Just play with each setting and leave it for a few hours these S3s take a while to even out. My other 2 can either hit 440 - 450
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Looks like 1 of 3 is a winner:
Just play with each setting and leave it for a few hours these S3s take a while to even out. My other 2 can either hit 440 - 450
Just play with each setting and leave it for a few hours these S3s take a while to even out. My other 2 can either hit 440 - 450
So, I had the brilliant idea to re-flash the firmware on my low hashing S3. After re-flash, my S3 is now hashing at 442.54 GHs, stock frequecy of 218.75. What the hell?
Need some setup help with networking.
My router is on 192.168.0 instead of the .1
I have an s1 setup on the wifi running fine, but when I try to connect the s3 to the router then try to connect to it with my laptop it won't connect. What should I do?
My router is on 192.168.0 instead of the .1
I have an s1 setup on the wifi running fine, but when I try to connect the s3 to the router then try to connect to it with my laptop it won't connect. What should I do?
Easy thing would be to set your laptop ip address to 192.168.1.222 and then connect it directly to the S3.
While I'm waiting fora truly to help me out.
I received my 2 S3s from batch 1 today. I had ups hold it until I came to pick them up so I wouldn't have to worry about them being left by the door. It was no extra charge.
They did get held up a while in China, and I also had 3 different customs notifications.
The boxes did not say "bitcoin miner" on them but we also don't pay an import tax here.
I received my 2 S3s from batch 1 today. I had ups hold it until I came to pick them up so I wouldn't have to worry about them being left by the door. It was no extra charge.
They did get held up a while in China, and I also had 3 different customs notifications.
The boxes did not say "bitcoin miner" on them but we also don't pay an import tax here.
Need some setup help with networking.
My router is on 192.168.0 instead of the .1
I have an s1 setup on the wifi running fine, but when I try to connect the s3 to the router then try to connect to it with my laptop it won't connect. What should I do?
My router is on 192.168.0 instead of the .1
I have an s1 setup on the wifi running fine, but when I try to connect the s3 to the router then try to connect to it with my laptop it won't connect. What should I do?
Do you have in on a static IP with DHCP enabled ?
Found out why one of my units was not hashing and having X's on the chips. Paste was everywhere on the inside. Even the screws holding the heat sink on had thermal paste on them.
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Messy paste wont effect anything but poor cooling, unless your units are overheating, that's not the problem
correct me if i am wrong, but if others suggest that paste is there to provide a thermal connection between a chip and a heat sink, then with heat sink sitting on the top of the chips in s3, I don't see how it could be done by anything other than having paste on the top of the chips (but not necessarily on connectors, I get that).
not sure what you are asking there...
are there other ways to have a thermal connection between chip and heat sink? sure, you can buy thermal pads. search ebay. youll see in the specs that they are massively electrically resistant. need 1000's of volts to make them conduct. Same goes for thermal paste. Its very unlikely that swimming in thermal paste (even on connectors) would cause any problem at all...
yep, but the OP said that cleaning paste improved his machine. If what you are saying is 100% correct about swimming in thermal paste not causing any problems, then why his S3 was improved by removing excess and reapplying some? I just want to understand and from what I heard here, it seems that paste should be on the top of the chip in S3.
All my S1's and S3's reconnect automatically, they always ping and look for connection by themselves.
You have something wrong, bad internet maybe ?
You have something wrong, bad internet maybe ?
I'm not sure what's going on. I have a S1 still and I don't have to unplug it or anything. Just the S3's. As soon as i unplug the ethernet and plug back in they are fine again for awhile. What gives?
Found out why one of my units was not hashing and having X's on the chips. Paste was everywhere on the inside. Even the screws holding the heat sink on had thermal paste on them.
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Messy paste wont effect anything but poor cooling, unless your units are overheating, that's not the problem
correct me if i am wrong, but if others suggest that paste is there to provide a thermal connection between a chip and a heat sink, then with heat sink sitting on the top of the chips in s3, I don't see how it could be done by anything other than having paste on the top of the chips (but not necessarily on connectors, I get that).
not sure what you are asking there...
are there other ways to have a thermal connection between chip and heat sink? sure, you can buy thermal pads. search ebay. youll see in the specs that they are massively electrically resistant. need 1000's of volts to make them conduct. Same goes for thermal paste. Its very unlikely that swimming in thermal paste (even on connectors) would cause any problem at all...
All my S1's and S3's reconnect automatically, they always ping and look for connection by themselves.
You have something wrong, bad internet maybe ?
You have something wrong, bad internet maybe ?
Any word on B4 sales?
Id be will to bet they won't start until the 1st of next month at the earliest.why? I would think they made solid money with the first four batches. So why not sell more?
I have a question about this just building on the previous post about my S3 pre-order from http://www.bitmainantminer.com/
I opened a Paypal dispute querying how legit this company is as its all bit suss (e.g. no order email confirmation, another domain registered under same address selling mining hardware, no experiences posted on forums about this place) although intensive google search reveals no complaints or signs of scam. These might be brand new and just collecting cash and then disappear but who knows.
Now I contacted them and asked them, how come they are saying they are selling batch 4 which they will ship out 30th July since you guys here on forums are saying that there is no pre-orders opened at all on batch 4 yet. I received this reply:
"We're selling batch 4. Batch 1 was shipped July 10, Batch 2 on July 20, Batch 3 is currently shipping. We're not sure why Bitmain has not released batch 4 on their website yet but we've been told it ships on/before July 30 and we've taken hundreds of orders for Batch 4. You can contact them to verify this if you'd like."
so I sent an email to Bitmaintech directly asking them about this seller, hopefully they will reply soon.
Any thoughts on whether any of this is the truth ? Are there other official mining hardware sellers here on forums that can confirm if Bitmain batch 4 pre-orders are open to them? Thanks in advance.
112bit.com is the largest authorized reseller for bitmaintech I know of and they aren't selling batch 4. If anyone had the pull to I would think they would.
How do I make S3's auto-reconnect?? They will hash away for hours then I'll come to my Ant room to check on them periodically and they will be beeping and not hashing like the internet has blinked out and they didn't reconnect. I keep having to power them off for a few seconds, unplug ethernet, plug back in and reconnect ethernet then they start hashing away again until the net blinks out again later. Very annoying.
Found out why one of my units was not hashing and having X's on the chips. Paste was everywhere on the inside. Even the screws holding the heat sink on had thermal paste on them.
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Messy paste wont effect anything but poor cooling, unless your units are overheating, that's not the problem
correct me if i am wrong, but if others suggest that paste is there to provide a thermal connection between a chip and a heat sink, then with heat sink sitting on the top of the chips in s3, I don't see how it could be done by anything other than having paste on the top of the chips (but not necessarily on connectors, I get that).
I have a unit performing @424GH with the stock clock, then I have another that runs at 462GH with a clock of 237.5. I took apart the first unit to clean and inspect. It was a mess. I installed 17.0 W/mK thermal pads and heat sinks. No change in performance other than a slight decrease in temperature. I think I will under clock this one now. Pictures can be found here. http://s1284.photobucket.com/user/rponce454/library/?view=recent&page=1
if his chips were not overheating. the only way cleanup of excess paste helps is the paste has some electrical conductivity.
Could be it does just a little. we would need a very good ohms meter and someone willing to open his s-3 clean off the oem paste and see just how conductive it is on an electrical level.
Could be. I have an absolute dog of a s3 that's has all but One chip on a board disabled. I'll crack it open and try replacing the thermal paste.
Let you guys know
Found out why one of my units was not hashing and having X's on the chips. Paste was everywhere on the inside. Even the screws holding the heat sink on had thermal paste on them.
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Messy paste wont effect anything but poor cooling, unless your units are overheating, that's not the problem
please tell the motherboard tinkering noob (myself)-where the paste is supposed to be and where it isn't?
I ordered some in case in my batch 2 I would need to clean it up and reapply, but have no clue where it supposed to go-under the chip, to the side of it or on top of it (judging by some posted pictures there are gobs on top)?
It's thermal conducting paste. It's meant to move heat from chip to heat sink (big metal finned bit). The idea is not to have a gap between the chip and the heat sink. Or air pockets because air is an insulator. So just enough thermal paste to form a nice seal between the chip and heat sink. It's not electrically conductive. So it shouldn't matter if there's some overflow. But if he said cleaning it up made the difference. Who am I to argue?
if his chips were not overheating. the only way cleanup of excess paste helps is the paste has some electrical conductivity.
Could be it does just a little. we would need a very good ohms meter and someone willing to open his s-3 clean off the oem paste and see just how conductive it is on an electrical level.
Found out why one of my units was not hashing and having X's on the chips. Paste was everywhere on the inside. Even the screws holding the heat sink on had thermal paste on them.
images removed
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Messy paste wont effect anything but poor cooling, unless your units are overheating, that's not the problem
please tell the motherboard tinkering noob (myself)-where the paste is supposed to be and where it isn't?
I ordered some in case in my batch 2 I would need to clean it up and reapply, but have no clue where it supposed to go-under the chip, to the side of it or on top of it (judging by some posted pictures there are gobs on top)?
It's thermal conducting paste. It's meant to move heat from chip to heat sink (big metal finned bit). The idea is not to have a gap between the chip and the heat sink. Or air pockets because air is an insulator. So just enough thermal paste to form a nice seal between the chip and heat sink. It's not electrically conductive. So it shouldn't matter if there's some overflow. But if he said cleaning it up made the difference. Who am I to argue?
What you don't want to do is remove it and replace it with nothing. (The paste that is) the chips will definitely run hotter than normal then
Found out why one of my units was not hashing and having X's on the chips. Paste was everywhere on the inside. Even the screws holding the heat sink on had thermal paste on them.
images removed
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Messy paste wont effect anything but poor cooling, unless your units are overheating, that's not the problem
please tell the motherboard tinkering noob (myself)-where the paste is supposed to be and where it isn't?
I ordered some in case in my batch 2 I would need to clean it up and reapply, but have no clue where it supposed to go-under the chip, to the side of it or on top of it (judging by some posted pictures there are gobs on top)?
can somebody explain this to me:
My best miner was doing 465Gh on 237.5 pooling to Eligius, HW error at 0.6%, stable for two-three days (while OCed; practically no HW errors on stock speed)
I switched temporarily to btcguild where it produced 5 times more hardware errors while working almost at the same speed (different from what others observe)
I switched back to eligius and after that reboot, now there are only 0.25% HW errors overnight.
It looks almost like every reboot locks the miner into a certain configuration and some of these configurations perform better that others.
Is this even possible? I know for a fact that on S1 reboots did improve stuck "x"
My best miner was doing 465Gh on 237.5 pooling to Eligius, HW error at 0.6%, stable for two-three days (while OCed; practically no HW errors on stock speed)
I switched temporarily to btcguild where it produced 5 times more hardware errors while working almost at the same speed (different from what others observe)
I switched back to eligius and after that reboot, now there are only 0.25% HW errors overnight.
It looks almost like every reboot locks the miner into a certain configuration and some of these configurations perform better that others.
Is this even possible? I know for a fact that on S1 reboots did improve stuck "x"
Found out why one of my units was not hashing and having X's on the chips. Paste was everywhere on the inside. Even the screws holding the heat sink on had thermal paste on them.
Messy paste wont effect anything but poor cooling, unless your units are overheating, that's not the problem
Well it is hashing now perfectly after I cleaned off the paste and put new paste on. Cooling is not an issue.
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