ANTMINER S4 Discussion and Support Thread - page 85.

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Quote from: tfoto on November 21, 2014, 06:10:00 PM

My miner perfect work at a frequency of 268.75 - 275, and outputs the 2500-2700 ghesh

Seriously?

EDIT: I noticed you are using 2 PSU's instead of the PSU that comes with the S4, in that case, that makes more sense, as they can deliver a hell of a lot more power than a 1200W PSU. For those using the PSU that comes with the S4, do not expect such results, but then again if you have some spare PSU's this seems like a really really good idea, in fact I just might have to give it a shot at some point.

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Quote from: Kexkey on November 24, 2014, 03:38:39 PM

Quote from: audiotopix on November 24, 2014, 02:46:35 PM

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They also pay per share so your not waiting on the pool to find a block to get paid,, they pay every 2 hrs per share,, and they are paying 10% OVER as a bonus.

Curious... How can they pay 10% over? Where do they get the extra 10% bitcoins?

Thanks for the info!

Honestly,, I dont know but they do,, Ive been mining there for a month, and its been great.

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Quote from: Cassey on November 24, 2014, 08:43:08 AM

Quote from: philipma1957 on November 23, 2014, 10:25:01 PM

Okay I may grab one or two of these. I am interested in under clocked results.

so is anyone running freq 187.5 with 0.685 volts? if so what do you get for hash rate watts/ power numbers and fan speeds?

better yet has anyone done freq 175 with 0.670 volts? if so what do you get for hashrate watts used and fan speed?

TIA

philipma1957

Ask and yea shall receive (at least sometimes!): http://puu.sh/d3BqI/ad9aaf7d23.png - 187.5 at 0.685V.

This is my best config, you can leave 2 front Fans. machine temperature not higher 50 celcius. fan speeds around 3000rpm.
you can find my J7 problem with this way.
if your chain 1 (J7connector is chain1) has higher temperature, you must to check voltage and J7 cable. probably chain1 feeding higher voltage, not our setted voltage. This problem is my nightmare. i am working on it.

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Quote from: audiotopix on November 24, 2014, 02:46:35 PM

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They also pay per share so your not waiting on the pool to find a block to get paid,, they pay every 2 hrs per share,, and they are paying 10% OVER as a bonus.

Curious... How can they pay 10% over? Where do they get the extra 10% bitcoins?

Thanks for the info!

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For Dogie, regarding my issue,

I have power cycled, rebooted, checked connections, reset to defaults, reloaded firmware,, and still cant seem to get these chips to pop up,,

out of the 11 that we have this is the only issue.

we have 9 more on the way, should get them today!

Also I noticed people talking about pools,, we use miningrigrentals to rent our gear but when it isnt rented,, My favorite pool to use is Bitcoin Affiliate Network,

They have ports specifically for difficulty *2048* so if you choose the proper port for your miners you dont have to worry about the share Diff as it is locked in.

They also pay per share so your not waiting on the pool to find a block to get paid,, they pay every 2 hrs per share,, and they are paying 10% OVER as a bonus.

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Quote from: philipma1957 on November 23, 2014, 10:25:01 PM

Okay I may grab one or two of these. I am interested in under clocked results.

so is anyone running freq 187.5 with 0.685 volts? if so what do you get for hash rate watts/ power numbers and fan speeds?

better yet has anyone done freq 175 with 0.670 volts? if so what do you get for hashrate watts used and fan speed?

TIA

philipma1957

Ask and yea shall receive (at least sometimes!): http://puu.sh/d3BqI/ad9aaf7d23.png - 187.5 at 0.685V.

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Okay I may grab one or two of these. I am interested in under clocked results.

so is anyone running freq 187.5 with 0.685 volts? if so what do you get for hash rate watts/ power numbers and fan speeds?

better yet has anyone done freq 175 with 0.670 volts? if so what do you get for hashrate watts used and fan speed?

TIA

philipma1957

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Are we there yet?

I've tried a few and my favourite now is slush, especially with their new interface.

ghash - stable but small payments, but can be very confusing for beginners. Log in is through cex.io and then you have to find your way to ghash from there...
ckpool - good simple pool, but currently, due to low hashing power, not very profitable. I believe it will be a good pool once they get enough miners.
eligius - don't understand their payout system, super confusing (for me)
slush - Easy, and as of now, I feel the payout is fair (even though it's very complicated and with a rather high pool fee), but funny thing is, I seem to get more from slush than any other.
antpool - hashrate update is SLOW. Only realised I have some btc balance there after a few days...

This is just my opinion. Nothing else.

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Quote from: bittalc1 on November 23, 2014, 07:14:07 PM

Hi guys, one noob question

I ordered 5 s4 and they are on their way, i was reading allot , but im little confused on which pool to connect when my antminers arrive. What pools do u guys use? I'm beginner in this mining and the whole bitcoin world, any suggestions are appreciated.

Here are the biggest pools:

Antpool ^Register!

Code:

Servers : stratum+tcp://stratum.antpool.com:3333
User    : username.worker or username_worker - auto creates workers!
Password: anypassword

Bitminter ^Register!

Code:

Servers : stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333
User    : username_worker
Password: anypassword

BTCGuild ^Register!

Code:

Servers : stratum+tcp://stratum.btcguild.com:3333
User    : username_worker
Password: anypassword

GHash IO ^Register!

Code:

Servers : stratum+tcp://us1.ghash.io:3333
User    : username.worker  - auto creates workers!
Password: anypassword

Eligius ^Register!

Code:

Servers : stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334
User    : payoutbitcoinaddress
Password: anypassword

Discus Fish ^Register!

Code:

Servers : stratum+tcp://stratum.f2pool.com:3333
User    : username or username.worker  - auto creates workers!
Password: anypassword

PolMine ^Register!

Code:

Servers : stratum+tcp://api.polmine.pl:4012
User    : worker
Password: password

Slush ^Register!

Code:

Servers : stratum+tcp://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333
User    : username.worker
Password: password

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Quote from: bittalc1 on November 23, 2014, 08:13:17 PM

thanks dmwardjr! i cant wait to start this journey

No problem!

Have any questions; come to the forums and enter in the search engine what you want to find out. If you still have a problem finding it, just ask someone in what you deem is the appropriate forum.

Good Luck to you!

Regards,

David

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thanks dmwardjr! i cant wait to start this journey

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Quote from: bittalc1 on November 23, 2014, 07:14:07 PM

Hi guys, one noob question

I ordered 5 s4 and they are on their way, i was reading allot , but im little confused on which pool to connect when my antminers arrive. What pools do u guys use? I'm beginner in this mining and the whole bitcoin world, any suggestions are appreciated.

Hi bittalc1,

If you read the posts just above the one you posted, you will notice the S4's are not good for most pools who mine multiple crypto coins. I recommend you pointing your rigs at a pool and stay their a while. At least a month. All miners have their preferences. I've mined at several.

I really like these four [in no order for any particular reason at all] that are good for your S4:

Eligius Pool sight: http://eligius.st/~wizkid057/newstats/
   Pool Forum: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/eligius-0-fee-btc-105-pps-nmc-no-registration-cppsrb-441465

Slush Pool sight: https://beta.mining.bitcoin.cz/home/
   Pool Forum: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/4-eh-slush-pool-slushpoolcom-overt-asicboost-world-first-mining-pool-1976

BTCGuild Pool sight: https://www.btcguild.com
   Pool Forum: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/closed-btc-guild-pays-txfeesnmc-stratum-vardiff-private-servers-49417

CKPool Pool sight: http://www.kano.is
   Pool Forum: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/kanopool-kanois-lowest-09-fee-since-2014-worldwide-2432-blocks-789369

The payouts are approximately the same across all of them. It can vary between them from month to month BASED OFF OF LUCK! One pool is liable to me more lucky than the other each and every day. The problem is: we don't know which one will be more lucky than the other from day to day.

Which ever one you choose to go to first, stay there for at least a month before going to another and then another. After you've mined them all, you be the one to decide which one you prefer over another.

Happy Mining! Once you get your S4's...

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Hi guys, one noob question

I ordered 5 s4 and they are on their way, i was reading allot , but im little confused on which pool to connect when my antminers arrive. What pools do u guys use? I'm beginner in this mining and the whole bitcoin world, any suggestions are appreciated.

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Quote from: vegasguy on November 23, 2014, 05:03:22 PM

Well... Im mining on Diamond Multipool that uses nicehash. Is there anything I can do to force the difficulty? I remember there use to be a setting I could add after my wallet id to force a higher diff on my S2 , but cant remember what it was...it was +.01 something.

Vegas

Sorry, no clue. Just switch to a mono-pool, like antpool or eligus to see if the problem goes away.

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Well... Im mining on Diamond Multipool that uses nicehash. Is there anything I can do to force the difficulty? I remember there use to be a setting I could add after my wallet id to force a higher diff on my S2 , but cant remember what it was...it was +.01 something.

Vegas

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Quote from: vegasguy on November 23, 2014, 11:21:36 AM

Something wierd going on with my s4. Im mining on nicehash, and every few hours I log into the console, it says speed: 0ghz, then I go to the led display and its got some random slow speed like 650ghs. I shut it down and reboot and it instantly returns to 2Ths...for an hour or two, then I have to keep shutting it down, not even a software reboot through console will fix it...any ideas? I also have the latest firmware: Thu Oct 16. Cgminer 4.6.1 .

Thanks in advance

Vegas

Its not your miners, its NiceHash - they are switching coins on you. That causes your Diff to go very low (at least for an S4), the S4 resyncs than cranks up again. The 650 is the average while your diff crawls up.

At least I've been seeing something very similar when I use the normal ports over on multicoinpool.org...

Try switching to antpool, just as a test, and see if things stabilize.

Cassey

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Something wierd going on with my s4. Im mining on nicehash, and every few hours I log into the console, it says speed: 0ghz, then I go to the led display and its got some random slow speed like 650ghs. I shut it down and reboot and it instantly returns to 2Ths...for an hour or two, then I have to keep shutting it down, not even a software reboot through console will fix it...any ideas? I also have the latest firmware: Thu Oct 16. Cgminer 4.6.1 .

Thanks in advance

Vegas

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Quote from: dogie on November 23, 2014, 12:54:46 AM

Quote from: Kexkey on November 22, 2014, 09:59:43 PM

I could not make my S4 boot itself to hashing without fan1 plugged. I have to unplug one of my S1's fan and connect it to my S4's fan1 connector so that it boots correctly. Maybe something's wrong with my S4 but it won't mine with a missing fan.

Now I'm looking for a compatible fan online, since Bitmain asked me to buy a new unit to get a new fan.

Have you tried swapping the fan cables over so fan1 is connected?

Interesting, I will try it. Thanks for the suggestion!

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Quote from: dogie on November 23, 2014, 12:56:28 AM

Quote from: AlittleBitMore on November 23, 2014, 12:03:50 AM

Quote from: dogie on November 22, 2014, 06:01:54 PM

Quote from: sEpuLchEr on November 22, 2014, 05:50:10 PM

Quote from: dogie on November 22, 2014, 05:31:57 PM

If its a front fan then try running without it, S4s are quite significantly overcooled. If its a rear fan, swap it out with one of the front fans. Temps <60C are fine.

Will it run without the fans plugged in? Because, if the S4 can run without the front fans plugged in, I can live with <65C and reduce the noise by half! Grin

Edit: Or even switch the rear fans to the Deltas.. wondering if it will work... hmm....

I believe so, yes.

I tried the Delta 120 mm 5500 RPM PWM TFC1212DE the signal is reversed, slows down when it is supposed to speed up.

Would still be sufficient, only need 2500-3400 during sensible ambients.

If the unit gets hot it slows down until the other 3 run aT 4000 and over . .. IT DOES NOT WORK YOU....YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE PROPER FAN.

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Quote from: dogie on November 23, 2014, 12:55:46 AM

Quote from: MissouriMiner on November 22, 2014, 11:38:26 PM

Quote from: WW3 on November 22, 2014, 11:01:09 PM

Hi, I had a quick question if anyone is willing to help me. I seem to have mistyped my new password and after a few hours of trying to figure it out, I seem to be lost haha. Does anyone know if I can SSH with PUTTY and manually reset the password, I tried to do the factory reset, but I seem to have a bit of metal in the place that is set up for the reset button :/ I just purchased the unit not a week ago.

Thanks,
WW3

Even if you change the password in the UI, that will not change the SSH password. SSH login as root with password admin. Then you can run the factory reset script /usr/bin/factory_config_reset.sh.

You can reflash your SD card (see link in post #2) if you don't want to go through SSH.

Much obliged to the both of you, I was getting a little worried haha. I think I am going to go the SSH route.

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