Topic: ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread - page 288. (Read 710164 times)

One coupon per miner... just like at the supermarket. 

Does it matter? C'mon don't we all know that "Jenna" is a dude?  

This may have been asked somewhere else, but how can I order 3 S3's and use my three remaining coupons on the one order? Or can I only use one coupon per order of 2 miners?

I must agree with xstr8guy... you've been given good to great advice from quite a few people. I said previously to stop over thinking this issue. Now you're beating a dead horse and becoming a pest about it. Plus you didn't answer my question if you're blonde.

Buy a psu from the recommendations, live with the decision as any of the recommendations will serve the purpose you seek. Move on. Issue should be closed now.

I guess I'm mentally handicapped then.. Thanks

Please stop!

You've been given great advice about a dozen times now. You're either trolling or severely mentally handicapped.

I live North of you in central Canada. It will be cold enough here in a few months.  I just wanted the other new people to understand that these things really are micro heaters. So far my basement is holding fine as AC always did keep the basement a little to cold anyways.  4200 watts of heat makes a huge difference.

Regarding the power discussion, as you can see in the picture only 4 of the S3's are using 4 Pcie connectors (Cuz' they were there I used'em).
All but one of the S3's are clocked @ 237.5 and running just fine.

They make these things called headphones...

 

Thanks, we'll be adding more in the near future. But not until the power company runs in another 400A@240V.

@ stock freq, feed by the EVGA 1300's I measure exactly 325W each.
Each "rack" (purchased @ Menards ~$50) has 12 S3's.
So power consumption of a single rack ends up being 3900W.
The equation to convert watts to BTU is: watts * 3.15 = BTU
So each rack is dissipating 12,285 BTU.
2x racks = 24,570 BTU

So your 7 are dissipating 7,560 BTU or about what 2 Walmart space heaters would do.
If you live in a place that has cold winters (like us in Minnesota) vent that heat in to your house and get paid to heat the house.

This will probably sound trite, stereo-typical, sexist and not politically correct, but here goes anyway.

Are you blonde?

If you want cheap and quick the CX500 will support 1 ant and 2 cables works fine for most OC'ing.  These are common and cheap and may not be worth anything later. (yes i mean when these ants stop making bitcoins in 6-9 months)

If you want something longer term I use HX850 and it works nicely for 2 ants /PSU.  It will likely be easy to sell in the future and retain some resale if I wish to do so.

Also be aware that all of these unit use~350 watts of power each at the wall +/- some for the PSU loss.  This ALL turns into HEAT.  so be aware that you will need to deal with ~700 watts of HEAT from 2 Ants.  1400 watts for 4 and so on...  Also if you are plugging this stuff into a power bar please make sure everything you use is rated for the amount of power you as using.  NO LAMP CORDS!!!

if you think you can deal with the heat take a small 1000w heat and stick it where you are planning to put the ants and leave it on for a few days.  This heat sinks into everything around and can be tricky to resolve.  plan ahead.  OC'ing will make them hotter also.

Fahlcor

Tyvm, I hope what I just posted there is doable.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ms-miner-antsp-monitor-v52-alertsautomassscheduled-rebootmobile-miner-596178

Ant Monitor ?

Is there anyone here that can post what PSU they have and if its powering an overclocked antminer s3?
I am a dumb girl that can't figure out this whole PSU situation
I can't choose between a CX500, CX600 or CX750 per antminer.
The cost between those power supplies are quite a bit for me.
HELP!

WHAT CONFUSES ME IS THAT SOME PEOPLE SAY I SHOULD GET A PSU WITH 4 SEPERATE PCI-E connections.
SOME PEOPLE SAY THE ANTMINER S3 will overclock well on 2 SEPERATE PCI-E CONNECTIONS.

I can't choose!

OK another observation.

I OC'ed 4 of my 12 ants and found that the HW errors were ~1% according to ant monitor.  So I droppped them back to the default freq and they are now still hashing faster than the others by a full 10ghash eash.  this has been over ~8 hours and it is obvious which are going faster.

S1:210   0d 8h 48m 49s   422.48   449.42   0   0.0017%   0   1,024   UUU   0.3326   0   2580   2580 1500   40   39 40
S1:211   0d 8h 48m 49s   439.16   447.55   0   0.0032%   0   1,024   UUU   0.4324   0   3000   3000 1620   39   38 39
S1:212   0d 8h 48m 50s   477.85   448.5   0   0.0158%   0   1,024   UUU   0.4189   0   3360   3360 2880   39   38 39
S1:213   0d 5h 25m 12s   459.72   455.67   0   0.0159%   0   256   UUU   0.3514   0   1620   1560 1620   39   37 39
S1:214   0d 6h 28m 12s   482.36   435.28   0   0.0003%   0   256   UUU   0.1668   0   1680   1680 1500   39   39 37
S1:215   0d 6h 28m 11s   425.68   436.66   0   0.0118%   0   256   UUU   0.3153   0   3540   3540 1680   40   38 40
S1:216   0d 6h 28m 13s   452.1   434.52   0   0.0014%   0   1,024   UUU   0.3471   0   1680   1680 1380   40   40 40
S1:217   0d 5h 25m 16s   444.85   440.49   0   0.0025%   0   1,024   UUU   0.3075   0   2580   2580 1680   39   39 37
S1:218   0d 9h 4m 42s   431.95   436.89   0   0.0069%   0   1,024   UUU   0.4008   0   2040   2040 1620   40   38 40
S1:219   0d 9h 3m 53s   417.35   437.78   0   0.0008%   0   1,024   UUU   0.5288   0   1680   1680 1380   39   37 39
S1:220   0d 9h 3m 35s   417.95   437.34   0   0.002%   0   256   UUU   0.1403   0   3120   3120 1440   38   38 38
S1:221   0d 9h 2m 32s   422.26   436.51   0   0.0007%   0   1,024   UUU   0.4047   0   2820   2820 1740   39   37 39

Weird why when put back to the default they are going faster.

Fahlcor

I remember from here you said you live numbers from an old job but that's a bit too technical for me lol.

I suppose all I need are the written instructions he provides in the video.

That being said, I noticed in what you link you talk about undervolting, thats basically for conserving power right ? But dont you need to downclock when you undervolt ? Which I believe is something people look at when these start to be useless.

I mean can't you just downclock the freq to save power, why undervolt too ?

   Ahh nice reference.

 I gather you know his home state.



I won't mention Monmouth Battlefield and Molly Pitcher more then this one time.

But enough of PA and NJ revolutionary battle references .

 I saw that video about ten times the instructions help but it is not well miked.    I  watch his videos a lot.  here is my thread for  over under clocks


https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/an-attempt-to-create-a-more-complete-freq-value-chart-for-the-ant-miner-chip-589429


and the s-3 thread is here:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitmain-antminer-s3-support-and-overclocking-thread-699064

Ty, waiting on my collocation guy to look in to that port for me since I keep timing out.

Lol, it just seems like every video I watch that a brit recorded regardless of where they live now, always has a video to which you need to go blind watching because you have to sit so close to hear it good lol.