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Topic: ANTMINER S5: 1155GH(+OverClock Potential), In Stock $0.319/GH & 0.51W/GH - page 198. (Read 451039 times)

legendary
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Anybody here off hand know the address of bitmain Tech in china? Trying to get a FCC form filled out for Fedx delivery.

Never Mind, found it where they were advertising for a Embedded Software Engineer


FYI - Federal Express Shipping Option


I order a S5 back on the 25th and chose FedX for the shipper to the US. It has been tied up twice in customs, once in china which a phone call took care of and once here which required a FCC form to be filled out. They knew it was a BTC miner and were insistent that this had to be completed for release. Luckily I had a helpful agent that assisted me in filling out the form which should have been completed by Bitmain according to Fedx. Be careful in choosing them for a shipping option to the US it isn't worth the 10 dollars or so you will save.



ordered one Sunday and used FedEx it came to day i had more issue with ups and customs, zero issue with fedex .don't care much for DHL they were better before when they were  something express but that's  a good many years back they were all i ever use till they merged.

Crazy thing I always have used UPS before and never had a problem chose FedX this time as it was cheaper and had all the above problems. Guess it is luck of the draw and the Customs agent you get.
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Anybody here off hand know the address of bitmain Tech in china? Trying to get a FCC form filled out for Fedx delivery.

Never Mind, found it where they were advertising for a Embedded Software Engineer


FYI - Federal Express Shipping Option


I order a S5 back on the 25th and chose FedX for the shipper to the US. It has been tied up twice in customs, once in china which a phone call took care of and once here which required a FCC form to be filled out. They knew it was a BTC miner and were insistent that this had to be completed for release. Luckily I had a helpful agent that assisted me in filling out the form which should have been completed by Bitmain according to Fedx. Be careful in choosing them for a shipping option to the US it isn't worth the 10 dollars or so you will save.



ordered one Sunday and used FedEx it came to day i had more issue with ups and customs, zero issue with fedex .don't care much for DHL they were better before when they were  something express but that's  a good many years back they were all i ever use till they merged.
legendary
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Christian Antkow
Anybody here off hand know the address of bitmain Tech in china? Trying to get a FCC form filled out for Fedx delivery.
Never Mind, found it where they were advertising for a Embedded Software Engineer

FYI - Federal Express Shipping Option

I order a S5 back on the 25th and chose FedX for the shipper to the US. It has been tied up twice in customs, once in china which a phone call took care of and once here which required a FCC form to be filled out. They knew it was a BTC miner and were insistent that this had to be completed for release. Luckily I had a helpful agent that assisted me in filling out the form which should have been completed by Bitmain according to Fedx. Be careful in choosing them for a shipping option to the US it isn't worth the 10 dollars or so you will save.

In my experience, DHL is the most reliable method of getting items from China to the USA.
hero member
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Anybody here off hand know the address of bitmain Tech in china? Trying to get a FCC form filled out for Fedx delivery.

Never Mind, found it where they were advertising for a Embedded Software Engineer


FYI - Federal Express Shipping Option


I order a S5 back on the 25th and chose FedX for the shipper to the US. It has been tied up twice in customs, once in china which a phone call took care of and once here which required a FCC form to be filled out. They knew it was a BTC miner and were insistent that this had to be completed for release. Luckily I had a helpful agent that assisted me in filling out the form which should have been completed by Bitmain according to Fedx. Be careful in choosing them for a shipping option to the US it isn't worth the 10 dollars or so you will save.
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dogie I pm'ed you with a bitmain question in regards to clearance problems with FedX, could you check.
legendary
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Sensors in a standard S5 are also cooled by the fans, thus a lower reading, whereas in a water cooled setup, not much air movement is concentrated on the boards (aka sensors), so the readings are going to be higher.
In any case, if this were not the case, then we'd see that reflected in the other stats- hashrate, HW% etc, but we don't.

Cooling isn't there just for the chips, so if you're saying that its okay that the other components are too hot because the chips themselves are cool, you're gonna have a bad time.

To answer your other statement, we don't usually see temperatures reflected in those other stats anyway. Plenty of people using low RPM fans run at similar temps without any noticeable effect on the telemetry.
The reason I would expect that you'll see higher temperatures on the back side temp sensor is that since the primary heat path is through the external radiator, the unit fans that cool the boards are running much slower and thus the PCB and temperature sensor are hotter. If he was still running at 3600 RPM with the stock S5 fans, you'd still expect to see lower temps with the water cooling.
legendary
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Those are hot temps.

From what I understand the temperature sensors are on the opposite side of the board than the asic chips. Since he is using water blocks to cool the chips, he won't get an accurate reading on temperature. The heat is pulled away from the chips more efficiently with the water block than with the air cooling heat sink.

That doesn't really make sense. A water block or an 'air block' would make no difference to how the temperature probe reads in relationship to the actual.

Dogie- You are wrong. Again.
How do you explain this ?  My cooling water temperature is 32 degrees.

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Sensors in a standard S5 are also cooled by the fans, thus a lower reading, whereas in a water cooled setup, not much air movement is concentrated on the boards (aka sensors), so the readings are going to be higher.
In any case, if this were not the case, then we'd see that reflected in the other stats- hashrate, HW% etc, but we don't.

Cooling isn't there just for the chips, so if you're saying that its okay that the other components are too hot because the chips themselves are cool, you're gonna have a bad time.

To answer your other statement, we don't usually see temperatures reflected in those other stats anyway. Plenty of people using low RPM fans run at similar temps without any noticeable effect on the telemetry.

Another dogie-waffle response ...

The hashing chips are the primary heat generators in the S5, and the water cooling block (like the air cooling) is targeted at the chips. As was pointed out, the sensors are on the opposite side of the board and the reading they give in an air cooled setup is subject to the active air cooling, i.e the fans, which is not the case with a water cooling setup as the fans are mounted on the radiator (that should not be too hard to understand really).

If the temps are too high, you'll get HW errors when the chips fail to return a result (which will also reduce the reported hash-rate), and in the extreme case, the unit will stop hashing aka thermal cutoff .... and that is where temps are reflected in the other stats in case you were still trying to figure that out.
legendary
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Sensors in a standard S5 are also cooled by the fans, thus a lower reading, whereas in a water cooled setup, not much air movement is concentrated on the boards (aka sensors), so the readings are going to be higher.
In any case, if this were not the case, then we'd see that reflected in the other stats- hashrate, HW% etc, but we don't.

Cooling isn't there just for the chips, so if you're saying that its okay that the other components are too hot because the chips themselves are cool, you're gonna have a bad time.

To answer your other statement, we don't usually see temperatures reflected in those other stats anyway. Plenty of people using low RPM fans run at similar temps without any noticeable effect on the telemetry.
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Those are hot temps.

From what I understand the temperature sensors are on the opposite side of the board than the asic chips. Since he is using water blocks to cool the chips, he won't get an accurate reading on temperature. The heat is pulled away from the chips more efficiently with the water block than with the air cooling heat sink.

That doesn't really make sense. A water block or an 'air block' would make no difference to how the temperature probe reads in relationship to the actual.
It is what it is, try and get your head around it!
Sensors in a standard S5 are also cooled by the fans, thus a lower reading, whereas in a water cooled setup, not much air movement is concentrated on the boards (aka sensors), so the readings are going to be higher.
In any case, if this were not the case, then we'd see that reflected in the other stats- hashrate, HW% etc, but we don't.
legendary
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dogiecoin.com


Those are hot temps.

From what I understand the temperature sensors are on the opposite side of the board than the asic chips. Since he is using water blocks to cool the chips, he won't get an accurate reading on temperature. The heat is pulled away from the chips more efficiently with the water block than with the air cooling heat sink.

That doesn't really make sense. A water block or an 'air block' would make no difference to how the temperature probe reads in relationship to the actual.
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Those are hot temps.

From what I understand the temperature sensors are on the opposite side of the board than the asic chips. Since he is using water blocks to cool the chips, he won't get an accurate reading on temperature. The heat is pulled away from the chips more efficiently with the water block than with the air cooling heat sink.
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In case anyone needs to enable the buzzer and flashing light in the same way the FindYourMiner app works but doesn't want to have to use windows I threw together a quick ruby script that does the same thing from command line and commented it as best I could. You will need to know the IP of your miner beforehand as this won't scan for it like the FindYourMiner app does.
Code:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# Make sure net-ssh is installed "gem install net-ssh"
require 'net/ssh'

enable_buzzer = "echo 20 > /sys/class/gpio/export \n"
activate_buzzer = "echo low > /sys/class/gpio/gpio20/direction \n"
buzzer_on = "echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio20/value \n"
buzzer_off = "echo 0 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio20/value \n"
enable_light = "echo 45 > /sys/class/gpio/export \n"
light_on = "echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio45/value \n"
light_off = "echo 0 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio45/value \n"

loop do

puts "Enter IP to Enable Buzzer"
ip_input = $stdin.gets
ip_address = /([0-9.]+)/.match(ip_input)
ip_address = ip_address.to_s

# Log into miner over ssh using default credentials
Net::SSH.start(ip_address, "root", :password => "admin", :paranoid => false) do |ssh|
puts "Verifying Model"
# Read model information
type = ssh.exec!("sed -n 2p /usr/bin/compile_time")
# Print Model
puts type
# Verify miner is actually a S5 before attempting to turn on the buzzer
if type.strip == "Antminer S5"
puts "Enableing Buzzer"
puts "Press Enter when done"
# Enable gpio interface for buzzer
ssh.exec!(enable_buzzer)
ssh.exec!(activate_buzzer)
# Buzzer stays on until shut off
ssh.exec!(buzzer_on)
# Enable gpio interface for light, may not be required to turn on light as it appears to be enabled by default
ssh.exec!(enable_light)
t = Thread.new do
# Loop to keep the light flashing until done
while true
# Light does not stay like buzzer does it only flashes
ssh.exec!(light_on)
# Wait half a second between flashes
sleep(0.5)
end
end
# Wait until Enter key is pressed
gets
# Kills loop thread which makes the red light flash
t.kill
# Shuts off buzzer when done
ssh.exec!(buzzer_off)
# Shuts off light, may not be needed since light appears to stay off by default
ssh.exec!(light_off)
puts "Disabling Buzzer"
else
puts "Wrong Miner Type"
end
end
end
legendary
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ASIC Wannabe

The S5 won't get 1.3TH/s at 650W though, unless your unit is significantly better than mine are.


Hmm I get 650W (119V) on my KillAWatt running 1245GH on a 1000W LEPA Bronze supply with 375mhz.  I did briefly run 390/400mhz with a Gold supply and thought I was averaging about 1.3T/650W but maybe I'll go back and double check...

Thats what I don't get all the SP20 love here.  It takes 960W @ the wall for 1.4/1.45TH on my SP20s.  So I feel like 300W to gain 100/150GH is just a bad deal on the SP20.  Heck thats nearly 50% more power required!

I dunno I just haven't touched my S5s in two weeks, and they are solid.  The amount of messing-around I have done on the SP20E and the number of firmware updates/fluctuating GHs numbers, etc -- well lets just say it reminds me of the early Jups and all the tweaking that was required to get those big chips all happy.  

Well I prefer to push my SP20 harder now and lower then later (diff jump). It always depends on so much factor ... for me electricity is cheap, so it's a no-brainer (~1100 watt for like 1560GH)

The benefit of the SP20 is that at about the same speed as stock on the S5 it is equally efficient, and can operate at further efficiency (it gets close to 0.45) or ramp up its speed by 50% if theres a reason to want maximum hashrate even if its less efficient (such as for the paycoin spree, or if we saw a 50%+ price rally)

The S5 needs to be priced cheaper than the SP20 i think. Both are excellent products but this antminer is disadvantaged in a few ways
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