ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread - page 411.

windpath

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Quote from: frigidformself on July 23, 2014, 08:14:40 AM

Quote from: windpath on July 23, 2014, 07:52:46 AM

Big thanks to Bitmain!

Just wanted to thank Bitmain for keeping their promise and ensuring that the S3 is compatible with p2pool.

I've had 4x stock S3's hashing on p2pool for ~24 hours and have been achieving the expected hash rate.

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You can see the 4 miners stats here: http://minefast.coincadence.com/miner.php?id=19vXrwKGUhK4cCU8tA4kWZgbChcmh9a6qj

Nice work Bitmain!

I've got my 2x stock S3's hashing with you! Once I get my 8 from Benny, I'll be adding those!

Awesome, let me know if I can answer any questions or help out!

iikun

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Quote from: edonkey on July 23, 2014, 08:17:36 AM

I got an email from Bitmain indicating that my B3 units have shipped. But UPS is still showing the shipment in "label created" mode for the third day straight.

Mine was like that for 2 days I think

iikun

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I have a bit of a problem. Hoping someone can help, I'm fine with computers but have no clue when it comes to network addresses etc.

To start with, I couldn't change the routers subnet so I went through a direct PC connection. Logged into the Ant fine & changed to DCHP. The Ant still had 192.168.1.99/24 as the IPv4 address at that time.

Here's where I went wrong perhaps, I had to connect to the internet again to get details for my pool (having to disconnect from the Ants), and since then I haven't been able to re-login to the Antminers. I've tried resetting them and trying to find them via the router, but they are not there. Anyone have any idea what went wrong/how I can login to them again pls?

edonkey

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I got an email from Bitmain indicating that my B3 units have shipped. But UPS is still showing the shipment in "label created" mode for the third day straight.

frigidformself

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Quote from: windpath on July 23, 2014, 07:52:46 AM

Big thanks to Bitmain!

Just wanted to thank Bitmain for keeping their promise and ensuring that the S3 is compatible with p2pool.

I've had 4x stock S3's hashing on p2pool for ~24 hours and have been achieving the expected hash rate.

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s91/sh/f84997f3-7b3a-4c67-a90b-1746b96b99ef/54cfa569555df1bc28fe62f38e03f806/deep/0/p2pool-s3.png

You can see the 4 miners stats here: http://minefast.coincadence.com/miner.php?id=19vXrwKGUhK4cCU8tA4kWZgbChcmh9a6qj

Nice work Bitmain!

I've got my 2x stock S3's hashing with you! Once I get my 8 from Benny, I'll be adding those!

oskuro

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I have doubts about what pool to use...

Last messages i see you use btcguild, coincadence... mmmmmmmm i was using Slush´s pool but i really dont know which one is better.

Btcguild works well? long blocks of 24 hours or more often?

philipma1957

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'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: ck on July 23, 2014, 07:50:28 AM

Quote from: MarketTime on July 23, 2014, 07:48:22 AM

Quote from: mdude77 on July 23, 2014, 07:43:08 AM

Quote from: philipma1957 on July 23, 2014, 07:13:03 AM

yeah but right now these overclock like shit. So use 2 cables and power 3 with the evga

I've been wondering. Is it really worth trying to OC these? Is the risk worth the result?

By OCing you:

1 - void your warranty
2 - risk damaging your Ant
3 - use more electricity
4 - generate more heat
5 - need to use 2x the PSU cables

All for a measly increase in hashrate?

M

Not worth it at all, but some people just like to push it to the limit.

I guess it also depends on whether you want to milk the hardware down to every single last milihash worth before difficulty skyrockets, or be content with letting it run at stock hoping that hardware wouldn't break down prematurely.

I am running them at 212.5 .

Hash runs close to 870 for the 2

power settled at 648 watts for 2

run cool 39-40c

run pretty quiet fans at 1700

very stable

very little errors

spazzdla

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Quote from: ibminer on July 23, 2014, 05:25:43 AM

Quote from: Beastlymac on July 23, 2014, 05:14:40 AM

Quote from: ibminer on July 23, 2014, 05:10:48 AM

Well the S3's destroyed my Thermaltake 600W PSUs which had previously been powering cubes without any issues. They ran fine with them for about 30 minutes although cables were getting pretty hot, not 100% sure why it killed them yet. One PSU went peacefully, the other gave a nice fireworks display. Shocked

Ended up using a Corsair RM1000 to power both and they have been running pretty good since, with no hot cables. Grin

For the past few days one S3 was only avging 380GHs and showed no 'x' and everything looked fine but after a reboot it kicked it somewhat back in gear. Currently around 430GHs avg now. The other has been running fine avging 440GHs. No overclocking attempts at this point.

Where you using the 600W for running both? If so it would have been to much power draw for the power supply to handle. The S3 that is having issues it might be good to try re-flashing/updating the firmware.

One 600W per S3, I wouldn't attempt to power 2 on a 600W - the mathematics just don't work out. Cheesy

Didn't realize there was a firmware update already but I will give this a try, thanks!

I've been running my S3 on a 550 PSU for over 5 days no issues..
Are you SURE you didn't connect them all to the same rail..? The CPU plug must be cut off and wired into a 6pin PCI plug as that is the second rail.. if you just attempt to use one rail.. YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A BAD TIME.

windpath

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Big thanks to Bitmain!

Just wanted to thank Bitmain for keeping their promise and ensuring that the S3 is compatible with p2pool.

I've had 4x stock S3's hashing on p2pool for ~24 hours and have been achieving the expected hash rate.

You can see the 4 miners stats here: http://minefast.coincadence.com/miner.php?id=19vXrwKGUhK4cCU8tA4kWZgbChcmh9a6qj

Nice work Bitmain!

doig90

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Quote from: vulgartrendkill on July 22, 2014, 08:00:20 AM

Quote from: doig90 on July 22, 2014, 07:56:59 AM

Does anyone know what the UK Customs cost is for a Antminer s3?

I paid £61 per miner. I believe this included UPS's 10 quid fee for fronting the VAT in the first place.

Thank you

Sorry about late reply. Had time limited post?

ck

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Quote from: MarketTime on July 23, 2014, 07:48:22 AM

Quote from: mdude77 on July 23, 2014, 07:43:08 AM

Quote from: philipma1957 on July 23, 2014, 07:13:03 AM

yeah but right now these overclock like shit. So use 2 cables and power 3 with the evga

I've been wondering. Is it really worth trying to OC these? Is the risk worth the result?

By OCing you:

1 - void your warranty
2 - risk damaging your Ant
3 - use more electricity
4 - generate more heat
5 - need to use 2x the PSU cables

All for a measly increase in hashrate?

M

Not worth it at all, but some people just like to push it to the limit.

I guess it also depends on whether you want to milk the hardware down to every single last milihash worth before difficulty skyrockets, or be content with letting it run at stock hoping that hardware wouldn't break down prematurely.

MarketTime

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Quote from: mdude77 on July 23, 2014, 07:43:08 AM

Quote from: philipma1957 on July 23, 2014, 07:13:03 AM

yeah but right now these overclock like shit. So use 2 cables and power 3 with the evga

I've been wondering. Is it really worth trying to OC these? Is the risk worth the result?

By OCing you:

1 - void your warranty
2 - risk damaging your Ant
3 - use more electricity
4 - generate more heat
5 - need to use 2x the PSU cables

All for a measly increase in hashrate?

M

Not worth it at all, but some people just like to push it to the limit.

mdude77

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Quote from: philipma1957 on July 23, 2014, 07:13:03 AM

yeah but right now these overclock like shit. So use 2 cables and power 3 with the evga

I've been wondering. Is it really worth trying to OC these? Is the risk worth the result?

By OCing you:

1 - void your warranty
2 - risk damaging your Ant
3 - use more electricity
4 - generate more heat
5 - need to use 2x the PSU cables

All for a measly increase in hashrate?

M

jimmyoh

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Quote from: Didldak on July 23, 2014, 07:05:19 AM

Quote from: kabopar on July 23, 2014, 06:41:06 AM

Quote from: Didldak on July 23, 2014, 06:26:23 AM

Ok I have removed the heatsink and it seems like the thermal paste is everywhere :/ damn

Maybe that's your issue. Another user reported a big improvement after cleanup of the excess paste. Let us know how you go.

Good luck

Do you really believe that it could affect the fact that I cant see the blade in miner page?

At this point if you're getting nothing at all out of that blade could be time to contact Bitmain.
You could DM them from this site or you could try contacting them on their webpage.
Right next to the shopping cart they have a "Mssages" pull down menu that you can use to contact them.

Good luck with your S3.

philipma1957

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'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: WheresWaldo on July 23, 2014, 02:07:51 AM

Quote from: philipma1957 on July 22, 2014, 11:18:16 PM

Quote from: WheresWaldo on July 22, 2014, 10:59:28 PM

Question for you S3 owners.

What is considered the "overclocked" speeds that require 4 PCI-e connectors?

Many power supplies are a pain now a days, I don't know what to do if I plan on running 2 off one PSU because 8PCI-E cables is really not the norm.

On the Supernova 1300 G2 by EVGA it has 6 PCI-E 8pins, and not enough molex to do a molex to pci-e adaptor. Also curious what kind of PSU you all are using for these units.

Any advice will be great, thanks in advance!

the evga has six cables 4 single cables and 2 double cables……

you can use 2 single cables and a double cable filling all 4 jacks.

Been there done that.

As for overclock 225 237 250 = overclock.

That is sort of the thing, 1300W psu to power 2 of these sucks! Is there a go-to power supply people have been using to power 2-3 2-4 of these things?

yeah but right now these overclock like shit. So use 2 cables and power 3 with the evga

Didldak

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Oh boy!

Quote from: kabopar on July 23, 2014, 06:41:06 AM

Quote from: Didldak on July 23, 2014, 06:26:23 AM

Ok I have removed the heatsink and it seems like the thermal paste is everywhere :/ damn

Maybe that's your issue. Another user reported a big improvement after cleanup of the excess paste. Let us know how you go.

Good luck

Do you really believe that it could affect the fact that I cant see the blade in miner page?

jfederkins

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Quote from: Omarko on July 22, 2014, 11:42:36 PM

Quote from: Collider on July 22, 2014, 11:31:43 PM

Quote from: Omarko on July 22, 2014, 11:29:15 PM

Gee you are very helpful, thank you!

There are several guides and exchanges where you can get your bitcoin. The mining forum isn´t really the best place to start (although some mining companies do take $)

That's why I just wanted to buy with PayPal as it's my first miner and I just want to have bit fun and not too serious about getting into bit coins buying and selling at this stage.

Thanks.

You can always check out eBay. There are 100s of miners available and you can use PayPal.

kabopar

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Quote from: Didldak on July 23, 2014, 06:26:23 AM

Ok I have removed the heatsink and it seems like the thermal paste is everywhere :/ damn

Maybe that's your issue. Another user reported a big improvement after cleanup of the excess paste. Let us know how you go.

Good luck

xstr8guy

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Glow Stick Dance!

Quote from: Didldak on July 23, 2014, 06:14:27 AM

ok - I did reboot of my S3, one blade totally disappeared and the second one hashes only at 50%.. donw know what to do now. I removed and readded the ribbon cables from control module to blades - with no help, still 1/2 of first blade KO, 2nd blade KO full (not even LED indication)

Try a different PSU.

Didldak

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Oh boy!

Ok I have removed the heatsink and it seems like the thermal paste is everywhere :/ damn

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