of them for 24hrs. If that holds good, then I'll set the second at 250 and let run 24hrs, so on and so forth til I t all four on 250 if I'm lucky.

Between 237.5 & 250, is there any other freqs, I think I saw someone say 240 or something a few pages back.
Ok, so back from the dentist, checked on the four S3's and no x's but I did however notice something weird and maybe it will wind up between now and tomorrow. Anyway, below are as of this post... Elapsed Time, Gh/s(5s) & Gh/s(avg) as well as the HW & the Diff a & r figures.

My curiosity is in tthe avg speed of miners 1 & 3 while 2 & 4 look good. Haven't done the HW% math, maybe someone could for me ? lol.

Oh ya, all four are OC'd to 237.5

Miner 1
Time: 2h 23m 11s
5s: 451.62
Av.: 445.94
HW: 269
Diff A: 867,072
Diff R: 2,560

Miner 2
Time: 3h 6m 23s
5s: 471.79
Av.: 474.91
HW: 927
Diff A: 1,222,656
Diff R: 4,096

Miner 3
Time: 2h 56m 37s
5s: 468.71
Avg.: 458.37
HW: 86
Diff A: 1,109,504
Diff R: 1,536

Miner 4
Time: 3h 6m 6s
5s: 501.62
Avg.: 475.88
HW: 54
Diff A: 1,244,160
Diff R: 1,536

About this time tomorrow I'll use actual pics when it will be ~24hrs that they will all have been up on 237.5.
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I got mine to freq 250. Took out the intake fan and used a fan I had laying around. I replaced the thermal paste for all the chips and only had enough left over for one of the heat sink in the back. You can see the temp difference of replacing the thermal paste. I used Antec F7 since I didn't want to wait for the MX-4 to arrive in the mail. The room is about 23.3C and the fan rarely goes above 1700.

interesting, but why taking out the intake fan?

I experimented with the intake fan on and off. It seemed a little redundant to have a fan blowing into the intake. Once I took off the intake and the piece of metal behind it I saw a ~2C drop in temp.

Edit: I also took the case off.
legendary
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I got mine to freq 250. Took out the intake fan and used a fan I had laying around.. I replaced the thermal paste for all the chips and only had enough left over for one of the heat sink in the back. You can see the temp difference of replacing the thermal paste. I used Antec F7 since I didn't want to wait for the MX-4 to arrive in the mail. The room is about 23.3C and the fan rarely goes above 1700.

interesting, but why taking out the intake fan?
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Activity: 182
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I got mine to freq 250. Took out the intake fan and used a fan I had laying around.. I replaced the thermal paste for all the chips and only had enough left over for one of the heat sink in the back. You can see the temp difference of replacing the thermal paste. I used Antec F7 since I didn't want to wait for the MX-4 to arrive in the mail. The room is about 23.3C and the fan rarely goes above 1700.
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at morebloodwine

freq
 212.5
218.75
225
231.25
237.5
243.75
250
256.25 -----  I do not have the code for this.

Thx, anything above 250 IMO is asking for trouble, 250 itself is thinking of talking to trouble.

Don't know if I want to really mess with 250 though, but if 237.5 holds well for the next 24hrs with no X's, I may just do 243.75 and call it a day as the saying goes.

I did notice on my refresh after the initial post (before this) that all looked good on the miners except for a single x on the third miner. I rebooted it, did one fresh and wont touch / check on it til I get back from my 3pm appointment.

I chalked that x up to a hiccup on the new freq since sometimes another reboot is all you need for them to settle after OC'ing.

I have one S3 that has a single x on 237.5, however, it is still better (464-465) than on 218.75, so I leave it with one X in perpetuity.
It (miner) did not "complain" so far (>10d).
legendary
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at morebloodwine

freq
 212.5
218.75
225
231.25
237.5
243.75
250
256.25 -----  I do not have the code for this.

Thx, anything above 250 IMO is asking for trouble, 250 itself is thinking of talking to trouble.

Don't know if I want to really mess with 250 though, but if 237.5 holds well for the next 24hrs with no X's, I may just do 243.75 and call it a day as the saying goes.

I did notice on my refresh after the initial post (before this) that all looked good on the miners except for a single x on the third miner. I rebooted it, did one fresh and wont touch / check on it til I get back from my 3pm appointment.

I chalked that x up to a hiccup on the new freq since sometimes another reboot is all you need for them to settle after OC'ing.
legendary
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I have 8 Antminer S3 coupons.

Value:= 0.075

Looking  0.06 for each coupon.
 
Valid up to 16August
You can use also for S3+ and S1 Upgrade Kit.

This is why you still have them on August 14th...dream on .06 nobody is that stupid Roll Eyes

getting free money is stupid? Some people have truly unrealistic expectations....
fair value of these coupons is 0.005775 BTC.
They were provided in lieu of miners underperformance (441 vs 478GH).
legendary
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https://bpip.org
someone offer antminer s3 for .53btc
is that good price?

Most likely not, but maybe you could post a link or something.
legendary
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'The right to privacy matters'
I have 8 Antminer S3 coupons.

Value:= 0.075

Looking  0.06 for each coupon.
 
Valid up to 16August
You can use also for S3+ and S1 Upgrade Kit.

This is why you still have them on August 14th...dream on .06 nobody is that stupid Roll Eyes

well one can hope.  although at .03 they would sell

at morebloodwine

freq
 212.5
218.75
225
231.25
237.5
243.75
250
256.25 -----  I do not have the code for this.
legendary
Activity: 3892
Merit: 4331
someone offer antminer s3 for .53btc
is that good price?

too low. lemon?
legendary
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Well, as I start this reply it's 1:23pm.

I just OC'd all four of my S3's to 237.5, I have a dentist appointment at three. So after I hit the post button. I'm gonna do a single refresh on all four to see web stats. After that I'll let everything be til probably around 4pm when I get back. If everything looks good, I'll leave them all on 237.5 for 24hrs.

If after that, everything still looks good. Then about this time tomorrow or so I will take the proverbial plunge and try 250 on one of them for 24hrs. If that holds good, then I'll set the second at 250 and let run 24hrs, so on and so forth til I t all four on 250 if I'm lucky.

Between 237.5 & 250, is there any other freqs, I think I saw someone say 240 or something a few pages back.
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Obviously I haven't been able to read all 260 pages of this thread, but I read some of the initial posts concerning people being unsatisfied with their over clocking speed. I just wanted to say that I have 6 units that I ordered from Batch 4 and I was surprised at how much extra hashing power I ended up getting from setting my frequency to 250 MHz (I guess because I saw so many complaints initially).
Each over clocked unit hashes ~490 GH/s, sometimes over 500 GH/s. Not to mention,  I am only using a single PCI on each hashing board.
Images:
http://awesomescreenshot.com/0373bdof49
http://awesomescreenshot.com/0de3bdpf03
http://awesomescreenshot.com/01c3bdq50e
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someone offer antminer s3 for .53btc
is that good price?
legendary
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It's actually cheaper to sell the S1 and buy an S3+ rather than go the upgrade route.....crazy!!

I always suspected this to be the case, so I sold all my S1 just as I ordered/was getting S3.
0.58 BTC price wise is at the level with others, but Sept 20 shipping date is unfortunate (too far away).
S3 is pretty energy efficient and reduces risk (in case your machine is a rare bad one).
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So, S3+ at 0.58 Btc, seriously overpriced and probably make a loss unless they shipped 3 weeks earlier to give a possible ROI.

S1 upgrade kits, just LOL! 0.46 Btc, thats almost no difference despite the shipping being considerably cheaper and the amount of DIY that would have to be done to make one. Surely 0.4 Btc, i.e. a 30% discount on S3+ price would have been a more appropriate price point?

It's actually cheaper to sell the S1 and buy an S3+ rather than go the upgrade route.....crazy!!
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