Topic: ANTMINER S7 is available at bitmaintech.com with 4.86TH/s, 0.25J/GH - page 291. (Read 527809 times)

padrino,

touché - I do not know the backstory, but none was offered, so yes, it may have been a bit presumptuous.  I would state however, that the negative and off topic nature of the previous whiny posts and vague allusions to the fact that the employer did not know about the power usage did not seem to indicate that this person was one of your employees that had been given the right to use 'free' power...

Had that been the case it seems that "my employer provides it knowingly" would have sufficed.  "a facility I have full oversight over" seems to indicate the employer is not aware that power is being used to mine bitcoin to the sole benefit of an employee...  It also seems to indicate a bit of a haughty attitude with respect to the nature of the question.

Anyways, I suppose thedreamer could have cleared all of this or clear it all up by just stating whether or not it is known that their power use is for personal bitcoin mining.

There have been lots of discussions over the years about 'free' power and the moral implications, so when 'scruples' were mentioned, things became interesting...

I also found it ironic that the poster mentioned something complaining about no oversight, when apparently they are the oversight at their facility, but are potentially using power there illegitimately!!
So I was asking questions, to verify the veracity of my ironic assessment, and all indications were that of avoidance of the question.  So I did assume that by the dodging verbiage, there was no legitimate use.  And therein may lie my error in judgement, but you are correct, without any of this information, it's all just presumptions based on vague assertions.  I will apologize if I am in error.

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Generally speaking though, why should anyone ever generalize a whole country of people, especially those one is doing business with, with insulting and degrading speech such as that?

Bitmain has been kind enough to supply us with what is presently the most energy efficient mining hardware available, and sure they are having some hiccups, but those who have received miners in this thread are a testament to the fact that they are trying to get us product.

As mentioned, nobody else is... So can we stop bashing the Chinese as a whole people  / Country in here and concentrate on the S7 miners?

Well aren't you just the cool cat POWER THIEF, daddy-o...

I'm not "trying" to understand anything about your "hook-up",  I comprehend fully well that you are a self-admitted thief and probably a felon, though you have not been convicted at this time.

For someone who said:

Isn't that a bit of the pot calling the kettle black?
So, "nature" provides electricity to your miners for free?  Miners here all run on coal / hydroelectric / wind / nuclear power through a built and managed infrastructure and power distribution grid which we pay a fair price for.

It is sad that you cannot keep your bigoted, nationalist, and criminal self restrained enough to avoid posting gross generalizations about a billion people whom you don't even know, and sadder still that you have self-evidenced to be no better than that which you complain about.

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So, I had one of my S7's unexpectedly reach critical temp (got to 85C per miner status!!) and stop mining, but only on one board, and it was string one, which seems odd as that would tend to indicate that it was one of the outside ones.  I would think that the inner board, being nested in between two would typically be the hottest board...  But maybe they aren't in order?  Or maybe this board is just generating extra heat because it is of borderline press quality?!

Anyone else get a thermal event yet?

I did not want to take up space on this thread with multiple screenshots of the "miner status" of all nine S7's.  Here are the results after 24 hours of use.  Look at the "average" [GH/s (avg)] hash rate at 4.8+ TH/s.  Look at the HWE% as well out to the right of HW in their proper columns.  I'm quite impressed.  You can click on the screenshot of each S7 in the link provided to maximize the screenshot then click again to minimize.


Screenshots of all nine (9) S7's:  http://imgur.com/a/v5690

Nah, it's not a manual process (although with the amount of delays in shipping it might seem like it!  )

Or, they could have taken the site down to fix everybody's shipping status. If it's a manual process, it will take much longer depending on the number of accounts with wrong shipping status.

Yeah. No legit company would ever do something that stupid. It isn't difficult to suspend an item's sale. Easy as pie.

That's exactly what I think. They're no strangers to shenanigans 

They wouldn't take the site down to remove quantity or products from sales.

Maybe a tad more HWE, but higher Gh and WU at higher temp, but there is a precedent-Jupiters.
However, it was just one data point and I am not inclined to properly investigate this until later.

They might have pulled it to stop sales of batch 2/3.  They needed to do it somtime soon.   So possible they pulled it down during US time and work on it with more of the workforce during China time, it's now morning there.   They really have not had a ton of time in China yet to fix it.

And also with price of coin we could see increase.  They could have  a meeting or  two on that before putting it up with another batch.

That is very weird. My S5's get lower HWE% when their temps are at around 45-50c versus 60+. Some of the older hardware i have, S1's included even seem to get less HWE% when they are super cooled. For instance i have a S1 that has been running for 2 days, normally the HWE% is at 1.6%, now its at 1.24% and the temp is 33c.

Edit: Look at that sexy HWE% with max efficient overclock;
https://i.imgur.com/HdhQkbG.png?2

it very well may be the case, so I don't advocate doing it.

From my experience, asics that perform better when hot are usually the first ones to go up in smoke 

There are ways to try to mitigate, but maybe waiting 90 days first is prudent as they can crock and then you'd not get a warranty if you changed speed or fan.
People were certainly more prone to experiments on S3/S5 that cost $400-500 or so.

To me it looks like each miner has an optimal operating temp and some react well to "heating" by increased temp. 
As an example, I increased room temp by almost closing the door to the "mining" room, ambient rose to 32C, miner temp rose to 56 vs 51-52 typical and it was showing more hash at 56C for boards at 600/full fan (not controlled).

That is the reason we all have been waiting so long for our Batch 1 miners

I have been running 5 batch 1 for a little over 2 weeks.  2 at 4.7th/s and 2 at 4.5th/s and 1 at 4.4th/s.  They are running and I am happy with that, but I don't see the 4.8th/s that everyone is getting.

A 503 error is usually due to human intervention - maintenance or.....for a reason. As it's been down for quite a few hours now, I'll go with "for a reason".

In past in this big of difference they have been known to raise it.  But no one really knows.

They did manage to get to where there are no coupons right now, so there is already that difference.  That was 100 dollars right there. 

Bitman Site is down.  I have four orders waiting to be shipped since September 9th.  I have a need for quite a few more, but am wondering what is going on???

Another big question is.............Will the price of S7s rise with the rise of bitcoin?

I am happy they are as some companies forget about home miners.  Bitmain is not doing it for free though.  They know how to make a profit, they make business decisions.

Fore example I'm sure they ran a ton of models of what compensation could be.  And they decided with one that was cheap.   They lost very little money compared to a nice coupon.   So they are always making business decisions.  If there was not profit they would not sell to us.